What's the difference between fuzz and fuzzy?

Fuzz


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make drunk.
  • (n.) Fine, light particles or fibers; loose, volatile matter.
  • (v. i.) To fly off in minute particles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Images of the E2 cores isolated from pyruvate dehydrogenase complex appear surrounded by a faint fuzz that extends approximately 10 nm from the surface of the core and likely corresponds to the lipoyl domains of the E2.
  • (2) An extensive cell surface coat which resembles the "fuzz" coat found on microvilli of normal epithelium was present on the TA3-Ha, but not on the TA3-St cells.
  • (3) Meanwhile, Simon Pegg tweets : "I apologize for interrupting #rally4sanity on Comedy Central with Hot Fuzz.
  • (4) Neither pleomorphic microvili nor a structured glycocalyx fuzz on microvilli was observed during the process of regenerative hyperplasia, distinguishing it from neoplastic bladder proliferations.
  • (5) These data indicate that the surface fuzz of S. pyogenes which contains M protein functions in the attachment of the organism to epithelial surfaces, thereby permitting its colonization.
  • (6) But as Britain awaited the first satellite broadcast from America, Goonhilly's bank of TV screens were picking up only atmospheric fuzz.
  • (7) An electron-dense fuzz was discernible on several of the isolates.
  • (8) That's followed by Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim Vs The World.
  • (9) In 2012, though, he signed to Brooklyn label Captured Tracks and released an EP, Rock And Roll Night Club, on which he sustains an Elvis impression over ambling, lo-fi fuzz.
  • (10) Freeze-substituted materials also displayed the fibrillar components in the postsynaptic dense fuzz, but failed to display the presynaptic dense projections typically observed in thin sections or deep-etched replicas of the conventionally fixed materials.
  • (11) But instead of loud guitars, fans buying the single – dubbed, with quiet sarcasm, Cage Against the Machine – can expect to hear masterful high-power amp fuzz interspersed with the deliberate click of a slow-shutter camera, set to the muted shuffling of feet and repressed laughter.
  • (12) A. viscosus strains of hamster origin differed from A. viscosus strains of human origin by the absence of a surface fuzz and the comparatively smooth, even fluorescence produced by incubating these cells with homologous rabbit antiserum followed by FITC-labeled goat anti-rabbit IgG.
  • (13) As kids, we studied that book; it was full of trains covered in graffiti, with names like SEEN, SKEME, DEZ and FUZZ ONE.
  • (14) Hot Fuzz opened in April 2007 and took $23m (£14.7m) in North America and $80m (£51.3m) worldwide.
  • (15) Although we've not been able to turn up any tales of half-time barnet-trimming, there have been a couple of reports of a half-time face-fuzz buzz, although as yet the reasons remain a mystery.
  • (16) Two months old, an ebony fuzz of hair covers her head, she has hazel skin and black eyes.
  • (17) The immunocoating reaction revealed homologous antibody binding to the irregular strands of fuzz on the surface of human A. viscosus cells, whereas homologous antisera to A. naeslundii coated A. naeslundii cells with a moderately electron-dense coating of antibody of even thickness.
  • (18) Gap junctions (GJ) isolated from rat hearts in presence of the protease inhibitor phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride (PMSF) contain a Mr 44,000 to 47,000 major polypeptide and have a urea-resistant layer of fuzz on their cytoplasmic surfaces, whereas junctions isolated without PMSF are proteolyzed to a Mr 29,500 polypeptide by a serine protease and have smooth cytoplasmic surfaces (C.K.
  • (19) The trio successfully brought their reference-heavy humour to the big screen with zom-com Shaun Of The Dead and cop pastiche Hot Fuzz .
  • (20) The cell walls varied in width between 15 and 46 nm and were covered with an electron-dense fibrillar or fuzz layer.

Fuzzy


Definition:

  • (n.) Not firmly woven; that ravels.
  • (n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (2) Real people, by contrast, care more about their jobs, where they live, and the fuzzy stuff of security, happiness and a sense of belonging.
  • (3) In order to incorporate concordant patents, fuzzy subsets are employed, with the number of attempts required to achieve transitive closure being the values for comparison.
  • (4) A fuzzy coat was observed on EB located in the HPMN vacuoles only in the presence of specific antibody.
  • (5) The DNA from the two largest C. albicans chromosomes, which was estimated to be at least 5-10Mbp in size, ran somewhat anomalously, giving fuzzy bands which did not migrate in the direction of the average electric field.
  • (6) In this paper a fuzzy model of inexact reasoning in medicine is developed.
  • (7) The concept of fuzzy sets was chosen for its ability to represent classes of objects that are vaguely described from the measured data.
  • (8) This expert system, by using the fuzzy and certainty factor concepts, is able to handle imprecise and incomplete medical knowledge which has become informative.
  • (9) The Bretton Woods Project, which monitors the work of the bank, said: "While it is welcome to have the World Bank talking about 'inequality' instead of fuzzy language on 'shared prosperity', the bank is putting more of its money into the financial sector than any other sector.
  • (10) It was only by the merest chance that a visiting medic had been up on a balcony that day and recorded a fuzzy minute of the action on his mobile phone.
  • (11) Data of case-control study of 241 cases of stomach cancer were analyzed by method of risk analysis of fuzzy states.
  • (12) CADIAG-2 employs fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic to formalize medical entities and relationships.
  • (13) Perivascular cuffings of inflammatory cells and large cytoplasmic inclusions of fuzzy nucleocapsids were found in the brain and spinal cord.
  • (14) To improve the definitions, eliminate overlapping diagnostic categories, and sharpen the fuzzy boundaries that contribute substantially to limited reproducibility, we suggest: (1) the categories of astrocytoma nos, fibrillary astrocytoma, and protoplasmic astrocytoma be collapsed into a single category of astrocytoma; (2) the diagnostic category of desmoplastic medulloblastoma be combined with medulloblastoma; and (3) the criteria for anaplasia should be further refined to include quantification of critical histologic features, e.g., agreed upon operational definitions for amount of cell density, number of mitoses and pleomorphism for anaplastic astrocytoma and anaplastic ependymoma.
  • (15) These crossbridges were revealed in thin sections as fuzzy filamentous structures between MT and NF.
  • (16) Uncertainty management for the evaluation of evidence based on linguistic and conceptual data is taking advantage of developments in the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory of evidence, possibility theory and fuzzy logic.
  • (17) Though he conceded that Arab leaders saw his creation, Israel’s secret Dimona plant in the Negev Desert, as “a worrisome fuzzy deterrent”, Peres the politician enjoyed creating such deliberate ambiguities.
  • (18) The presence of periodic acid-Schiff's positive material in this region suggests that the fuzzy coat also contains carbohydrate.
  • (19) Investigations of nine chemicals in 'fuzzy' rats, rhesus monkeys, and man provide data which are consistent with a general theory of outward transcutaneous chemical migration.
  • (20) ECs possess endothelial projections and caveolae as well as a fuzzy coat, or glycocalyx.