What's the difference between fuzzy and woolly?

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.

Woolly


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
  • (a.) Resembling wool; of the nature of wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with wool.
  • (a.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is a significant group of disorders which present with unruly hair, and these have been described under all manner of titles, including crinkly, woolly, kinky, crimped, frizzly, steely, spunglass, in an attempt to define their clinical appearance.
  • (2) Analysis of these human competitor proteins with homologous assay systems of viral core proteins and corresponding antisera showed that all, including the normal tissue extracts, appear similar to core proteins of known viruses, especially the RD 114 and woolly monkey species.
  • (3) Our physiologic, clinical and pathologic studies suggest that woolly monkeys develop hypertension spontaneously and could be a useful model for the study of human hypertension.
  • (4) The binding protein from Rauscher and woolly monkey type-C viruses was the fastest migrating of the virion proteins in SDS-polyacrylamide gels and thus is designated p10 according to previous convention although our estimates of molecular weight were 8-9,000 daltons.
  • (5) However, the sarcoma virus genome could be rescued from these NF cells by co-cultivation with cells carrying "helper" Kirsten mouse leukemia virus or Woolly Monkey leukemia virus.
  • (6) But the Labour leader has only himself to blame because of his hopelessly woolly response to a question on this in his BBC interview on Monday.
  • (7) Electron microscope and gel electrophoresis studies show that the high-molecular-weight (50 to 70S) RNA extract from Friend virus (FV) is a dimer with the same basic structure previously observed for the RNAs from RD-114 virus, baboon virus, and woolly monkey virus.
  • (8) Cell lines transformed by woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WSV) in the absence of infectious virus production were analyzed for the expression of woolly monkey helper viral p30, p12, and gp70 antigens.
  • (9) Whereas mouse gs antigen was clearly detectable in tissue culture cells of several mouse strains, the respective gs antigens of rat, cat, Chinese hamster, woolly monkey, and gibbon ape were not detectable in cells of those species, using assays of comparable sensitivity.
  • (10) Her time among the Jaeger rails showed her that while customers (like those at M&S) tended to be well into middle age, that didn't mean they wanted elasticated waists and sensible woollies.
  • (11) This study describes the differential distribution of enkephalin-positive woolly fibers and acetylcholinesterase staining on adjacent sections in both the monkey and human basal forebrain area in an attempt to define the relationship between the basal ganglia and the basal nucleus of Meynert.
  • (12) Their focus on supernatural faith – on healing and speaking in tongues – is shared with LoveBristol, but E 5 put less emphasis on woolly jumpers and green politics and more on slick online videos and social media .
  • (13) Acquired progressive kinking of hair is an entity distinct from woolly hair in its onset at or after puberty, predominant involvement of frontal, temporal, and vertex regions of the scalp as well as the supra-auricular and postauricular margins, and a tendency for affected hairs to resemble pubic hair both in texture and color.
  • (14) So far, approximately 48 patients with woolly hair nevus have been described in the world literature.
  • (15) It sounds terribly woolly, and it is – the report is full of "principles of stewardship", memorandums of understanding and statements of best practice.
  • (16) Deep inside these caves, however, their minds moved to different matters and artists concentrated instead on the more majestic animals – mammoths and woolly rhinos – that then populated the Dordogne.
  • (17) As in the woolly animal, vasomotor responses were disorganized, although there was a tendency towards vasodilation.4.
  • (18) The degradation and excretion of 2-14C-uric acid were examined in three adult woolly monkeys (Lagothrix lagothrichia) to determine the basis for the relatively high serum and urinary uric acid concentrations previously reported in this species.
  • (19) Murine (Rauscher, Ki-MuLV, AT-124 and two other xenotropic viruses), feline, RD-114 and Simian (woolly monkey and baboon) type-C viruses possessed the ability to rescue the sarcoma genome from NP cells but not AKR leukemia virus.
  • (20) Muscle spindles were sought in peri-auricular muscles of several primate species (rhesus monkey, woolly monkey, and baboon).