What's the difference between grainy and pebbled?

Grainy


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling grains; granular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These are difficult to segment using conventional thresholding or edge enhancement techniques due to their 'grainy' appearance, which makes it difficult to isolate key features from the other components found in the slice.
  • (2) In hydrated, vitrified cryo-sections, chromosomes exhibit a characteristic homogeneous, grainy texture, which, on optical diffraction, gives rise to a broad reflection corresponding to 11 nm.
  • (3) It turns out that the modulation transfer function is correlated to the visual sharpness and the Wiener spectrum is correlated to the visual impression of graininess.
  • (4) Though acclaimed for his black-and-white imagery – from the "falling soldier" photograph taken during the Spanish civil war, showing a Republican militiaman being hit by a fascist bullet, to the series of grainy D-Day shots of US soldiers on Omaha Beach – Capa worked in colour for most of his career.
  • (5) Early in 1999 a government-controlled TV channel aired a grainy video which purported to show Skuratov cavorting in bed with a couple of prostitutes.
  • (6) Rutherford is also puzzled that his record has been questioned on the basis of grainy YouTube footage.
  • (7) The conditions are little more favourable than 2007 – the crowd is just as monumental and the big screens largely inadequate, showing either grainy, monochrome boxes on each of the band or nothing at all – but the band is fired up and bolstered with intent.
  • (8) The DNA synthesis rate also correlates with the graininess of chromatin.
  • (9) It included grainy videos in which the blogger enters European embassies and the US interests section in Havana, and said she has collected $500,000 [£306,000] in international prizes for her work.
  • (10) The Wiener spectrum of film graininess and the MTF of geometric unsharpness were measured.
  • (11) Fluorescent antinuclear antibodies (FANA) with a diffusely grainy pattern, those with a nucleolar pattern and the anti-Scl-70 antibody were present in all 6 groups, but were significantly more frequent in the last 4 groups than in Groups 1 and 2.
  • (12) After the FBI released grainy footage of his death , critics of the militia said it seemed clear he was a threat.
  • (13) Twitter users circulated grainy footage of the former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser warning of any violations of the Tiran waters, which he said were Egyptian.
  • (14) The increasing graininess of low mAs sections did not induce errors of interpretation, despite a less pleasant appearance to the eyes.
  • (15) None of the other passersby show signs of being shocked, although it is hard to say given the footage is grainy.
  • (16) The camera attached to it did not survive, but the moving images within did – grainy grey and white shapes ending in the curve we now know so well; and beyond the curve, total black.
  • (17) Knowledge of that aftermath is what gives the grainy Wall Street images their peculiar power.
  • (18) If, as is likely, those grainy pictures of what happened at Stockwell tube still haunt her, as they surely haunt everyone who sees them, then it is possible that she will be a better leader in general, and a better commissioner of the Met than someone else with no blemish on their career.
  • (19) There’s something very raw about it: it’s straight-on flash, 35mm, black and white, grainy... They’re wearing Vivienne Westwood gear they’ve customised by sewing on silk Haile Selassie patches.
  • (20) Some factors affecting the capacity and serviceability of the compounds such as the nature and graininess of the abrasive, the quantity of the compound added to the container at a time are investigated.

Pebbled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Pebble
  • (a.) Abounding in pebbles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
  • (2) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (3) Google celebrates the Mayan calendar in today's doodle Updated at 1.10pm GMT 9.46am GMT How to destroy the Earth In part two of our apocalypse video series, I demonstrate how the world could end using a variety of household props, including a Christmas pudding, a blow torch, some pebbles from my garden and a miniature snooker table.
  • (4) The approach to the checkpoint was covered in pebbles so we had to drive very slowly.
  • (5) So while I still like my Pebble (I've set it to show when I get a call; texts are in the past), there's a bitter aftertaste.
  • (6) No one knows how many people live in the redbrick and pebble dash dwellings along the pitted streets of Ciudad Bolívar; estimates range from 700,000 to more than a million.
  • (7) A 17-year-old white boy with signs, symptoms, and family history of angiokeratoma corporis diffusum universale, Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD), developed recurrent and then persistent swelling of both lips, erythematous hyperplastic gingivae, and a pebbled tongue.
  • (8) Two men aged respectively of 65 and 28 years presented a cobblestone appearance of the gingiva and of the tongue ("pebbly tongue"), which suggested Cowden disease.
  • (9) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
  • (10) There is a long history of people coming here to build their makeshift beach bothies along the shoreline, making use of whatever materials the waves deposit among the giant pebbles.
  • (11) These divisions might therefore rely on maternally contributed pebble function.
  • (12) If you appeared on one of the three television channels, and she did so an awful lot, be it Pebble Mill at One , TV-am or her own series, 10 million people or more would watch you at a time – huge numbers compared with today.
  • (13) Natural objects (pebbles or pieces of mica) were also pressed into the wet clay, while in the palaces, pillars were covered with bronze plaques illustrating the victories and deeds of former kings and nobles.
  • (14) Traeth Yr Eifl, near Caernarfon, Gwynedd Traeth Yr Eifl beach, Wales Photograph: Rob Smith The best walk to this pleasant pebbly beach comes up over the cliffs that frame Morfa, a National Trust owned nature reserve.
  • (15) But it doesn't work that way: you may have "less gravel", but most writers agree that you can only have "fewer pebbles", not "less pebbles".
  • (16) Reported is a case representing an unusual form of geophagia, in which ingestion of pebbles by a 27-year-old mentally retarded woman resulted in impaction and complete filling of the colon with pebbles.
  • (17) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
  • (18) With a thick Brooklyn accent so gravelly it sounds like he swallowed a bag of pebbles before coming on stage, he tells the crowd in Burlington later that night that he is less about change and more about revolution.
  • (19) Dotted around are piles of red and orange rocks of various sizes, from boulders to pebbles.
  • (20) We can talk about "many pebbles" but not "much pebbles", "much gravel" but not "many gravel".

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