What's the difference between jerkin and tunic?

Jerkin


Definition:

  • (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.
  • (n.) A male gyrfalcon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) New album Our Love brings all this together: the spindly psychedelia, the thrusting rave breakdowns, the tender positivity… even a convincing tribute to the glossy R&B of Rodney Jerkins and The-Dream.
  • (2) The degree of protection afforded by three jerkin G-suit systems (British, Canadian and Swedish) using different pressures against the adverse physiological effects produced by high levels (50 mm Hg and 70 mm Hg) of positive pressure breathing (PPB) was investigated at ground level in 10 male subjects.
  • (3) Get in the formation, let’s start triangle jerkin’ Included in the list mostly because it rhymes “merkin” with “triangle jerkin”, this song began as a joke to be played only once in Australia (in Aussie slang, “map of Tasmania” is a euphemism for female pubic hair) and is Amanda’s statement for freedom of expression via pubic hair .
  • (4) January 14, 2016 Morgan Jerkins (@MorganJerkins) The Oscars are gonna be so white that Chris Rock is gonna have to walk through the back door of the venue, like the olden days.
  • (5) Respiration was recorded using a jerkin plethysmograph.
  • (6) Like a children's story, all the Drax staff had to wear bright red jerkins.
  • (7) R&B isn't quite as staggeringly strange and futuristic as it seemed at the start of the noughties: in perhaps the decade's solitary example of genuinely odd and innovative music that wasn't by Radiohead finding a mass audience, producers Timbaland, the Neptunes and Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins competed to see who could make the weirdest-sounding No 1 single.
  • (8) Black women on magazine covers in September showcase our greatness | Morgan Jerkins Read more Take Hunger Games actress Amandla Stenberg, who published a video on cultural appropriation that went viral and has pushed back against racist stereotypes .

Tunic


Definition:

  • (n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.
  • (n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.
  • (n.) Same as Tunicle.
  • (n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.
  • (n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.
  • (n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An essential predominance of the muscle tunic thickness and deterioration of blood supply has been stated in the arterial wall and in the distal parts of the lower extremities.
  • (2) Our examination focused on the organization of elastin and collagen which are the major components of this tunic.
  • (3) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
  • (4) The intestinal tracts from seven different species of tunicates, some solitary, some colonial, were studied fine-structurally by freeze-fracture.
  • (5) Designs weren’t limited to abayas (a long tunic traditionally worn by Muslim women in the Middle East).
  • (6) The tunic of the ascidian Styela plicata is rich in a high molecular weight sulfated-L-galactan called the F-1 fraction.
  • (7) With this parameter, the tunicate hemocyte Thy-1 homology revealed significant relatedness to avian and mammalian Thy-1 molecules and was interestingly more related to mu chains of primitive vertebrates and to HLA class I and II encoded polypeptides than to Thy-1 molecules of higher vertebrates.
  • (8) The 1-H nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of living tunicate blood cells was examined in an attempt to develop a biophysical assay for the native vanadium chromogen.
  • (9) Rodioimmunoassayable somatostatin (SRIF) was found in acid ethanol extracts from various parts of the gastro-entero-pancreatic (GEP) endocrine system in reptiles, amphibians, teleost bony fish, cartilaginous fish, and jawless fish, as well as in a deuterostomian invertebrate, the tunicate, Ciona intestinalis.
  • (10) Somebody had hung a guardsman's bright red ceremonial tunic on a road sign outside a pub.
  • (11) However, trauma to the vaginal tunic seemed to be crucial, causing damage to the differentiation of the seminiferous epithelium.
  • (12) So you can assure young Miss Paulus that it is very possible to be warm and fabulously fashionable at the same time, as this season is all about how to wear as many vests as possible under a loose tunic dress before you begin to take on the dimensions of the Michelin man.
  • (13) Leydig cells in the tunic and elsewhere in the testis show ultrastructural features commonly found in mammalian Leydig cells.
  • (14) Immunocytochemical and ultrastructural characterization revealed a predominant population of myofibroblasts, an as yet unrecognized observation in tumors arising from testicular tunics.
  • (15) Most of the cases occur in the testicular tunics, whereas a few originate from the epididymis.
  • (16) In so doing one can isolate compounds with novel structures or unsuspected activities from almost any phylum, including tunicates, sponges, insects, or even the much-studied terrestrial plants, as exemplified in several recent studies in our laboratory involving activities ranging from antiviral and antimicrobial activity to cytotoxicity and immunomodulation.
  • (17) As in mice, tunicate alpha- and alpha' -subunits each appeared to bear three N-linked oligosaccharides, one high mannose- and two complex-type glycans and focused as a number of heterogeneous spots on IEF gels.
  • (18) Antioxidant prenylated hydroquinones and non active chromene or chroman extracted from the marine colonial tunicate Aplidium californicum have been studied in order to throw some light on their biological activity.
  • (19) In the second sequence, the tunic over one of his shoulders was heavily bloodstained.
  • (20) This resulted in focal or multifocal loss of the muscular tunic in three ferrets.