What's the difference between jocular and locular?
Jocular
Definition:
(a.) Given to jesting; jocose; as, a jocular person.
(a.) Sportive; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the contest meandered and the stadium went close to quiet there was a jocular moment when Pardew hopped in irritation at a United challenge and the manager dropped his ever-present notebook on the pitch.
(2) The tone was jocular, but the intent deadly serious, as becomes clear talking to Jón and Einar Örn Benediktsson, who used to sing alongside Björk in the Sugarcubes and is now Reykjavik's head of culture and tourism.
(3) You kindly suggested that it would be helpful if I put them in writing – despite the Freedom of Information Act!” A jocular reference?
(4) Welby, who was enthroned as a bishop last November, presented a jocular, relaxed face to the press as he appeared for the first time at Lambeth Palace, surrounded by the portraits of archbishops past.
(5) At this time I can’t say anything about transfers,” he said before turning jocular.
(6) The cast of The Five vacillated between feigned solemnity and jocular NFL pregame oafishness.
(7) Until now, the answer would have been for Network Rail to simply borrow: its spending on the never-never has largely escaped public attention, despite the industry jocularly speaking of the "Network Rail credit card".
(8) Alito was not amused by Kagan’s jocular stand for precedent, and declared the original Brulotte “a bald act of policymaking”.
(9) The tone was jocular, but the president’s words on Friday betrayed mounting frustration with opponents in his own party who could derail perhaps the biggest domestic policy goal of his last two years in office.
(10) The auteur that's matched Malick for headlines this year, Lars von Trier, banned by the festival's board of directors after mounting a jocular defence of Adolf Hitler in an official press conference, was given a consolation prize of sorts when Kirsten Dunst picked up the award for best actress for her part in Melancholia.
(11) Poroshenko’s treatment in Washington will also invite comparison to Trump’s warm and jocular Oval Office meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Moscow’s ambassador to Washington, Sergey Kislyak, on May 10, the day after firing the FBI director, James Comey.
(12) An overjoyed Mark Sampson was in jocular mood after his England side reached a significant milestone in their history, posting their first knockout stage victory in any World Cup finals with a 2-1 win over Norway in Ottawa.
(13) Catch it on one of the 300-odd UK screens it opened across yesterday, and witness a jocular salute to the redemptive power of youth, rebellion and getting fucked-up.
(14) Although schizoaffective manic patients resembled manics in their tendency to show combinatory thinking, their productions lacked the jocularity of the manics.
(15) It all sounds too easy, a bit jocular, there's more assertion than proof.
(16) Derived from The Wizard of Oz , the term "friend of Dorothy" (or FOD) was for many years a carefully guarded euphemism in homosexual circles, until in the 1980s it began to be used openly and jocularly.
(17) Last summer he described his development as a writer in a typically jocular column for the Guardian Review book club, which featured the first of his Culture novels, Use of Weapons.
(18) Trust in John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, has not been bolstered by jocular remarks envisaging the BBC’s demise as “a tempting prospect” .
(19) Corbyn will face May at prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons for the first time on Wednesday, and said he expected it to be a less jocular affair than under David Cameron.
(20) Indeed in the course of a single phone call he would veer alarmingly from bonhomie, to bullying, to pleading and then back to a jocular mood.
Locular
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; in composition, having cells; as trilocular.
Example Sentences:
(1) Type 2 cells are small-locular cells suitable for rapid oxidation of fat droplets.
(2) The histopathological study shows the three characteristic elements: fibrous, uni-locular adipose tissue and mixoid mesenchymal tissue.
(3) 2 of the cysts presented multi-locular radiolucency; in 9 cases, buccal expansion was noticed and in 8 cases, permanent buds were displaced.
(4) At the operation a three-locular cyst of the left adrenal gland was entirely removed with all surrounding organs undamaged.
(5) Uni- or multi-locular, this radiolucent defect is often unilateral; it affects equally both sexes.
(6) In the infants, all cell types were identified: the small-locular cells were in general scanty in all decades following infancy: in later decades of life, the most common cell types were middle-locular and large-locular cells.
(7) The entities commonly known as multi-locular cyst of the kidney (MLC) and cystic partially differentiated nephroblastoma (CPDN) were reviewed, based on material in the National Wilms' Tumor Study Pathology Center.
(8) Neither clinical nor radiological examination could give the diagnosis, whereas ultrasound examination promptly revealed large, thin-walled, partly locular, cystic masses.
(9) From a methanolic extract of neutralized apple fruit pulp, a minor compound was isolated by adsorption chromatography on both XAD and PVPP resins followed by rotation locular countercurrent chromatography (RLCC).
(10) In case of multi-locular supra-aortic lesions the correction of a hemodynamic carotid stenosis has priority over any reconstruction of another supra-aortic lesion.
(11) Type 3 (middle-locular) and 4 (large-locular) represent fat-storage cells containing large amounts of fat.
(12) Ninety-eight jaw lesions were described by their prevalence and their distribution by age, sex, race, presence of pain, number, size and location of lesions, association with teeth, expansion, locularity, borders, contents and impact on adjacent teeth.
(13) Brown adipocyte locularity profiles were qualitatively similar in both phenotypes, and were morphologically indicative of thermogenic activity in both phenotypes.
(14) Using a bioassay for inhibition of plant growth and a combination of two countercurrent chromatographies: rotation locular countercurrent chromatography and droplet countercurrent chromatography, two biologically active glycosidal alkaloids, solasonine and solamargine were isolated from fresh ripe fruit of Solanum incanum.
(15) To evaluate the catecholaminergic effects of BAT, morphometric quantitation of BAT was carried out based on the cytoplasmic locularity of fat globules in the BAT cells.
(16) Multilocular brown fat cells were classified into the following types: Type 1, fat-depleted cells: Type 2, small-locular cells: Type 3, middle-locular cells: Type 4, large-locular cells: Type 5, monolocular brown fat cells with a thick cytoplasmic rim and pseudomonolocular brown fat cells and Type 6, multilocular brown fat cells rich in cytoplasm.
(17) The loculus of thoracic stomach tended to retain the same shape; there was a slightly better prognosis for the locular type of hernia compared with the tubular type.