What's the difference between matchstick and slender?

Matchstick


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He enjoyed quiet jokes and liked telling an interviewer that he could never be prime minister because he did his sums with matchsticks.
  • (2) To do this follow the same method as above but, when you are stitching through the holes, hold a toothpick or matchstick on top of the button and stitch over it (a) - see illustration below).
  • (3) Cooked beetroot, cut into matchsticks Cabbage, white or red, finely shredded Preserved lemon segments, pulp removed, rinsed, peeled thinly, cut into matchsticks Red onion, peeled and thinly sliced Hot-smoked trout or salmon fillets, cut into strips For the dressing 1 small pot of sour cream 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbsp milk ¼ tsp caster sugar 1 tbsp finely grated lemon zest 1 Arrange your salad ingredients on a large platter or individual plates, leaving the fish until last.
  • (4) They had another UK Top 10 hit later that year with Ice in the Sun, but their debut album, Picturesque Matchstickable Messages from the Status Quo, failed to chart.
  • (5) Many were in decrepit tower-blocks, sky high and matchstick small.
  • (6) The fragment is attached with 2 or 3 matchstick-size bone graft taken from the proximal tibia.
  • (7) Peel the ginger and slice into very fine matchsticks.
  • (8) You may need : Tape measure Needle Thread Scissors Toothpick or matchstick 1 .
  • (9) In comparison, the extracardiac rhabdomyoma filaments were more disorderly and many cases had hypertrophic Z bands corresponding to the jackstraw or matchstick structures seen with the light microscope.
  • (10) Briefly steam the broccoli then divide, together with the beanshoots and matchsticks of ginger, between 4 deep bowls.
  • (11) Patients (n = 404) with osteoarthrosis and control subjects (n = 233) were studied to examine the communicational value of five styles of illustration (cartoon (C), matchstick (M), representational (R), symbolic (S), photographic (P) and two levels of text ('easy', 'hard'), presented as educational booklets about osteoarthrosis.
  • (12) A former matchstick factory has been transformed into three bars.
  • (13) In the 60s, their management convinced them that psychedelia was the way ahead, so they wore their gaudy colours and had a hit with the haunting Pictures Of Matchstick Men.
  • (14) He ended with a warning: "Comrade Jintao, a single matchstick is enough for the arsonist, but putting out the fire would take a great effort."
  • (15) A year after that, from the opposition front bench, he was able to make the mild claim that his matchsticks seemed to work at least as well as Labour's economic devices and advisers.
  • (16) The movement consisted in moving a matchstick to and fro between the index finger (II) and the little finger (V).
  • (17) The new lineup – Parfitt and Rossi plus the drummer John Coghlan, bassist Alan Lancaster and keyboard player Roy Lynes – immediately felt their luck changing as their single Pictures of Matchstick Men (1968), written by Rossi, reached No 7 in the UK and the Top 40 in the US.
  • (18) He built a children's playground with £30,000 but within two days it was kicked to matchsticks.
  • (19) At night, they slept crowded together “like matchsticks”, Mohammed said.
  • (20) They became friends, but Parfitt didn't join the band until they recorded Pictures Of Matchstick Men.

Slender


Definition:

  • (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
  • (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
  • (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
  • (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
  • (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (2) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.
  • (3) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (4) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (5) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
  • (6) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
  • (7) Histologically, they contained slender spindle cells and various amounts of collagen fibers.
  • (8) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (9) Public schools report dipping into their own slender budgets, and sometimes principal’s own pockets to pay family electricity bills so that students can keep access to their computer and also get the occasional warm meal.
  • (10) They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250.
  • (11) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (12) Normally, PC12 cells respond to NGF by morphologically differentiating into sympathetic neuron-like cells, exhibiting a marked hypertrophy, and extending slender neurites piloted by well defined growth cones.
  • (13) When explants of neurofibroma tissue were cultured, macrophage-like cells with pseudopodia migrated out first, and later took on a slender fusiform shape.
  • (14) Bone-age was advanced and bones were slender and osteoporotic with metaphyseal thickening.
  • (15) The surface cells had well developed apical junctions and slender cytoplasmic processes projecting into widened intercellular spaces appeared during the developmental period.
  • (16) At the level of the Z-line, a slender transverse tubule (T-tubule) runs transversely to the longitudinal axis of the myofibril.
  • (17) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (18) These consisted of parallel configurations of slender sheet-like astrocytic processes frequently connected to one another by highly organized intercellular adhesive devices.
  • (19) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
  • (20) These events were followed by a transformation of the long slender bloodstream form to a short stumpy form via an intermediate morphology.