What's the difference between missed and rumpled?

Missed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Miss

Example Sentences:

  • (1) City badly missed Yaya Touré, on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations, and have not won a league match since last April when he has been missing.
  • (2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (3) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
  • (4) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (5) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (6) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
  • (7) The striker missed the whole 2006-07 season but returned to make 35 appearances in 2007-08.
  • (8) They would say 'Here comes Miss Marple' when I came by."
  • (9) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (10) I have the BBC app on my phone and it updates me, and I saw the wire ‘Malaysian flight goes missing over Ukraine.’ I’m like, well it’s probably the Russians who shot it down.
  • (11) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
  • (12) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
  • (13) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
  • (14) Phosphoglucomutase 1, an enzyme mapping on the short arms of chromosome 1, is constantly missing in the leukemic cell line K-562 in spite of the presence of three No.
  • (15) We report a case of popliteal vein obstruction by an osteochondroma, arising from the proximal tibia, in which the diagnosis was initially missed.
  • (16) the EcoR1 fragment of 8.6 kbp length which contains the oriC region (Marsh and Worcel, 1977; v. Meyenburg et al., 1977; Yasuda and Hirota, 1977) is missing.
  • (17) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
  • (18) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
  • (19) Thirty-eight bodies have been removed from the mass graves, but DNA tests have shown that none is that of a missing student.
  • (20) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.

Rumpled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rumple
  • (a.) Wrinkled; crumpled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A large man with a rumpled shirt, snowy beard and hair pulled into a ponytail, the commissioner resembles a hippy Santa Claus but is a tough, shrewd operator.
  • (2) He is sound in wind and limb, vision and hearing, his eyes sparkle, his face is scarcely rumpled by time.
  • (3) So how did this rumpled everyman, who dresses in T-shirts and baggy trousers to meet corporate chiefs, end up being courted by the global elite, from princes to politicians?
  • (4) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
  • (5) A witty man, who was a curious mixture of mischief and irritability, and who always had the rumpled appearance of one who had spent the night sleeping rough, Gray was seldom seen without a cigarette in one hand and a glass in the other.
  • (6) The eggs produced were non-viable and the egg capsule comprised a rumpled lipid and ruptured chitin layer.
  • (7) Perseveringly urchin-like, he was rumpled enough to evoke Minnesota Fats' observation that dressing a pool player in a tuxedo is like putting whipped cream on a hot dog.
  • (8) Still there are no houses or cars, just hills in folds like a rumpled blanket, empty fields – and then a crowd of black cows, way off in the lee of a line of trees.
  • (9) A vegetarian with a penchant for cardigans and rumpled trousers, he has campaigned using public transport and carrying a rucksack.
  • (10) And it is true that a lot of female selfie aficionados take their visual vernacular directly from pornography (unwittingly or otherwise): the pouting mouth, the pressed-together cleavage, the rumpled bedclothes in the background hinting at opportunity.
  • (11) The most famous bed in contemporary art, a tangle of stained and rumpled sheets bearing expensive witness to a time of heartbreak for the artist Tracey Emin , is coming to the Tate gallery on long loan from its new owner, the German businessman and collector Count Christian Duerckheim.
  • (12) The result is that New Labour’s second generation often looks like a smooth, besuited set of careerists, elite members of a spadocracy against which Corbyn appears the paragon of rumpled authenticity.
  • (13) Somehow Corbyn looks smaller and more permanently rumpled than he actually is.
  • (14) Early into the administration he met the president and his economics team, "and it was just clear that rumpled professors with beards just didn't come across as being so impressive.
  • (15) Across the valley to the west is the rumple of a high glacier, a face of snow; to the east, a horseshoe cup of grey and green.
  • (16) And while both vied for the White House as crusading liberal outsiders fueled by big rallies and throngs of youthful supporters, Jackson in 1984 was the loquacious, nationally known, media-anointed heir to Dr Martin Luther King Jr, at a time when Sanders, exactly one month Jackson’s senior, was the rumpled, twice-elected socialist-independent mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
  • (17) Expect the long-promised marriage tax bonus , a rumpled old rabbit to pull out of the Tory top hat, the idea that a small sum will send cohabiters dashing down the aisle.
  • (18) And if so, how will it cope with the fact sex is now so restricted in mainstream movies it's easier to shoot a twerking Disney star than rumpled sheets on celluloid?
  • (19) So when Matthew Dear plays London's Boiler Room club night, with everyone else's clothing lumpen and translucent with sweat, it's a pleasure to see him imperious in an elegantly rumpled white collared shirt and gothic Teddy Boy hair.
  • (20) On a July evening nearly a year later, Dr Anna Pou, wearing rumpled surgical scrubs, answered a knock on her door.

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