What's the difference between pimple and wimple?

Pimple


Definition:

  • (n.) Any small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not.
  • (n.) Fig.: A swelling or protuberance like a pimple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "All the big German newspapers and news magazines are now increasingly trying to have one editorial team overlook all of its channels of output – it's better for the overall brand," said Roland Pimpl, a correspondent for the trade magazine Horizont.
  • (2) These pimples exhibit a unique and complex morphology.
  • (3) In the white form, budding cells appear similar to those of most other strains of C. albicans, but in the opaque form, budding cells are larger, are bean shaped, and possess pimples on the wall.
  • (4) Results showed that a significant (P less than .05) linear increase in pimple score, uterine ash, and serum calcium occurred as dietary levels of D3 increased.
  • (5) The possibility is suggested that the vacuole of opaque cells is the origin of membrane-bound vesicles which traverse the wall through specialized pimple structures and emerge from the pimple with an intact outer double membrane, a unique phenomenon in yeast cells.
  • (6) John Lopez, Vanity Fair Whether or not Sorkin "sexed" The Social Network up hardly even matters: in sexing it up, he merely cast an unpleasant spotlight on that nasty pimple resting on the tip of our nose, whose presence we try so hard to hide with makeup so that we can go out and face the working world with dignity.
  • (7) The opaque-cell-specific 14.5-kDa antigen either is in the pimple channel or is a component of the emerging vesicle.
  • (8) The antics of the past week are pimples pointing to a deeper infection within the Conservative organism – and, for that matter, the body politic.
  • (9) "The pitch was frozen solid but Lincoln had the new Adidas pimpled studs, and ours had long nylon studs," he recalled.
  • (10) The functions of the unique opaque-cell pimple and emerging vesicle are not known.
  • (11) The trouble with the government's proposals so far is that they are mere pimples on the surface."
  • (12) The typical features are, in the beginning, a pruritic insect-bite-like pimple, then a painless ulcer surrounded by serous-hemorrhagic, often rapidly confluent vesicles and non-pitting edema.
  • (13) Feed consumption, egg production, egg weight, egg specific gravity, and pimple score were determined at weekly or biweekly intervals for a 10-week period.
  • (14) Pimpled egg shells are one of the various types of egg shell problems in the industry today.
  • (15) A peculiar anatomoclinic form is described about the Balanoposthite chronique circonscrite bénigne à plasmocytes (Zoon): the pimpled, erosive, nodular and pseudoangiomatous form.
  • (16) It was concluded that egg shell pimpling is directly related to level of cholecalciferol (D3) in the diet.
  • (17) A 17-month-old baby boy was noted to have a pimple-like lesion at the corona of the glans penis.
  • (18) There's even one in which she appears to have a pimple .
  • (19) In the Vivida group, five patients developed transient, mild pimples during the first weeks of treatment, but no other adverse effects occurred.
  • (20) The hyphae formed by opaque cells were morphologically identical to hyphae formed by white cells (i.e., they were devoid of pimples or protrusions and exhibited the same shape and septal locations).

Wimple


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering of silk, linen, or other material, for the neck and chin, formerly worn by women as an outdoor protection, and still retained in the dress of nuns.
  • (n.) A flag or streamer.
  • (v. t.) To clothe with a wimple; to cover, as with a veil; hence, to hoodwink.
  • (v. t.) To draw down, as a veil; to lay in folds or plaits, as a veil.
  • (v. t.) To cause to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to cause to ripple or undulate; as, the wind wimples the surface of water.
  • (v. i.) To lie in folds; also, to appear as if laid in folds or plaits; to ripple; to undulate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No question, Kardashian does dress in a way that shows her backside's shape, but I'm not really sure what else she should do, other than wear a wimple .
  • (2) So we get male characters covered in body paint, as we might have expected in the late Iron Age; and high-status females wearing coifs and wimples, as they would have done in the 14th and 15th centuries.
  • (3) "Boil the kettle," snaps Sister Julienne, wimple-deep in amniotic fluid.
  • (4) Poor old Saggy Nun, aka Oliver Peters, who occasionally competes in a wimple, barely got off the start line before hitting a barrier and wiping out.
  • (5) Between Nancy Reagan’s death and her funeral on Friday 11 March, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence reached out in their own wimpled way to share their pain, their anger and, occasionally, their sympathy.
  • (6) There is a glorious, back-to-the-70s daftness about Horrible Histories' parade of togas, wimples, ruffs and tights that makes it appealing – to a wide audience.
  • (7) There was Sister Wendy Beckett in her wimple becoming an unlikely TV star in Britain as an art critic.