What's the difference between puce and puck?

Puce


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a dark brown or brownish purple color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (2) Formation of the light harvesting complex B800-850 (LHII) of Rhodobacter capsulatus requires the expression of more than the three known genes specific for that complex (pucA, pucB and pucE) encoding the alpha, beta and gamma subunits of LHII, respectively.
  • (3) To dissect the pucC, pucD and pucE genes from pucB and pucA and independently regulate them, they were placed under control of the nifHDK promoter.
  • (4) We love to categorise: Amis is the money-grubbing bloke who needed a big advance to fix his dodgy teeth; Stoppard is that clever fellow with a neat line in cod Shakespeare; Pinter is the chap who goes puce, tells journalists to fuck off, and is forever banging on about Iraq or the Kurds or the iniquities of US imperialism.
  • (5) Vote Leave, remember, was meant to be the moderate, judicious voice of Euroscepticism, distinct in manner and content from the vulgar nationalism conveyed by swivel-eyed, puce-cheeked Kippers.
  • (6) When submerged in red wine, her majesty’s face on the current paper notes goes a puce colour, but stays fresh on polymer, and can just be wiped clean.
  • (7) Analysis of the pucD and pucE genes led to the conclusion that the products of these genes stabilize the B800-850 complex.
  • (8) As the anguished, bearded face of the new marketing manager went puce with the effects of excess cocaine and the camera stayed right on him, it became apparent to me that this was art of a very high order indeed.
  • (9) Saturdays, ville-saintes.fr charentais Porte de Vanves flea market, Paris Photograph: Alamy The Porte de Vanves marché aux puces is still peopled by locals eager to help you practise your French.

Puck


Definition:

  • (n.) A celebrated fairy, "the merry wanderer of the night;" -- called also Robin Goodfellow, Friar Rush, Pug, etc.
  • (n.) The goatsucker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (2) At stake: rice cakes, a gift basket, and a somewhat condescending hockey puck.
  • (3) 3.21am BST Puck drops... We're back, and we have action.
  • (4) 2.44am BST Kings 3-3 Blackhawks, 2:42, 2nd period A two-on one break for the Hawks - Shaw is skating with the puck across the blue line, passes to Niklas Hjalmarsson, who gives it back, cross ice to Shaw who fires and is denied!
  • (5) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (6) Jagr nearly won it for Boston in the closing seconds of the second OT when the puck deflected off him and hit the post.
  • (7) Updated at 2.17am BST 2.15am BST Puck drops ...and we're back.
  • (8) 1.41am BST Rangers 0-1 Kings, 09:01, 1st period Hagelin puts the puck on net, Quick saves.
  • (9) Jeff Carter’s puck passed the line with approximately 0.07 seconds left in the first, delivering a devastating blow to New York.
  • (10) Also, the Kings were able to force key turnovers, none more important than Girardi's misstep that led to the winning goal from Justin Williams - the Rangers simply must be more careful with the puck to win.
  • (11) It was also possible to demonstrate that for a given speed of the puck the more flexible stick required a smaller force than the rigid one.
  • (12) Galactokinase deficient fibroblasts are not distinguishable from galactosemic fibroblasts by a test suggested earlier by Hill & Puck (1973).
  • (13) Pucks flew across the crease as the Habs ran heavy traffic around the netminder.
  • (14) 3.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 1:11, 3rd period Martinez shoots - Pearson redirects - where's the puck?
  • (15) But King was in the crease and The King could not move to get the puck - the refs ignore the obvious interference and the goal stands!
  • (16) That's what we're about to find out, but before the puck drops, and even after, why not join the blog, because, as we like to say, our blog is your blog.
  • (17) Now another chance for LA - off the faceoff - Brown gets the puck behind the pack, he's in front of the net but fires into the chest of Lundqvist!
  • (18) 1.31am BST Kings 0-0 Rangers, 13:44, first period Now it's Anze Kopitar carrying, carrying, behind the net, controlling, and now he's trying to wrap around, but it's off the blade of his stick and the puck slides across the crease.
  • (19) 3.17am BST Kings 3-0 Rangers, 16:57, third period The Kings carry the puck for a decent chunk of the advantage, mostly thanks to Anze Kopitar.
  • (20) Finally the ref stops play - but the puck is just inches in front of the goal line!