What's the difference between quellio and ruff?

Quellio


Definition:

  • (n.) A ruff for the neck.

Example Sentences:

Ruff


Definition:

  • (n.) A game similar to whist, and the predecessor of it.
  • (n.) The act of trumping, especially when one has no card of the suit led.
  • (v. i. & t.) To trump.
  • (n.) A muslin or linen collar plaited, crimped, or fluted, worn formerly by both sexes, now only by women and children.
  • (n.) Something formed with plaits or flutings, like the collar of this name.
  • (n.) An exhibition of pride or haughtiness.
  • (n.) Wanton or tumultuous procedure or conduct.
  • (n.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; a ruffle.
  • (n.) A collar on a shaft ot other piece to prevent endwise motion. See Illust. of Collar.
  • (n.) A set of lengthened or otherwise modified feathers round, or on, the neck of a bird.
  • (n.) A limicoline bird of Europe and Asia (Pavoncella, / Philommachus, pugnax) allied to the sandpipers. The males during the breeding season have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.
  • (n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon, having a ruff of its neck.
  • (v. t.) To ruffle; to disorder.
  • (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  • (v. t.) To hit, as the prey, without fixing it.
  • (n.) Alt. of Ruffe

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ruff displayed a very high number of synapses with terminals showing a varied morphology.
  • (2) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
  • (3) Most recently, this research has been expanded to include a more thorough consideration of the geometric properties of bone in relationship to adult age changes (Martin and Atkinsin, 1977; Ruff and Hayes, 1983).
  • (4) The morphological characteristics of the synaptic contacts in the ruff of the cichlid fish Hemichromis bimaculatus were studies using the combined Golgi-electron microscope technique.
  • (5) The only exception was the ruff in Lake Yli-Kitka, where a sharp increase was encountered.
  • (6) Associate professor Tilman Ruff, co-president of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, said that with a ban treaty likely to be concluded next year, the world stood at an historic turning point.
  • (7) Strains with the highest fibrinolytic activity belonged to the Bacillus genus and were isolated from mineral detritus and ruff intestines in the Black Sea.
  • (8) "I've been feeling ruff," intimated the canine star.
  • (9) The rate of rhodopsin regeneration in decolorized rod outer segments ROS of pollock and ruff in the presence of exogenous 11Z-retinal is found to depend slightly on the temperature.
  • (10) We have previously isolated a murine UDP-Gal:beta-D-Gal(1,4)-D-GlcNAc alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (alpha(1,3)-GT) cDNA (Larsen, R. D., Rajan, V. P., Ruff, M. M., Kukowska-Latallo, J., Cummings, R. D., and Lowe, J.
  • (11) Proteocephalus infection in the perch and ruff did not vary significantly according to the length of the fish in either area, except that no P. percae were found in perch smaller than 70 mm in the lake.
  • (12) There was a prominent seasonal variation in the occurrence of P. cernuae in the ruff in both areas, but especially in the lake, where no proteocephalids were found in the ruff in July-October.
  • (13) We have described previously a gene transfer system for the isolation of human DNA sequences that determine expression of a mammalian GDP-fucose: beta-D-galactoside-2-alpha-L-fucosyltransferase (alpha-(1,2)-fucosyltransferase) (Ernst, L. K., Rajan, V. P., Larsen, R. D., Ruff, M. M., and Lowe, J.
  • (14) These include pupillary ruff defects, iris sphincter transillumination, a characteristic whorl-like pattern of particulate pigment deposition on the iris sphincter, particulate pigment deposition on the peripheral iris and trabecular meshwork, and exfoliation material on the zonules and ciliary body.
  • (15) The neuropsychological application of the Ruff 2 and 7 Selective Attention Test as a measure of visual selective attention was investigated.
  • (16) ), at which time the chick host is known to experience malabsorption in the chick host (Ruff and Wilkins, 1980).
  • (17) I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.” Wheego A US company that was spun out of Ruff & Tuff Electric Vehicles, a manufacturer of recreational electric vehicles such as golf carts.
  • (18) By using an extension of Ruff's analysis of the sequential model of open end-plate ion channel blockade, we have been able to show that the action of the chloramphenicols on end-plate current amplitude and time course can be explained by the combination of two distinct mechanisms.
  • (19) We have found that a mixture of either ferrous or ferric ions with hydrogen peroxide (Fenton and Ruff reagents) can serve as biomimetic models for cytochrome P-450 in hydroxylation, exposidation, sulfoxidation, and N-demethylation of various drugs.
  • (20) Aperture size is based on the average radius (30 mm) of the open face of the ruff.

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