What's the difference between ringlet and winglet?
Ringlet
Definition:
(n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
(n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
(2) One ringlet on a handle has been offset to facilitate retrieval of the needle holder from a flat surface.
(3) The ringlet configuration of the splayed scissors conforms to the normal resting posture of the hand.
(4) The purpose of this study was to develop orthodontic ringlets from polyurethane which have maximum flow resistance.
(5) The ringleted far-out Mona Ramsey is on a quest to find herself when the answer is right beneath her coke-dusted nose.
(6) Neither intact phage nor ghosts were seen in any of the preparations, although ringlets of two different diameters, which appeared to correspond to the diameters of the sheath and inner core, were observed.
(7) Side by side on the shelves near us are two framed photographs: on the left is Melanie in a white dress, with a cascade of blond ringlets; and on the right is Tom, still the same bright blue eyes, but with a boy’s short hair.
(8) Writing about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh in 1978, Lorna Sage drew attention to the "slump" in its reputation after the success it had first enjoyed after its 1856 publication: at first, she argued, it seemed to have successfully liberated the epic form from a male monopoly; subsequently, though, a ringletted Barrett Browning morphed into "almost the archetype of the powerless, fey poetess".
(9) A Hasidic Jewish schoolboy with ringlets and a limp.
(10) Soluble rCR2, visualized by high resolution electron microscopy, was shown to be an extended, highly flexible molecule comprised of ringlet domains, each approximately 24.1 A in length, which likely correspond to the short consensus repeat motif deduced from the CR2 cDNA nucleotide sequence.
(11) PMC formed 15 times as many epithelial ringlets or "stomata" as PMVEC.
(12) In addition, surgeons can apply greater force to the splayed scissor ringlets than that which could be applied to the ringlets of conventional scissors.
(13) The abnormalities were predominantly confined to the posterior pole and ranged from many small (100- to 200-microns) subretinal black ringlets to single large (2- to 3-disc diameter) geographic lesions.
(14) Brown bodies, formed by coelomocytes surrounding foreign material, accumulated in the posterior region of the animal around the cloacal suspensors; these eventually were eliminated through a ringlet of ducts connecting the coelomic cavity with the external environment.
(15) Ringlet numbers increased by 354% while marbled white counts rose by 503%.
Winglet
Definition:
(n.) A little wing; a very small wing.
(n.) A bastard wing, or alula.
Example Sentences:
(1) Many twig-like processes originated from the free margin of the winglet of the enkephalin neurons (wing-ramuli).
(2) Distinct immunoreactivity was shown in the many Dogiel type 1 neurons, characterized by short broad processes (winglets or alulae) and one long axon-like process, as well as a few type 2, characterized by several tapering processes, and type 3 neurons, characterized by dendrite-like processes.