What's the difference between ruffing and ruffling?
Ruffing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruff
Example Sentences:
(1) Neoplasms were identified in 3 of 13 free-flying ruffed grouse submitted to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study during a 10-year period.
(2) A joint operation took on, defeated and disarmed the RUF over the next 18 months, and in January 2002 Kabbah officially declared the war over.
(3) By 1997, when the war-weary population elected Taylor president, Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels had begun phase two of their war against the government of Sierra Leone.
(4) A year later, war came to Sierra Leone – and the RUF entered from Liberia.
(5) Providing training, supplies and arms (many taken from stockpiles purchased from the west and Russia), Gaddafi contributed to horrors such as Charles Taylor's NPFL and the brutal RUF in Sierra Leone.
(6) The partially purified preparations, RUF-1, RUF-2 and RUF-3, were analyzed by the sandwich-type enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method, and it was found their maximum reactivities were about 30%, 45% and 20% that of the intact plasma fibronectin, respectively.
(7) mATPase activities were similar in both species, but spruce grouse contained 15 times more myoglobin in the pectoralis muscle and the heart was three times heavier than that of the ruffed grouse.
(8) He is alleged to have been rewarded with blood diamonds from Sierra Leone in return for helping Foday Sankoh's RUF.
(9) But the operation's commander, Brigadier David Richards, was given wide latitude and found that the RUF melted away when it met a determined show of force.
(10) Sponsored by Taylor, Sankoh set up his RUF and launched his own insurrection in 1991.
(11) A stable social group of 7 semifree-ranging black-and-white ruffed lemurs (Varecia variegata variegata) was studied for 4 months to catalog the behavioral repertoire of this species.
(12) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(13) During sorting, liver cells showed ruffing activity even when they appeared to be totally surrounded by other cells.
(14) Results of breeding of ruffed lemurs (Lemur variegatus) at the Duke Primate Facility provide information concerning estrous cycle, sexual behavior, age of first conception, gestation period, parturition, litter size.
(15) The RUF was notorious for tactics such as mass rapes and amputations during a conflict that left between 50,000 and 200,000 dead before it was formally declared over in 2002.
(16) Two of his early Libyan-trained comrades, Abu Kanu and Rashid Mansaray, were summarily executed after they tried to moderate the excesses of the RUF.
(17) The civil war went on, with the West African force lined alongside Sierra Leone's pathetic army and the even weirder militia known as the Kamajors, against the ousted Koroma military junta and the RUF.
(18) The RUF was eventually driven out by a West African regional force, but a year later it was back on Freetown's doorstep and the city panicked.
(19) One of them, Issa Sesay, a former leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) was given 52 years for his role.
(20) We report, for the first time, the existence of ruffed cells in these species.
Ruffling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ruffle
Example Sentences:
(1) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
(2) Maturing enamel overlaid by either ruffle-ended or smooth-ended maturation ameloblasts showed similar Ca and P concentrations.
(3) Injection of GTP gamma S inhibited ruffling and increased spreading, suggesting an increase in adhesion.
(4) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(5) Stimulation of membrane ruffling is one of the first events induced by addition of growth factors to quiescent cultures.
(6) Suddenly he would be picking up speed, scurrying past opponents and, in one instance, slipping the ball through Laurent Koscielny’s legs for a nutmeg that was so exquisitely executed he might have been tempted to ruffle his opponent’s hair.
(7) In the SEM three corresponding types were identified, a relatively smooth spherical type, a highly ruffled type and a fairly smooth flattened type.
(8) Other designs included short ruffle cocktail dresses with velvet parkas slung over the shoulder; blazers made of stringed pearly pink; and gold beading and a lace catsuit.
(9) The Glasman "project" will undoubtedly ruffle feathers inside and outside Labour.
(10) In the active phase of root resorption, the resorption organ contained many odontoclasts with a well-developed ruffled border and a reduced clear zone, cementoblasts, fibroblasts, macrophages, neutrophils, and many blood vessels.
(11) The cells were oval or round, most of them with a rough surface due to presence of microvilli, ruffles, ridges, and blebs of various numbers and shapes.
(12) The osteoclasts secrete a large amount of protons by the action of H(+)-pump on the ruffled border into the sealed resorption cavity, resulting in the acidified microenvironment under which condition the bone matrix is dissolved.
(13) Ruffles were only rarely present in the continuous presence of NGF and were absent after NGF withdrawal.
(14) The presence of wide and short ruffles of epithelial cells covered with mucus is typical of the secretory phase of the cycle.
(15) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
(16) The increases in actin cables were associated with a lack of ruffled edges that are indicative of motile cells.
(17) Osteoclasts are multinucleated giant cells showing specialized membrane structures, clear zones and ruffled borders, which are responsible for the process of bone resorption.
(18) ruffled membrane movement, phagocytosis of some particles, glucose oxidation through the hexose monophosphate shunt and an increase in the activity of a membrane enzyme, adenylate cyclase.
(19) The presence of membrane ruffles at the cell border and of numerous thick bundles of actin crossing the cell body, suggests that the factor promotes cell spreading; this probably interferes with cytokinesis, ultimately leading to the formation of very large flattened multinucleated cells.
(20) They gradually displayed active membrane pseudopodia, thorn-like processes and petal-like ruffles after 2 h to 4 h of cultivation.