What's the difference between ruffle and ruffled?

Ruffle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with ruffles; as, to ruffle a shirt.
  • (v. t.) To oughen or disturb the surface of; to make uneven by agitation or commotion.
  • (v. t.) To erect in a ruff, as feathers.
  • (v. t.) To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum.
  • (v. t.) To discompose; to agitate; to disturb.
  • (v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion.
  • (v. t.) To throw together in a disorderly manner.
  • (v. i.) To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent.
  • (v. i.) To become disordered; to play loosely; to flutter.
  • (v. i.) To be rough; to jar; to be in contention; hence, to put on airs; to swagger.
  • (v. t. & i.) That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.
  • (v. t. & i.) A state of being ruffled or disturbed; disturbance; agitation; commotion; as, to put the mind in a ruffle.
  • (v. t. & i.) A low, vibrating beat of a drum, not so loud as a roll; -- called also ruff.
  • (v. t. & i.) The connected series of large egg capsules, or oothecae, of any one of several species of American marine gastropods of the genus Fulgur. See Ootheca.

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.

Ruffled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) 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.

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