What's the difference between ruffle and unruffle?
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.
Unruffle
Definition:
(v. i.) To cease from being ruffled or agitated.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local media: “This was low behaviour.” Also unruffled Croatia: Dinamo Zagreb owner Zdravko Mamic – still awaiting trial for fraud and bribery – stripping at a wedding while singing hits from the 80s , including regional turbo-folk classic: “No one can hurt us … We’re stronger than fate, those who don’t like us can only hate.” Mamic denies wrongdoing.
(2) There might have been a grandstand finish had Jordan Cook’s overhit cross not pinged back off inside of the post just before the hour but City were largely left unruffled.
(3) The CNIL report was applauded by privacy groups, though the US search company remained unruffled.
(4) Facing scores of reporters and TV crews on the steps of the Royal Courts of Justice following the judgment, Miller was unruffled.
(5) Having relocated to the technical area, he remained similarly unruffled as Benteke headed Palace in front following Zaha’s angled cross.
(6) Mike Read, broadcaster Facebook Twitter Pinterest Mike Read The leaders’ debate awards 2015 Nick Clegg: Jazz Hands Award Nigel Farage: No Party Whip Telling Me What to Say Award Ed Miliband: When I’m PM Award David Cameron: Unruffled by Heckler Award Nick Clegg: Mentioning Johnny Seven Times Award Natalie Bennett: Avoiding Mentioning Her Policy of Abolishing The Monarchy and putting The Queen in a Council House Award Nicola Sturgeon: Avoiding Mentioning Her Policy of the Abolition of the House of Lords Award
(7) Cruz's own suit remained unruffled throughout, although at one stage Kansas senator Pat Roberts appeared with his tie hanging at half mast.
(8) They are unruffled by scepticism: In the middle of one interview, Mayer forgot a detail and yelled towards the door, “Cheryl, who said to you, ‘That’s just not how we do it?’” Dyer hollered back from the other room.
(9) He was unaware of the real estate tycoon’s utterances and entirely unruffled when informed.
(10) In the runup to the US presidential election of 2008, I read that Barack Obama worked on exaggerating the calm, unruffled delivery of his public speaking because the merest hint of heated emotion from a black man would be read by the public as a sign of temper, a hint of violence.
(11) When I ask if she thinks she is overpaid, she's quite unruffled: "I could earn more elsewhere, I know, and I've not gone down that route.
(12) Leaving the EU is a win-win, he promised them, unruffled all the while, unequivocal.
(13) An unruffled Cameron, who met Helmand's governor, Gulab Mangal, later ate a burger with ketchup and a salad.
(14) Slender and curiously asexual, the seven twentysomething men appear unruffled by the wall of screams that greets them.
(15) The eldest child of four, he had a comfortable, apparently unruffled childhood in the prosperous suburbs of south Manchester.
(16) However, the former mayor of London appeared unruffled by the attacks on his character, and stuck to the line that a vote to leave would “take back control of our democracy” – a sentiment that was warmly received by the studio audience.
(17) But Democrats will not be dismayed either with Obama's unruffled performance.
(18) It’s nothing for us.” Guengueng seems unruffled by the fact that Habré greeted the announcement of the adjournment by punching the air and giving the V-for-Victory salute to a group of cheering supporters.
(19) Rumours of bungs Mandaric, in his own long and largely unruffled evidence, described bungs as "illicit payments by agents, to managers and club officials, to act against the best interests of the club".
(20) Ali, looking utterly unruffled, sweeps the third ball for a single.