What's the difference between scantily and thinly?

Scantily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a scanty manner; not fully; not plentifully; sparingly; parsimoniously.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
  • (2) Specifically fluorescent adrenergic axons were scantily seen among the myelinated nerve fibers in the 8th nerve and in the subepithelial regions of the end organs but not in the endolymphatic sac.
  • (3) "Why do you need the body of a scantily clad woman to sell leg wax anyway?"
  • (4) Sclerosant therapy for different pathological conditions (testicular hydrocele, pneumothorax) is a little known and scantily used procedure in the clinical setting.
  • (5) In studies employing nucleoids from nonsense strong polar mutants of the trp operon, it was demonstrated that RNA polymerase are scantily distributed over the region downstream from the nonsense mutation site of the operon, thereby supporting a notion that in vivo transcription is eventually terminated near the nonsense mutation.
  • (6) Its digital interests include Mail Online, which has seen its user numbers soar on the back of a diet of celebrity gossip and scantily clad models.
  • (7) In contrast, other regions are either scantily ciliated or devoid of cilia.
  • (8) North of the Seine, the scantily clad prostitutes huddling in the doorways of Saint Denis and Baron Haussman's grand boulevards are feistily holding out against the creeping gentrification of their traditional turf.
  • (9) A breakdown of the voting competition organisers revealed that Poland's song, We Are Slavic, featuring a group of scantily clad young women dressed as milk maids , was the runaway favourite of the British public.
  • (10) The epitopes of the three antibodies were numerously detected on the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (ER) (especially, on the stacks of flattened smooth ER, subsurface cisterns and spine apparatus), scantily on the rough ER and on the outer nuclear membrane, but were not detectable on either the plasmalemma, synaptic densities, mitochondria or Golgi apparatus.
  • (11) Classification of a new Sarcocystis species based either on scantily described cysts or only on sporulated oocysts or sporocysts from feces is not sufficient and cannot be justified.
  • (12) I am told that some Muslims are offended by scantily clad models that grace the side of buses.
  • (13) Information on this specific plastic is scantily reported in the literature and as a consequence a preponderance of authors unknowingly reference an article by Shonka describing an early version of a tissue substitute plastic but having a different elemental composition than the present A-150 formulation.
  • (14) Eight patients had high W.B.C., 3 irregular filling defects on X ray studies, and on endoscopy, all showed a pseudomembranous white yellowish exudate, underneath it the mucosa was inflamed, irregular and bled scantily.
  • (15) There were two scantily clad dancers and a rapper bloke who kept shouting: "Make some noise!
  • (16) These pesticides have been both poorly and scantily tested for carcinogenicity.
  • (17) RNA blot analysis and S1 nuclease mapping analysis using RNA preparations from fibroblast and gizzard tissues showed that the fibroblast MLC mRNA is expressed predominantly in fibroblast cells, but not, or very scantily if at all, in the gizzard, whereas the reverse is true for the gizzard smooth muscle MLC mRNA.
  • (18) Although effeminacy is recognized to be a complex and important phenomenon, until now it has been only scantily studied, and has not been clearly defined or measured.
  • (19) latero-dorsalis sends out fibres throughout the region of the above listed nuclei while projecting only scantily to the anterior nuclei and to the ventrobasal complex.
  • (20) The ad, which promoted russianbrides.com, featured a scantily-clad woman showing cleavage and pouting at viewers.

Thinly


Definition:

  • (a.) In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (4) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (5) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (6) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
  • (7) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (8) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (9) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
  • (10) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (11) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (12) The triglycerides are isolated by means of thin-layer chromatography.
  • (13) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
  • (15) A specific vitamin A-dependent fluorophore was isolated from these retinas using thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
  • (16) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
  • (17) Thin-layer chromatogram with immunostaining revealed that serum IgG from this patient reacted with GM1, GD1a, GD1b, but did not react with GM2 and GT1b.
  • (18) A CT of the chest revealed typical thin-walled cysts of lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
  • (19) Homogenates of mucosa and muscle layer were incubated with (14C)-labelled arachidonic acid, and prostaglandin formation was determined using thin-layer chromatography.
  • (20) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.

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