What's the difference between shroud and whisker?

Shroud


Definition:

  • (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • (n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
  • (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The underlying pathology was shrouded by incomplete abortion.
  • (2) It introduces a welcome trenchancy into subjects often shrouded in misty rhetoric.
  • (3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
  • (4) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
  • (5) Two of them begged for a rescue mission in phone calls yesterday, as the battles raged through a powerful sandstorm that shrouded the city from journalists and anxious refugees who have been watching the fighting from the safety of Turkish soil, just a few hundred feet away.
  • (6) The same intrepid, almost naive, fascination with a world shrouded in the icy fog of snobbery, deference, and class-consciousness animated Sampson.
  • (7) Tehran, surrounded by mountains and with millions of cars on its congested streets, has long been regarded as one of the world's most polluted cities, but the heavy smog that has recently shrouded its streets has been described as the worst in its history.
  • (8) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (9) Monarchy, of whatever stamp, shrouds society in class, when we can least afford it.
  • (10) See the bullet holes in street lamps... the shrouded vision in the clouds and the fog of the buildings from which the shots came... the photographs of those who lost their lives.. the people who put themselves on the line for the future of Ukraine.” Kerry said he spoke spontaneously with Ukrainians gathered there, who pleaded with him not to go back to life as it was under Yanukovych.
  • (11) We hope that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice will finally decide to comply with the law, and cease attempting to shroud in secrecy one aspect of their job that, above all others, should be conducted in the light of day."
  • (12) It sits amid north Glasgow’s famous Red Road tower blocks, shrouded and still awaiting demolition since organisers had second thoughts about blowing them up to mark the Commonwealth Games.
  • (13) Prolonged exposures of fracture faces under the protection of liquid nitrogen-cooled shrouds have shown that, because of the consequent drastic reduction of condensable gases in the specimen area, no detectable condensation contamination of exposed fracture faces occurs within 15 min at a specimen temperature of 108 degrees K. This shows that a complicated ultrahigh vacuum technology is not required for high resolution freeze- etching.
  • (14) How many other "invisible" stories are out there, shrouded by thick legal mist?
  • (15) As usual, the government applied the OSB media strategy to shroud the matters in secrecy.
  • (16) "Those are dead people in front of our house and the smell is awful," called out a woman from the balcony, her face shrouded in cloth to protect her from the stench.
  • (17) If this is how it behaves in the middle of one of Australia’s biggest cities, how does it conduct itself when shrouded behind the secrecy of “on water operations”?
  • (18) On these days, the smog clings to the city like a thick grey shroud, and its residents are ghost-like shadows moving through the haze.
  • (19) Consider an example from June of last year, when rampant fires across parts of Sumatra, Indonesia, shrouded the skies of Sumatra and neighbouring Singapore and Malaysia in a thick, choking haze.
  • (20) What happened next has always been shrouded in mystery.

Whisker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, whisks, or moves with a quick, sweeping motion.
  • (n.) Formerly, the hair of the upper lip; a mustache; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face, or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.
  • (n.) A hair of the beard.
  • (n.) One of the long, projecting hairs growing at the sides of the mouth of a cat, or other animal.
  • (n.) Iron rods extending on either side of the bowsprit, to spread, or guy out, the stays, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Writing in the journal Nature , the researchers describe how our ancestors lost another piece of DNA that gives rise to both facial whiskers and sensitive spines on the tip of the penis, both of which are found in chimpanzees and other non-human primates.
  • (2) They also suggest that both the migration of cortical neurons on glia and the refinement of the mapping between the peripheral whisker field and its cortical representation may depend upon the distribution of substrate adhesion molecules.
  • (3) The figures on Tuesday mean Osborne has, by a whisker, achieved his promise that his austerity measures would bring year-on-year cuts in the UK's annual deficit.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
  • (5) Follicles and whisker pads cultured with minoxidil, then washed for one h in media were devoid of minoxidil-immunoreactivity.
  • (6) In the present experiments we manipulated the tactile experience of young rats by depriving them of the sensory information that is normally provided by their large facial whiskers.
  • (7) In addition to the well-documented role of intracortical connectivity in elaboration of multi-whisker receptor fields in the cortical neurones, the role played by direct inputs from multi-whisker thalamic ventrobasal neurones was discussed.
  • (8) The whisker-to-barrel pathway of the adult mouse was used in a study on the effects of peripheral sensory deprivation on GAD-immunoreactivity in the somatosensory cortex.
  • (9) Condition b was investigated by calculating the mean and the variance of the time required for the diffusion of a molecule (the proximal tip of the fiber) on a spherical surface (whose radius is the distance from the tip to the whisker tethering point) into a circular sink (the baseplate site).
  • (10) A normally transient cross-modal thalamocortical projection from the magnocellular subdivision of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGm) to the primary somatosensory (SI) cortex of rats was found to remain unchanged throughout adulthood following unilateral removal of whiskers in newborn animals.
  • (11) Following displacement of an adjacent whisker, unit discharges to subsequent deflections of the maximally excitatory whisker were reduced in a time-dependent fashion.
  • (12) Whiskers contacted the discriminanda along the hair shaft, not at the whisker tips.
  • (13) On the other hand, none of the upper one-half or two-thirds implants regenerated a dermal papilla, and no whisker production was observed.
  • (14) Indeed, the present findings suggest that the representation of the whiskers in SII may have a specialized function paralleling that in SI.
  • (15) Of 134 neurons that were noted as either sustained or transient based on the response to a maintained whisker deflection, 50 were sustained-type neurons and 84 were transient-type neurons.
  • (16) Democrats also won the battle for lieutenant governor and were within a whisker of securing the post of attorney general – an unprecedented sweep in a state that until recently was a Republican stronghold.
  • (17) We found that normal barrel fields and abnormal barrel fields caused by supernumerary whiskers or lesions to the whisker pad are closely approximated by this mathematical formalism.
  • (18) The deprived barrel cortices, examined in adults, showed drastically diminished intracortical projections relative to normal controls, although the map of the whiskers in the cortex was unchanged.
  • (19) These data indicate that PA and CA antisera identify two cell populations in whisker-related regions of the V brainstem complex and that PA cells are somatotopically patterned in PrV, SpI, and SpC.
  • (20) To study minoxidil's action on isolated follicles we developed and validated an organ culture system using mouse whisker follicles.