What's the difference between softness and texture?

Softness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (2) Bilateral symmetric soft-tissue masses posterior to the glandular tissue with accompanying calcifications should suggest the diagnosis.
  • (3) None of the other soft tissue layers-ameloblasts, stratum intermedium or dental follicle--immunostain for TGF-beta 1.
  • (4) The cotransfected cells do not grow in soft agar, but show enhanced soft agar growth relative to controls in the presence of added aFGF and heparin.
  • (5) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
  • (6) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
  • (7) It is a specific clinical picture with extensive soft tissue gas and swelling of the forearm.
  • (8) Benign and malignant epithelial and soft tissue tumors of the skin were usually negatively stained with MoAb HMSA-2.
  • (9) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.
  • (10) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
  • (11) A distally based posterior tibial artery adipofascial flap with skin graft was used for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects over the Achilles tendon in three cases and over the heel in three cases.
  • (12) The third patient was using an extended-wear soft contact lens for correction of residual myopia.
  • (13) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
  • (14) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
  • (15) We isolated soft agar colonies (a-subclones) and sub-clones from foci (h-subclones) of both hybrids, and, as a control, subclones of cells from random areas without foci of one hybrid (BS181 p-subclones).
  • (16) Three of the tumours represented primary soft tissue lesions, while locally recurrent tumour or pulmonary metastases were studied from the 4 skeletal tumours, all of which had been diagnosed previously as Ewing's sarcomas.
  • (17) The technique is based on a multiple regression analysis of the renal curves and separate heart and soft tissue curves which together represent background activity.
  • (18) A hospital-based case-control study on soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was conducted in 1983-84 in Torino and in Padova (Italy).
  • (19) This phenomenon can have a special significance for defining the vitality in inflammation of bone tissue, in burns and in necrosis of soft tissues a.a. of the Achilles tendon.
  • (20) Thirty patients required a second operation to an area previously addressed reflecting inadequacies in technique, the unpredictability of bone grafts, and soft-tissue scarring.

Texture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of weaving.
  • (n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • (n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
  • (n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
  • (n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
  • (v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
  • (2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
  • (4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
  • (6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
  • (7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
  • (8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
  • (9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
  • (10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
  • (11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
  • (12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
  • (13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
  • (14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
  • (16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
  • (17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
  • (18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
  • (19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
  • (20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.