What's the difference between stuffing and upholster?

Stuffing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stuff
  • (n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
  • (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
  • (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (3) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
  • (4) Many commentators considered the suggestion merely foolish, but computer hackers issued death threats against her and her children, which she promptly posted on Twitter, along with the defiant message: "Get stuffed, losers.
  • (5) I found swans and storks and all manner of seabirds but, again, no owls, because stuffing them is forbidden in France.
  • (6) Recently awarded best veggie blog by Vegetarian Living, her stuffed naan breads and toffee apple and peanut pudding are definitely on the to-eat list.
  • (7) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
  • (8) From there, I graduated to admin tasks such as stuffing envelopes, sticking stamps on and posting them, giving out mail, making more tea.
  • (9) And as civil servants, Myanmar nationals living overseas and tens of thousands of soldiers have been casting their votes, there are concerns that the authorities might engage in ballot stuffing.
  • (10) The present study sought to determine the effects of such lesions on an operant conditioning task in which the reward was the presentation of one of two conspicuous objects, a stuffed jungle fowl or an illuminated red box.
  • (11) But as with the December vote, independent election monitors and opposition activists presented evidence of widespread falsifications, including ballot stuffing and "carousel voting" – packing vans with voters and bussing them to several polling sites to cast numerous votes.
  • (12) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
  • (13) Envelopes stuffed with cash, it is claimed, were their reward for ensuring Blatter beat Lennart Johansson, the 'honesty' candidate, to become the soccer world's most powerful leader.
  • (14) That said, I would definitely ask my mother to cook it, and offer a little of my help, as stuffed chard takes forever to prepare.
  • (15) Two Peruvian women were arrested in front of a school in Lima on Tuesday for trying to sell 100 small bags of marijuana that they had stuffed into their plastic horns, police said."
  • (16) CCS is basically about catching a problem and stuffing it away under the carpet,” Rasmusson said.
  • (17) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
  • (18) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
  • (19) Put the walnuts, garlic, coriander, and onion in a food processor and grind until fine – do not pulverise into a fine powder as the stuffing should retain a nice crunch.
  • (20) In a cupboard, tins of tomato soup, dried pasta, tea bags, tinned pineapple and stuffing mix.

Upholster


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
  • (n.) A broker.
  • (n.) An upholsterer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The public are growing angrier by the day by the antics of those who inhabit this gold plated, red-upholstered Narnia.
  • (2) In June 1988, 110 dust samples from carpets, cushions, mattresses and upholstered furniture were collected by vacuum cleaner in 33 municipal nursery schools.
  • (3) Traditional isn't really very specific but gives everyone a kind of well-upholstered, wood-panelled sense of well-being.
  • (4) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
  • (5) Acarosan and liquid nitrogen, were found to be effective in the treatment of mattress, pillow, upholstered furniture and heavy curtains.
  • (6) But then I have to remind myself that the chair I'm sitting on – which I inherited from my aunt – is the one I've upholstered, with horsehair, and covered in a fabric of my choosing.
  • (7) Inside the glass-fronted reception of the state-of-the-art hospital are rows of upholstered chairs.
  • (8) Away from the pitch, in the expensively upholstered lobbies and meeting rooms where the business of global sport is discussed in hushed tones by men in grey suits, he has been altogether more successful.
  • (9) Burn related deaths (1977-86) and injuries (1986) from the Health Statistics Services hospitalisation records were examined to identify cases in which upholstered furniture and bedding were implicated and analysed to describe the situation.
  • (10) Across the country, inmates have a hand in building desks, molding dentures, grinding lenses for glasses, stitching flags and upholstering chairs.
  • (11) Today, when I meet Wood in the upholstered plushness of a central London hotel, he looks essentially the same as he did three decades ago – a bit more weather-beaten, perhaps, but still sporting an identical Worzel Gummidge hairstyle and spray-on skinny jeans that seem to have been beamed in directly from the 1970s.
  • (12) Upstairs in "extended recovery", where clients who had been less than 12 weeks' pregnant are taken after surgery, a sick-bowl and a box of tissues are carefully arranged next to each of the five sleek reclining chairs upholstered in BPAS purple.
  • (13) The qualitative and quantitative species composition of fungi in carpets and upholstered furniture dust found in the living-rooms of nine Dutch dwellings was examined in a pilot study.
  • (14) Upholstered furniture is considered by governments in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and New Zealand to be a potentially hazardous product.
  • (15) Characteristics of upholstered furniture available in New Zealand during the 1987 production year were identified through responses to a questionnaire sent to manufacturers, wholesalers and importers of this type of furniture.
  • (16) Your cosy phrase "the upholstered apocalypse" gestures, rather worryingly, towards an imaginative and critical impasse of sorts, doesn't it?
  • (17) Some of the relevant seat characteristics concern back rest, seat base, arm rests, upholstering, individual adaptation and integration into the environment.
  • (18) Bedding, mattresses and bedroom furniture were reported more frequently than upholstered furniture.
  • (19) Using a hand-held vacuum especially equipped with a removable micropore filter, a 2-m2 area of carpet was vacuumed for two minutes and an identical sample was collected from the major upholstered piece of furniture in the room.
  • (20) The best results are achieved by sanitation of carpets, less favourable results are obtained by treating matresses and upholstered furniture.