What's the difference between tongueless and wordless?

Tongueless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no tongue.
  • (a.) Hence, speechless; mute.
  • (a.) Unnamed; not spoken of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using autoradiography, substantial and comparable concentrations of labeled molecules were detected in the mouths, VNO ducts, and VNOs of normal subjects in both conditions, as well as tongueless lizards whose snouts made physical contact with swabs.
  • (2) Temporary blind and anosmic conditions did not have a significant effect on response rates of the tongueless or control groups.
  • (3) Feeding, as well as responses to prey extracts, were found to be suppressed almost totally in the tongueless naive snakes.
  • (4) No label was evident in VNOs of tongueless animals that did not contact swabs or normal animals with sealed VN ducts.
  • (5) To test this hypothesis, a cotton swab soaked in prey extract mixed with [3H]proline was touched ten times to the snouts of normal and tongueless lizards (Chalcides ocellatus), as well as normal lizards whose vomeronasal organ (VNO) ducts had been sealed with a tissue adhesive.
  • (6) Additionally, such a swab was held approximately 0.5 cm in front of the snout of normal and tongueless lizards for 1 min, which allowed no contact by tongueless animals and tongue contact only by normal lizards.

Wordless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The book is dedicated to her son, Slade, who died 18 months ago and in the face of whose death she found herself wordless.
  • (2) He shakes my hand with a wordless nod and I scribble a brief impression in my notebook: "glazed eyes".
  • (3) Think of the exquisitely framed West Texas landscapes that open No Country for Old Men, with more specks brought closer through the binoculars of Josh Brolin, or the wordless opening, stunning vistas and tactile set-pieces of period epic There Will Be Blood.
  • (4) From the makers of the beautiful and bleakly atmospheric Limbo, it’s another wordless game of mystery and discovery via exquisitely designed puzzles that require experimentation and lateral thinking to reach their “Eureka!” moments.
  • (5) However, place it on the floor and let your PlayStation peer at it (and you) through a camera, and everything springs to life on-screen, so instead of a loser with a wordless book of barcodes, you look like a magic wizard reading a magic book with all tentacles and pumpkins and lightning bolts flying out of it.
  • (6) They made an inscrutable, wordless art movie called Daft Punk's Electroma .
  • (7) Between interviews with the likes of Marianne, who designs "high-end doggy fashions" for expressionless bichon frise Lily, there are wordless montages of activity on the heath, the theme of each being, roughly, "dog".
  • (8) Her professional stock-in-trade as a stage and television actress was a voice that could have made a regimental sergeant major tremble and a figure, suggesting an ample corsage filled with concrete, that wordlessly and hilariously forbade the taking of liberties.
  • (9) A wordless cry went up somewhere in the crowd and they were off, moving as one, with no instructions, towards parliament.
  • (10) Wordless, but so content that my heart skipped a beat.
  • (11) The crowd sing along to every single song and 10,000 voices carry the wordless chorus of the closing "Wake Up" long after the group have departed the stage following their final encore.
  • (12) He eventually gets to us through the dark mutterings of "Peter on set" and the forest of physios, nurses, assistants and bottle washers, then settles laboriously upon the built-up khazi before getting up and wandering wordlessly off again.
  • (13) I would put on some things of the day, and he would go up to the record player and, wordlessly, just take it off!'
  • (14) My children were looking out of the car window at the hawkers – most of whom were about their age – who were shouting wordlessly and knocking on the glass, proffering their wares.
  • (15) Burton played the title role, while Taylor was the four-minute wordless apparition of Helen of Troy.
  • (16) So I nominate the scene in Persuasion in which Captain Wentworth wordlessly, and with none of their past grievous history resolved, assists a fatigued Anne Elliot into a carriage.
  • (17) I punch to break my opponent’s will and take him out.” Eubank Sr exclaims his approval with a wordless roar.
  • (18) Like Trump, they channel their own narcissism to give voice to the wordless, formless rage of the people neoliberalism left behind.
  • (19) In the mid-90s, Bogotá’s then-mayor, Antanas Mockus , employed more than 400 mime artists to stand guard at pedestrian crossings, showing wordless displeasure to reckless pedestrians and drivers who violated traffic rules and put lives at risk.
  • (20) Wordlessly the hangman steps back, places a hand on the lever which operates the trap, and gives a signal to the officers, who release Pascoe’s arms.

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