(n.) A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
(n.) A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
(n.) A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
(v. t.) To separate into tufts.
(v. t.) To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
(v. i.) To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
Example Sentences:
(1) This observation provides corroboration for the identification of the principal CCK-I neuron in the rat olfactory bulb as the centrally projecting middle tufted cell.
(2) The observed damage was similar: a decrease of the total length of the dendritic segments of the apical tuft and the basal arborization.
(3) The cell density in the tufts was 120 and 70 per cent greater than controls in AGN and RPGN, respectively.
(4) Approximately one-fourth of the cells contained cytoplasmic fibrillar bodies and amorphous fibrous tufts around the nuclear envelope.
(5) Stereociliary tufts in the tectorial region differ from those in the free-standing region in several ways.
(6) Severe mesangial insudation of material containing fibrinogen derivatives resulted in segmental tuft necrosis with almost complete replacement and destruction of the mesangial matrix.
(7) The anaxonic granule cell of the olfactory bulb is believed to inhibit mitral and tufted cells through reciprocal dendrodendritic synapses.
(8) Detached ciliary tufts (DCTs) have been observed in sputum, in cervicovaginal smears and, rarely, in fluid from the pouch of Douglas.
(9) Among the 58 Helicobacter-negative cases, similar changes were not observed in the ulcer edges, except for two cases which exhibited some cellular tufts.
(10) Monocytes were the predominant cell type among stained cells in glomerular tufts and crescents.
(11) At least six different cell types are recognizable: (1) nondifferentiated duct cells; (2) cells containing apical secretory granules; (3) goblet cells; the mucosubstances of type 2 and 3 are PAS- and Alcian-blue-positive, also reacting wih methenamine silver; (4) ciliated cells, containing a single cilium with the microtubular pattern 9+2; (5) tuft cells with extremely long and wide microvilli and a pear-shaped cell body; (6) migrating cells, mainly lymphocytes and some assumed eosinophils, showing reaction to Mg++-activated ATPase.
(12) The Tufts Assessment of Motor Performance (TAMP) was administered to 69 children (ages 6-18 years, X = 12.1, SD = 3.9) and 137 adults (ages 19-83 years, X = 46.7, SD = 20.0) with neurological and musculoskeletal impairments.
(13) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
(14) Surface areas of tufts and crescents were separately determined by photographing glomeruli, projecting and tracing outlines of tufts and crescents, and cutting out and weighing the tracings.
(15) S. sanguis I strains adhered better than S. sanguis II strains and peritrichously fibrillar strains generally adhered better than tufted strains.
(16) An adhesion is considered as a nidus for segmental sclerosis; as the adhesion progresses, the related tuft regions turn into sclerosis.
(17) The terminal tuft of the distal phalanx is destroyed by pressure erosion.
(18) That's probably why Tufts has reneged on its agreement with the government on how it plans to deal with sexual assault on campus – administrators know it's unlikely that they'll have their funding pulled as a result of their non-compliance.
(19) They found, in the articulation of the upper limbs, in addition to generic signs of arthrosis, zones of bone reabsorption (vacuoles), especially as regard the wrist and hands, and irregularities of the tufts.
(20) Several stages of collagen assemblies were observed: intracellular packing of SLS-like aggregates surrounded by membrane containing areas with a clathrin coat; fine non cross-striated filaments connecting the cell membrane at 1 pole of the cells and collagen fibrils; tufts of filaments directly linked to collagen fibrils.
Tussle
Definition:
(v. i. & t.) To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
(n.) A struggle; a scuffle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
(2) Europe's climate chief insisted on Monday that tougher greenhouse gas targets would improve the EU's economic performance, rather than push businesses overseas, as companies and green campaigners tussled over whether current emissions goals were too weak.
(3) Monti has faced a bruising time as prime minister: battling with unions at home to reform the labour laws, and tussling with Angela Merkel on the euro summit circus.
(4) Balotelli, another substitute, had to be restrained later by some quick-thinking supporters as he tussled with Chris Smalling by the touchline.
(5) It is a tale of two shows in the tussle to be named best male performance in a comedy with The IT Crowd's Richard Ayoade and Chris O'Dowd up against Mathew Baynton and James Corden from The Wrong Mans (BBC2).
(6) Many wonder if Ai will tire of the unending tussle and move abroad.
(7) The status of APD has been the focus of repeated tussles in the debate over Scotland's constitutional future, since the duty could be cut or abolished in Scotland if more powers were devolved to the Holyrood parliament while remaining in the UK.
(8) Unlike many of his fellow contenders, Rubio has mostly ignored the Trump show – a move that has spared him the sort of public confrontations that have thus far borne little fruit for candidates who’ve tussled with the Republican frontrunner, such as Jeb Bush and Rand Paul.
(9) And now we're in the endgame: a tussle between the parliament and the ministers over the final shape of the new CFP.
(10) The Coalition and the Greens are locked in a procedural tussle with Labor in the Senate to bring on the commonwealth electoral amendment bill 2016 .
(11) 36 mins: After a tussle with Nesta, Del Piero goes off for treatment to a cut eye.
(12) In signs of a tussle at the top of government the treasury chief secretary, Liam Byrne, said Mandelson had corrected himself over his claim that there would certainly not be a spending review this side of the election.
(13) Despite recent legal tussles involving Dick Clark Productions – including a running dispute over who has the rights to the Golden Globe awards – Clark's personal integrity has been "untarnished" over the years, Katz said.
(14) Consider the tussle as a head-to-head confrontation in the Olympic velodrome: somebody will win, somebody will be eliminated.
(15) Government sources said that the treasury is gearing up for a protracted tussle with ministers and backbenchers as the Budget approaches.
(16) Then came his latest bite into infamy as he tussled with Ivanovic in front of the Kop goal and redemption in the form of his 30th goal of the season.
(17) No more cover tussle because there is just so much of it.
(18) Jonathan Walters, whose new two-and-a-half-year contract was confirmed before the match, had his back to goal but as he tussled with Kurt Zouma the ball popped out to Arnautovic.
(19) Behind the voters’ defiance of Netanyahu – who is reported to believe the move will damage Israel – is a tussle between his and Bennett’s party to win over rightwing voters.
(20) The project remains at the center of a major legal tussle and has so far been granted only a partial environmental license under which full construction cannot begin.