What's the difference between tule and tulle?

Tule


Definition:

  • (n.) A large bulrush (Scirpus lacustris, and S. Tatora) growing abundantly on overflowed land in California and elsewhere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ), tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes), Roosevelt elk (C. e. roosevelti), pronghorn antelope (Antilocapra americana), California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana), Peninsular bighorn sheep (O. c. cremnobates) and desert bighorn sheep (O. c. nelsoni) and analyzed them for agar gel precipitating (AGP) antibodies to bluetongue (BT) virus (BTV).
  • (2) Antler anomalies were evident in tule elk (Cervus elaphus nannodes) within 1 yr of reintroduction to Point Reyes, California (USA).
  • (3) It should include a cycloplegic refraction to tule out excessive farsightedness, nearsightedness, astigmatism, or unequal refraction in the two eyes.
  • (4) Peppermint Creek, with its sculpted canyon and its plunge downslope to the Kern river canyon, flows within three miles of the house, and the Tule river tumbles down the other side of the mountain into the San Joaquin valley.
  • (5) From there, it goes by the Tule and Punta Gorda rivers until it reaches the southern Caribbean by Bluefields Bay.
  • (6) A large herd of tule elk – a subspecies that once roamed throughout California – grazes in the northern highlands of the peninsula.

Tulle


Definition:

  • (n.) In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.
  • (n.) A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (2) Headteacher Ben Tull says: “It is really important that a school is ready for anyone who walks in.
  • (3) The Tulle mayor Bernard Combes, 52, born and raised in Corrèze, was working as a college deputy head when he met Hollande at a local village fête.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A man reads La Montagne in Tulle.
  • (5) She puts some of her revolutionary spirit down to the fact that she never had childhood dreams of pink tulle.
  • (6) Twenty-three racing cyclists with 38 abrasions were treated with a hydrocolloid dressing and 41 abrasions in 24 cyclists with tulle gauze.
  • (7) It's almost as if I watched old Jethro Tull at the cash machine and leaned over his shoulder as he put his credit card into the machine to check out his PIN and filched his credit card form from his back pocket as he walked away and then fleeced his bank account."
  • (8) True, a band shouldn't be judged by its name, but they sound like Fleetwood Mac (or, by their own admission, Jethro Tull); whereas with the Nipple Erectors, Slaughter & the Dogs or the Snivelling Shits, you tended to know what to expect.
  • (9) Despite much public lamenting over Maugein's seemingly inevitable closure, the company received only one offer; from a pair of hard-headed business directors who recapitalised it with help from Arsenal footballer Laurent Koscielny, who was born in Tulle and contributed to a €600,000 (£500,000) recapitalisation package.
  • (10) Handing over the PS top job to the leftwing hawk Martine Aubry, daughter of Jacques Delors, in 2008, Hollande took refuge in his central France parliamentary constituency at Tulle in the Corrèze department.
  • (11) It is five months since Hollande won the election and proclaimed from a stage in his rural fiefdom of Tulle: "I'm sure in a lot of European countries there is relief, hope that at last austerity is not an inevitability any more."
  • (12) Dressing the wound with greasy tulle gave better results; the addition of soframycin did not produce better results than those achieved with ordinary paraffin tulle.
  • (13) Cohn had predicted the sea change; he had fallen out of love with pop just as the Beatles-led consensus years came to end: pop was split, hard left and right, between Radio 1 factory‑farmed pop (“Sugar, Sugar”) and self-conscious, album-based heavy rock ( Led Zeppelin , Jethro Tull , Black Sabbath ).
  • (14) You’ve got Rodin’s The Kiss and Rodin’s The Thinker and this is up there with them in terms of importance and recognisability ... it is such a classic.” John Berger: the dark side of Degas's ballet dancers Read more Degas first exhibited his wax figure of a young ballet dancer – one of Paris Opera Ballet’s “little rats” – dressed in real silk and tulle tutu, at the Sixth Impressionist Exhibition of 1881 in Paris.
  • (15) This seems excessive, as do those warped arcs of tulle, which one commentator has dismissed as "lightweight Richard Serra".
  • (16) In a prospective randomized trial, 213 consecutive patients with less than 10 per cent BSA partial thickness burns were treated as outpatients with either Bactigras (n = 102) (tulle gras dressing with 0.5 per cent Chlorhexidine Acetate B.P.)
  • (17) The hydrocolloid dressing also gives more pain relief than the tulle gauze (91% no pain during racing with the hydrocolloid dressing, 30% with the tulle gauze) and a higher overall comfort (very comfortable to comfortable versus uncomfortable to moderately uncomfortable, respectively).
  • (18) And taking inspiration from German success does not mean wanting Britain to be become Germany (just as being inspired by Jethro Tull's music doesn't make me want to grow a beard, stand on one leg and play the flute).
  • (19) Feminism , the pessimists say, is over, drowned in a froth of pink tulle and buried with a stiletto heel through its heart.
  • (20) Derivatives of E. coli carrying the plasmid R124 and ColV, I-K94 were resistance to the phages T4, Mel comparing with the plasmid-free parent and the plasmid ColV, I-K94 conferred resistance to the phage Tull*.

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