What's the difference between wisp and wispen?

Wisp


Definition:

  • (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.
  • (n.) A whisk, or small broom.
  • (n.) A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.
  • (v. t.) To brush or dress, an with a wisp.
  • (v. t.) To rumple.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Separating the distal anterior tip and lateral edges of an ingrown toenail from the adjacent soft tissue with a wisp of absorbent cotton coated with collodion gives immediate relief of pain and provides a firm runway for further growth of the nail.
  • (2) The water layer (2 ml = 5 ml milk) was injected onto a Polymer Laboratories PLRP-S column using a WISP autosampler with the solvent, 0.01 M pH 7.0 phosphate buffer (A).
  • (3) Nutritional status was evaluated according to Gómez, intellectual performance according to Weschler's scale (WISP and WISC tests), psychomotor development according to the Denver Developmental Screening Test and PSAC according to a numerical scale constructed from maternal I.Q.
  • (4) It’s hard to overstate how absurdly beautiful it is: the rhododendron trees are in full bloom, huge creamy magnolia blossoms hang alongside the path and wisps of cloud cling to the peaks.
  • (5) The structure stained is approximately spherical, but wisps of faint fluorescence also extend into the body of the spindle.
  • (6) Amyloid of the classical plaque periphery appears as amyloid wisps.
  • (7) Kewell looks like that kid from the TV show Third Rock from the Sun - he's an ineffective wisp of a player and they should rid themselves of his services next season.
  • (8) constant number of merozoites in mature schizonts,--the disposition of the pigment, well apart from the parasitic mass to which it is linked by a tiny wisp of cytoplasm,--the normal host erythrocyte, the shape, size and colour of which are unaltered.
  • (9) On my third day I was at the Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre with my sister Katie, a documentary film-maker who was accompanying me, when I reached out to tuck a wisp of her hair that had come loose.
  • (10) Her hands wave violently around wisps of Afro that have escaped her do.
  • (11) The glowing doors of megastores are drawing us in with Pied Piped muzak and will-o’-the-wisp Christmas deals.
  • (12) When I visited, boards pinned with scraps of embroidery, squares of woven tweed and wisps of lace were stacked against Perspex boxes, containing archived clothes and accessories, towering towards the skylights.
  • (13) Most amyloid wisps are isolated between astrocytic processes proliferating and penetrating into the plaque.
  • (14) Filmy wisps of tissue, presumably intimal flaps, were commonly visualized after angioplasty.
  • (15) The scientists will not only look for wimps, but also weakly interacting slim particles, or wisps.
  • (16) Another option is a member of the wisp family of particles called an axion.
  • (17) They conjure up the skillet on the open fire; will‑o'‑the-wisps over a pitch black bog; the purple heath.
  • (18) Kicking off his own Twitter stream yesterday with a vintage image of himself and the words " hi im prince ", the Purple One proceeded to upload his very first selfie, which turned out to be a few wisps of smoke.
  • (19) Watch Kerry Godliman's routine here Jokes and standup routines are mercurial little will-o'-the-wisps.
  • (20) Normal collagen fibrils are infrequent; they are in part replaced by wisps of nondiscrete material, possibly immature collagen.

Wispen


Definition:

  • (a.) Formed of a wisp, or of wisp; as, a wispen broom.

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