What's the difference between woolen and wooly?

Woolen


Definition:

  • (a.) Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper.
  • (n.) Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They were successfully occluded by means of transcatheter placement of stainless steel coils with attached woolen strands.
  • (2) Cotton and woolen fabrics and fabrics of synthetic fibers were exposed by direct contact (pipette) and by aerosolization to poliovirus and to vaccinia virus in separate experiments, allowed to dry for 16 hr at 25 C in 35% relative humidity, and randomly tumbled with sterile swatches of the same fabrics for 30 min.
  • (3) Etymologically Sufi, as an Arabic word, means woolen-clad.
  • (4) Following investigations were carried out: rescue foil with different types of clothing, comparison between rescue foil and woolen blanket, "Hibler packing", rescue suit at sudden fall in temperature.
  • (5) As we sought to point out in this chapter, these pathways have merged in the last 30 years with developments such as warmth without bulk for backpackers (which is a welcomed contrast to heavy arctic wear), materials that allow athletes to remain somewhat comfortable while sweating, and other advances that luckily have replaced the less appealing sports apparel such as the old woolen baseball uniform.

Wooly


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the particle-negative cell lines are superinfected with heterologous mouse or wooly type C viruses or are producing typical rat type C virus particles, the endogenous sarcoma virus-specific RNA is secreted from these cells.
  • (2) Several ultrastructural changes were found to occur in the midpiece region of wooly opossum spermatozoa during epididymal maturation.
  • (3) Geoffrey Blackadder, 60, was pulled unconscious from the ocean at Wooli Beach on the NSW North Coast on Monday after he tried to help two young relatives who were struggling in the surf.
  • (4) Unlike the shoe polish, tea towels and cheap china plates it stocks, Woolies has outlived its usefulness and many of its products can be bought more cheaply elsewhere.
  • (5) Other than that, the definition of failure to pass can be wooly, Williams said, and has in the past been used in routine Senate procedures such as referring a bill to a committee or adjourning debate.
  • (6) Woolies fired him for moonlighting, a career change of which he remains inordinately proud; in his most recent Retail Week column he blamed the proto-Poundland's demise on being "badly run", and here he is on camera, reminiscing: "It was horrible, I hated it."
  • (7) The contaminated populations of C. dactylon, Panicum repen (panic grass), and Imperata cylindrica (wooly grass) were able to withstand higher concentrations of Cu, Ni, and Mn, especially C. dactylon, when compared with their uncontaminated counterparts.
  • (8) Somatostatin fibers associated with this pathway appeared as coarse heavily stained 'wooly fibers'.
  • (9) Although there is a lot of wooliness regarding these results, I would have known that something like three grade Cs would have secured me a university place, anything much lower; a polytechnic.
  • (10) However, while people proclaimed themselves incredibly sad to see Woolies stores disappear, it should be noted that, ultimately, the loyalty and affection failed to move online (Woolworth.co.uk closed in 2015, replaced by Shop Direct’s Very).
  • (11) He also had bilateral commissural lip pits, inferiorly attached frenulum, generalized hypoplastic nails, and wooly scalp hair.
  • (12) The kinky or wooly form of black hair, the weak intercellular cohesion between cortical cells and the specific hair grooming practices among black people account for these effects.
  • (13) A 60-year-old man, Geoffrey Blackadder, died trying to rescue young relatives from a rip at Wooli beach on the NSW north coast on Monday, while another man, aged 56, drowned at Merry beach at Kioloa on state’s south coast.
  • (14) A female pet wooly monkey with metabolic bone disease initially presented with a proliferating bony mass in the left humerus which had many features of osteosarcoma.
  • (15) This gross anatomical study of embalmed forelimb joints of the South American woolly monkey Lagothrix lagothricha focuses on the problem of determining in osteoligamentous preparations how the disposition of the capsular apparatus and the geometry of the articular surfaces govern the amount and types of movement permitted at a joint, and then correlates these findings with the use of the forelimb in the positional capabilities of captive wooly monkeys observed by this author.
  • (16) The following species were represented: Potto, Senegalgalago, wooly monkey, black spider monkey, common marmoset, cottonhead tamarin, pigtailed macaque and lesser whitenosed guenon.
  • (17) Also on Monday 60-year-old Geoffrey Blackadder died trying to rescue young relatives from a rip at Wooli beach on the NSW north coast.
  • (18) Primark makes understated US debut as Boston flagship opens Read more Warm autumn weather usually prompts retailers to warn about slow sales of woolies and coats, but Weston said: “The whole high street is benefiting from better weather.
  • (19) In 1997, the US Woolies, now owned by a rival American retailer, announced it was closing its remaining 400 FW Woolworth stores, but its British arm remained in rude health.
  • (20) The problem is also interesting in evolutional aspect: since suppression of melanogenesis in the process of creating wooly sheep illustrates possible mechanisms of inhibition of one function, because of hyperfunction of other, such negative correlations could play significant role in evolution of organisms.