tuff vs tough
Definitions
noun
- hard volcanic rock composed of compacted volcanic ash
Examples
There are some sharp lines and a couple of catchy songs but there's also a lot of turgid stuff.
The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton.
Owing to different structures of cotton fiber and chitin fiber, they have differentadsorbability to reactive dyestuffs.
Definitions
adjective
- physically toughened
- resistant to cutting or chewing
- substantially made or constructed
- feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')
- not given to gentleness or sentimentality
noun
- a cruel and brutal fellow
- someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
- an aggressive and violent young criminal
Examples
Deefer took others off to see if there might not be a few plump wherries in the hills; they would make a nice change from the tough herdbeast meat, the supply of which was now virtually ex - hausted.
The white plates are composed of a very tough but light titanium alloy that provides a good deal of extra protection to the body's vitals.
Rob's strengths lay in absorbing the pressure and criticism, and in doing this well he more than proved himself courageous, gutsy and tough.
