What's the difference between acacia and byzantine?
Acacia
Definition:
(n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.
(n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.
(n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; -- called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.
(2) These effects have been explained in terms of shielding of electrostatic attractions between gelatin and acacia polyions by adsorption of ionic and non-ionic surfactant molecules onto the polyions.
(3) This paper presents analytical data that confirm the mean values previously established for nitrogen and the specific rotation of bulk commercial gum arabic from Acacia senegal.
(4) 91:1314-1319.-In nodules of Vigna sinensis, Acacia longifolia, and Viminaria juncea, membrane envelopes enclose groups of bacteroids.
(5) Only the flowers of Acacia arabica and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis appeared to lack teratologic potential at the doses tested.
(6) The government announced last month that two units at Hakea would be cordoned off to house 256 female prisoners from Bandyup, in an effort to ease overcrowding there, while 400 male remandees would be sent to new units in Acacia.
(7) Pollen of acacias is transported by insects as polyads, composite pollen grains.
(8) We have described respiratory allergy to the pollens of mimosa (Acacia floribunda) in some Mediterranean areas of Italy and France.
(9) Isozyme markers were used to test this hypothesis in two populations of Acacia melanoxylon R.Br.
(10) Flies restricted to the riverine gallery forest in the dry season become dispersed into approximately 1 km of the Acacia thickets in the wet season.
(11) In trial 1, the mean gingival and plaque scores were lower after 7 days of using Acacia compared with sugar-free gum but the differences were insignificant.
(12) The presence of acacia gum decreased the mechanical toughness and the water vapour transmission rate and increased the film water solubility.
(13) Black locust (Robinia pseudo-Acacia), bush clover (Lespedeza bicolor), wistaria (Wistaria floribunda) and Japanese knotgrass (Reynoutria japonica) were used for the present experiment.
(14) The starch performed as well as maize starch in binding and disintegrating properties and better than acacia as binder.
(15) Suture was with cotton or human hair, acacia and other thorns, ant jaws, and sinew, with or without a drain.
(16) The regulatory specifications for gum arabic (Acacia senegal) are superficial and inadequate to ensure that it is not adulterated with non-permitted gums from other botanical sources.
(17) Eleven cases of poisoning of children who had chewed threads from the barks of trees subsequently identified as Robinia pseudo-acacia were detected in Sanlúcar La Mayor (Sevilla).
(18) Lectin binding on the cell surface was measured by the method of Kornfeld [16] using three tritiated lectins: Robinia pseudo acacia, Concanavalin A and Ricinus.
(19) 2 blind crossover trials were carried out to evaluate the antiplaque potential of Acacia gum compared with sugar free gum.
(20) The spray-dried powders of the pods and stem bark of Acacia nilotica subspp.
Byzantine
Definition:
(n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(2) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
(3) In the xenones of the Byzantine churches and in the hospitals connected to these, therapeutic regimes, cures and surgical interventions took place at night during incubation, following the example of the ancient Asclepieia.
(4) This is fitting since both worked through realms of indirect influence and power: Moses within the byzantine and barely accountable tangle of New York’s public authority powers; Jacobs in the inherently decentralised world of community organising and writings about urbanism.
(5) Asylum seekers have been left to navigate the byzantine process of applying for substantive visas on their own, negotiating complex forms in English – for many their third or fourth language.
(6) Observers of Pakistan's byzantine political scene have long suspected an excuse would be found to take Musharraf back to a life of exile in Dubai and London, which he had enjoyed until March last year when he returned to the country in a bid to stand for election.
(7) The byzantine eurozone architecture we have created is incomplete.
(8) Instead, we served as the weight that helped my parents understand this country – we forced them to learn English, as our Spanish waned; we translated documents that navigated them through this country’s byzantine tax codes and healthcare system; we taught them enough American politics so that they forsook their conservative leanings every election year and voted Democrat (You’re welcome, Hillary).
(9) On the face of it, if there is to be production, trade and consumption on a global level, such byzantine hierarchies are unavoidable – and with that, all the concentrations of power, the state-corporate alliances, and the veils of secrecy that are entailed by such arrangements.
(10) On Wednesday in Barcelona couples will celebrate his anniversary by exchanging roses and books; on 6 May in Bulgaria some will remember him by cooking a whole lamb ; and on 5 May – in a legacy of Byzantine rule – Palestinian Christians and Muslims will both participate in his feast day .
(11) We gather at the venerable United Artists Theatre, a sumptuous 1927 movie palace, all faux-Byzantine motifs and three tiers of balconies, bearing our $200 tickets and plenty of questions.
(12) Away from the coast you can still find isolated hiking trails and the odd Byzantine monastery.
(13) The resulting uncertainty has split families and forced refugees to navigate unsympathetic and byzantine immigration rules.
(14) The failure of the Grand Bargain led to a byzantine deal: if the two parties could not agree on a new deficit plan, then a combination of tax increases and spending cuts—cuts known, in budget jargon, as a “sequester”—would automatically kick in on New Year’s Day.
(15) Senate Democrats ready to revolt over TPP 'fast track' authority Read more Thanks to the alphabet soup of acronyms and the byzantine path the Trans-Pacific Partnership has taken, many people have ignored the pact.
(16) Here’s our summary Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie has responded, saying the Bank must reassure the public that it is handling the crisis well , having labelled its governance structure “opaque, complex and Byzantine”.
(17) And he made sure visitors were left in no doubt that the flowering of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures were mere historical footnotes to his own ascent as "king of kings".
(18) If so, then your goods were quite likely to have been routed through a byzantine world hosted – only on paper, you understand – by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where Amazon has located its European headquarters, slashing its tax bills around the world.
(19) Only in Britain would the beautifully byzantine Duckworth-Lewis method be invented.
(20) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.