What's the difference between alchemist and chemic?
Alchemist
Definition:
(n.) One who practices alchemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) In that same National season, he teamed with Simon Callow (as Face) and Josie Lawrence (as Doll Common) in a co-production by Bill Alexander for the Birmingham Rep of Ben Jonson’s trickstering, two-faced masterpiece The Alchemist ; he was a comically pious Subtle in sackcloth and sandals.
(2) Alas, as I don’t have a copy of The Alchemist to hand – and with it a pencil to write, in the words of Woody Allen , “Yes, very true!” in every margin – I’ll just have to get on with it.
(3) Consistent with this origin of the word Chemeia is the fact that the earlier Alchemists were not Greeks but probably Bucharic speaks Copts or Egyptians.
(4) Nothing vibed until she met Ariel Rechtshaid in 2010, the musical alchemist behind Sky Ferreira , Solange and Haim's throwback pop collages, who was then a relative unknown.
(5) The good news is that the ultimate alchemist is still around.
(6) These have been retained in the symbols designed by alchemists of the Medieval Age without, however, revealing their origin or significance.
(7) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian With the beguiling hand of an architectural alchemist, Wilson has sliced a great circle out of a concrete facade in Liverpool and set it spinning.
(8) Filmed in a field, in black and white, with a cast of six, it's about three deserters from the English civil war, who fall into the hands of a murderous alchemist.
(9) In the circumstances, the paupers raised their game to a degree that reflected great credit on themselves, and in particular their alchemist of a manager.
(10) Shearsmith is undoubtedly its most compelling presence, notably in an extraordinary slo-mo sequence when he emerges from the alchemist's tent in a deeply sinister state of demonic ecstasy.
(11) Since they were basically alchemists and not astronomers, they apparently minimized the relationship between the Five Moving Stars and the human illnesses.
(12) Platter observed congenital cataract and was the first to notice that professional working near a fire (as in the case of alchemists!)
(13) He is especially eloquent on the latter’s performance as Abel Drugger, the easily tricked tobacconist in Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist.
(14) Ever since alchemists started trying to turn base metals into gold, chemists have been fiddling around with ways to make new substances, but it was in the 19th century that the whole endeavour really got going.
(15) Benjamin was an alchemist of sorts, the most unusual of Marxist intellectuals, a black sheep in every flock.
(16) The concert hall is LA's bash at the Bilbao Effect, but the alchemist-in-chief of cultural tourism turns down the clients who specify that notion.
(17) Known as the alchemist of modern imagistic theatre, Robert Lepage is one of the most challenging and chimeric directors of our time.
(18) In so far as this represents a quality which is as likely to be achieved as is the alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold, a compromise approach is recommended.
(19) But he was back on stage last year, first as a misogynist millionaire in Pauline Macaulay's The Creeper and then, more happily, as Sir Epicure Mammon in The Alchemist at the National.
(20) He also performed in Trevor Nunn's The Relapse (2001) and The Alchemist (2006), but was injured out early in the run.
Chemic
Definition:
(n.) A chemist; an alchemist.
(n.) A solution of chloride of lime.
(a.) Chemical.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brain and ganglia of embryonic Periplaneta americana were grown for 2 to 3 weeks in a chemically defined medium.
(2) Stimulation of human leukocytes with various chemical mediators such as TPA, f-Met-Leu-Phe, LTB4, etc.
(3) This suggested that the chemical effects produced by shock waves were either absent or attenuated in the cells, or were inherently less toxic than those of ionizing irradiation.
(4) At 36 h postsurgery, RBCs were examined by 23Na-NMR by using dysprosium tripolyphosphate as a chemical shift reagent.
(5) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
(6) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
(7) Maximal aberration yields were observed for 2,4-diaminotoluene, 2,6-diaminotoluene and cytosine beta-D-arabinofuranoside from 17 to 21 h, eugenol from 15 to 21 h, cadmium sulfate from 15 to 24 h and 2-aminobiphenyl, from 17 to 24 h. For adriamycin at 1 microM, the % aberrant cells remained elevated throughout the period from 9 to 29 h, while small increases at 0.1 microM ADR were found only at 13 and at 25 h. For most chemicals the maximal aberration yield occurred at a different time for each concentration tested.
(8) 2.39pm BST The European Union called for a "thorough and immediate" investigation of the alleged chemical attack.
(9) "With hyperspectral imaging, you can tell the chemical content of a cake just by taking a photo of it.
(10) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
(11) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
(12) On the basis of obtained data on the uniformity of chemical compounds of the secretion of glands belonging to different groups their common origin has been suggested.
(13) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
(14) In contrast sham-hemodialysis in group CA and group PS, respectively, did not result in significant increases in amino acid efflux from the leg implying that the protein catabolic effect of blood membrane contact depends on the chemical properties of dialysis membranes.
(15) We investigated this suppression quantitatively, using a chemical assay for cell-bound and dissolved capsular polysaccharide.
(16) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
(17) They included lectins such as wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), concanavalin A and phytohemagglutinin, and a chemical cross-linker, glutaraldehyde, in addition to anti-IL-2R monoclonal antibodies, HIEI and H-47.
(18) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
(19) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(20) The use of gaseous insecticides in the chemical control of T. infestans is discussed.