What's the difference between alchemist and element?

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.

Element


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
  • (n.) One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically: (Chem.) A substance which cannot be decomposed into different kinds of matter by any means at present employed; as, the elements of water are oxygen and hydrogen.
  • (n.) One of the ultimate parts which are variously combined in anything; as, letters are the elements of written language; hence, also, a simple portion of that which is complex, as a shaft, lever, wheel, or any simple part in a machine; one of the essential ingredients of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite.
  • (n.) One out of several parts combined in a system of aggregation, when each is of the nature of the whole; as, a single cell is an element of the honeycomb.
  • (n.) One of the smallest natural divisions of the organism, as a blood corpuscle, a muscular fiber.
  • (n.) One of the simplest essential parts, more commonly called cells, of which animal and vegetable organisms, or their tissues and organs, are composed.
  • (n.) An infinitesimal part of anything of the same nature as the entire magnitude considered; as, in a solid an element may be the infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated an indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.
  • (n.) Sometimes a curve, or surface, or volume is considered as described by a moving point, or curve, or surface, the latter being at any instant called an element of the former.
  • (n.) One of the terms in an algebraic expression.
  • (n.) One of the necessary data or values upon which a system of calculations depends, or general conclusions are based; as, the elements of a planet's orbit.
  • (n.) The simplest or fundamental principles of any system in philosophy, science, or art; rudiments; as, the elements of geometry, or of music.
  • (n.) Any outline or sketch, regarded as containing the fundamental ideas or features of the thing in question; as, the elements of a plan.
  • (n.) One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
  • (n.) The four elements were, air, earth, water, and fire
  • (n.) the conditions and movements of the air.
  • (n.) The elements of the alchemists were salt, sulphur, and mercury.
  • (n.) The whole material composing the world.
  • (n.) The bread and wine used in the eucharist or Lord's supper.
  • (v. t.) To compound of elements or first principles.
  • (v. t.) To constitute; to make up with elements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Elements in the skin therefore seemed to enhance nerve regeneration and function.
  • (2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
  • (3) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
  • (4) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (5) Thus, human bronchial epithelial cells can express the IL-8 gene, with expression in response to the inflammatory mediator TNF regulated mainly at the transcriptional level, and with elements within the 5'-flanking region of the gene that are directly or indirectly modulated by the TNF signal.
  • (6) According to the finite element analysis, the design bases of fixed restorations applied in the teeth accompanied with the absorption of the alveolar bone were preferred.
  • (7) To determine the influence of cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) adsorption on the wettability and elemental surface composition of human enamel, with and without adsorbed salivary constituents, surface-free energies and elemental compositions were determined.
  • (8) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (9) It is concluded that selection against insertional mutations is unlikely to be the major factor involved in the containment of element abundance.
  • (10) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
  • (11) Further, Tyr 20 is an important element of that sequence.
  • (12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
  • (13) Other than failing to get a goal, I couldn’t ask for anything more.” From Lambert’s perspective there was an element of misfortune about the first and third goals, with Willian benefitting from handy ricochets on both occasions.
  • (14) These data indicate that the sfrB gene product is a regulatory element, since the single gene product elicits the expression of genes for many products for F expression and lipopolysaccharide synthesis.
  • (15) Therefore, a hormonal regulatory element can discriminate among closely related transcription start sites.
  • (16) The safe motherhood initiative demands an intersectoral, collaborative approach to gynecology, family planning, and child health in which midwifery is the key element.
  • (17) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
  • (18) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
  • (19) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
  • (20) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.