What's the difference between apricot and flesh?

Apricot


Definition:

  • (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the copia element present at the white-apricot allele of the white locus in Drosophila melanogaster.
  • (2) Now I’ve found some of my favourite comedy here: the anarchic young sketch groups, Stewart Lee’s Top Gear bit, James Acaster’s bit on apricots and Daniel Sloss’s unapologetically dark atheist stuff spring to mind.
  • (3) Her brother has the dairy-free apricot and jasmine sorbet.
  • (4) SF2 has a C-terminal region rich in arginine-serine dipeptides, similar to the RS domains of the U1 snRNP 70K polypeptide and the Drosophila alternative splicing regulators transformer, transformer-2, and suppressor-of-white-apricot.
  • (5) The activity of wa is reduced in trans by a semidominant mutation in the gene Enhancer-of-white-apricot (E(wa).
  • (6) The software was devised in the windows environment for the Apricot Xen for maximum speed and intelligibility.
  • (7) Statistically significant differences (p less than 0.05) were found among the slopes of apricot and that of grape, guava, apple, and orange.
  • (8) The apricot allele of the white locus results from the insertion of the retrotransposon copia.
  • (9) There would be really fresh salads and brochettes (kebabs) for lunch, and lavish spreads in the evening, featuring lentil and bean dishes, lamb and apricot tagine, and relishes including a particularly delicious sultana chutney.
  • (10) All two-way combinations of mutations in these five loci, mottler of white (mw), suppressor of forked (su(f], suppressor of white apricot (su(wa], Enhancer of whiteapricot, (E(wa] and Darkener of apricot (Doa), are additive in their effects on wa, implying that each second-site modifier locus affects a different process.
  • (11) A simple colorimetric method is described for determining the quantity of hydrogen cyanide produced by the spontaneous decomposition of amygdalin in apricot kernels.
  • (12) The introduction of the white apricot eye colour mutation (wa) however, had a pronounced and deleterious effect on competitive ability.
  • (13) Lentil and apricot soup A winter favourite gets a summer makeover.
  • (14) Click here to buy a copy from the Guardian Bookshop for £17.50 Jose Pizarro’s duck breast with sherry vinegar and olive oil mashed potatoes Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Serves 4 floury potatoes 900g, peeled garlic 4 whole cloves, peeled bay leaf 1 black peppercorns 10 olive oil 6 tbsp salt and pepper sugar 25g sherry vinegar 4 tbsp palo cortado sherry 6 tbsp dried apricots 50g, finely chopped arrowroot ½ tsp duck breasts 4 x 200g, kept cold in the fridge right up until the time you need to use them For the mash, cut the potatoes into large chunks and place in a large pan with plenty of cold water.
  • (15) Add the lentils and apricots, then cover with water and bring to the boil.
  • (16) Three X-ray-induced revertants of white-apricot (wa) no longer respond to mw, indicating that the transposable element must be present for mw to act.
  • (17) Outside Kramatorsk's aerodrome, meanwhile, at the end of a rustic rutted alley lined with sycamores and apricots, protesters had set up a new camp.
  • (18) The overall potential for toxin production in the dried fruit was apricot greater than fig greater than pineapple greater than raisin.
  • (19) The local produce includes peaches, apricots and melons, all now in season, which sold at roadside stalls.
  • (20) Two alleles that exhibit dosage compensation between males and females (apricot, blood) also exhibit dosage compensation in metafemales.

Flesh


Definition:

  • (n.) The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.
  • (n.) Animal food, in distinction from vegetable; meat; especially, the body of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish.
  • (n.) The human body, as distinguished from the soul; the corporeal person.
  • (n.) The human eace; mankind; humanity.
  • (n.) Human nature
  • (n.) In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
  • (n.) In a bad sense, tendency to transient or physical pleasure; desire for sensual gratification; carnality.
  • (n.) The character under the influence of animal propensities or selfish passions; the soul unmoved by spiritual influences.
  • (n.) Kindred; stock; race.
  • (n.) The soft, pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, and the like, which is fit to be eaten.
  • (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time.
  • (v. t.) To glut; to satiate; hence, to harden, to accustom.
  • (v. t.) To remove flesh, membrance, etc., from, as from hides.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a domino effect, everyone got down, one on top of the other.” A 29-year-old woman described blood and flesh that had been blown on to others.
  • (2) And finally there is straightforward cannibalism in which humans hunt, kill and eat other humans because they have a preference for human flesh.
  • (3) 100 degrees C. Thus residues did not migrate into the flesh of the tubers.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted comparing the relative contribution of internal and external cold stimuli in the initiation of horripilation (cutis anserina or "goose flesh") in men and women.
  • (5) Cutaneous macroglobulinosis is characterized by multiple flesh-colored papules on extensor skin surfaces.
  • (6) A stimulating effect of chondroitinsulphate to regeneration of flesh wound in case of local single action didn't differ essentially from the effect of chonsuride.
  • (7) The cystic stages which occur in the flesh of herbivores are probably non-pathogenic but the earlier stages in which schizonts develop in vascular endothelium may be severely pathogenic.
  • (8) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (9) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
  • (10) Erik Erikson used the film character of Dr. Borg from Wild Strawberries to flesh out his life cycle conception of ego integrity versus despair in old age.
  • (11) If it was a bigger explosion, hundreds could have died.” “When I got there there was flesh scattered at the scene, chaos, destruction, broken glass, broken balconies,” he added.
  • (12) Supporters said they were not surprised she had been let go as she had become “a thorn in the flesh” of the DfE after speaking out against government policies.
  • (13) The audience just want the thrill of seeing celebrity in the flesh.
  • (14) I mean, he's hooked us up to see you in the flesh – it feels a bit like Madame Tussauds right now!"
  • (15) We performed the primary operation on the flesh-colored tumor, which had surface telangiectasia.
  • (16) The idea of tattooing your flesh with the southern cross was, well, strange.
  • (17) Typically, people get honours for their charity work, and I've never even agreed with that, since it tends to mean donations, which tend to proceed from wealth, and all it does is lock down and make flesh the fallacy that rich people are more honourable than everyone else.
  • (18) In that same 2010 fundraiser speech, Perry described his mission as "bigger than any law or policy," of being engaged in a struggle not of "flesh and blood," but "against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms".
  • (19) There are four or five areas that have been highlighted by the BBC Trust that require more fleshing out."
  • (20) We have used endonuclease treatment in situ, followed by Giemsa or ethidium bromide staining, for mapping repetitive sequences on the chromosomes of the flesh fly Sarcophaga bullata and thus for studying extrachromosomal DNA granules in this species.