What's the difference between aquamarine and colour?

Aquamarine


Definition:

  • (n.) A transparent, pale green variety of beryl, used as a gem. See Beryl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine Power, one of a number of Edinburgh-based marine energy firms, said that choosing the city was "tremendous news" for his industry, which has been boosted by a series of green energy investment decisions by major global firms including Mitsubishi, Gamesa and Samsung Heavy Industries.
  • (2) "The GIB will build on this lead and enable businesses such as Aquamarine Power to leverage the significant private sector capital which will allow the UK's green energy sector to flourish," he said.
  • (3) Examples of this approach include Alstom who have invested in Brightsource (utility scale solar thermal) and Tidal Generation (tidal power); ABB is working with Aquamarine (wave power) and Trilliant (smart grid); Siemens with Tendril and a number of other smart grid companies; Monsanto with biofuels company Sapphire Energy .
  • (4) Martin McAdam, chief executive of Aquamarine, said publicising marine energy was crucial, as was accelerating investment in the industry.
  • (5) The bright sun and aquamarine water looked vaguely tropical, but the grimaces and boiled lobster colour of the competitors were a more accurate guide to temperature.
  • (6) Imagine a bald Jimmy Savile painted aquamarine, contorting his mouth into a gaping downturned maw.
  • (7) Her Majesty came in civvies, sporting a smart white silk brocade coat and flower trimmed hat, finished off with an enormous Brazilian aquamarine.
  • (8) Martin McAdam, chief executive officer of wave energy company Aquamarine Power, said there had been no consultation.
  • (9) "As a business, Aquamarine Power has been firmly neutral on the matter of independence," he said.
  • (10) The competition will be open to existing designs and established marine energy firms, including the Edinburgh-based firms behind the "sea snake" wave machine, Pelamis, and the "oyster" wave machine, Aquamarine power.
  • (11) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
  • (12) After a series of commercial failures in Scotland’s nascent marine power industry, including the collapse of two wave power firms, Pelarmis and Aquamarine, Nova Innovation’s announcement was applauded by environmental groups.
  • (13) We ain’t been winning anything,” said Henry L Irvin Sr, an air force veteran in an aquamarine T-shirt bearing the slogan “Katrina – I am a survivor”.
  • (14) zumbido Slovenia The Soca valley, Kobarid From the small town of Kobarid you can follow the amazingly aquamarine Soca river upstream to the Kozjak waterfall.
  • (15) He is turned out nattily: an aquamarine shirt is co-ordinated with leather Oxford shoes; his hair spills out of a black newsboy cap and he wears dazzling white socks, as he always does.
  • (16) Rooms are small but striking – with a don’t-try-this-at-home colour scheme of dark chocolate, aquamarine and off-whites.
  • (17) Also to use wave power is a more powerful version of Aquamarine's existing Oyster machine , in which a lever hinged at the ocean floor is pushed back and forth.
  • (18) Aquamarine, which is behind a yellow near-shore device known as Oyster, is making about 30 staff redundant .
  • (19) The job losses were “a consequence of the considerable financial, regulatory and technical challenges faced by the ocean energy sector as a whole,” according to Aquamarine’s chief executive, John Malcolm.
  • (20) The study was carried out on samples of cotton textiles for children, two were dyed beige and aquamarine , one was white.

Colour


Definition:

  • (n.) See Color.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
  • (2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
  • (3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (8) Bound biocytinyl-E2 is detected after binding of streptavidin-peroxidase and colour production by the enzyme.
  • (9) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
  • (10) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
  • (11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
  • (12) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
  • (13) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
  • (14) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (15) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
  • (17) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
  • (18) In three the diagnosis was only suspected when the colour Doppler study showed dilated intraseptal and epicardial vessels and an abnormal flow signal into the pulmonary artery in diastole; this latter signal localised the exact site of communication, which was not apparent on angiocardiography.
  • (19) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (20) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.