What's the difference between aridness and thirstiness?
Aridness
Definition:
(n.) Aridity; dryness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(2) The first stop in this arid place of poor farms and orchards clinging to the dry soil is Rafah, cut off by the border from its Palestinian counterpart.
(3) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(4) In a summit in Paris last week, the west African nations of Cameroon, Chad and Niger agreed to each contribute a battalion to form a border patrol troop based around the arid Sahelian belt, large swaths of which have fallen under the control of Islamist terrorists in recent years.
(5) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
(6) The present study investigated the release from dogs and subsequent survival of Echinococcus eggs in Turkana huts, water-holes and in the semi-arid environment.
(7) In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend.
(8) This was found to be the method of choice in coccidiosis control in replacement pullets in the semi-arid subtropical climate of Rhodesia.
(9) Distribution of the lesion follows that of trachoma among contemporary Aboriginal people, with the highest frequencies occurring in the hotter, arid portions of the Australian continent.
(10) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
(11) The town, about 80km from Somalia in Kenya's arid Garissa region, has been drawing in refugees for more than two decades, throwing up complex problems that fuel Kenya's frustration at having handled more than its share of the "Somalia problem", says Badu Katelo, Kenya's acting commissioner for refugees.
(12) arabiensis is the predominant or exclusive species in dry and semi-arid areas.
(13) Our sandfly probe consists of a 3.2 kb fragment of the intergenic 'non-transcribed' spacer of rDNA of P. papatasi that we have detected only in this species: it is present in all six geographically isolated populations tested (from Tunisia through to India) but cannot be detected in the morphologically similar P. (Phlebotomus) duboscqi Neveu-Lemaire, the vector of Leishmania major south of the Sahara; it also cannot be detected in Phlebotomus species of the subgenera Larroussius and Paraphlebotomus that together with P. papatasi are the dominant man-biting sandflies in north African foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis, where (as in many arid regions of western Asia) P. papatasi is believed to be the sole vector of L. major.
(14) Arid subtropical climate zones are expanding poleward.
(15) The Kalgoorlie-Boulder-Kambalda area in arid inland Western Australia receives its water supply from distant Perth, through a pipeline constructed in the fabulous goldrush period at the turn of the century.
(16) Although environmental temperature has often been seen as the primary factor determining reproductive cycles in reptiles, this study suggests that temperature is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for successful reproduction and that the availability of adequate resources may assume an overriding importance, especially in arid habitats where annual rainfall may be highly unpredictable.
(17) "It was shortly after the big four-oh, in a car park somewhere in the arid wastes of suburbia, when I was Tasered with the realisation that I would never again have to go on a crash diet" is how South African novelist Lauren Liebenberg opens her fiery burst of autobiography in the new book.
(18) Altogether 900 people were examined in different sites of the semiarid and arid Turkana region.
(19) This article discusses epidemiology and control of equine parasites in the southern United States, where climates vary from warm temperate to subtropical and from humid in the southeast to arid in the southwest.
(20) Altogether 23 male patients with Reiter's disease (RD) were followed-up in an arid zone.
Thirstiness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being thirsty; thirst.
Example Sentences:
(1) There has been a tendency to portray Russians as aggressively imperialistic at heart, a homogeneous bloc thirsty for military adventures.
(2) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(3) Jake Shears – who as the Scissor Sisters' frontman has helped keep disco alive this past decade – acknowledges the near-shock value of all this live performing in the dance realm: "It sounds incredible, like a giant fresh glass of water that so many people have been thirsty for for so long," he says.
(4) In the arid Ica region where Peruvian asparagus production is concentrated, this thirsty export vegetable has depleted the water resources on which local people depend.
(5) She said that on one occasion she arrived at 10am to find her mother in bed, hungry, thirsty and with the curtains drawn.
(6) Rooted as they are in Minnesota, many in the the Somali Muslim community are alarmed at a US attorney-led program that they believe singles them out as more blood thirsty than other ethnic or religious groups, and makes them vulnerable to surveillance.
(7) Using a linear analogue scale, parents rated children in the study group to be more comfortable, less hungry, and less thirsty compared with the control patients (P = 0.004, 0.002, 0.0001, respectively).
(8) Any heavy rainfall will be welcome news for thirsty California, parched for the last four years by a historic dry period.
(9) The tachykinins eledoisin, substance P and kassinin were administered by pulse intracerebroventricular (ICV) injections to cats made thirsty by ICV angiotensin II, 100 ng per cat.
(10) Thirsty cats, offered a choice between distilled water and quinine solution, preferred the latter to distilled water and accepted quinine concentrations greater than those they accepted in control sessions when drinking quinine solution was rewarded by hypothalamic stimulation, whereas drinking distilled water was not.
(11) Over the years, residents were paid $1 a foot of sod to tear out their lawns and replace them with less thirsty varieties of grass, or sand.
(12) Other planes were stacked up, circling in the air, packed with impatient, hungry and thirsty passengers, waiting for parking slots to open.
(13) The rats, however, did not exhibit preservation in the T-maze, and similarly to control rats suppressed drinking 0.1 M lithium chloride even when thirsty.
(14) It has previously been described that water intake in thirsty rats require higher doses of dopamine (DA) D-1 and D-2 antagonists to be attenuated than operant lever-pressing with water as reward.
(15) We found that when rats were thirsty, they were not interested in running for concentrated salt solutions; when they were rendered salt hungry by mineralocorticoid treatment in addition to the thirst, or even without thirst, they ran vigorously for salty tasting solutions, as high as 24% NaCl.
(16) Viticulture has history here: the industry grew in the 12th century to meet the demands of thirsty pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago , which passes through Navarra.
(17) Thirsty coeliac ganglionectomized and sham operated rats consumed more of a novel fluid after a series of presentations, each followed by saline injection, than when apomorphine was injected or copper sulfate intragastrically intubated.
(18) A 2013 report by Kellogg’s found that 8,370 schools in England have pupils arriving at school hungry or thirsty every morning, and that hungry children lose the equivalent to one hour of learning time a day.
(19) Thirsty rats were used in order to determine whether a vinegar solution, which had been paired with an injection of lithium chloride, could block the formation of an association between a pentobarbital- and a lithium chloride-induced state.
(20) The peptide influenced neither water consumption in thirsty rats nor the pain threshold in a hot plate test.