What's the difference between aureole and saint?

Aureole


Definition:

  • (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
  • (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
  • (n.) A halo, actual or figurative.
  • (n.) See Areola, 2.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The parameters of the lethal effect of aureolic acid derivatives, such as mithramycin, variamycin and olivomycin were studied on mice, rats and rabbits.
  • (2) Among the total number of the tumours sensitive to the drugs the number of the highly sensitive tumours amounted to 57.9 per cent for dactinomycin and 30.8--38.5 per cent for the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group.
  • (3) A front page editorial said: “Algeria left the World Cup with a new aureole on its head.
  • (4) Dactinomycin was superior to the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group in the rate and level of the cytotoxic effect on the tumour cells: 76 per cent of the above tumours were sensitive to dactinomycin, 56 per cent to mithramycin and 52 per cent to variamycin and olivomycin.
  • (5) But in Bach's Passions, argued Taruskin, every time Jesus is heard, an aureole of violins and violas gives Christ the musical equivalent of a halo.
  • (6) The active principle was determined to be a mixture of as many as 12 components which exhibited properties characteristic of the aureolic acid group of antibiotics.
  • (7) Anthracycline, aureolic acid and aminoquinone antitumour antibiotics damage deoxyribose in cell-free systems when reduced in air by the enzyme ferredoxin reductase.
  • (8) Definite differences in the efficiency of the antibiotics of the aureolic acid group with respect to different types of the brain tumours were observed.
  • (9) The effect of variamycin, an antibiotic of the group of aureolic acid on development of dedifferentiated astrocytoma of the brain was studied on rabbits.
  • (10) Structure determination using NMR spectroscopy of new aureolic acid analogues, demethylchromomycins A2 and A3 and demethylolivomycins A and B produced by Streptomyces aburaviensis PA-39856, is described.

Saint


Definition:

  • (n.) A person sanctified; a holy or godly person; one eminent for piety and virtue; any true Christian, as being redeemed and consecrated to God.
  • (n.) One of the blessed in heaven.
  • (n.) One canonized by the church.
  • (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one).
  • (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
  • (2) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
  • (3) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (4) What punishment will Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain face?
  • (5) Ibrahimovic is available on a free, having departed Paris Saint-Germain after winning four Ligue 1 titles, and has agreed personal terms worth £220,000 a week, making him one of the highest earners in the Premier League .
  • (6) In 1992 he enrolled for an MA at Central Saint Martins.
  • (7) They will be rivalled by Paris Saint-Germain, who had hoped to sign England’s most capped left-back last summer, while the player’s representatives have not ruled out a move to a rival Premier League team.
  • (8) Sonic opens on 18 September at Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent.
  • (9) An epidemiological study of dermatophytes was achieved during the years 1983-1984 in the Mycology Laboratory of Saint-Louis' Hospital.
  • (10) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (11) Their only win in that sequence was the less than convincing 3-2 triumph over Viktoria Plzen , the Group D whipping boys, in Saint Petersburg earlier in the month.
  • (12) This paper present a statistical study on the population of 775 psychiatric emergencies that arrived at the emergency service of Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels (Belgium), between September 1, 1986 and December 31, 1986.
  • (13) Both Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain are believed to have fallen foul of the FFP rules with sponsorship deals related to each clubs' owners.
  • (14) The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors.
  • (15) Case studies of two anorectic women from Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota, show that for some anorectics self-starvation is encoded in religious idioms and symbols about the body, food, and self.
  • (16) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
  • (17) Rose, a Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design fine art graduate, said she is determined that the rules should be changed "as this treatment is becoming more commonplace for Crohn's disease sufferers and I would not want any other woman to have to go through this ordeal".
  • (18) The Saints reward for the historic win is a divisional playoff in Seattle next weekend.
  • (19) It sealed a deserved three points for the Saints, who had been the better side for most of the contest.
  • (20) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.

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