What's the difference between balmy and mild?

Balmy


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities of balm; odoriferous; aromatic; assuaging; soothing; refreshing; mild.
  • (a.) Producing balm.
  • (a.) Full of barm or froth; in a ferment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The balmy Caribbean is also being churned up with increasing frequency and ferocity.
  • (2) While UK sales in October and November were affected by the balmy autumn, Bason said it only affected winter coats and knitwear, which make up a third of Primark’s product range so overall sales continued to rise.
  • (3) So it’s understandable that the Australian prime minister couldn’t quite take in what the US president said to him as journalists filed into the American purpose-built venue for bilateral meetings and other summit business on a balmy Tuesday evening at Apec in Manila.
  • (4) It was a balmy California evening as Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine strolled along the Los Angeles beachfront.
  • (5) A balmy Saturday morning finds most of the gardens well tended and the plain, postwar semis in a good state of repair.
  • (6) Ronald Reagan’s Air Force One plane formed the backdrop as the candidates debated in front of a rapt audience, with hundreds of journalists in an adjacent media centre and “spin room” and a balmy sun setting over the valley.
  • (7) Spring is a great time to visit – Chengdu is basking in a balmy 20C, and everywhere trees are in blossom.
  • (8) So on a balmy day in Edinburgh in late May 1988, as I shuttled between the university library and anti-apartheid meetings, came the news that my mother, who had raised me on her own, had died.
  • (9) But while the south and east of Britain experienced balmy temperatures, places further north and east remained wet.
  • (10) After weeks of balmy weather that have left clothes retailers with huge stocks of unsold coats, boots and jumpers , John Lewis said shoppers were finally buying winter clothes.
  • (11) We’ve got a lot of young players in the squad and their lack of fear can be a good thing.” If Rashford’s right-foot volley in the third minute was the highlight of a balmy Wearside evening, his all-round game generally proved impressive.
  • (12) Cairo is a city built for sunny days and balmy nights; come winter the wind can lash with a ferocious bite.
  • (13) Before the long balmy era we have enjoyed over the past 10,000 years, climate was often much more tempestuous.
  • (14) New York was a balmy 54f (12.2c) early Monday but was expected to be 11f (-11.6c) by Tuesday morning.
  • (15) It is a balmy Saturday afternoon in the suburbs of Singapore.
  • (16) As I exit Prince's LA Xanadu and head out into the balmy California night, I ask myself how much he actually cares about being a superstar again.
  • (17) On a balmy August evening, the man goes out and picks some mushrooms.
  • (18) Analysts have been concerned that fashion chains will suffer, having been forced to offer discounts to clear stocks of coats and jumpers during a balmy autumn.
  • (19) But for at least the next few days while he visits the former heartland of regional revolution, the US president should be able to bask in an unusually balmy political climate of a US president in Latin America.
  • (20) It is a measure of Wales’s dominance that the scoreline flattered Russia on a balmy night in Toulouse.

Mild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (2) In this group there was only one case of mild ankle discomfort (3.5%).
  • (3) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (5) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
  • (6) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (7) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (8) The effects of IFN and mild hyperthermia on the responses of human promyelocytic HL-60 cells were investigated.
  • (9) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
  • (10) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (11) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
  • (12) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
  • (13) It is assumed that the mild analgesia produced by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and indomethacin is due to a common mode of action, namely inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction in the synthesis of prostaglandins.
  • (14) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
  • (15) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
  • (16) The perinatal mortality was 21% in the mild group and 36% and 138%, respectively, among moderate and severe cases of hypertension.
  • (17) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
  • (18) The patient had mild solar sensitivity by age 7, dyspigmentation by 10 years, and he still currently has moderate symptoms.
  • (19) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
  • (20) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.