What's the difference between blanch and whiten?

Blanch


Definition:

  • (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  • (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  • (a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
  • (a.) To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
  • (a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
  • (a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  • (a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
  • (v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
  • (v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  • (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
  • (v. i.) To use evasion.
  • (n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If LTP is to be effective, thorough coagulation with tender blanching effects is mandatory.
  • (2) Particularly, the losses during blanching and thawing (drip) are discussed.
  • (3) The blanching activities and hence bioavailabilities of the cream, ointment and fatty ointment preparations of Nerisone and Temetex (diflucortolone valerate 0.1%) were evaluated using an occluded and unoccluded blanching assay.
  • (4) Beans were steamed-blanched at 100 degrees C for 2 minutes, and then canned and autoclaved at 121 degrees C for 10 minutes.
  • (5) The angiomas of the skin may occur in 3 forms: large cavernous angiomas; blood sac looking like a blue rubber nipple, they can be emptied; irregular blue mark, sometimes with puncted blackish spots, they may not blanch on pressure.
  • (6) The soluble dry matter content of blanched mushrooms was less than 50% of that of the fresh.
  • (7) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
  • (8) Holiday's regular label, Columbia, blanched at the prospect of recording it, so she turned to Commodore Records, a small, leftwing operation based at Milt Gabler's record shop on West 52nd Street.
  • (9) Guanethedine (1% in eucerin) increases the blanching phenomenon (false transmitter effect of dopamine).
  • (10) During endoscopy, using recently sterilized endoscopes that were flushed with 3% hydrogen peroxide after the glutaraldehyde cycle, instantaneous blanching (the "snow white" sign) and effervescence were noted on the mucosal surfaces when the water button was depressed.
  • (11) Controversy subsists about interpretations of "delayed cholinergic blanch" in atopic dermatitis.
  • (12) The intensity of corticosteroid-induced blanching has been found to vary at different areas of the flexor aspect of the human forearm.
  • (13) There was no significant difference between Dioderm and Dioderm C. Unlike creams containing more potent corticosteroids the hydrocortisone formulations apparently failed to produce steroid reservoirs in the stratum corneum as assessed by the blanching response.
  • (14) The significance of the terminal residues of the red pigment-concentrating hormone (RPCH: Glu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Gly-Trp-NH2) for its blanching effect on crustacean chromatophores has been investigated.
  • (15) Fifty-three percent of the population showed skin blanching in response to topical application of the steroid.
  • (16) Widespread pruritic, urticarial papules developed at times of stress and exercise, each papule being surrounded by a striking blanched vasoconstricted halo.
  • (17) This case was thought to be livedo reticularis and cerebral thrombotic lesions (Sneddon's syndrome) associated with atrophie blanche or livedo(id) vasculitis and may be one clinical subset of primary anti-phospholipid syndrome.
  • (18) Like the rest of Tarkovsky’s filmography, these two works have received extensive analysis .Coming on the heels of the shelved Andrei Rublev , long withheld from release by the Soviet government, Solaris enjoyed such a degree of success that Tarkovsky was effectively given carte blanche for any future projects.
  • (19) Wounds in group CS were "sterilized" (0.5-mm spot size, 25 W, CW) by gently heating the wound without causing blanching or charring.
  • (20) Terre'Blanche founded the white supremacist AWB in 1970, to oppose what he regarded as the liberal policies of the then South African leader, John Vorster.

Whiten


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
  • (v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The full chemical names of the fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs) investigated in this study are listed below.
  • (2) These results would suggest that speech intelligibility is reduced by whitening and peak clipping when more than one talker is present.
  • (3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
  • (4) V-K-H syndrome is a chronic bilateral exudative uveitis associated with whitening of the hair and eyelashes and varying signs of meningeal irritation.
  • (5) In contrast, the continuous-wave laser was observed videographically to produce prominent tissue whitening and puckering, seen histologically as convolution of the epithelium and coagulation of stroma, which was called a shrinkage-like lesion.
  • (6) The coating on the shell responsible for whitening was deposited during the hour prior to oviposition.
  • (7) Should such removal provide the additional effect of "whitening" the tooth surface, an additional cosmetic benefit would be provided.
  • (8) Whenever there's an alternative popular movement that grips the national imagination, left-ish commentators and journalists fight whitened tooth and manicured nail for public alliance to this season's worthy cause of resistance.
  • (9) We found that hydrogen peroxide bleached more quickly than carbamide although, after a period of six weeks, the results were the same as far as whitening was concerned.
  • (10) The performances of some leading commercial whiteners are compared and their interactions with dyes, fillers and stabilizers are discussed.
  • (11) The presence of clinically detectable areas of decalcification (observable as whitened areas) following the removal of orthodontic appliances is well recognized.
  • (12) The major factor responsible for whitening is confirmed as a high water temperature irrespective of the presence of the denture cleaning agent.
  • (13) In hand washing tests with detergents containing fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), the amounts of whitener left on both hands were determined by TLC spectrophotometry: they varied from 0.06 mg to 0.17 mg. Whiteners of different chemical constitutions behaved in a very similar manner.
  • (14) A cotton-substantive, anionic, fluorescent whitening agent manufactured by several suppliers under various trade names e.g.
  • (15) The ophthalmoscopic changes consisted of initial whitening and subsequent but persistent depigmentation of the foveola.
  • (16) Consonant-nucleus-consonant monosyllabic words were filltered such that each spectral component had equal energy (i.e., "whitened") and peak clipped in one of four ways: minimal, 20, 30, and 40 dB of clipping.
  • (17) Experimental details and examples of a "chromatographic program" for testing the major fluorescent whitening agent (FWA) types and material samples containing FWAs are described.
  • (18) Isolates are employed as whipping agents and coffee whiteners.
  • (19) At higher concentrations, clinical and histologic changes were seen in proportion to the concentration and included focal whitening, edema, vitreous haze, vascular abnormalities, and retinal necrosis at the highest doses.
  • (20) In fact, under some conditions whitening and peak clipping may slightly enhance intelligibility.

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