What's the difference between bleached and washy?

Bleached


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Bleach
  • (a.) Whitened; make white.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The transient was characterized by bleaching in the 550-585-nm regions within 6 ps and recovery in approximately 20 ps.
  • (2) All recombinants were found to be photochemically active, in that optical bleaching produced a temperature- and lipid chain-length-dependent mixture of species absorbing at 480 and 380 nm.
  • (3) Lesions in either the ventral subiculum or the anterolateral part of the amygdalohippocampal area caused bleaching in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus.
  • (4) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
  • (5) A simple method for distinction between RNA- and DNA-containing structures in aldehyde- and osmiumtextroxide-fixed electron microscopic autoradiographs (or ordinary thin sections) is described: the developer and the acetic acid used for processing autoradiographs extract selectively uranium acetate from DNA containing-structures which, after staining with lead citrate, leads to a characteristically 'bleached' appearance of the DNA.
  • (6) Sulphite bleached the flavin of cellobiose oxidase, but gave no reaction with the 31 kDa haem protein, suggesting an absence of flavin.
  • (7) A new, terrible curse that comes on top of the bleaching, the battering, the poisoning and the pollution.
  • (8) We have tried to discover whether bleaching raises the threshold by desensitizing the rods, or (like backgrounds) by attenuating their signals.
  • (9) Additionally, reconstitution of a distinct absorption band, centered around 540 nm, was achieved by addition of exogenous 9-cis-retinal to bleached, isolated eyespot apparatuses.
  • (10) But the Guardian can now reveal Australia will also need to report on how it is dealing with the current bleaching, where almost a quarter of the coral on the reef has been killed.
  • (11) Measurements were made of the time course and amplitude of the change in real part of admittance, DeltaG, of a suspension of frog rod outer segments, following a flash of light bleaching about 1% of the rhodopsin content of the rods.
  • (12) Concentration gradients of metarhodopsin along the lengths of microvilli were produced by local bleaches, accomplished by irradiation with small spots of orange light at pH 9 in the presence of glutaraldehyde or formaldehyde.
  • (13) Bleaching a few per cent of the rhodopsin molecules of a rod suspension induces a 60% decrease achieved in less than 12 sec.
  • (14) Consequently, the rate of the bleaching is strongly dependent on the permeability of the thylakoid to the available anion.
  • (15) Incidentally, it’s the algae that give the coral its colour; and so when it’s ejected, the coral takes on a ghostly white hue, giving rise to the term “bleaching”.
  • (16) A suggested method for internal bleaching and restoring the access cavity is presented.
  • (17) Rod outer segment membranes and reassociated stripped disc membrane samples containing divalent cations showed similar phosphodiesterase activities in response to low fractional rhodopsin bleaches (e.g.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef worse than for decades The photos were taken from around Lizard Island by Lyle Vale from Coral Watch at the University of Queensland .
  • (19) The permethylated rhodopsin thus formed is active toward bleaching, regeneration with 11-cis-retinal, and the activation of the GTPase (G protein) when photolyzed.
  • (20) When the acyl-CoA dehydrogenases were reacted with moderate excesses of acyl-CoA substrates in D2O in the absence of an electron acceptor, maximum bleaching of the FAD absorbance and the appearance of the long wavelength absorbance, attributed to a charge transfer complex, were observed.

Washy


Definition:

  • (a.) Watery; damp; soft.
  • (a.) Lacking substance or strength; weak; thin; dilute; feeble; as, washy tea; washy resolutions.
  • (a.) Not firm or hardy; liable to sweat profusely with labor; as, a washy horse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
  • (2) To be fair, Clinton has strengthened her wishy-washy language about protecting Social Security somewhat since early in her campaign (after being pressed on it by Bernie Sanders during the Democratic debates).
  • (3) But even that stance is considerably harder than the threats (many wishy-washy) from oil companies to reduce investment in the North Sea.
  • (4) The SASAWASHI Company in Japan started as a joint venture with Dr Mitsuo Kimura of Mie University, who originally conducted research on how to make washi out of kumazasa.
  • (5) Life becomes a series of stuttering noises stretching into eternity, punctuated only by interruptions for someone to complain about the “chunkiness” or “creaminess” or “washiness” or whatever-ness of a fly’s buzz.
  • (6) Noises were described as “washy”, “pingy”, “chunky”, “spongy”, “roomy”, “blatty” and “futzy”.
  • (7) It also seems wishy-washy nonsense to the archbishop.
  • (8) After Obama's wishy-washy defence of Muslim Americans' freedom to build a community centre, which includes a mosque, two blocks away from Ground Zero, a poll from the Pew Research Centre reveals that nearly 20% of Americans – up from 11% a year ago – consider him a Muslim, and nearly 43% are unsure of his religion.
  • (9) In an era of such change, this is not wishy-washy utopianism: it is the hardest of hard-headed realism.
  • (10) My socialism, imbibed with my mother’s milk and my father’s ruminations, was at once of the same slightly wishy-washy oppositional character suggested by Amis’s remark, and wreathed about by rather more dangerously seductive visions of the wholesale transformation of the social order by whatever means necessary.
  • (11) Photograph: SASAWASHI Co., Ltd. Sasawashi For over 1,400 years, Japanese artisans have been making traditional paper called washi , which is made from the fibres of plants and trees.
  • (12) A wishy-washy compromise was not going to win them votes.
  • (13) I don’t think this is a wishy-washy alternative to academic achievement.
  • (14) Some of our LGBT performers have to deal with wishy-washy audiences of pseudo-hipster techie types.
  • (15) 9.38pm GMT The rhetoric is getting all the more washy and the evening nears it's close.
  • (16) And no, this is not coming from the lips of a wishy-washy progressive teacher spawned by Gove’s “blob”, but is an integral part of the national development of a country right at the top of those international league tables we aspire to emulate.
  • (17) Richardson said the IPCC report was "wishy-washy" on issues such as sea level rise.
  • (18) It sounds tough, determined, unlike the wishy-washy “soft Brexit”.
  • (19) Video of the encounter , repeatedly aired on television, shows the 79-year-old emperor calmly taking the letter, written on a folded "washi" paper with ink and brush, and briefly talking with Yamamoto.
  • (20) When Falcao’s number was up in that last game at Old Trafford against Arsenal , he walked towards the substitutes’ bench after another wishy-washy display and raised his hand with an almost apologetic wave to the crowd.

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