What's the difference between boule and crystal?

Boule


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Boulework

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Facebook.com The best spot in town for lunch is Boule de Bleu on rue de la Coupe.
  • (2) Urethral calibration with bougie à boule, uroflowmetry and urethral pressure profile were performed before urethral dilatation and 1 week after the last dilatation.
  • (3) The depiction of the Neandertals as incompletely erect was based primarily on Boule's (1911, 1912a, 1913) analysis of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 partial skeleton.
  • (4) Dyck shakes her head happily; they didn't have boules in Friedrichshain.
  • (5) Instead, teams of workers are there, planning playgrounds, wooden terraces, waterside gardens restaurants and rectangular terrains for playing boules.
  • (6) Linger over brunch, join in a game of bocce (boules) or just laze by the fire pit.
  • (7) For younger guests there are high chairs, travel cots, books, games and boules sets.
  • (8) Best place in town for lunch – the Boule de Bleu restaurant.
  • (9) • From €1,200 a week, +33 2 98 55 29 26, frenchberry.com Le Gohic, near Pontivy Pick one of five pretty cottages at this little hamlet, or book the whole place for a family gathering – either way you get to use the solar-heated (and fenced) pool, trampoline, boules pitch and mini cinema.
  • (10) However, it has come to be believed, following Straus and Cave (1957), that Boule's errors of reconstruction were due to the diseased condition of the La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1 remains, rather than to Boule's misinterpretation of morphology.
  • (11) None of these abnormalities significantly affected Boule's Neandertal postural reconstruction, and a review of his analysis indicates that early twentieth century interpretations of skeletal morphology (primarily of the cranium, cervical vertebrae, lumbar and sacral vertebrae, proximal femora and tibiae, posterior tarsals, and hallucial tarsometatarsal joint), combined with Boule's evolutionary preconceptions, were responsible for his mistaken view of Neandertal posture.
  • (12) Le Banquet, Les Eyzies, Aquitaine The owners of this group of three Périgordine cottages set in beautiful riverside grounds have thought of everything to make life easier for parents: a large swimming pool and paddling pool for tots, a play area with swings and slide, a boules court and a games barn with table football, table tennis, pool, board games, books, toys and DVDs.
  • (13) All of the pubs in Otley have translated their names into French, from Le Lion Rouge to Le Terrain de Boules.
  • (14) The mean urethral caliber of 250 women undergoing cystoscopy to stage cancer of the cervix was 22F, as measured by the bougie à boule.
  • (15) She draws up a set of sports, which include welly-throwing, egg-and-spoon race, boules, sprints, long-distance running, and paper-dart making and throwing.
  • (16) There are neuro-fibrillary tangles "en boules" in the NbM of the two types of dementia, but more frequently in Alzheimer's disease.
  • (17) It is a route favoured by coachloads of old-timers from Marseille and Aix who stop for picnics and a game of boules.
  • (18) Although he raps mostly in French, Awadi seamlessly drops into Wolof and repeatedly uses the term "Boul Falé".
  • (19) Meatal stenosis or distal urethral stenosis was found in 14% measured by bougie à boule calibration.
  • (20) The inaccurate aspects of Boule's postural reconstruction were corrected during the 1950s.

Crystal


Definition:

  • (n.) The regular form which a substance tends to assume in solidifying, through the inherent power of cohesive attraction. It is bounded by plane surfaces, symmetrically arranged, and each species of crystal has fixed axial ratios. See Crystallization.
  • (n.) The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of it. Cf. Smoky quartz, Pebble; also Brazilian pebble, under Brazilian.
  • (n.) A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.
  • (n.) The glass over the dial of a watch case.
  • (n.) Anything resembling crystal, as clear water, etc.
  • (a.) Consisting of, or like, crystal; clear; transparent; lucid; pellucid; crystalline.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
  • (2) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.
  • (3) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
  • (4) The crystal structure of the biological stain, "acridine orange," has been determined.
  • (5) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
  • (6) Early in the regression process, cholesterol esters are reduced at least partly by hydrolysis to yield cholesterol, some of which may crystallize and inhibit rapid regression.
  • (7) Here we determine the position of bound ADP diffused into the recA crystal.
  • (8) The virus material in these crystals had been subjected to treatment with EDTA at pH 8.0 before crystallization at pH 6.5.
  • (9) Results obtained show that chlorophyll is more active than other inhibitors studied and suggest a higher surface adsorption intensity on the primary sources of the crystal surface.
  • (10) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
  • (11) The molecular structure of the hexagonal crystal form of porcine pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), an aspartic proteinase from the gastric mucosa, has been determined by molecular replacement using the fungal enzyme, penicillopepsin (EC 3.4.23.6), as the search model.
  • (12) In vitro experiments show that these macromolecules are able to interact with specific faces of different crystals, influencing both nucleation and crystal growth.
  • (13) 2 Each of the drugs significantly increased leucocyte cyclic AMP content within 3 h of the injection of crystals.
  • (14) For Kevin Phillips, just like Wilfried Zaha, this might have been his final act as a Crystal Palace player.
  • (15) In ancillary studies, multiple cycles of direct dissolution of UCB crystals revealed a progressive decrease in aqueous solubility of UCB as fine crystals were removed; this effect was minimal in CHCl3.
  • (16) Six dogs were instrumented with electromagnetic flow probes and subendocardial ultrasonic crystals.
  • (17) The crystallization of the lipase was successfully carried out.
  • (18) The values of the energy level distributions in crystals obtained from the measurements and analysis reported here are compared with those obtained by a different method for the same protein complex in frozen solution.
  • (19) The crystal structure of proteolytically modified human ACT has been solved at 2.7-A resolution (Baumann et al., 1991).
  • (20) These observations support our hypothesis that calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crystal deposition in joints is regulated by the physical chemical gel state of the connective tissue matrix.