What's the difference between bouquet and posy?

Bouquet


Definition:

  • (n.) A nosegay; a bunch of flowers.
  • (n.) A perfume; an aroma; as, the bouquet of wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At Le Bouquet Garni (+33 4 93 86 20 71, 1 rue Palmaro, about £30pp), run by a family from Rome, the standout dish was a simple tomato and mozzarella salad made with the freshest, creamiest burrata .
  • (2) There are bouquets and photographs, that famous Freddie Starr front page framed on the wall, a large blond-wood desk upon which lie a guide to St Lucia, a letter from Boodles the jeweller, and a book cover, which I read upside down: Having an Affair: A Handbook for the Other Woman.
  • (3) With special consideration to the axon morphology we could describe the following neuronal types: large spinefree cells with probably myelinated axons (basket cells), small and medium sized spinefree cells with axons inside the dendritic fields (small basket cells), spinefree cells with axonal arcades, cells with axonal grape like terminal knobs, cells with columnar axons (double bouquet cells), sparsely spined cells with ascending axons (Martinotti cells), bipolar cells, neuroglioform cells and chandelier cells.
  • (4) Two well defined types of cholecystokinin-immunoreactive neuron were distinguished: (1) double bouquet cells in layers II-III with vertically projecting axons, and (2) small basket cells with local axons either restricted to layers II-III, or descending to layer V. Additional cholecystokinin-positive cells showed features of bitufted or multipolar neurons in layers II-VI and horizontal cells in layer I, but these cells could be defined less well due to partial staining.
  • (5) She doesn’t need a bouquet, she is made of stronger stuff.
  • (6) They’re get-well-soon offerings, or funerary bouquets.
  • (7) The champagne bottles are in the recycling bin, the bouquets on the compost heap and the cake crumbs swept away.
  • (8) It was found, however, that the three heavy chains did not dissociate if the high-salt extract was centrifuged in the presence of Mg2+; the three chains constituted a single species (23-S dynein) sedimenting at about 23 S and displayed a three-headed bouquet configuration in electron micrographs.
  • (9) These branched in dendritic or in dense bouquet-like fashion, occupying smaller areas ("bouquet-like terminals).
  • (10) In an attempt to classify neurons in the upper layers of the cerebral cortex according to modern nomenclature based on Golgi impregnations, non-pyramidal neurons in layers II and III of the dog's cerebral cortex have been categorized into thirteen types: large double-bouquet cells with long ascending and descending axons (type I double-bouquet cells); bipolar neurons; multipolar neurons with long tufted descending axons (type II double-bouquet cells); neurons with long ascending axons; neurons with superficial axon plexuses; elongated large multipolar neurons with extended generalized axonal arborizations; neurons with long descending axons; small bi-tufted neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; small multipolar neurons with short ascending, descending or local axons; multipolar neurons with local or extended axonal arborizations usually forming arcades (some of them also with a long descending axon); basket cells; neurogliaform neurons, and chandelier cells.
  • (11) Add the amaranth, stir for a minute, then add the stock, 200ml water, the bouquet garni, a third of a teaspoon of salt and a good grind of pepper.
  • (12) The connection between the reticular and bouquet-like terminals, which may presumably represent secretory and receptive parts, respectively, morphologically supports the possible occurrence of an axon reflex in the urethral CGRP neurons.
  • (13) Eight bouquets of flowers sat on a brick wall in front of the boarded-up house yesterday.
  • (14) However, the staining of long, vertically-oriented bundles of processes--identical to classical double bouquet cell axonal arborizations--is the most prominent feature of the pattern of both calbindin- and tachykinin-immunoreactive staining.
  • (15) 6 large portobello mushrooms 70ml olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper 200g cherry tomatoes 10g unsalted butter 30g pine nuts 2 tsp za’atar 1 large onion, peeled and finely diced 1 garlic clove, peeled and crushed 200g amaranth 500ml vegetable stock Bouquet garni made with 10g tarragon sprigs, 4 strips lemon skin, 5g rosemary sprigs and 3 bay leaves 30g parmesan, finely grated Heat the oven to its highest setting (around 240-250C).
  • (16) Maltese citizens were urged to send bouquets of flowers for the victims to the mortuary of Mater Dei hospital by the hospital’s chief executive, Ivan Falzon.
  • (17) At the church, a large bouquet of red roses and a St Louis Cardinals baseball cap adorned Brown’s closed casket.
  • (18) Later, a woman arrived and lit sticks of incense, shielding them from the wind, then lingered in front of the tributes: paper cranes, plastic toys and dolls, a bell and bouquets of flowers.
  • (19) Go and fucking kill yourself before before they come for you,” wrote a woman pictured smiling with a bouquet of roses in her profile picture.
  • (20) The attachment sites of distal and proximal chromosome ends are clustered in a small region of the inner nuclear envelope resulting in a classical bouquet arrangement of the chromosomes.

Posy


Definition:

  • (n.) A brief poetical sentiment; hence, any brief sentiment, motto, or legend; especially, one inscribed on a ring.
  • (n.) A flower; a bouquet; a nosegay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The stock isn't fantastic but I spy books by Jane Gardam and Claire Messud, David Mitchell and, er, Jordan, and it's impressive that a library so small has a section devoted to graphic novels, Gemma Bovery by Posy Simmonds and David Boring by Daniel Clowes in pride of place.
  • (2) Even without the clues sown throughout the album (Palace Posy is an anagram of apocalypse), it audibly suggests a hollowed-out landscape in the aftermath of some terrible event.
  • (3) Photographers will miss the sight of him regularly hoisting small children clutching posies over barriers so they can get closer to her.
  • (4) The three patients with posi-ive skin test had been living for a long time in the eastern part of the U.S.A. where histoplasma capsulatum occurs endemically.
  • (5) And although we have our magnificent Raymond Briggs, Posy Simmonds, Steve Bell and Chris Riddell, nowhere are comic-strip books so widespread as in France.
  • (6) Israel's president, Shimon Peres, who turned 90 last summer, laid the first of more than a dozen wreaths and then, in a touching gesture, placed a posy of brightly-coloured anemones – a flower which carpets the area in late winter – on the grave of Sharon's late wife Lily.