What's the difference between bright and burnished?

Bright


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Brite, v. i.
  • (a.) Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.
  • (a.) Transmitting light; clear; transparent.
  • (a.) Having qualities that render conspicuous or attractive, or that affect the mind as light does the eye; resplendent with charms; as, bright beauty.
  • (a.) Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.
  • (a.) Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; shedding cheerfulness and joy around; cheerful; cheery.
  • (a.) Illustrious; glorious.
  • (a.) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.
  • (a.) Of brilliant color; of lively hue or appearance.
  • (n.) Splendor; brightness.
  • (adv.) Brightly.
  • (v. t.) To be or become overripe, as wheat, barley, or hops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (2) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
  • (3) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (4) Vital staining of neuroblastoma cells with acridine orange produces a bright intracellular red-orange fluorescence most probably due to the occurrence of RNA.
  • (5) Thereafter, donor type cells expressed an intermediate Thy 1.2 brightness; this population then persisted and surpassed the other subsets.
  • (6) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (7) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (8) The bright lines in the difference image represent the paths along which the filaments have moved and are measured using a crosshair cursor controlled by the mouse.
  • (9) Rats exposed to the bright-light condition suffered a pronounced loss of photoreceptor cells by 10 weeks, and an even greater cell loss by 17 weeks.
  • (10) Even Paul Bright had to get a private charity to fund half his work.
  • (11) There was a uniform decrease in brightness discrimination to either side of the foveal peak.
  • (12) Bright artificial light has been found effective in reducing winter depressive symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder, although conclusions about the true magnitude of treatment effect and importance of time of day of light exposure have been limited by methodologic problems.
  • (13) The frequencies of the various anaphase patterns of bright and dim centromere regions were binomially distributed, indicating random distribution of chromatids with respect to the age of their DNA templates.
  • (14) (2) Sequences of brightness steps of like polarity (either increments or decrements) elicit positive and negative motion-dependent response components when mimicking motion in the cell's preferred and null direction, respectively.
  • (15) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
  • (16) Ultrastructural cytochemistry with XRMA is limited by the need to use high-brightness electron sources.
  • (17) Kobani impressed on the Kurds that Erdoğan could not be trusted and that anti-Kurdish feeling continued to burn brightly in the Turkish state.
  • (18) The administration of the drug in Stage 1 improved the acquisition of the initial brightness discrimination and facilitated reversal learning independently of the drug administered in Stage 2.
  • (19) The highest expression was noted in a recurrent plexiform ameloblastoma in which almost 100% of the tumor cells were brightly reactive.
  • (20) Mercaptoacetate, injected in the middle of the bright phase, reduced the latency to eat but did not affect the duration of the subsequent IMI or cumulative food intake in LF rats.

Burnished


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Burnish

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
  • (2) I knew immediately the words came out it would be cut.” At a time of intense pressure on the media to cooperate with an army public relations campaign that is burnishing the image of General Sharif, channels routinely edit out or drop the sound on the mildest criticism of the military.
  • (3) But while some have undoubtedly burnished the government's green credentials – the commitment to pushing Europe to a 30% emissions cut by 2020 , for instance – others have been less successful.
  • (4) The granular structures on the burnished amalgam surface were found to be of tin-mercury alloy.
  • (5) He wants the decision to be made in the interests of fighting crime and for it not to be used by the Tories to burnish their Eurosceptic credentials.
  • (6) Despite the U-turn on austerity, Mr Tsipras has burnished an image as a bold defender of his nation.
  • (7) When cavity varnish use was compared with no use of cavity varnish, significantly less microleakage was noted with the nonburnished control, single-burnish, and double-burnish techniques utilizing the cavity varnish.
  • (8) The trip is meant to bolster his state’s economic and cultural ties with the UK, though it has the added benefit of burnishing his foreign policy credentials ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
  • (9) The types and distribution of airborne microorganisms isolated from microbial air samples were not unusual nor were they directly influenced by the floor burnishing processes.
  • (10) The coalition has tried to blame Labour for £150m cuts in housing and burnished their progressive credentials with an extra £170m to fund social housing.
  • (11) No significant increase or decrease in microleakage occurred as a result of single or double burnishing of amalgam.
  • (12) The Liberal Democrats are to burnish their credentials as the tax-cutting party for the low paid by floating the possibility of cutting national insurance contributions for anyone earning below £12,500 a year.
  • (13) Helen Hunt and John Hawkes are deservedly recognised for their fine performances in The Sessions, while Kathryn Bigelow 's sombre, gripping Zero Dark Thirty bags a quartet of nominations, burnishing its credentials as the dark horse of this year's Oscar race.
  • (14) So there would be no big job for Corbyn in a Cooper shadow cabinet, and the new leader will instead seek to reach out to the left by highlighting some of the traditional Labour values she burnished during the campaign.
  • (15) These spaces in the burnished specimens were filled with an amorphous bulk of amalgam apparently caused by the burnishing process.
  • (16) The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of citric acid and tetracycline HCl application to dentin surfaces by a "passive dripping" or an "active burnishing" technique.
  • (17) This could allow Johnson to burnish his Eurosceptic credentials before the Tory leadership contest by endorsing the out campaign while claiming that he is not calling for a definitive break with the EU.
  • (18) The current-density peak associated with gamma2 was of greater magnitude in polished specimens than in burnished specimens throughout the range of mercury concentrations investigated.
  • (19) The leak prompted some senior Tories to declare that Gove was "on manoeuvres" to burnish his blue Tory credentials as the party looks to a future after Cameron.
  • (20) The Barnsley Central MP and former paratrooper had appeared to be burnishing his leadership credentials with an article calling for Labour to embrace change and a wide-ranging speech next week setting out his economic vision.

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