What's the difference between caviar and delicacy?

Caviar


Definition:

  • (n.) The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; -- used as a relish, esp. in Russia.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 'Azerbaijan is turning into a dictatorship – we shouldn't fall for its caviar diplomacy' Read more The crowded courtroom was growing increasing stifling as the air-conditioner could not cope with mid-August heat.
  • (2) By the time the guests have their fill of caviar-stuffed potatoes and get in their limos to the Vanity Fair party across town, most are sufficiently well lubricated to deal with one another: I walk in to see Benedict Cumberbatch standing by the bar with Joan Collins, while Patrick Stewart and Jared Leto are expressing mutual admiration for one another nearby.
  • (3) As for potatoes, we're supposed to treat them with a reverence previously reserved for fine wine and caviar.
  • (4) The madreporic ("caviar") prosthesis is a hinged knee prosthesis that can be inserted without the use of cement.
  • (5) But before he can leave the store he meets Doug, the husband of the producer who has promised to read his script, wheeling a shopping cart with his child and "a four-figure avalanche of shellfish, cheeses, meats, and caviars".
  • (6) Palmer also appeared on Channel Nine's Today show, where he launched an angry tirade against Murdoch and Thomas, describing Thomas as "like Black Caviar with a broken leg".
  • (7) (And if I'm being honest, I might sneak in a few mouthfuls of foie gras and caviar, too.)
  • (8) The guests order from the bar menu – beef sliders for £21, £770 for a 50g portion of beluga caviar.
  • (9) "It was celebrated with champagne and Iranian caviar at MHL's Mayfair offices and was widely reported in the financial press as a groundbreaking event," writes David Lascelles in his recently published biography of Zombanakis.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Caviar’s Putin-inspired iPhone 6.
  • (11) Twitter users are mocking the DWP’s latest misstep with the inevitable hashtag #fakedwpstories (“since the jobcentre sanctioned me I only eat caviar”; “I save so much on trousers now all that money isn’t burning holes in my pockets”), and rightly so.
  • (12) Allegations of “caviar diplomacy” have swirled around the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly for years, with Azerbaijan accused of offering cash and luxury gifts in exchange for favourable votes.
  • (13) David died in the early hours of 22 May 1992, having enjoyed a good bottle of chablis and some caviar brought to her bedside by friends.
  • (14) The rest of the team helped, but he was the Black Caviar who got us here, but the point is that in terms of thinking about the future it’s not a change of personality; it is what does that bring; how does that improve our situation.
  • (15) One night, eating with her parents at a caviar house off the Champs Elysées, she was introduced to the television star Jacques Martin.
  • (16) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
  • (17) With 50 film premieres, a caviar-and-blinis-studded conference and lavish digs at the Hotel Astoria (which claims Rasputin, Thatcher and Bush are former guests), it has attracted Russian oligarchs, US heavyweights HBO and Showtime, and the French director François Ozon.
  • (18) I often exchanged grubby dollars or packets of Marlboro for tins of caviar from slightly sinister gold-toothed charmers.
  • (19) Out of 399 human faeces examined during the first eight months (1975) for the presence of NCV vibrios, one vibrio parahaemolyticus strains has been isolated from a man with acute gastro-enteritis (gastric and abdominal pains, nausea, diarrhoea, headache, general weakness), after having a meal with salted caviar.
  • (20) Be adventurous… It's time for parma ham, mozzarella and caviar lunchboxes.

Delicacy


Definition:

  • (a.) The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
  • (a.) Nicety or fineness of form, texture, or constitution; softness; elegance; smoothness; tenderness; and hence, frailty or weakness; as, the delicacy of a fiber or a thread; delicacy of a hand or of the human form; delicacy of the skin; delicacy of frame.
  • (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action.
  • (a.) Addiction to pleasure; luxury; daintiness; indulgence; luxurious or voluptuous treatment.
  • (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.
  • (a.) The state of being affected by slight causes; sensitiveness; as, the delicacy of a chemist's balance.
  • (a.) That which is alluring, delicate, or refined; a luxury or pleasure; something pleasant to the senses, especially to the sense of taste; a dainty; as, delicacies of the table.
  • (a.) Pleasure; gratification; delight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (2) When the two sides played here 77 days earlier Stoke had racked up a 5-0 lead by half-time, the first time that had happened to Liverpool since 1976, but this time Hughes’s attackers had no delicacy around the penalty area.
  • (3) The very first collection we worked on together was called The Birds, and when he got the Givenchy job and we went to Paris, and he got to see what the Givenchy ateliers could do with feathers, he was just blown away.” The photographer Anne Deniau, who took many portraits of McQueen and whose camera was from 1997 to 2010 the only one allowed backstage at McQueen shows, felt that he loved “the lightness, the delicacy, of feathers.
  • (4) If i remember correctly, a third of the milk was turned sour, a Russian delicacy'.
  • (5) As regards the technique, the delicacy and the specificity of the research, suggest the use of very sensible methods, which leave simplicity of execution and immediacy of results, out of consideration.
  • (6) Not that I'd dare tell everyone to be vegetarian, but I can warn those silly gourmets defending F&M's right to sell this "delicacy", that come the revolution, it won't be the guillotine for them, just tubes of grain and fat pumped endlessly down their throats.
  • (7) He has always been extremely careful in public on any matters relating to religion or Northern Irish politics, such is the delicacy of that situation for someone of McIlroy’s prominence.
  • (8) This was seen as a slightly touristy and embarrassing thing to do, so my then (native) boyfriend left me to it and made a detour to the newly opened McDonald’s to buy multiple “cheeseburgery” (another word that cheered me greatly) to take on the 10-hour train journey back to St Petersburg, so that people at home could try this great delicacy.
  • (9) This quality assurance has been slow evolving in clinical flow cytometry for a variety of reasons: the exquisite sensitivity and delicacy of the instrumentation that recognize previously undetectable variations in staining; the constant improvement of the hardware and software; the rapid development of new techniques and reagents of clinical interest; and the failure of any existing specialty or subspecialty to encompass all aspects of flow cytometry.
  • (10) Over my week in the Netherlands, I’d tried other delicacies: locust tabbouleh; chicken crumbed in buffalo worms; bee larvae ceviche; tempura-fried crickets; rose beetle larvae stew; soy grasshoppers; chargrilled sticky rice with wasp paste; buffalo worm, avocado and tomato salad; a cucumber, basil and locust drink; and a fermented, Asian-style dipping sauce made from grasshoppers and mealworms.
  • (11) Official advice on low-fat diet and cholesterol is wrong, says health charity Read more Artichokes are still a Roman delicacy, and when it comes to diet in Renaissance and baroque Italian art, this is a clue.
  • (12) Some will be used to encourage farmers to grow alfalfa, another delicacy of the great Alsaces.
  • (13) The technical requirements of child's urethral surgery are more critical due to the small size and the delicacy of the urethra.
  • (14) The second, of course, is the voyeuristic pleasure the camera takes in the delicacies: the shot of a spoon plunging through the soft, airy volume of a chocolate souffle, for example.
  • (15) Microscopic study of the human lacrimal ducts places the emphasis on the delicacy and complexity of the relations between the lacrimal muscle and the mobile lacrimal tubular system.
  • (16) The timetable varies each year, and the train stops frequently at trackside restaurants and platform food stalls for delicacies such as smoked trout from the Vojmån river, or warm cinnamon buns.
  • (17) The times I identified most with Niko were not during the game's frequent cut scenes, which drop bombs of "meaning" and "narrative importance" with nuclear delicacy, but rather when I watched him move through the world of Liberty City and projected on to him my own guesses as to what he was thinking and feeling.
  • (18) Therefore, all of the complicated foreign delicacies will be spelt phonetically here so you know what I'm talking about.
  • (19) Photograph: columbiahillen via GuardianWitness Growing up in Transylvania, one of the local delicacies was a dish called "blankets", made with polenta and cheese, as well as cream and bacon.
  • (20) The year before, reunited with Lean for the period comedy Hobson's Choice, he had provided a characterisation which had a representative blend of rumbustiousness and delicacy of detail.

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