What's the difference between celestial and salve?

Celestial


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
  • (n.) A native of China.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
  • (5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
  • (6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
  • (8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
  • (9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
  • (10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
  • (11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
  • (12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
  • (13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
  • (14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
  • (15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
  • (16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
  • (17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
  • (18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
  • (19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
  • (20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.

Salve


Definition:

  • (interj.) Hail!
  • (v. t.) To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.
  • (n.) An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
  • (n.) A soothing remedy or antidote.
  • (n.) To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.
  • (n.) To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.
  • (v. t. & i.) To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Complete atrio-ventricular block, and salves of ventricular premature beats were the most serious rhythm disturbances.
  • (2) They include chemical methods, such as suppositories, gels, salves, or foams which contain spermicidal substances, but these can be used only as long as there is no injury to the vagina.
  • (3) This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.
  • (4) But if you will stay and listen to the story, then together we may find salve for our wounded souls.
  • (5) Lagophthalmos and exposure keratitis resolved or were significantly improved in all patients, and most were able to dispense with eyedrops and salves.
  • (6) 97 per cent of the patients were discharged from the hospital with a salved limb, the one year patency was 76 per cent and one year limb survival 90 per cent.
  • (7) A cable car runs from Hopfgarten to the top of the Hohe Salve in the SkiWelt Wilder Kaiser-Brixental ski area.
  • (8) In a family of 9 persons over 3 generations, 6 had incessant polymorphic ventricular extrasystoles, often in salves, resembling unsustained bidirectional ventricular tachycardia.
  • (9) Top-rate Isas pay only 3%, so switching means savers lose little to salve their conscience.
  • (10) She believed that only total victory would salve her reputation, and no compromise that rewarded aggression could be tolerated.
  • (11) Though urea creams provided relief from itching in neurodermatitis, their use after treatment of eczema with fat-containing salves caused burning sensations.
  • (12) They’re actually so beautiful, the kind of movement from one note to the next; they’re like salves,” he says.
  • (13) Chinese patients preferred external agents (salves, oils, massage, etc.)
  • (14) For the older customer – sorry, patient – with a less sweet tooth, there are sprays, topical salves and even bath salts.
  • (15) Larvae were held in either 24-well culture plates with media plus penicillin, streptomycin sulfate, nystatin, and chloramphenicol or in small salve jars on Perlite and media plus the same antibiotics.
  • (16) The most dangerous player in all of this is Ivanka herself – poised, polished, telegenic and continually trotted out as salve for her father’s explicit sexism.
  • (17) It has previously been reported as a contact sensitizer from its use as a sun screen in a lip salve.
  • (18) Use of these salves repeated every second enabled the authors to demonstrate two types of changes in cortical excitability after intermittent photic stimulation: 1. responses which were more frequent and of greater amplitude appearing in the first 3 or 4 seconds after IPS; after paralysis of the animal amplitude and frequency of the responses are augmented.
  • (19) Wounded in spirit, South Sudan's people need the salve of mutual forgiveness | Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala Read more The council’s 15 members demanded Kiir and Machar “genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba”.
  • (20) Apple however has little reason to salve these complaints.