What's the difference between chablis and challis?
Chablis
Definition:
(n.) A white wine made near Chablis, a town in France.
(n.) a white wine resembling Chablis{1}, but made elsewhere, as in California.
Example Sentences:
(1) Critics accuse Roux, who promotes the local Chablis wines whenever he gets a chance, of overacting.
(2) 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.
(3) That may be a common pattern: upscale restaurants and yuppie bars for the brie-and-chablis set do well, but working-class men and women still want to have a beer and cigarette.
(4) From Wednesday, the up-market grocer is offering a choice of 14 wines, including a Châteauneuf Du Pape, two Sancerres and a Chablis, under its “pick your own offers” scheme which gives MyWaitrose cardholders 20% off 10 items of their choice .
(5) Or you could get sloshed with six no-nonsense Essex girls and a lot of Chablis in a pub in Braintree.
(6) Some of us have fun drinking beer, throwing it about and wallowing in filth, some of us prefer chablis in a glass, some of us are wild and vulgar, some are polite and twitchy, some of us care about the state of lavatories, some do not.
Challis
Definition:
(n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cell walls isolated from competent streptococci (group H strain Challis) were shown to bind more homologous and heterologous deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) than noncompetent walls.
(2) Stable auxotrophic mutants of a group H streptococcus (strain Challis) were isolated on a modified Mickelson defined medium after exposure to N-methyl- N-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine.
(3) And an ability of these GTases to enhance cellular attachment of oral streptococci was investigated using 3H labeled resting cells of S. sanguis Challis and S. milleri Is 57.
(4) A mutation (ery-r8) conferring a high level of resistance to erythromycin in the Challis strain of Streptoccus sanguis can be transferred to wild-type erythromycin-sensitive recipients via single molecules of donor DNA.
(5) Besides the competence factor (cpf), the activity of nuclease present in cell surface extracts (iF) is most likely necessary for the occurrence of competence in transformation of Challis strain and other group H streptococci.
(6) Chemically defined media for competence factor (CF) production by group H Streptococcus strain Challis-6 are described.
(7) P. gingivalis 381, W50, JKG7, and 33277 adhered to S. sanguis G9B, M5, Challis 6, and 38.
(8) Group H streptococci (strain Challis) which are competent for transformation release a bacteriocin into liquid medium which is bacteriocidal for another group H streptococcus (strain Wicky).
(9) Immune globulins against competent cells of group H streptococci, strains Challis and Wicky, inhibited genetic transformation to streptomycin resistance when added to competent cultures.
(10) Antibodies against the three endonucleases of the Challis strain do not block the occurrence of competence.
(11) Seventeen strains of group H streptococci were tested for their ability to develop competence for genetic transformation, either spontaneously or with the addition of competence factor derived from strain Challis supernatant fluids, and for their ability to autolyze.
(12) The M6 protein of Streptococcus pyogenes was expressed on the cell surface and secreted in Streptococcus gordonii Challis (formerly Streptococcus sanguis) after chromosomal integration of a promoterless M6 protein gene (emm-6.1).
(13) Increasing the [Na+] reduced GTF production by S. sanguis strains Challis and NCTC 7865, and by Streptococcus sobrinus, but not by Streptococcus salivarius.
(14) A UK remake is reportedly on the way, which in my opinion is redundant, although it does boast a fine cast including Pauline Quirke and John Challis.
(15) CF preparations (culture filtrates from competent group H streptococcus strain Challis) were either heated or partially purified to remove a bacteriocin.
(16) The Smr and Emr determinants were cloned from cellular DNA on the self-replicating 5-kilobase-pair (kbp) EcoRI fragment of pAM beta 1 and the 4.2-kbp cryptic plasmid pVA380-1, respectively, by transformation of Streptococcus sanguis Challis.
(17) The presence of a competence factor (CF) in the culture filtrate of strain Challis was confirmed.
(18) The gene of Streptococcus pyogenes erythrogenic toxin type A (speA) has been previously cloned in Streptococcus sanguis (Challis) and produces extracellular erythrogenic toxin type A (ET A).
(19) 1965.-The highly transformable group H Streptococcus strain Challis produced an exocellular competence-provoking enzyme capable of converting to the state of competency incompetent cells of the homologous strain, and of the very poorly transformable strain Wicky.
(20) d-Cycloserine (d-CS), a selective inhibitor of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis, inhibited transformation in group H streptococcus, strain Challis, by preventing the development of the competent state.