What's the difference between charybdis and italian?

Charybdis


Definition:

  • (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of a hermeneutic psychiatry would be to steer between the Scylla of naive realism ignoring the major participation of the psychotherapist on the one hand, and the Charybdis of relativism, nihilism, and hopeless skepticism on the other.
  • (2) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
  • (3) The therapist must be prepared to steer between the Scylla of ignorance about the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in the mentally retarded and the Charybdis of financial disincentives for human service agencies to collaborate in their care.
  • (4) Moreover, the seasonal profiles of the XA and ecdysone titers in Charybdis japonica exhibited a staggered relationship in the tissues tested.
  • (5) Hunt, a gifted and ambitious politician, is stuck between the rock-like Scylla of industry lobbyists and the Charybdis whirlpool of public opinion, which now supports sugar regulation.
  • (6) Hemolymph from Charybdis japonica and Lymantria dispar, and saline extract from Eunice kobiensis agglutinated human group B erythrocytes specifically.
  • (7) The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the state is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism,” Shelley wrote in 1821, blaming inequality and disorder on the “unmitigated exercise of the calculating faculty”.
  • (8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 9.42am GMT "If Jeremy Smith is right about the Villa having signed a player called Scylla, might their next acquisition be one called Charybdis, to please classics buffs?"
  • (9) Studies with crabs (Charybdis japonica) and crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) revealed that the tryptophan metabolites, 3-hydroxy-L-kynurenine (3-OH-K) and xanthurenic acid (XA), common secretory products of the X-organ-sinus gland complex of eyestalks from several decapods, regulated the molting of crustaceans in species-nonspecific fashion.
  • (10) Labour has been forced into a defensive posture, caught between the Scylla of its compassion and the Charybdis of brute politics.
  • (11) A blood type B binding lectin (CJA-B) was isolated from the hemolymph of the crab Charybdis japonica by affinity chromatography on Sephadex G-200.
  • (12) Multiple agglutinins were identified, and independent agglutinins were separated from hemolymph of Charybdis japonica (anti-Bcj+anti-Xcj) and Lymantria dispar (anti-BLD+RLD) by absorption experiments.

Italian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Italy.
  • (n.) The language used in Italy, or by the Italians.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (2) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (3) Compared to the data produced by the Lipid Research Clinics (USA), coronary risk appeared higher for all the surveyed factors in the Italian general population, and particularly in bank employees.
  • (4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (5) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
  • (6) Serum C1 esterase inhibitor was determined in 138 members of 18 italian families with hereditary angioedema by immunochemical and enzymatic assays.
  • (7) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
  • (8) The Calabrian and Albanian populations were similar, but significantly different from other Italian populations.
  • (9) The Eurostoxx banking index was up 1.7% Shares in Italy’s oldest bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena, were suspended after falling 15% after the EBA revealed it was one of nine Italian institutions to fail the tests.
  • (10) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (11) City landed the former Barcelona chief executive, Ferran Soriano , and many thought the two former Barça men's recruitment looked a threat to the Italian, especially with Pep Guardiola on sabbatical and looming over any potential vacancies at Europe's top clubs.
  • (12) Of 242 north Italian heroin addicts, 24 (9.9%) were HBsAg positive.
  • (13) In this paper an Italian cooperative trial investigates the role of a high-dose regimen with carboplatin, etoposide and ifosfamide in germ cell tumours.
  • (14) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
  • (15) That diary was published in 2005 by Limes, a serious Italian magazine, which did not identify the cardinal.
  • (16) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
  • (17) It details a meeting between Meara and Fabrizio Nava, director of the office of sub-Saharan Africa assistance for the Italian government.
  • (18) The red blood cell (RBC) glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity and routine haematological parameters were measured in 38 healthy north Italian full-term pregnant women and in their newborn infants.
  • (19) After the Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, threatened to veto a deal with Turkey, a reference to media freedom was added to the final summit statement.
  • (20) An intimate account of her last hours was given on Monday by Lady (Carla) Powell, the Italian wife of Thatcher's former diplomatic adviser Lord Powell, who had visited her often in her declining years, and whose house outside Rome the former prime minister had visited on several occasions.

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