What's the difference between cherry and crimson?

Cherry


Definition:

  • (n.) A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;
  • (n.) The common garden cherry (Prunus Cerasus), of which several hundred varieties are cultivated for the fruit, some of which are, the begarreau, blackheart, black Tartarian, oxheart, morelle or morello, May-duke (corrupted from Medoc in France).
  • (n.) The wild cherry; as, Prunus serotina (wild black cherry), valued for its timber; P. Virginiana (choke cherry), an American shrub which bears astringent fruit; P. avium and P. Padus, European trees (bird cherry).
  • (n.) The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.
  • (n.) The timber of the cherry tree, esp. of the black cherry, used in cabinetmaking, etc.
  • (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry.
  • (a.) Like a red cherry in color; ruddy; blooming; as, a cherry lip; cherry cheeks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Benzaldehyde's in cherries and cherrystones and amaretto, so it's immediately a base to pair things with."
  • (2) Top 10 Arpad Cseh Senior investment director, UBS Alice La Trobe Weston Executive director, head of European credit research, MSIM Morgan Stanley Katie Garrett Executive director, senior engineer, Goldman Sachs Alix Ainsley, Charlotte Cherry H R director, group operations (job share), Lloyds Banking Group Matt Dawson Director for business development, The Instant Group Angela Kitching, Hannah Pearce Head of external affairs (job share), Age UK Morwen Williams Head of newsgathering operations, BBC Georgina Faulkner Head of Sky multisports, Sky Maggie Stilwell Managing partner for talent, UK & Ireland, EY Sarah Moore Partner, PwC
  • (3) Fundus examination disclosed a subtle cherry red spot bilaterally.
  • (4) A systematic search for conditions associated with a cherry red spot was unrevealing.
  • (5) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
  • (6) A Wall Street Journal profile, published in 2000, says the Cherrys' interpreter introduced them to Deng, who was anxious to learn English, and Joyce Cherry offered her tuition.
  • (7) He got in a cherry picker for Space Oddity, and managed to sing and dance.
  • (8) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (9) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (10) 1.49pm GMT RobertNeville asks: RobertNeville 14 February 2014 10:11am This comment has been chosen by Guardian staff because it contributes to the debate Eve, I sometimes get the feeling that women's issues are cherry picked depending on where they live.
  • (11) However, a significant difference existed between these two groups in an autoradiographic study: in PSS telangiectases, the average labeling index was 5.9%, whereas in cherry angiomas it was around 0.8%.
  • (12) All to play for in that one – and Rockstar has a cherry on top, which is a separate case against Google where it claims the search company infringes a search patent filed in 1997, before Google even existed.
  • (13) Niemann-Pick disease (NPD) type B was diagnosed clinically and enzymatically in a 5-year-old girl presenting with failure to thrive, hepatosplenomegaly, diffuse interstitial infiltration of both lungs on chest roentgenograms, cherry red spot, and foam cells in the bone marrow aspirate.
  • (14) This 24 French instrument can be used in simultaneously with electrohydraulic lithotripsy (Urat I), i.e., stones of the size of a cherry can be simply punched, while all larger stones may be destroyed first by electrohydraulic lithotripsy and then cut into smaller pieces for removal with the punch.
  • (15) Though the cherry red spot is hardly to be explained in another way than by storage in optic ganglion cells.
  • (16) Examination revealed an afferent pupillary defect, retinal and choroidal emboli, retinal edema, and a macular "cherry red spot".
  • (17) Neneh Cherry is aware of the fashionable notion that everything is better in Scandinavia.
  • (18) The unions warned that ministers would simply "cherry-pick" the report and claimed that pension rises would soon be lower anyway because they would become dependent on the consumer price index rather than the generally higher retail price index .
  • (19) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
  • (20) Beyond chance agreement (Kappa index) was poor on the assessment of the extension of blue colour (0.33) and prevalence of cherry red spots or red weal marking (0.17) whereas was fair to good (0.40-0.66; P less than 10(-5)) on the following: location, size, lumen occupancy, presence of blue colour, presence and extension of red colour sign, haematocystic spot.

Crimson


Definition:

  • (n.) A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.
  • (a.) Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.
  • (v. t.) To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
  • (b. t.) To become crimson; to blush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A tunic of crimson and dark blue velvet survived for centuries, hanging over the tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral.
  • (2) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
  • (3) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (4) Ruby Wax identifies with it In the BBC's 2003 Big Read, the crimson-haired comedian chose The Catcher in the Rye as her favourite book.
  • (5) At this point his face really had gone crimson, which it does when he's genuinely cross.
  • (6) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (7) He then settled into directing a sequence of moderately entertaining, star-powered thrillers such as Crimson Tide (1995), The Fan (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), each with apocalyptic tones and convincing performances (from Denzel Washington, Robert De Niro and Will Smith respectively).
  • (8) Crimson Dragon imagines a future in which humans have colonized other planets in the cosmos but fallen foul of an alien epidemic.
  • (9) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
  • (10) But perhaps the most arresting installation of all is sitting on the sofa next to Hirst in the form of Camila Batmanghelidjh , founder and director of Kids Company , swathed in a bright crimson printed cloak and matching turban, with fluorescent yellow Crocs on her feet.
  • (11) The crimson swirls were painted, like some of the large late paintings by Henri Matisse, with a brush lashed to the end of a long pole.
  • (12) Now, it's called Crimson Dragon and, while the Microsoft personnel at the booth couldn't confirm whether Kinect was still part of the package, I can confirm one can now play it with a control pad.
  • (13) Despite the diversity of his career, a common thread throughout all his films, from the gleeful highs of Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, True Romance, The Last Boy Scout and Crimson Tide, to the deadening lows of his first film The Hunger, Revenge and Domino (Keira Knightley plays a bounty hunter – let us speak no more about it), is the whizz-bang-chop-cut style.
  • (14) "[The authorities] think that anyone who is independent or not following their views is a spy of the west," Panahi told the Guardian at the time of Crimson Gold's release.
  • (15) This was the Crimson’s third straight March Madness appearance and last year’s tournament victory, not to mention the NBA success of Jeremy Lin, currently with the Houston Rockets, has established Harvard as one of the more unlikely “basketball schools” in the country.
  • (16) All eight Salmonella stock cultures which failed to produce a crimson color belonged to rarely isolated serotypes.
  • (17) But the most surprising thing was the wording in the crimson ring: FOR GOD AND THE EMPIRE, this order of chivalry's motto.
  • (18) The color of the mucosa is bright and rich, ranging from crimson the bluish.
  • (19) BBC2 is also delving into the world of Victorian prostitution with a four-part adaptation by Lucinda Coxon of Michael Faber's novel The Crimson Petal & The White.
  • (20) According to the Harvard Crimson student newspaper, Rakesh described final clubs as sending “an unambiguous message that they are the exclusive preserves of men” and said their exclusionary practices and access to power “undermine [the values] of the larger Harvard College community”.