What's the difference between chilled and docile?

Chilled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Chill
  • (a.) Hardened on the surface or edge by chilling; as, chilled iron; a chilled wheel.
  • (a.) Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Scanned rump fat measurements were consistently approximately 20% higher than on the chilled, hanging carcass 24 h after slaughter; after applying the standard correction factor of 1.17, LMA measurements were similar.
  • (3) Just last week he said: "Maybe I'll be a bit more chilled about it this year.
  • (4) Trump might say that is what he wants to happen but for us, that’s deeply upsetting,” says Moore, who sits on the board of the Center Against Sexual and Family Violence and expects the case to have a chilling effect on reports of abuse.
  • (5) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (6) At Weledeh Catholic School in Yellowknife, for example, it’s used to determine when to hold playtime indoors (wind chill below -30C, since you asked).
  • (7) The prime minister has talked on a number of occasions of the chilling effect the situation in the eurozone is having on our economy and the global economy."
  • (8) If a sparse crowd, shivering in suddenly chill conditions out of step with the warmth Edmonton had enjoyed in previous days, did not exactly help the atmosphere, the action remained intense.
  • (9) "In recent years, though, the increased threat of costly libel actions has begun to have a chilling effect on scientific and academic debate and investigative journalism."
  • (10) Twenty minutes after rewarming at 37 degrees C, chilled cells began to return toward normal resistance to aspiration when only 6% had recovered discoid shape.
  • (11) The main symptoms are intense headache, chills and fever and an irritating non-productive cough.
  • (12) Just after Louise Mensch asked Rupert Murdoch if he'd considered resigning over phone hacking, she received the sort of email that would chill the blood of any wannabe government minister.
  • (13) The vapor was generated by passing air over arsenolite (As2O3, s) at various flow rates and temperatures, passed through a particulate filter and then was collected in a series of chilled Greenburg-Smith impingers.
  • (14) And they kept coming … the hilarious Octodad: Dadliest Catch , the chilling psychological horror game Daylight , which again, uses procedural generation to create new environments (procedural content is another next-gen theme); and Galak-Z from 17bit Studios, described as an AI and physics-driven open-world action game.
  • (15) The first patient had one day of fever and chills after intravenous heroin use.
  • (16) The authors present a case report of a 65-year-old male with a two-day history of a painful irreducible right inguinal mass; he denied abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, fever, or chills.
  • (17) Smith, a climate change sceptic who has also subpoenaed government scientists’ communications, has accused the attorney generals of a political witch-hunt and for causing a “chilling impact on scientific research and development”.
  • (18) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .
  • (19) The concept of wind chill applies only to unprotected objects.
  • (20) Deacetylated gellan gum (Gelrite) was used to produce a bead formulation containing sulphamethizole by a hot extrusion process into chilled ethylacetate.

Docile


Definition:

  • (a.) Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
  • (a.) Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of injected bovine insulin and glucose were assessed using an ethopharmacological methodology applied to social encounters by isolated male Swiss mice with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (2) Sure, she has large fangs tucked into her soft underside, but she’s docile and exotic.
  • (3) offense in subjects paired with docile anosmic opponents.
  • (4) The sufficient force and length of this transfer, associated with its direct course by redirection through the interosseous membrane make it a docile, reliable motor unit as shown by the 16 cases studied.
  • (5) The animal is docile and easy to care for; it has an ideal heart size, a high cardiac output and a long life expectancy.
  • (6) An upper bound is imposed on altruism by the condition that there must remain a net fitness advantage for docile behavior after the cost to the individual of altruism has been deducted.
  • (7) I wasn’t there for riding lessons and the instructions I was given were limited to how to start, aim and stop the docile beast.
  • (8) A docile substrain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) causes a persistent infection in adult C3HeB mice and induces a severe anemia, which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves.
  • (9) Severity and duration of immunosuppressiveness depended upon the LCMV isolate and the mouse strain used: LCMV-WE and LCMV-Docile were most, whereas LCMV-Armstrong was in general least immunosuppressive.
  • (10) You’ve goaded this sleeping giant, the ordinary licence fee payer’s docile spirit animal, into expressing an opinion on something more controversial than Judy Murray’s Viennese Waltz?
  • (11) We have previously shown that major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes regulate susceptibility to lethal disease due to infection with the LCMV-docile isolate derived from the LCMV-UBC strain.
  • (12) The other virus, termed docile, killed few mice after the standard intracerebral inoculation, and could persist in the mice for 6 mo or more.
  • (13) He secured the appointment of a docile prime minister, Abu Mazin, who he hoped was ready to do what Arafat was not - go to war against the Islamic militants without any assurance that in return the Israelis would make any worthwhile concessions in the peace-making.
  • (14) A multiple analysis of variance for repeated measures with the factors SEX, SES, and TIME yielded two interactions for "rebellious-distrustful (FG by sex x health) and "self effacing-masochistic" (HI by time x health) and three main-effects for "agressive-sadistic" (DE by sex), "self-effacing-masochistic" (HI by SES) and "docile-dependent" (IK by time).
  • (15) Because docility-receptivity to social influence-contributes greatly to fitness in the human species, it will be positively selected.
  • (16) How did Britain turn so docile, so passive, so obedient?
  • (17) The promoters have long since cottoned on to the commercial potential of protest music; you’d have to be very determined and energetic to make yourself authentic and visible without them.” The decline of radical politics in the 1990s alongside the rise of New Labour undoubtedly contributed to folk music’s new docility, the genre offering little in the years when the Occupy movement and anti-Iraq war demonstrators have taken to the streets in protest.
  • (18) After 3 wk, a group of the five highest ranking cows from each lot were combined into a new aggressive lot; two groups of subordinate cows formed a docile lot.
  • (19) Resistance to the acute lethal disease caused by the docile strain of lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM) virus varies widely between different mouse strains.
  • (20) "We have had the classic docile, obedient, feminine look and we are all sick to the back teeth of it."

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