What's the difference between climate and clime?

Climate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day.
  • (v. i.) The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
  • (v. i.) To dwell.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (2) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (3) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (4) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (5) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (6) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (7) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (8) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
  • (9) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (10) Nick Robins, head of the Climate Change Centre at HSBC, said: "If you think about low-carbon energy only in terms of carbon, then things look tough [in terms of not using coal].
  • (11) It is anomalous that the world is equipped with global funds to finance action on infectious diseases and climate change, but not humanitarian crises.
  • (12) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
  • (13) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (14) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
  • (15) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
  • (16) Several studies have found that pollution and climate change disproportionately affect the poor , which means boosting clean energy generation and cutting pollution could also simultaneously reduce global inequality .
  • (17) Even so, the controversy over the last assessment, and the political polarisation in America and other countries around climate science and the need for climate action, have created an additional layer of scrutiny around next week's report.
  • (18) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
  • (19) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
  • (20) Guy Jobbins, a Cairo-based British water scientist who heads Canada's International Development Research Centre climate change adaptation programme for Africa, says understanding of the issue has rocketed in the past few years.

Clime


Definition:

  • (n.) A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a short prologue, where it's established that a tall man and a young boy survive whatever it is we're about to read (and end up in the far sunnier climes of Mexico), we meet the town itself.
  • (2) However, filariasis cannot be eliminated from the differential diagnosis of testicular, epididymal, or spermatic cord masses in nontropical climes.
  • (3) That base covered, or at least shaded, Paul's other positions (pro-life, pro-gun, against NSA surveillance, Obamacare, regulation in general) need little protective coloring in the deep red climes of Tea Party nation.
  • (4) A similar sheath of fibroblasts to that surrounding the crypts of Lieberkühn in the colon, which it is climed undergoes constant renewal and migration, has now been identified in the rectum and thereby it may become possible to follow the cellular response to irradiation of a mesenchymal tissue.
  • (5) Down in the warmer climes of Florida, there was another candidate who, despite being the youngest in the race, cast himself this week as a viable alternative: Marco Rubio , Bush’s friend and longtime ally.
  • (6) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
  • (7) Culex quinquefasciatus also exists in more temperate climes, such as the southern United States, where it is known to carry the West Nile virus, and can survive winters.
  • (8) This phenomenon may be the common denominator of the survival advantage which has allowed both the successful evolution of species inhabiting warm, arid climes, and the persistence of the diabetic genotype in animal and human populations.
  • (9) Later this year north Kent's creaking line connects with High Speed 1, and whole swaths of hitherto distant climes become far more accessible.
  • (10) In his 1983 book More Cunning than Man, writer Robert Hendrickson lists “the obvious ways in which rats so well resemble humans: ferocity, omnivorousness, adaptability to all climes, migration from east to west in the life journey of their species, irresponsible fecundity in all seasons, with a seeming need to make genocidal war on their own kind.” He describes rats and men alike as “utterly destructive, both taking all other living things for their purposes.” Humanity’s long struggle with rats mostly signals the worst traits we share with them: our inability to live responsibly within our environment; our tendencies toward hedonism and greed; and our failures to look after the weakest among us.
  • (11) Despite the recession, the number of people searching for sunnier climes has increased significantly, while some tourism businesses in the UK are reporting that they are only half as busy as they would be in an average year.
  • (12) As he prepared to escape the heat of Washington last Friday, Barack Obama would have been forgiven for looking forward to the cooler climes of Camp David, his weekend retreat some 60 miles from the White House, tucked away in Maryland's Catoctin Mountain Park.
  • (13) While the crime plots may not necessarily be distinct from those faced by fictional British detectives, the sense of unfamiliarity offered up by tales from continental climes adds a sense of freshness.
  • (14) Close your eyes, enjoy the exotic flavours and be whisked away to warmer climes.
  • (15) 26 min: Reid swings a long ball from the right into the area, Bertos climing all over the back of Skrtel and conceding the free kick.
  • (16) Or, indeed, an international school recruiter offering a five-figure relocation package to exotic climes.
  • (17) It was on one of these writing breaks, in the slightly cooler climes of Blackpool, that he co-created Life on Mars with Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah.
  • (18) The new job forced Murrells and his family to move "north" to Prestbury, Cheshire, from the sunnier climes of Stratford-upon-Avon.
  • (19) From the sweltering heat of the Amazon rainforest to the chillier climes of Porto Alegre, fans and players have traversed huge distances and been welcomed with open arms.
  • (20) Thus, vitamin D deficiency may develop in confined, nonvitamin D fortified patients in Florida just as in more northern climes.

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