What's the difference between coatless and costless?
Coatless
Definition:
(a.) Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The biological relevance of coatless Giardia trophozoites is unknown.
(2) A method is described for isolating an enterotoxin from a coatless spore mutant (8-6) of Clostridium perfringens type A.
(3) Intestinal damage to mice caused by an enterotoxin from a coatless spore mutant of Clostridium perfringens type A (8-6) was examined by scanning electron microscopy.
(4) Since remnant spore coat covered such protoplasts of Bacillus subtilis and the germ cell wall of B. cereus spores is not lysozyme digestible, coatless spores of B. megaterium KM were more useful for these studies.
Costless
Definition:
(a.) Costing nothing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Guarantees of this kind have a peculiar feature: the more convincing they are, the less likely they are to be invoked; the reinsurance is likely to turn out to be largely costless.
(2) Nor is it costless, as we are also discovering: it implies squeezed living standards while there is reform and structural adjustment which cannot be avoided.
(3) It is not costless, there will be a small rise in inflation, but we need it.
(4) But by vastly expanding central banks’ balance sheets, QE is hardly costless or risk-free.
(5) On the other side of the argument, the tendency is to blithely assume that such access could be costlessly achieved.
(6) This mutant possesses a costless signal and also conditions on the presence of this signal in each opponent.