What's the difference between cold and starve?

Cold


Definition:

  • (n.) Deprived of heat, or having a low temperature; not warm or hot; gelid; frigid.
  • (n.) Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.
  • (n.) Not pungent or acrid.
  • (n.) Wanting in ardor, intensity, warmth, zeal, or passion; spiritless; unconcerned; reserved.
  • (n.) Unwelcome; disagreeable; unsatisfactory.
  • (n.) Wanting in power to excite; dull; uninteresting.
  • (n.) Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) but feebly; having lost its odor; as, a cold scent.
  • (n.) Not sensitive; not acute.
  • (n.) Distant; -- said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed.
  • (n.) Having a bluish effect. Cf. Warm, 8.
  • (n.) The relative absence of heat or warmth.
  • (n.) The sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness.
  • (n.) A morbid state of the animal system produced by exposure to cold or dampness; a catarrh.
  • (v. i.) To become cold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (2) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (4) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (5) These data suggest that submaximal exercise and cold air exposure enhance nonspecific bronchial reactivity in asthmatic but not in normal subjects.
  • (6) The relationship between cold-insoluble complexes, or cryoglobulins, and renal disease was studied in rabbits with acute serum sickness produced with BSA.
  • (7) Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 1983, pp.
  • (8) Changes in pain tolerance after administration of differently labelled placebos were studied by measuring the reaction time after a cold stimulus.
  • (9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (10) Lymphocytes of inbred mice immunized with allogenic tumour cells were labelled in vitro or in vivo by 3H-thymidine, washed out and incubated with target cells in the presence of "cold" thymidine.
  • (11) The binding of 125I-labeled core protein to immobilized fibronectin was inhibited by soluble fibronectin and by soluble cold core protein but not by albumin or gelatin.
  • (12) "The government should be doing all it can to put the UK at the forefront of this energy revolution not blowing hot and cold on the issue.
  • (13) 1, diarrhea lowered the piglet's ability to maintain body temperature during the cold test.
  • (14) 3H-uridine or 3H-uracil with cold uridine and uracil, respectively, in amounts corresponding to therapeutic doses of these two pyrimidines as fluoro compounds, were administered with or without microspheres.
  • (15) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (16) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
  • (17) A comparison is made between these results and those of other authors who observed microtubule disaggregation by cold with the electron microscope.
  • (18) Raised cold agglutinin titres were observed in 16 patients with atypical pneumonia.
  • (19) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (20) Detection limits were then calculated for the different sizes of cold spots.

Starve


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To die; to perish.
  • (v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
  • (v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
  • (v. t.) To destroy with cold.
  • (v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
  • (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
  • (v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
  • (2) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
  • (3) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
  • (4) Serum starved BHK cells had low levels of all four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates.
  • (5) Serum testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), testicular histology and ultrastructure were examined in 91 spontaneously diabetic BB, semi-starved, and control Wistar rats.
  • (6) This occurs with mitochondria obtained from normal, starved and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
  • (7) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
  • (8) The ultrastructure of the water-clear cells of the parathyroid glands in the starved adult and senile animals almost resembled that of the control adult and senile animals.
  • (9) Pimozide administration did not alter the peak TRH-stimulated TSH response in either the normal animals or the starved animals.
  • (10) More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
  • (11) After administration of pivmecillinam (400 mg) with meal, Tasc was significantly delayed beyond the value obtained when the subjects were starved.
  • (12) No apparent difference was detected in the composition and saturation status of pooled starved plaque fluid from CF and CS individuals.
  • (13) When mammalian cells are starved for amino acids, the activity of the A amino acid transport system increases, a phenomenon called adaptive regulation.
  • (14) Exogenous spermidine extensively relaxed RNA synthesis in amino acid-starved cultures of 15 TAU.
  • (15) In other experiments histidine misincorporation for glutamine was measured in glutamine starved cells with normal levels of histidine-specific tRNA and cells overproducing this tRNA.
  • (16) In contrast, the metabolite profile in the soleus was consistent with activation of the glucose-fatty acid cycle in the starved rat during the recovery period after exercise.
  • (17) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
  • (18) When fed ducklings were starved, fatty acid synthase mRNA decayed with a half-life of about 3 h. Therefore, the half-life for fatty acid synthase mRNA appeared to be little affected by feeding or starvation.
  • (19) Administration of dicarboxylic acids to starving rats decreased the concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
  • (20) Infusion of 3-hydroxybutyrate into starved rats caused marked increases in the arteriovenous differences for lactate and both ketone bodies.

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