What's the difference between colorless and colourless?

Colorless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
  • (a.) Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The pI 5.0 component, designated F-5.0, was faint yellow, with a broad absorption in the range of 400-450 nm, while the pI 7.5 component, designated F-7.5, was colorless and did not absorb in that range.
  • (2) L-form colonies appeared colorless, and chemical analysis demonstrated that, if the L-form produces pigment at all, which was not demonstrated, it could not have been more than 3.6% of that produced by the bacterial form.
  • (3) We have purified this colorless compound and identified it as 5,6-dihydroxyindole-2-carboxylic acid.
  • (4) Aldol condensation and dehydration of 2 mol of the saturated aldehydes initially gave the alpha, beta-unsaturated aldehydes, which in turn reacted with TBA to form the colorless adducts, pyranopyrimidine derivatives.
  • (5) Ten days after the insertion, samples of clear and colorless CSF up to 1 ml could be withdrawn.
  • (6) The activities of phosphofructokinase (PFK), fructose diphosphatase (FDP), nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and NAD phosphate (NADP)-linked isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHNAD, IDHNADP), two NAD-linked glutamate dehydrogenases (GDH1, GDH2), and isocitrate lyase were studied during the development of the two phenotypes, ordinary colorless and resistant sporangia (OC and RS plants), of water mold Blastocladiella emersonii in synchronized liquid cultures.
  • (7) AchE synthesized in culture cleaved acetylthiocholine to thiocholine, which stochiometrically reduced the colorless indicator DTNB to a highly colored product.
  • (8) Mutants or colonial variants have been isolated that fail to absorb the dye and produce colorless colonies.
  • (9) The pH optimum for the reaction was between 4 and 7, and the temperature optimum was between 30 and 50 degrees C. The compound was purified by ion-exchange chromatography, isolated as colorless needles, and identified as 6-hydroxypyridoxine from UV, PMR, IR and MS spectral data.
  • (10) Infected cell monolayers stained intensely while uninfected monolayers remained colorless.
  • (11) Colorless and other subtle manifestations of peritoneal disease can be seen more easily by painting the peritoneal surface with bloody peritoneal fluid.
  • (12) The antibiotic, obtained as a colorless amorphous powder having the molecular formula C48H77N7O16, is an antifungal antibiotic active against yeasts and filamentous fungi.
  • (13) It was purified by use of column chromatography on Sepabeads SP206, Amberlite IRC-50, MCI gel CHP-20P and Sephadex G-10 and then isolated as colorless needles.
  • (14) The final product was readily soluble, clear and almost colorless upon reconstitution.
  • (15) The nearly colorless final macrocyclic product was characterized by TLC, IR, NMR, and mass spectrometry.
  • (16) The cone type with the colorless fluorescent oil droplet (FC cone) has an oil droplet size intermediate between those contained in the green single cones and the cone with the clear colorless oil droplet (CC cone); it typically has a short (15 microns long) oblique axon and it forms approximately 13% of the cones in the retina.
  • (17) It was purified by column chromatography and centrifugal partition chromatography (CPC) and then was isolated as a colorless powder.
  • (18) Elasnin is a neutral, colorless, and viscous oil (ND17 = 1.4983, [alpha]18D -0.9 degrees, lambdaEtOHmax 291 nm (epsilon, 7,760) having a molecular formula of C24H40O4 (MW 392) as shown by its elemental analysis and mass spectrum.
  • (19) Lenses exposed to 308-nm ultraviolet (UV) radiation for 10-30 minutes showed significant yellow-brown pigmentation and colorless opacification compared with dark controls.
  • (20) There is a new radiochromic film, a highly uniform, thin (100-microns) detector whose sensitive layer (6 microns thick) changes from colorless to blue by dye polymerization without processing, upon exposure to ionizing radiation.

Colourless


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The red free radical is readily reduced quantitatively by isoniazid to the colourless chloropromazine.
  • (2) The end point of serum titration is the last well containing colourless medium.
  • (3) Based on their spectral transmission, the lenses of 50 teleost species can be classified into three categories: "type 1" colourless lenses with 50% transmission points between 315 and 354 nm, "type 2" lenses which also appear colourless but have 50% cut-off points around 362-405 nm, and "type 3" lenses which are visibly yellow (50% transmission 425-450 nm).
  • (4) Last September, when Barack Obama's approval ratings were in the low to mid-40s and a clear majority of Americans said he did not deserve a second term, veteran pollster Charlie Cook described his ideal Republican opponent as "odourless and colourless".
  • (5) Now, with the gruesome killing of Farooq, a senior if largely colourless figure, the bloodshed appears to have spread from Pakistan to the streets of north London.
  • (6) Eosinophil colonies appear strongly stained in black whereas other types of colonies (neutrophils and macrophages) remain colourless.
  • (7) Unbound bilirubin is oxidized to nearly colourless substances in the presence of H2O2 or ethyl hydroperoxide and horseradish peroxidase.
  • (8) Granular cells (cells crowded with colourless granules staining with paraldehyde fuchsin according to Gomori-Gabe and not containing calcium) are independent cells in the connective tissue of Helix pomatia.
  • (9) Stratum corneum was obtained by tape stripping of volar forearm skin after the skin surface had been painted with colourless nail varnish.
  • (10) Perfluorodecalin is a clear colourless fluid with high specific gravity.
  • (11) Normally the synovial fluid of bovines is a clear, colourless or straw coloured, viscous, non-coagulable liquid with a normal mucin precipitate quality.
  • (12) For Disney animation has a long history of LGBT coding, intended and otherwise, that makes Beauty and the Beast’s more “official” gay gestures look rather colourless.
  • (13) The larger cysts protruded from the liver surfaces and contained a colourless, clear, serous fluid and caused pathological change in 5-60 per cent of the hepatic parenchyma.
  • (14) VX, a clear, colourless liquid with the consistency of engine oil, was developed in the UK in the 1950s during research into pesticides but was found to be too toxic to be used safely.
  • (15) In some organisms, both enzymes are localized in the same region, which finally leads to the formation of hydrasine tetrazolium, a soluble colourless compound, but not of diformazan, an insoluble stained derivative of tetrazolium nitroblue.
  • (16) Natural water suitable for direct bottling must be clear, colourless, and free from objectionable taste and odour.
  • (17) In addition to biochemical changes in response to variations in the ratio of availability of various resources (photons, N, P) there are also structural changes; significant here is the increased occurrence of (often colourless) hairs in haptophytes and (probably) of enhanced rhizoid development in rhizophytes.
  • (18) Puncture produced clear, colourless fluid without signs of inflammatory changes.
  • (19) We are seeing this level of impact to coral reefs around the world from Hawaii to the Florida Keys, from Madagascar to Indonesia.” He said what he saw in other reefs around the world took his breath away: “Not a fish in site, colourless, ghost-like coral, a complete graveyard.” In response, Queensland’s deputy premier, Jackie Trad, invited DiCaprio to come and see the reef for himself.
  • (20) It is one of the most powerful explosives made today and is a favourite among terrorists because its colourless crystals are hard to detect in a sealed container.

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