What's the difference between colour and sapphire?
Colour
Definition:
(n.) See Color.
Example Sentences:
(1) A similar interference colour appeared after incubating sections of rat skin with chymase.
(2) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(3) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(4) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
(5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
(6) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
(7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(8) Bound biocytinyl-E2 is detected after binding of streptavidin-peroxidase and colour production by the enzyme.
(9) Significant biases in the distribution of cases of babesiosis were found with regard to season (P < 0,05), sex (P < 0,001) and coat colour (P < 0.01).
(10) In order to map the mental state in the early puerperium the authors gave to a group of 100 women for five days after delivery Lüscher's colour test.
(11) Trichophytosis (T. equinum) is characterized as typical numerous small and round patches, covered by small, bran-like, asbestos-coloured scales.
(12) Malvidin chloride (MC) a colouring agent from flowers of Malvaviscus conzattii Greenum was studied for male anti-fertility effects in adult langur monkeys (Presbytis entellus entellus Dufresne).
(13) The conclusion is to warn the orthopaedic surgeons to look carefully what model is behind the pretty coloured results.
(14) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(15) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(16) Variation of scrotal colour was not due to changes in melanocyte number or dispersion of melanosomes.
(17) Most striking finding was his difficulty in identifying common objects and colours along with a profound alexia.
(18) In three the diagnosis was only suspected when the colour Doppler study showed dilated intraseptal and epicardial vessels and an abnormal flow signal into the pulmonary artery in diastole; this latter signal localised the exact site of communication, which was not apparent on angiocardiography.
(19) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
(20) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
Sapphire
Definition:
(n.) Native alumina or aluminium sesquioxide, Al2O3; corundum; esp., the blue transparent variety of corundum, highly prized as a gem.
(n.) The color of the gem; bright blue.
(n.) Any humming bird of the genus Hylocharis, native of South America. The throat and breast are usually bright blue.
(a.) Of or resembling sapphire; sapphirine; blue.
Example Sentences:
(1) CW Nd:YAG light transmitted by fiber optic cable and sapphire crystal was applied transsclerally to the ciliary body of pigmented and albino rabbits.
(2) Diana of the sapphire eyes was rated more perfect than Botticelli's Venus and attracted Bryan Guinness, heir to the brewing fortune, as soon as she was out in society.
(3) However, the forward transmission of Nd-YAG energy through the sapphires varied (SMTR, 85%; MTR, 83%; MTRL, 75%; OS, 54%; LT, 69%).
(4) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
(5) A contact artificial sapphire, developed for use with the Nd:YAG laser, allows the performance of open surgery (laser probe) and has endoscopic applications for the treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding (micro laser tip) and tumors (micro laser rod).
(6) A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police had said: "Officers from Sapphire are investigating an allegation of rape which happened on 6 May in the west London area.
(7) Post-mortem aortic specimens of normal wall, lipomatous and calcified plaques were exposed to both continuous wave lasers (argon, neodymium-YAG 1064 nm) coupled to hot-tipped or sapphire tipped fibres and pulsed lasers (Excimer 193 nm, CO2, erbium-YAG).
(8) We report our first 20 cases of peripheral laser angioplasty using an optic fibre with contact sapphire tip.
(9) Contact probes made from synthetic sapphire crystal, designed for general laser surgery, are currently being evaluated for use in laser angioplasty.
(10) Apple has entered into a joint venture in the US with GT Advanced to build plants and furnaces able to produce sapphire in industrial quantities for a “critical component” that it said in trade documents would be shipped abroad for assembly.
(11) However, variation in the thermal and optical properties of sapphires from different sources has been demonstrated.
(12) The old warehouses that edge the small pebble beach and sapphire-blue water are still owned by the same families, but they have now been converted into a rather special hotel.
(13) The authors undertook an investigation to evaluate the efficacy and complications of performing internal sclerostomy with the synthetic sapphire contact neodymium:YAG (Nd:YAG) laser compared with standard external thermal sclerostomy.
(14) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
(15) The sapphire home button of the iPhone 5S resisted all scratches from both sandpapers.
(16) Complicated hemangiomas of the hand or upper extremity have been resected in eight patients with use of the YAG laser with sapphire scalpels.
(17) An Nd-YAG laser and an optical fiber delivery system with a sapphire tip serving as a contact probe were used for PTLA.
(18) In conclusion, our results show that CO2 perfusion facilitates more effective laser ablation of atheromatous plaque than saline perfusion by the sapphire probe with the continuous wave Nd-YAG laser.
(19) Transvitreal pars plana sclerotomy using the contact Nd:YAG laser with a sapphire probe was performed on a group of rabbit eyes and compared with a similar procedure performed with a Ziegler knife.
(20) Results revealed that the adherence to target tissue and tissue damage were more apparent with metal caps than those with sapphire tips.