What's the difference between colourless and primary?

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.

Primary


Definition:

  • (a.) First in order of time or development or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original.
  • (a.) First in order, as being preparatory to something higher; as, primary assemblies; primary schools.
  • (a.) First in dignity or importance; chief; principal; as, primary planets; a matter of primary importance.
  • (a.) Earliest formed; fundamental.
  • (a.) Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement.
  • (n.) That which stands first in order, rank, or importance; a chief matter.
  • (n.) A primary meeting; a caucus.
  • (n.) One of the large feathers on the distal joint of a bird's wing. See Plumage, and Illust. of Bird.
  • (n.) A primary planet; the brighter component of a double star. See under Planet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
  • (2) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (3) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
  • (4) Two cases with primary Carcinoma in situ (Cis) were treated with the same protocol.
  • (5) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
  • (6) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (7) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
  • (8) In view of reports of the reduction of telomeric repeats in human malignant tumors, we measured the lengths of telomeric repeats in 55 primary neuroblastomas.
  • (9) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
  • (10) For related pairs, both the primes (first pictures) and targets (second pictures) varied in rated "typicality" (Rosch, 1975), being either typical or relatively atypical members of their primary superordinate category.
  • (11) Determination of the primary structure for factor V has provided the basis for examination of structure-function relationships.
  • (12) The 36-year-old teacher at an inner-city London primary school earns £40,000 a year and contributes £216 a month to her pension.
  • (13) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (14) The move would require some secondary legislation; higher fines for employers paying less than the minimum wage would require new primary legislation.
  • (15) Valvular stenoses of the bronchi and especially of the bronchioles in various types of primary pulmonary disease are of considerable importance etiologically.
  • (16) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
  • (17) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (18) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
  • (19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
  • (20) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.