What's the difference between comestible and drinkable?

Comestible


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
  • (n.) Something suitable to be eaten; -- commonly in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cross the road and pick up some jam and biscuits in Le Comestible grocery and then waddle up to Kuzina fish restaurant for some oysters before settling down for a nightcap in Bar-Cave de la Monnaie on the next corner.
  • (2) Significant inhibition of both ComEst and MonEst was exerted by 1% sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and 1.0 mM diethyl pyrocarbonate (DEPC), but the patterns of inhibition for the two esterase species with the remaining compounds studied differed considerably; for example, 0.2 mM phenylmethylsulphonyl fluoride (PMSF), 5.0 x 10(-3) M dichloroisocoumarin (DCIC) and 0.1 mM N-tosyl-L-phenylalanine chloromethyl ketone (TPCK) all inhibited MonEst but not ComEst.
  • (3) Analysis of inhibition kinetics further showed that (a) the reversible inhibition of both ComEst and MonEst by sodium fluoride (NaF) was noncompetitive (with Ki values of 1.28 and 0.01 mM, respectively, indicating a marked difference in sensitivity); (b) the inhibition of MonEst by PMSF was of 'mixed' noncompetitive-competitive type; and (c) that DEPC exerted noncompetitive inhibition with similar Ki values (0.05 mM) for both esterase species.
  • (4) These observations unequivocably demonstrate that ComEst and MonEst are unrelated enzyme species, with a common ability to hydrolyse alpha NA, and that these esterase show marked differences with respect to their active sites as adjudged by inhibitor sensitivities.
  • (5) Capillary gas chromatography-thermal energy analysis was used for the study of volatile N-nitrosamines in comestibles.
  • (6) Mechanisms of inhibition were also examined and these studies established that SDS, PMSF, DCIC and TPCK irreversibly inactivated MonEst whilst the inhibition of ComEst by SDS was reversible.
  • (7) Comestibles with low mineral and phytate contents reduced lead uptake by intermediate amounts, possibly by stimulation of digestive secretions.
  • (8) The first of these (MonEst) is specifically associated with haemopoietic cells of monocytic lineage, whereas the other species (ComEst) is common to all myeloid cells (granulocytes and monocytes) irrespective of lineage affiliation.

Drinkable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But the cocktails take centre stage and are like drinkable pieces of art – try the margarita or the pisco sour.
  • (2) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
  • (3) The recent Spanish legislation on drinkable waters for public use includes a paragraph establishing the requirements to be fulfilled by waters in relation with their radioactivity and the methods to be used to measure it.
  • (4) Practical tables with the amount of fluoride in Spanish drinkable water, in commonly available infant formulas and mineral bottled waters, are shown.
  • (5) There are excellent showers, drinkable tap water and road access, but bring a campstove – open fires are banned.
  • (6) I was heading to Lake Skadar, which straddles Montenegro's border with Albania, and whose water is so clean it's almost drinkable.
  • (7) The changes in liver metabolism during ethanol oxidation have been well confirmed in many experiments, they nevertheless do not seem to lead to hyperlipoproteinemia in many experimental designs in animals and after drinkable amounts of ethanol in healthy man when lipolysis of adipose tissue is blocked and no food is ingested.
  • (8) In this suburb there's not garbage dump, drainage and the drinkable water is very contaminated; the deficient hygiene worsen the soul contamination.
  • (9) It’s a working coffee finca, has Wi-Fi, a swimming pool and drinkable tap water.
  • (10) The city does not pipe in enough drinkable water, so Jakartans rely largely on wells which extract water from shallow aquifers.
  • (11) b. consider drinkable water supplies, wastewater disposal and hygienic conditions in houses.
  • (12) 2002 was an exceptional vintage, and although the champagne is drinkable young, it will be excellent if cellared and then drunk in 20 or even 30 years' time."
  • (13) The results demonstrated a substantial good hygienic situation of the farms but a bad state of drinkable and irrigation waters.
  • (14) We spend a little more now, to recoup in the next few decades in the form of breathable air, drinkable water and an atmosphere that doesn't cook us.
  • (15) A correct balance in the sensory, physical, chemical and bacteriological qualities of water make it drinkable.
  • (16) All of the union’s assets belong to the union and that includes buildings, other assets tangible and intangible, financial, drinkable and non-drinkable.” The official also suggested there may be a debate over whether the UK can immediately take out its shareholding in the European Investment Bank, given the country’s contractual obligation to keep the institution a going concern.
  • (17) For this reason, we have organized two measurement campaigns with the objective of characterizing the drinkable waters in an Spanish area, where the radioactive elements concentration in the ground is high.
  • (18) The chemical composition of 29 of the bottled mineral waters available in the Spanish market are analyzed, including composition of the tap water supplied by Canal de Isabel II, which provides drinkable water to Madrid with a population close to 5 million inhabitants.
  • (19) Since the tablets were bioequivalent to the drinkable solution, incomplete absorption seems not be a result of the dissolution characteristics of the commercial formulation but rather of a first-pass effect.
  • (20) In the coastal areas there are shallow wells, groundwater wells, and we should treat the water in those wells to make it drinkable and safe.