What's the difference between complexion and race?

Complexion


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being complex; complexity.
  • (n.) A combination; a complex.
  • (n.) The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature.
  • (n.) The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face.
  • (n.) The general appearance or aspect; as, the complexion of the sky; the complexion of the news.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What always struck me even then as slightly odd was that, regardless of the political complexion of a sect, the behavioural patterns of its leaders were not so different.
  • (2) The red card, though, changed the game’s complexion.
  • (3) In a letter to the Glasgow Herald , Kearney said: "In much the same way as America's black citizens in an earlier era were urged to straighten their hair and whiten their complexions to minimise differences with the white majority, many will surely urge Scottish Catholics to stop sending their children to Catholic schools or making public or overt declarations of faith."
  • (4) Women seemed to be heavily outnumbered by men in terrible suits, with thick-rimmed glasses and pale grey complexions unkissed by Tuscan sun.
  • (5) Individuals with the deletion frequently had lighter hair color, more sun sensitivity, and fairer complexion than did either other family members or nondeletion PLWS patients.
  • (6) On this occasion they emphasize the contribution of echocardiography to the diagnosis of cardiac rupture and the exceptional complexion of this case, which, to their best knowledge, is the third to have survived left ventricular rupture associated with ischemic heart disease, more than two months.
  • (7) Over a five-year period, the total complexion of the hospital changed to its present state, an open-staffed, open door, comprehensive, community mental health center financed on a private basis.
  • (8) This is the space, the judges have been arguing, that should be used to give human rights law a British complexion.
  • (9) There was an inverse gradient of mole counts in young adults from subjects of white complexion through those of mixed ancestry, Oriental ancestry, to those of Negroid descent.
  • (10) Subjects with brown eyes were protected as compared with those with blue eyes (relative risk, 0.6; 95 per cent confidence interval, 0.4 to 0.8), but complexion and hair color were not important risk factors.
  • (11) Arsenal v Bayern Munich: Champions League – in pictures Read more Arsenal’s extraordinary sequence of having reaching the knockout stages in each of the last 15 seasons was straying dangerously close to being discontinued until Olivier Giroud, three minutes off the substitutes’ bench, made the most of Neuer’s misjudgment to change the complexion of this match and, in turn, Group F. Neuer had produced one save earlier in the match that will linger in the memory because of its almost implausible quality but a goalkeeper of his distinction will be aghast to have misread the trajectory of Santi Cazorla’s 77th-minute free-kick.
  • (12) This only gives his capillaries even more of a boiled-vinegar complexion.
  • (13) The genesis of the tumor is uncertain, however the cutaneous fair complexion, the number and type of pigmented nevei and acute intermittent sun exposure with sunburn may play a significant role in its development.
  • (14) To study the presence of dermatophytes in healthy persons, 1060 skin samples from the scalp, complexion, inguinal region and sole were taken from 265 healthy individuals who live in Valdivia, Chile.
  • (15) What chance does a skinny guy with a dark complexion and a funny name have to get elected president of the United States?
  • (16) Observed molecular weights were all ca 70 Da higher than that calculated from sequence information, consistent with the complexion of a partially hydrated iron atom to the enzyme during analysis.
  • (17) And here was me thinking it merely took years off your complexion.
  • (18) A followup questionnaire was sent to 127 respondents (18.6%) who reported worsening of their complexions; 70% of the questionnaires were returned.
  • (19) We conclude that dyschromia in confetti should be regarded as a possible, but probably rare, side effect of topical immunotherapy with diphenylcyclopropenone, especially in individuals with a rather dark complexion.
  • (20) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.

Race


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To raze.
  • (n.) A root.
  • (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed.
  • (n.) Company; herd; breed.
  • (n.) A variety of such fixed character that it may be propagated by seed.
  • (n.) Peculiar flavor, taste, or strength, as of wine; that quality, or assemblage of qualities, which indicates origin or kind, as in wine; hence, characteristic flavor; smack.
  • (n.) Hence, characteristic quality or disposition.
  • (n.) A progress; a course; a movement or progression.
  • (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running.
  • (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races.
  • (n.) Competitive action of any kind, especially when prolonged; hence, career; course of life.
  • (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
  • (n.) The current of water that turns a water wheel, or the channel in which it flows; a mill race.
  • (n.) A channel or guide along which a shuttle is driven back and forth, as in a loom, sewing machine, etc.
  • (v. i.) To run swiftly; to contend in a race; as, the animals raced over the ground; the ships raced from port to port.
  • (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contend in a race; to drive at high speed; as, to race horses.
  • (v. t.) To run a race with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (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) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
  • (4) In common with other studies, we found that the injury occurred in competitive runners, especially females, and was likely to develop during competitive races or intensive training sessions.
  • (5) US presidential election 2016: the state of the Republican race as the year begins Read more So far, the former secretary of state seems to be recovering well from self-inflicted wounds that dogged the start of her second, and most concerted, attempt for the White House.
  • (6) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (7) O'Connell first spotted 14-year-old David Rudisha in 2004, running the 200m sprint at a provincial schools race.
  • (8) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (9) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
  • (10) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (11) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (12) As Russian companies Polymetal, Polyus Gold and Evraz race to join Eurasian Natural Resources as FTSE100 companies, despite their murky practices, because of London's incredibly lax listing requirements, one future scenario is becoming clearer.
  • (13) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
  • (14) These changes were completely reversible within 18 hr after the race.
  • (15) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (16) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (17) "I felt so relaxed today, I wasn't bouncing off the walls ready to race.
  • (18) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (19) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
  • (20) I felt like he was a little bit inexperienced and the race got away from him a little bit at the third-last.