What's the difference between congeal and curdle?

Congeal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change from a fluid to a solid state by cold; to freeze.
  • (v. t.) To affect as if by freezing; to check the flow of, or cause to run cold; to chill.
  • (v. i.) To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; to become solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to be chilled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The same modifications were observed with spray-congealed lipid micropellets.
  • (2) Furthermore, it was observed that, the type and the amount of PEG used would affect greatly the drop point, congealing range and consistency of the prepared bases.
  • (3) The sweeping shape is reminiscent of melted roller coaster ride, or as one Twitter user put it: "It looks like congealed intestines".
  • (4) There are pristine steel and glass cabinets full of neatly arranged pills, and evil-looking black paintings made of thousands of flies congealed in paint.
  • (5) Repetition of the RAC on 100 sera (after complement inactivation at 56 degrees C for 30 min; after permanence at 4 degrees C for 7 days; after congealment at -18 degrees C) has always given the same results obtained on fresh sera.
  • (6) We studied the efficacy of methylprednisolone, which is claimed to cause rapid congealing of membranes, and to protect the cells against the free radicals present in the environment, in preventing the brain edema that occurs in hypoxic ischemic brain injury.
  • (7) The product bed temperature was selected to give the optimum congealing rate, and the latter three variables were varied in a statistically designed experiment.
  • (8) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more Food is not the only sector to suffer.
  • (9) The charm and wonder have congealed over the years, with fans increasingly more interested in character-naming conventions , running gags and the shapes and colours of lightsabers than in the grandness of the mythos.
  • (10) This study aims at determining the amounts of cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids, and nonesterified fatty acids in man's seminal liquid and determining their possible variations linked with the ways of taking and congealing samples.
  • (11) Breakfast in bed, with juice congealing on the sill: pages and pages began to pour out again.
  • (12) After application of a glass bead and mixing, the blood did not congeal even after eight hours.
  • (13) We have recorded greater volumes of fat in the past but we don't believe there's ever been a single congealed lump of lard matching this one", said Simon Evans, a Thames Water spokesman.
  • (14) The drug-containing microparticles were formed after cooling and congealing of the wax phase.
  • (15) Congealed Tipex to odour of gym – Russia cheese fakers fail taste test Read more “He knew about the rules but did not respect them, hoping that customs officers would not check his vehicle.” Last August, Russia banned the import of dairy products, meat and produce from the EU and other western countries to retaliate against sanctions imposed on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.
  • (16) It is in the soil in the form of congealed tar which stunts trees.
  • (17) Stripping humanity from the study of nations and congealing it with jargon that serves western power designs, they mark "failed", "rogue" or "evil" states for "humanitarian intervention".
  • (18) That four-man midfield did Argentina few favours going forward here with Javier Mascherano and Fernando Gago providing little drive or dynamism in those central areas, even as the game congealed in the last hour into a neck-cricking affair of slow-burn, one-way Argentinian pressure.
  • (19) In other words, the poor might eventually end up getting all those nice services that the rich already have, but only with their data – their congealed social life – covering the costs of it.
  • (20) Instead of the intimacies and connections urged by conventional “green” literature, writing like this speaks of a darker ecological impulse, in which salvation and self-knowledge can no longer be found in a mountain peak or stooping falcon, and categories such as the picturesque or even the beautiful congeal into kitsch.

Curdle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To change into curd; to coagulate; as, rennet causes milk to curdle.
  • (v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
  • (v. t.) To change into curd; to cause to coagulate.
  • (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In The Girl, the relationship moves from Pygmalion to Beauty and the Beast, before curdling into something more mutually destructive, if not downright abusive.
  • (2) With both kinds of meals, cortisol evolutions were similar though peak values were higher with the curdled milk.
  • (3) The self-preservation act of leaving is curdled by a sense of desertion for letting the status quo stand.
  • (4) Page four 10 More blood-curdling clauses about the secrecy of the proceedings.
  • (5) The biological value of the soya curdle, obtained by the traditional technology, and of the cedar curdle was much lower than that of the initial products.
  • (6) It was found that significant sanitary failures are present during th whole goat cheese process, although the highest bacteria contamination occurred at the milking, curdling and filling stages.
  • (7) – wiped out Jack Colback with a blood-curdling tackle which ended his one time team-mate’s afternoon and was rather fortunate not to collect a slightly overdue yellow card.
  • (8) Preruminant calves bearing indwelling catheters in the hepatic artery, the portal and the hepatic veins were fed with two kinds of diets, a conventional curdled milk diet and a milk diet which was uncurdled in the abomasum.
  • (9) It has been difficult for Defoe ever since and all the excitement surrounding his signing, which Toronto had trumpeted as “ a bloody big deal ”, has curdled.
  • (10) The FA’s culture had narrowed and curdled through that decade, which ended in 96 people being unlawfully killed at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final which the governing body itself had commissioned at Hillsborough.
  • (11) At the end of Black's three-hour presentation, his opposite number at MI6, Mark Allen , commented drily that it all sounded "rather blood-curdling".
  • (12) Then pour the boiling cream on to the mix, whisking constantly to prevent curdling.
  • (13) In spontaneously curdled cheese coliform bacteria vanish during the third month of storage.
  • (14) Self-evidently, this was not Conservatism as anyone had previously understood it – but up until the poll tax saw boldness curdling into hubris, the party and its wider constituency were in almost full support.
  • (15) But, over a period of months, I was given some blood curdling learned opinions on what might happen to the Guardian – and me personally – if we persisted in our intended course of publishing.
  • (16) But the joke curdles really badly when the film tries to bring gay characters on screen to back it up.
  • (17) George Osborne has, however, given an added twist to the downward spiral, both by taking money out of the economy this year and by his blood-curdling warnings that cuts of at least 25% in Whitehall spending will have to be announced in next month's comprehensive spending review in order to tackle Britain's deficit.
  • (18) In comparison with a conventional curdled milk diet, the intake of uncurdled milk diet did not modify mean portal vein (47 to 49 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) or hepatic arterial (5.6 to 5.7 ml.mn-1.kg live weight-1) blood flows but did influence nycthemeral variations in portal blood flow rates, especially during the second part of the night.
  • (19) Lightly beat together the egg and 5 egg yolks, then add them to the mix, a little at a time, in order to prevent curdling.
  • (20) Some on the left were once drawn to blood-curdling eugenics for breeding away inherited disadvantage.