What's the difference between congeal and freeze?

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.

Freeze


Definition:

  • (n.) A frieze.
  • (v. i.) To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.
  • (v. i.) To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.
  • (v. t.) To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.
  • (v. t.) To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
  • (n.) The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
  • (3) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
  • (4) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
  • (5) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (6) The freeze-etch technique was used to study the morphology of Treponema refringens (Nichols).
  • (7) Reconstituted freeze dried allogeneic skin grafts contained virtually no blood, a phenomenon possibly analogous to the 'no reflow' phenomenon of microsurgery.
  • (8) The freezing procedure increased sperm motility in approximately 30% of samples from both animals.
  • (9) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
  • (10) Healthbars such as Nakd fit this category and promise to deliver one of your five a day, based on the quantity of freeze-dried date paste used.
  • (11) Freeze-dried mannitol preparations were shown to be of a crystalline nature.
  • (12) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (13) The sea ice usually then begins to freeze again over the winter.
  • (14) We conclude that differences in incorporation between syngeneic and allogeneic bone grafts are reduced by pretreatment with deep-freezing or demineralisation.
  • (15) Previous studies are reviewed in the light of new information on retrograde axonal transport, circumventricular organs, the proper use of horseradish peroxidase, freeze-fracturing, immunocytochemistry and plasma protein gene expression in the developing human brain.
  • (16) Freezing enrichment cultures prior to testing for toxicity eliminated many nonbotulinal toxic substances that killed mice.
  • (17) The process of interaction between macrophages and promastigote and amastigote forms of Leishmania mexicana amazonensis was analyzed using freeze fracture and cytochemistry.
  • (18) The results of the rapid-freeze and deep-etch procedure showed that the ridges observed by the surface replica method consisted of linear arrangements of elliptical particles on the ES face of the plasma membrane.
  • (19) Cryotherapy with high-flow nitrous oxide was applied to the lid margin for 45 seconds in a freeze-thaw-freeze cycle.
  • (20) Three freeze-thaw cycles released a large proportion (50% to 60%) of the TCA-precipitable radioactivity from the worms.