What's the difference between cream and frosting?

Cream


Definition:

  • (n.) The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.
  • (n.) The part of any liquor that rises, and collects on the surface.
  • (n.) A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.
  • (n.) A cosmetic; a creamlike medicinal preparation.
  • (n.) The best or choicest part of a thing; the quintessence; as, the cream of a jest or story; the cream of a collection of books or pictures.
  • (v. t.) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
  • (v. t.) To take off the best or choicest part of.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with, or as with, cream.
  • (v. i.) To form or become covered with cream; to become thick like cream; to assume the appearance of cream; hence, to grow stiff or formal; to mantle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) EMLA cream, usually used for skin surface analgesia, was tested as an adjunct to anesthesia in dermabrasion.
  • (2) Each subject applied a vehicle cream containing 0.075% capsaicin (Axsain, GalenPharma Inc.) to a 4 cm2 area of skin on one volar forearm and vehicle alone to an identical treatment area on the other forearm, according to a double-blind procedure.
  • (3) It may also have an effect on the microviscosity of the cream as the structure of the cream changes.
  • (4) Fragments of lyophilized pigskin were used as 'germ carriers' and after 24 h of treatment the effectiveness of the antimicrobial creams was tested through the evaluation of bacterial recovery both from the surface and from within the 'germ carriers'.
  • (5) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
  • (6) The in vitro drug release method, using a diffusion cell system and a synthetic membrane, can serve as a good quality control test method for topical creams.
  • (7) Best Buy – it says the machine "churns excellent ice cream quickly and without too much noise".
  • (8) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
  • (9) Skin tests to various common antigens, dinitrochlorobenzene, and 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) were performed on patients being treated for cutaneous neoplasms with topical 5-FU cream.
  • (10) The substance benzalconium chloride (BZC) was contained in vaginal sponges (n = 46), pessaries (n = 4) and cream (n = 6) at a dose rate of 1.18%.
  • (11) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
  • (12) Shavit’s new book, My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel , has received plaudits from the cream of the liberal, American, political elite.
  • (13) The blanching activities and hence bioavailabilities of the cream, ointment and fatty ointment preparations of Nerisone and Temetex (diflucortolone valerate 0.1%) were evaluated using an occluded and unoccluded blanching assay.
  • (14) Thirty patients of either sex (23 M, 7 F) ranging in age between 16 and 36 years, affected of acne vulgaris, were given 20% azelaic acid cream over a period of 6 months.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.
  • (16) In addition 6 further subjects were treated with 0.1% hydrocortisone-17-butyrate cream, a preparation considered to have little systemic action.
  • (17) About 1 ml of cream per lesion was applied to the warts for 20 to 105 minutes before the operation.
  • (18) Application of 3% EdU cream was more beneficial, effecting reductions of 29, 44, and 68% in the same measurements.
  • (19) The results showed significant relief of spontaneous pain, significant reduction in tenderness on pressure and in swelling on days 2, 4 and 6 of the trial, and a significant reduction in functional impairment on days 4 and 6, in the patients who had received the 3% benzydamine cream.
  • (20) They are not rebellious reckless youth, but 50,000 of the cleverest and most hardworking adults of their generation; the cream of their school science classes, serious-minded grown-ups in their 20s and 30s.

Frosting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Frost
  • (n.) A composition of sugar and beaten egg, used to cover or ornament cake, pudding, etc.
  • (n.) A lusterless finish of metal or glass; the process of producing such a finish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
  • (3) Barbara Frost, WaterAid’s chief executive, said: “We welcome the agreement, the work of member state negotiators to get here and, most significantly, the overarching commitment to end extreme poverty through sustainable development by 2030.” Dominic Haslam, director of policy at Sightsavers, applauded the goals for including specific targets to improve access to employment, education and transport for people with disabilities.
  • (4) However, earlier work from this laboratory (Frost, Frewin and Gerke, 1977; Frost, Frewin, Gerke and Downey, 1978; Frost, Halloran, Frewin, Gerke and Downey, 1978) on blood vessels in the rat tail has suggested that the drug acts predominantly as an indirect sympathomimetic agent.
  • (5) Peter Jay, who founded TV-am alongside Frost, told BBC News: "On the screen he was a very talented and original performer, but it was his talent off-screen, his quality as a human being, his capacity for friendship and loyalty, that were in my opinion the thing that raised him to quite an exceptional level."
  • (6) It was on the set of The Frost Report that production staff began to refer to Barker and Corbett as "the two Ronnies", while the writing team included Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Graham Chapman, and Eric Idle – every Monty Python member bar Terry Gilliam – as well as Marty Feldman and lead writer Antony Jay, who went on to create Yes, Minister.
  • (7) During a break between Detective Frost and Whitechapel, I decided to have a farewell glass of port in the honesty bar adjacent to the library.
  • (8) Each week, Frost's script, the sketches and topical songs would riff on a single theme - for example class, when John Cleese, Corbett and Barker appeared in one of the most famous sketches in the annals of British comedy.
  • (9) He was best known for Frost on Sunday, a politics and showbusiness chatshow, and took the weekend format to the BBC in 1993 as Breakfast with Frost.
  • (10) A significant potential for the long frosted contact probe may be its use in combining interstitial hyperthermia and interstitial photodynamic therapy.
  • (11) The Frost Programme Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frost's first outing as a more serious interviewer came with The Frost Programme, for which he returned to Associated Rediffusion, the then-ITV franchise for London for whom he had worked as a trainee after leaving Cambridge.
  • (12) Frost, wind, rain and drought can discolour and blemish produce but there is no loss of nutrients.
  • (13) We report a case of frosted branch angiitis in a 16-year-old-girl.
  • (14) It’s going to be quite difficult.” ‘David Frost’s gave guests an easy ride’ In a wide-ranging interview with fellow BBC radio presenter Nicky Campbell, Humphrys also criticised the late Sir David Frost’s interviewing style as “damaging” and giving guests an “easy ride”.
  • (15) These findings show that the outcome of frost-bite can not be accurately predicted from early frost-bite lesions, because thrombosis and medial degeneration are not evident in early lesions.
  • (16) David Frost, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce, said: "His relentless focus on making sure that the banks lend to viable, creditworthy businesses will be a critical part of his new position.
  • (17) From then on, Frost was a regular TV figure on both sides of the Atlantic, with shows including The Frost Report and Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life.
  • (18) Fighter pilots sent to shadow the plane saw its windows frosting over and the pilot slumped over but breathing.
  • (19) In pride of place above the fireplace sits a shot of his sons, alongside one of him interviewing Mandela and a US magazine cover which followed the marathon 1977 confrontation with Richard Nixon that earned him a place in history - and provided the subject matter for an award-winning play that will this year become a film starring Michael Sheen as Frost and Frank Langella as Nixon.
  • (20) The wreckage of the high-performance plane carrying Rochester real estate developer Laurence Glazer and his entrepreneur wife, Jane, both experienced and enthusiastic pilots had not been found early on Saturday, a day after US fighter pilots launched to shadow the unresponsive aircraft observed the pilot slumped over and its windows frosting over.

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