What's the difference between culm and cult?

Culm


Definition:

  • (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.
  • (n.) Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.
  • (n.) The waste of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiments for uptaking and distribution of the culm stabiliser "camposan" with the agens ethephon are very important to tell something about the dwarf behaviour of the treated plants of rye.
  • (2) The supplementary diet which consisted largely of a distillery by-product, malt culms, was submitted for mycological examination and fed to two housed lambs.
  • (3) Aspergillus clavatus was cultured from the culms, and both the affected sheep and the housed lambs showed cerebrospinal degenerative changes.
  • (4) semitectum were isolated from blighted culms of grain sorghum.
  • (5) (90%), Rhizopus stolonifer (48%) and yeasts (53%) were the dominant fungi in 699 sputum cultures, and showed a similar proportional distribution in 327 samples of grain, malt, culms and dusts from fifty-six maltings.
  • (6) The 16th-century chapel of Columbjohn sits beside the river Culm and there are good paddling spots nearby.
  • (7) The radioactive labelled ethephon is infiltrated through the roots, leaves and cuttings of culms.

Cult


Definition:

  • (n .) Attentive care; homage; worship.
  • (n .) A system of religious belief and worship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (2) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
  • (3) The multi-agency review of the circumstances leading up to the killing of the 16-year-old, who was fatally stabbed at Cults Academy, one of Scotland’s highest performing state schools, on 28 October 2015, also concluded that his death could have been avoided had those who knew that his killer carried weapons in school reported this to staff.
  • (4) But its films, carefully tied to the personal cult of Hayao Miyazaki , are so distinctive, so Ghibli, that they don't seem to belong with traditional anime.
  • (5) Please, forgive me,” Choi Soon-sil, a cult leader’s daughter with a decades-long connection to Park, said through tears inside the Seoul prosecutor’s building, according to Yonhap news agency.
  • (6) He promised targeted powers to enable the UK to deal with the facilitators and cult leaders to stop them “peddling their hatred”.
  • (7) Cult superhero Meanwhile, Channel 4 has the E4 games portal, and its cross-platform team commissions simple web-based games to accompany shows, like the cult superhero comedy, Misfits.
  • (8) Gnod sound as much like Steppenwolf as they do the Stooges, as much like a cult as they do a biker gang, and there is, we've decided, a deliberate use of repetition to denote the Sisyphean nature of existence.
  • (9) There are two tantalising psychological issues surrounding the predictions made by doomsday cults.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A group of children embrace in front of floral tributes left outside Cults academy in Aberdeen.
  • (11) Do they attack him – as the retiring veteran Queensland National party senator Ron Boswell urges – call him out as a cult of personality fuelled by gimmicks to try to stop him extending his influence.
  • (12) Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space.
  • (13) BBQ Champ, which will be hosted by Adam Richman, the American presenter of cult TV hit Man V Food, will feature Bake Off-style challenges but swaps pastries and cupcakes for burgers and kebabs.
  • (14) His war plan suggests possible outcomes such as "Saudi Arabia threatened with starvation ... Islam reduced to cult status".
  • (15) I have a clear view that if this is a part of international action against [Isis], that appalling terrorist death cult outfit, then that is all to the good,” said the British prime minister.
  • (16) Others are alarmed at the almost cult-like reverence that has built up around Buhari.
  • (17) I suspect he's happy to be cult, but would hate to be seen as cool.
  • (18) Yet chiropractic remains, in the opinion of medical commentators, an unscientific healing cult.
  • (19) This is a place where you could find animal sacrifices by the Santeria religious cult at an Audubon Society nature preserve.
  • (20) Skin tests on patients suffering from pollinosis suggest frequently an antigenic relationship between various grass and cult.