What's the difference between debris and moraine?

Debris


Definition:

  • (n.) Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
  • (n.) Rubbish, especially such as results from the destruction of anything; remains; ruins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The hypothesis was tested that plaque, as a complex soil comprising microorganisms, cell debris, salivary deposits and other ill-defined organic and inorganic components, would be susceptible to removal by a rinse with high detersive action.
  • (2) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (3) At 30 days after injection both stains revealed cellular debris and glial reactions characteristic of cellular dissolution.
  • (4) The intracellular localization of tachyzoites facilitated diagnosis by obviating potential confusion of extracellular tachyzoites with cellular debris or platelets.
  • (5) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
  • (6) The "sump syndrome" is an unusual complication of side-to-side choledochoduodenostomy in which the portion of the common bile duct distal to the anastamosis acts as a sump and may collect bile, stones, food, and other debris.
  • (7) Assessment of the technique included radiographic and microscopic analysis of remaining debris.
  • (8) Much of the particulate material resembled cell debris.
  • (9) Hypertrophic fibrous astrocytes were common in chronic active lesions, were capable of myelin degradation and on occasion, contained myelin debris attached to clathrin-coated pits.
  • (10) The remaining fragments and debris were later phagocytized by surrounding ependymoglial processes.
  • (11) The debris-laden macrophages appear to migrate from the tail to the body.
  • (12) The Malaysian prime minister later says the debris is very likely wreckage from a Boeing 777 , and that it is being sent to France to establish whether it is from flight MH370.
  • (13) The amounts of polyethylene and methylmethacrylate debris and the histological reactions in the tissues corresponded closely with those reported in earlier studies of total hip prostheses made of stainless steel or cobalt-chromium alloy.
  • (14) We concluded that the acetabular component of the Wagner prosthesis is prone to early loosening and that the early loosening is potentiated by a foreign-body response to debris resulting from arthroplastic wear.
  • (15) The combined action of IFN-gamma and TNF-alpha caused a dose-related cellular exfoliation, leading to the formation of a mucoid cap made of mucus and cellular debris.
  • (16) But there’s also a chance some elements will survive down to surface,” said Hugh Lewis, a space debris expert at University of Southampton.
  • (17) Although missiles belonging to Hamas and other armed Palestinian groups in Gaza do sometimes fall short, there was no visible evidence of debris from broken Palestinian rockets in the school.
  • (18) It occurred when granular pneumocytes re-epithelialized along the luminal surface of intra-alveolar debris overlying denuded alveolar epithelial basal laminae.
  • (19) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
  • (20) They were distinct from astrocytes, which were identified with an antibody to glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and which did not contain oil red O myelin debris.

Moraine


Definition:

  • (n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
  • (2) Mr Hintze wrote on the website: "My support for the Conservative party is something I am immensely proud of and I am pleased to be able to help, both with the declared donations I have made and through the loan from the UK-based trading company, Morain UK, of which I am an ultimate beneficiary and which responded to the party's need for support by agreeing to a secured loan on commercial terms last year."
  • (3) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
  • (4) Mr Hintze, who is a generous donor to the arts, notably the Victoria and Albert museum, used his offshore Channel Islands company Morain Investments to provide the loan.
  • (5) • £710pp in traditional Chalet La Moraine (sleeps 12) on 18 December (or £950pp starting 26 December), travel extra.
  • (6) One of the best places to stay is Moraine Park Campground, 2½ miles south of the Beaver Meadows entrance.
  • (7) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
  • (8) • Cabins from $142 a night, bunks from $49, grandcanyonlodges.com , book well in advance Rocky Mountain , Colorado Facebook Twitter Pinterest Moraine Park Campground.
  • (9) Everest base camp is particularly vulnerable because it is on a shoulder of rocky glacial moraine below the Khumbu Icefall – a maze of crevasses and tottering glacial ice cliffs – through which climbers must navigate an often dangerous path.
  • (10) "There were lots of Sherpas standing on the moraine watching us, but we knew they wouldn't follow.
  • (11) It sits on the remains of a glacial moraine: a pile of rocks and debris left behind by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age.
  • (12) If the moraines which dam the lake are breached, thousands of lives in the most densely populated Sherpa valley in Nepal are at risk from flooding and landslides.
  • (13) In the second part of the work, results are furnished on the BaP content in the ice of modern glaciers and their moraines, located in Kamchatka.
  • (14) At the Moraine Park Campground (+1 518-885-3639, reservations recommended, pitches from $14 a night) you can overnight within sight of the herds.
  • (15) Park entrance from $10 a vehicle (valid for seven days) Estes Park: Wildlife watching Photograph: Alamy No need to bring binoculars to Moraine Park, a high-alpine valley where elk let hikers approach within 100ft.
  • (16) People in tents were wrapped up in them, lifted by the force of the blast and then slammed down onto rocks, glacial moraine and ice on the glacier.” Kedrowski estimated that 40-50% of base camp, which is at 5,545m, had been destroyed.

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