What's the difference between decant and recant?

Decant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pour off gently, as liquor, so as not to disturb the sediment; or to pour from one vessel into another; as, to decant wine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A survey instrument was mailed to a stratified random sample of 1000 nurses from the membership list of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses to determine whether there are generally accepted standards for decanting intravenous (IV) solutions before the addition of medication.
  • (2) In cultivation of lymphoid cells of the same animals with a nonspecific antigen (tuberculin) the decanted fluids produced no significant cytotoxic action on mous fibroblasts.
  • (3) Water is decanted by opening a faucet connected to the inferior part of the recipient.
  • (4) At the end of the 30-min preincubation period, a 0.2-ml sample was taken for the determination of renin release, and the remaining medium was decanted.
  • (5) We suggest that swabs should not be dipped repeatedly into the flask of liquid nitrogen but that, instead, a small aliquot of nitrogen should be decanted into a smaller 'clean' vessel and a new cotton swab used for each patient.
  • (6) The company, which now intends to move more upmarket, said the crash from profits a year earlier of £112.1 million was largely caused by the impact of recession, but a particularly poor performance from its 250-strong Ratners chain resulted from “adverse publicity” following Gerald Ratner’s infamous description of a decanter set sold by the group as “total crap”.
  • (7) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
  • (8) After incubation, bound and free thyroxine are separated by aspirating or decanting the disc and buffer from the tube.
  • (9) After extraction, the enzyme is heat inactivated for two minutes at 100 degrees C. At this point, the assay can be stopped for 24-48 hours by storage of extraction samples at 2-3 degrees C. The assay is concluded with assembly of standard curve tubes and by addition of antibody, antigens system to all tubes for the final two hour incubation followed by the Dextran charcoal separation of unbound components and the decanting of bound complexes into scintillation counting vials.
  • (10) Lord Carlile, who sits as a non-aligned peer in the House of Lords, told the Observer that the security implications and costs of “decanting” all MPs, peers and palace staff to other buildings around Whitehall should make the authorities think again about the wisdom of such a move.
  • (11) Minelli offers dry cinnamon-and-nutmeg biscuits and an unusual Chinese tea – white monkey paw – which he has meticulously prepared, sticking a thermometer into the kettle, heating the water to precisely 70C, setting a digital alarm for five minutes to allow the tea to brew before decanting it into a vacuum flask.
  • (12) (2) I-125 monoiodoinsulin was used to prevent artifacts resulting from variability in ligand binding due to excessive iodination, (3) separation of free and bound insulin was accomplished by rapid precipitation of hormone-antibody complex with polyethylene glycol, and (4) decanting the supernatants and counting the pellets in the automatic gamma counter.
  • (13) Miller said the new rules were designed to protect "small-scale bloggers" and to "ensure that the publishers of special interest, hobby and trade titles such as the Angling Times and the wine magazine Decanter are not caught in the regime", but Hello!
  • (14) After 5 min centrifugation at 85 g, using an angle head and decantation into a polystyrol tube, second centrifugation.
  • (15) Nonadherent PBL were then removed, after gentle agitation, by decanting and gently washing the monolayer.
  • (16) The consumption of alcoholic beverages stored in lead crystal decanters is judged to pose a hazard.
  • (17) A 315-day feeding trial (F 3) was carried out with fattening bulls (starting weight: approximately 125 kg per animal) during which 4 groups of 7 bulls each were fed 4 mixtures of pelleted food : (1) concentrates (2) concentrates + 50% straw meal (3) concentrates + 25% straw meal and 25% decanted solids from pig faeces (4) concentrates + 50% decanted solids from pig faeces.
  • (18) After exposures ranging from 0 to 60 min, the medium was decanted and cells were harvested.
  • (19) A spokesperson for Newham council said: “We are pleased that we have been able to reach a peaceful, legally binding agreement which allows us to take back the property by 7 October, particularly given the increasingly aggressive nature of the protest.” In a campaign that some have come to see as embodying the capital’s housing crisis in miniature, the women are calling for the estate to be repopulated with those in housing need, for the “decanting” of existing tenants to stop immediately and for demolition to end.
  • (20) Under a schedule accompanying the crime and courts bill, certain magazines will be exempt and will not have to join the new regulator, including hobby magazines, such as Angling Times and Decanter, and scientific journals and community or student publications.

Recant


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To withdraw or repudiate formally and publicly (opinions formerly expressed); to contradict, as a former declaration; to take back openly; to retract; to recall.
  • (v. i.) To revoke a declaration or proposition; to unsay what has been said; to retract; as, convince me that I am wrong, and I will recant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prime minister made an unscheduled statement on Tuesday morning from behind a lectern outside 10 Downing Street, in which she recanted her repeated promise not to go to the polls before 2020.
  • (2) The hordes poured in to defend her, the story went global and by lunchtime on Friday the leader of the council was having to recant and apologise, live on BBC Radio 4.
  • (3) My article for the Forest Journal, robustly supporting the chancellor’s earlier policy, is already with the printer … Having been persuaded of the correctness of the course that the chancellor is now following, I merely needed an opportunity to recant.” Philip Hammond’s letter Ann-Marie Trevelyan, a backbench MP who had raised concerns about the NICs rise, told the Guardian she welcomed the chancellor’s change of heart: “My leaflets had ‘no tax rises’ on them.
  • (4) One explicitly said he sought no recantation of past remarks nor a change of position on Israel, just reassurance that "you won't put us through another four years of this".
  • (5) The experience with zomepirac (Zomax) and the unexpected incidence of severe anaphylactic reactions is recanted as an unfortunate illustrated example that has served to upgrade the adverse reaction reporting process.
  • (6) Though Berger never specifically recanted, he did later admit that Ways of Seeing was too rushed and crude, and that he had not allowed for the genius factor.
  • (7) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
  • (8) Anders also said that on 2 May Sterling met Stiviano at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills – just before she recorded an interview with ABC's Barbara Walters – and asked her to recant statements about the tape's authenticity and confess to doctoring it.
  • (9) Mal Brough has categorically denied asking Peter Slipper’s former staffer to procure copies of the Speaker’s diary for him, recanting an admission he apparently made during a 60 Minutes interview last year.
  • (10) Instead, Flint professed her loyalty, only to recant 18 hours later, while Hutton insisted his departure was personal and that he wanted Brown to stay in post.
  • (11) As a former prosecutor herself, Gold said it is tough to bring charges when a witness recants, even though it is possible to bring a case to trial when there is no witness prepared to testify.
  • (12) He later recanted the position on reducing Asian immigration.
  • (13) There were no breast-beating recantations but, according to Dawidoff, "he still [had] reservations about how far afield he took country music from the relatively unadorned prewar downhome sound."
  • (14) In an interview on the 7.30 program, the independent senator Andrew Wilkie said Garrett’s recanting of the story “beggars belief”.
  • (15) Instead of defending her position, Penny caved, recanted, and commented mournfully that "having your privilege checked" was painful.
  • (16) • Five doctors were coerced by the Sri Lankan government to recant on casualty figures they gave to journalists in the last months of island's brutal civil war.
  • (17) William Sweeney, the FBI’s assistant director in New York, said on Monday that the FBI had got a report of a domestic incident involving Rahami some time ago, but the allegations had been recanted, and “there’s nothing to indicate that currently he was on our radar”.
  • (18) The change in the tide was obvious when arch-Blairite Peter Mandelson went on television to recant.
  • (19) It would recant the illiberal legacy of Labour home secretaries, of Charles Clarke , Jack Straw and Jacqui Smith , and reassert individual rights against the surveillance state.
  • (20) Nick Herbert, the Tory MP who chaired his party’s remain campaign, wrote in the Guardian that anyone warning against hard Brexit was branded as “heretics who must recant and swear adherence to the new faith”.