What's the difference between decanter and tantalus?
Decanter
Definition:
(n.) A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.
(n.) One who decants liquors.
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”.
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(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.
Tantalus
Definition:
(n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.
(n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have denoted this gap the Tantalus Ratio which is the relationship between the longed for participatory goal and the distance from it as perceived by ego.
(2) The karyotypes of four species of Cercopithecidae: Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus, C. sabaeus, Erythrocebus patas, and Miopithecus talapoin are analysed with nearly all the banding techniques.
(3) The Tantalus Ratio is dependent on, interalia, the strength of the participatory vectors, as determined by the age distances from the developmental stages of birth, ego boundary, and ego identity.
(4) The tantalus monkeys were similar to other races of C.aethiops that have been studied in that they were omnivorous and lacked any narrow specialisations of either diet or feeding techniques.
(5) The feeding behaviour of representative groups of tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus aethiops tantalus) was observed during 1974-1975 in three habitats in Cameroon.