What's the difference between deglutinate and unglue?

Deglutinate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loosen or separate by dissolving the glue which unties; to unglue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most often (45 patients) registered complaints are breathing difficulties because of tracheal compression, in 8 further patients bad deglutination prevailed over dyspnoe, 3 patients with a compression of the jugular veins showed oedematous face, cyanosis and other signs testifying for stasis of the superior vena cava.

Unglue


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To separate, part, or open, as anything fastened with glue.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its principal task is efficacious toilet of the bronchi by fluidifying the secretions, promoting their ungluing from the respiratory tree and facilitating their evacuation by cough or by aspiration with a catheter or bronchoscope.
  • (2) "I guess when I think about it," he says, slowly, "one of the things I like to dramatise, and what is sometimes funny, is someone coming unglued.
  • (3) To much laughter, Vos then entered into a discussion concerning hair extensions and whether they could be glued and unglued into natural hair easily and whether they could be taken out in a day, removed the next and put in again – in which case both Silverleaf and Field could be right.
  • (4) When you’ve got a market where the median value is 65 times earnings and they are trying to prop it up like that something is going to come unglued.” On China’s unexpected devaluation of the yuan, Chovanec said: “It seems like they don’t really quite know what they are doing.
  • (5) Technical difficulties during our early experience with this technique included magnets becoming unglued, loss of capture, and wound complications requiring generator removal.

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