What's the difference between deliquium and eclipse?
Deliquium
Definition:
(n.) A melting or dissolution in the air, or in a moist place; a liquid condition; as, a salt falls into a deliquium.
(n.) A sinking away; a swooning.
(n.) A melting or maudlin mood.
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Eclipse
Definition:
(n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.
(n.) The loss, usually temporary or partial, of light, brilliancy, luster, honor, consciousness, etc.; obscuration; gloom; darkness.
(v. t.) To cause the obscuration of; to darken or hide; -- said of a heavenly body; as, the moon eclipses the sun.
(v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing.
(v. i.) To suffer an eclipse.
Example Sentences:
(1) But this achievement was eclipsed by a surge in Labour support.
(2) The data are interpreted, on the basis of available crystallographic structures of chicken mitochondrial aspartate aminotransferase, to indicate that in each case the alteration in 31P chemical shift results from a conformational change in the coenzyme 5' side chain, in which one of the structures involves a near-eclipsed pair of bonds.
(3) The inactivity of these drugs is rationalized in terms of eclipsed pharmacophore configurations and the increased population of unfavorable rotational conformations made possible by the exocyclic position of both pharmacophores.
(4) Greatest efficacy was seen when therapy began early in the infection, presumably while the virus was in its eclipse phase.
(5) I don't mean in the sense that the taxpayer would have to pick up the pieces if it went under, but in the sense that the social networking service has achieved a position of such dominance in the online ecosystem that its eclipse is unthinkable.
(6) The observation in the presence of 2-mercaptoethanol of electrophoretic bands corresponding to trimeric and higher cross-linked polypeptide chain species rules out the alternating ring and confirms the two-layered eclipsed model.
(7) Rescue kinetics of MSV, observed after murine leukemia virus (MuLV) superinfection of these "sarcoma-positive leukemia-negative (S + L -)" mouse 3T3 cells, consisted of a 9- to 12-hr eclipse period followed by simultaneous release of both MSV and MuLV with no evidence for release of infectious MSV prior to the production of progeny MuLV.
(8) It's debatable whether the success of the films has eclipsed the original diaries.
(9) The eclipse period for the A25 phage-host system was found to extend for 34 min, while the C1 phage were found as early as 10 min after infection.
(10) The Prestonpans factory was eclipsed by an even greater one – for a time it boasted the world’s highest chimney – that made bleach and sulphuric acid on the outskirts of Glasgow; and it was in Glasgow that some of the earliest cases of acid violence were recorded.
(11) Osborne had already been eclipsed by Brexiteer Boris Johnson in the hearts of many individual members, who tend to be more Eurosceptic than the Tory party in parliament.
(12) There was such power and experience in Chelsea's ranks that it always felt as if Arsenal's youth and invention might be eclipsed.
(13) It now finds itself within touching distance of becoming the biggest parliamentary force, eclipsing its more moderate rivals in the Labour party and on course to gain at least 30 parliamentary seats.
(14) The Howard-Dolman (H-D) is a version of Howard's stereoacuity test (H) which has almost completely eclipsed the original.
(15) The parainfluenza antigen became detectable by immunofluorescence in the infected cell perinuclear region after a relatively long eclipse period (18 h) and synthetized virus has few RNA and induced no inclusion information in the cytoplasm or the nucleus.
(16) It just eclipsed the end of BBC1's Casualty, which attracted 4.2 million viewers (17.5%) and John Bishop's Britain, which drew 3.4 million viewers (15.2%) across its entire run between 9.15pm and 10.15pm.
(17) "The speed with which the Labour party eclipsed the Liberal party in the early part of the last century was, in large part, because Labour better understood the need for such collectivist responses, especially at a time of war, and an internally divided Liberal party did not."
(18) Although historically the Marxist paradigm went into eclipse during the early twentieth century, the field has developed rapidly during recent years.
(19) She will also go head to head with another ITV export, James Goldston, who has been credited with rejuvenating ABC's Good Morning America, which has eclipsed NBC's Today from its longstanding position at number one in the breakfast ratings war.
(20) An estimated £810m was spent online by British shoppers on Friday, according to internet retail experts IMRG, a figure that eclipsed the £650m splurge predicted for Cyber Monday, and potentially means Boxing Day has been usurped as the biggest shopping day of the year once store sales are taken into account.