What's the difference between devil and lucifer?

Devil


Definition:

  • (n.) The Evil One; Satan, represented as the tempter and spiritual of mankind.
  • (n.) An evil spirit; a demon.
  • (n.) A very wicked person; hence, any great evil.
  • (n.) An expletive of surprise, vexation, or emphasis, or, ironically, of negation.
  • (n.) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
  • (n.) A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc.
  • (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
  • (v. t.) To grill with Cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
  • (2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (3) So, in The Devil Wears Prada , the ferocious magazine chief played by Meryl Streep is beset by secret misery: unfaithful husband, tricky kids, wig issues.
  • (4) The experience of having had intercourse with the devil has in the past been regarded as evidence that the individual is a witch.
  • (5) Photograph: Alamy The Devils Postpile, near Mammoth Lakes on the east side of Yosemite, looks as if it might have been created by some satanic sculptor, but really it's just one of the world's best examples of columnar basalt, a similar geological feature to the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland.
  • (6) "The devil is in the detail and if the conditions are too much it could be very challenging to run it as a commercial operation," said one source.
  • (7) I do want to rule the world.” Bowie was also getting unhealthily interested in the occult; in her memoir, his then wife Angie Bowie describes how he was convinced that the indoor pool in their house in Doheny Drive was possessed by the devil , which led to the pair of them attempting an exorcism.
  • (8) Camille O'Sullivan In 2007, the sinister, humorous gem Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea spread like wildfire just after its opening, and you had to kill to get a ticket.
  • (9) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
  • (10) Mitt Romney praises Trump after 'deal with the devil' dinner Read more “It’s not about revenge, it’s about what’s good for the country, and I’m able to put this stuff behind us,” Trump said in a television interview on NBC’s Today show on Friday.
  • (11) An entire generation has come to embrace the deflationary devil they know.
  • (12) Instead, Schieffer repeatedly pushed even Hayden to go further in his defense of the NSA and in his attacks on Snowden than Hayden wanted to, asking such tough "questions" like this one, about Obama's proposal to have a "devils' advocate in the FISA court: "BOB SCHIEFFER: Well-- well let me just cite an example and let's say that the NSA runs across something that they think an attack on the country is imminent-- "GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN: Right.
  • (13) Some tours take tourists to mask shops; we should be taking them to the mask makers, so that they get paid for their work directly.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest A fearsome devil mask Photograph: Alamy The current government, which replaced Rajapaksa’s administration two years ago, has made a commitment to sustainable tourism.
  • (14) Meanwhile, a number of writers have publicly come out against the second deal – including Ursula Le Guin, who resigned from the Authors Guild amid accusations that it was making a "deal with the devil" and selling its members "down the river" .
  • (15) The official code of conduct for special advisers adopts legalistic terms to describe their key role as "devilling", or squirrelling away at all government policy and communications to ensure it toes the appropriate political line.
  • (16) Once Leveson has published, the debate will finally be at this level of detail because that is where the devil is.
  • (17) In addition, Tyson had told the Mail on Sunday : “There are only three things that need to be accomplished before the Devil comes home.
  • (18) Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said: “As ever with this government though, the devil is in the detail.
  • (19) The "Death Angels" believed they had a better chance of getting to heaven if they killed some of these "grafted snakes" and "blue-eyed devils".
  • (20) On a trip to the Near East, Dadd became deluded that the Egyptian god Osiris was directing him to eliminate the devil's influence.

Lucifer


Definition:

  • (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; -- applied in Isaiah by a metaphor to a king of Babylon.
  • (n.) Hence, Satan.
  • (n.) A match made of a sliver of wood tipped with a combustible substance, and ignited by friction; -- called also lucifer match, and locofoco. See Locofoco.
  • (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fifty physiologically characterized units were injected with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or Lucifer yellow CH (LY) and their processes were traced to the crista.
  • (2) The potential use of Lucifer Yellow exchange inhibition as a test for the screening of tumor promoters is discussed.
  • (3) One of her heroes, one of her mentors was Saul Alinsky,” he said, referring to the radical community organiser whose book, Rules for Radicals, he claimed contains an acknowledgement of Lucifer.
  • (4) Physiologically identified giant fibers were filled intracellularly with Lucifer Yellow.
  • (5) Ethidium bromide promises to be an important tool for use alone and alongside Lucifer yellow in the correlation of electrophysiology with histology.
  • (6) Thirty-six neurones were also double labelled using a combination of biocytin or Lucifer Yellow injection with tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunohistochemistry.
  • (7) Intracellular injection of the fluorescent dye, Lucifer Yellow, into neuron C1 was compared with serotonin immunofluorescent staining of the cerebral and buccal ganglia.
  • (8) The morphological characteristics of five types of local spiking interneurons in the metathoracic ganglion of the acridid grasshopper Omocestus viridulus L. have been revealed by intracellular injection of the fluorescent dye Lucifer Yellow.
  • (9) Intracellular recordings were made from 76 neurons belonging to various cell types in the lamprey spinal cord, and these neurons were subsequently stained with Lucifer yellow.
  • (10) The fluid phase marker Lucifer yellow did not reach lamellar bodies (LB) even after prolonged incubation time, whereas S-G was internalized and found in LB.
  • (11) Intracellular Lucifer yellow (LY) injection and subsequent fluorescence microscopy confirmed their nonpyramidal nature.
  • (12) Accumulation of lucifer yellow in the swollen compartment was insensitive to cycloheximide.
  • (13) Retinal ganglion cells were intracellularly injected with the fluorescent dye Lucifer yellow in fixed retinae from adult little red flying foxes (Pteropus scapulatus) captured in their natural habitat.
  • (14) One of the AS neurons, the caudal alternating SCP (CAS) cell, was injected with Lucifer yellow in adult nerve cords and was shown to have a large primary axon that extends into more anterior ganglia, as well as other, finer axons that are variable in number and arrangement.
  • (15) The two main neuronal markers presently available (lucifer yellow and horseradish peroxidase) are not satisfactory for correlating all three aspects.
  • (16) The electrical recordings were made by means of microelectrodes filled with either 1.5 or 3 M KCl or 1 M LiCl with 6% Lucifer yellow, the latter used for dye injection.
  • (17) The postnatal development of layer VI pyramidal neurons in the cat's striate cortex has been studied by means of intracellular injections of Lucifer yellow in aldehyde-fixed tissue (LYF technique).
  • (18) Motor neurons innervating the four proximal muscles of the fourth walking leg have been identified both physiologically and anatomically by staining the recorded motor neuron with Lucifer yellow through the microelectrode.
  • (19) The dendritic morphology of indoleamine amacrine cells in carp retina was investigated by identifying their fluorescent cell bodies by preloading with noradrenaline followed by iontophoretic injection of Lucifer Yellow in isolated and aldehyde-fixed preparations under microscopic control.
  • (20) Dye-coupling in an in vitro preparation of the supporting cells of the guinea-pig organ of Corti was evaluated by use of the fluorescent dyes, Lucifer Yellow, fluorescein and 6 carboxyfluorescein.

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