What's the difference between dewy and droplet?

Dewy


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to dew; resembling, consisting of, or moist with, dew.
  • (a.) Falling gently and beneficently, like the dew.
  • (a.) Resembling a dew-covered surface; appearing as if covered with dew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
  • (2) Paolo Woods and Gabriele Galimberti’s photographs of tax havens will be exhibited at the Arles photography festival from 6 July to 20 September, and published in a book, The Heavens: Annual Report, by Dewi Lewis Media on 3 August, priced at £39.
  • (3) "Oh my gosh," she says, in her rich, dewy Kentucky accent, and holds out a perfectly manicured hand.
  • (4) Birrell seeks to paint opponents of privatisation as dewy-eyed nostalgists.
  • (5) This is a house we’ll be able to grow into,” the case study quotes Matthew as saying, presumably as he gazes, dewy-eyed, at a light fitting or something.
  • (6) Only the most dewy-eyed optimists would claim that all is well, though some like Con Coughlin of the Telegraph do.
  • (7) In a review of more than 3000 cancer patients, DeWys and colleagues identified significantly improved survival in those patients without weight loss compared with those had lost 6% of their body weight (Am J Med 69:491-497, 1980).
  • (8) It is wrong (and pointless) to be dewy-eyed about the old industrial era, with its dirty and back-breaking jobs and its exclusion of women.
  • (9) They had longed for this day, and after all the emotion at the start, the dewy-eyed speech from Claudio Ranieri and the guard of honour that ushered his team on to the pitch, their heroes quickly set about showing everyone why they now go by the title of champions of England .
  • (10) Down at the Indy , a dewy-eyed Christina Patterson found Labour's young men floundering against a chap who "looks like a prime minister, sounds like a prime minister and acts like a prime minister".
  • (11) Vinny says, becoming breathless and dewy-eyed as he describes the roar of an audience's laughter and the backstage ambience where the groupies stood in a queue.
  • (12) The last mentioned features are strongly effective also in aride regions, with the well known fluctations of high parching and dewiness.
  • (13) Why did we have to have Little Red Riding Hood?’’ But that is about as dewy-eyed as he gets.
  • (14) The yes surge is not being driven by blood-and-soil nationalism, by dewy-eyed Celtic nostalgia or the resurrection of a Braveheart spirit.
  • (15) • Guantánamo: If The Light Goes Out, by Edmund Clark, Julian Stallabrass and Omar Deghayes, is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing at £35.
  • (16) If you talk to people of a certain age, they will tell you, dewy eyed, about being huddled over a retro computer such as a Sinclair Spectrum or Commodore C64 plugged into a portable TV, playing games which by today’s modern standards are very simple, often very silly, but had a fun factor never seen before till that point in time.” Revival of the Spectrum brand will boost the profile of the 74-year-old Sinclair, who launched his first mass-market consumer product in 1962.
  • (17) STAY in Old Post Office Cottage or Ivy Cottage (£180 for two) in the grounds, or at the restaurant's own Angel Hotel, (01873 857121, angelabergavenny.com , doubles from £101) Y Polyn, Capel Dewi, Carmarthernshire Photograph: Alamy From the statement on their website – "Fat equals flavour.
  • (18) Results of prospective and long-term investigations will help to define subsets of stage I patients for whom RLND may be unnecessary (DeWys et al.
  • (19) · Degrees by Andy Gotts is published by Dewi Lewis Media on October 6.
  • (20) 100 Leading Ladies is published by Dewi Lewis Media on 2 October at £30.

Droplet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little drop; a tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
  • (2) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
  • (3) These lipid droplets are expected to have diagnostic value in the histological study of ARVD using endomyocardial biopsy.
  • (4) Image analysis of selected P2 segments in treated and control rats revealed a high correlation between subcellular localization of alpha 2uG and protein droplet deposition in the cytoplasm of P2 segment cells of the proximal tubule epithelium.
  • (5) Reversible increases in size and distribution of hyaline droplets within proximal tubular epithelium occurred through 1 year of treatment at a severity that was dose-dependent.
  • (6) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (7) J774 and elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were loaded with cholesteryl ester within lysosomes through phagocytosis of sonicated lipid droplets.
  • (8) Ultrastructures of the tumor cells showed immature lymphoid features with frequent lipid droplets within the cytoplasms.
  • (9) One quarter had many autolysosomes or lipid droplets.
  • (10) vitamin A for three days, remarkable increase in size and number of lipid droplets was observed in slightly hypertrophic fat-storing cells, and the empty cells disappeared simulating an increased number of fat-storing cells.
  • (11) Fixation with buffered glutaraldehyde resulted in higher counts (P less than 0.01) of proximal protoplasmic droplets (2.47, 1.03, 0.67, and 1.43%, respectively, for glutaraldehyde, Hancock's, Blom's, and formol saline procedures).
  • (12) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (13) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
  • (14) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
  • (15) One of the earliest ultrastructural abnormalities in tellurium neuropathy is an increased number of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in myelinating Schwann cells.
  • (16) It is well-established that binding of a chemical to alpha 2u-globulin is the rate-limiting step in the development of male rat-specific hyaline droplet nephropathy.
  • (17) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
  • (18) This equation was used to calculate the mean portal blood flow velocity by this system (V-dopp) in 10 patients with liver disease, and the findings were compared with data simultaneously obtained by cineangiographic mapping of Lipiodol droplets released into the portal vein through a catheter placed in situ at the time of surgery (V-cine).
  • (19) Changes in lipid droplets and some mitochondrial degeneration were observed in the ICM cells of the glycerol-treated embryos.
  • (20) The number of multilamellar vesicles in or adjacent to lipid droplets was independent of the duration of ischemia.

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