What's the difference between die and emboss?

Die


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Dice
  • (v. i.) To pass from an animate to a lifeless state; to cease to live; to suffer a total and irreparable loss of action of the vital functions; to become dead; to expire; to perish; -- said of animals and vegetables; often with of, by, with, from, and rarely for, before the cause or occasion of death; as, to die of disease or hardships; to die by fire or the sword; to die with horror at the thought.
  • (v. i.) To suffer death; to lose life.
  • (v. i.) To perish in any manner; to cease; to become lost or extinct; to be extinguished.
  • (v. i.) To sink; to faint; to pine; to languish, with weakness, discouragement, love, etc.
  • (v. i.) To become indifferent; to cease to be subject; as, to die to pleasure or to sin.
  • (v. i.) To recede and grow fainter; to become imperceptible; to vanish; -- often with out or away.
  • (v. i.) To disappear gradually in another surface, as where moldings are lost in a sloped or curved face.
  • (v. i.) To become vapid, flat, or spiritless, as liquor.
  • (n.) A small cube, marked on its faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.
  • (n.) Any small cubical or square body.
  • (n.) That which is, or might be, determined, by a throw of the die; hazard; chance.
  • (n.) That part of a pedestal included between base and cornice; the dado.
  • (n.) A metal or plate (often one of a pair) so cut or shaped as to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking up sheet metal, etc.
  • (n.) A perforated block, commonly of hardened steel used in connection with a punch, for punching holes, as through plates, or blanks from plates, or for forming cups or capsules, as from sheet metal, by drawing.
  • (n.) A hollow internally threaded screw-cutting tool, made in one piece or composed of several parts, for forming screw threads on bolts, etc.; one of the separate parts which make up such a tool.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (2) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
  • (3) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (4) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (5) Of the 594 patients, 23.7% died and 38.7% had documented inhalation injury.
  • (6) All of the nude mice developed paraplegia with or without incontinence at 2 weeks and routinely died of inanition 3 weeks postimplantation.
  • (7) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (8) No evidence of BPH was observed in 68.4% of patients who had died of cancer.
  • (9) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (10) In the patients who have died or have been classified as slowly progressive the serum 19-9 changes ranged from +13% to +707%.
  • (11) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
  • (12) Three patients died from non-hepatic causes and another has received liver transplantation.
  • (13) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
  • (14) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
  • (15) Four patients with tumours larger than 2 cm died from metastatic carcinoid.
  • (16) The patient later died from complications of burns.
  • (17) Male guinea pigs received either a single dose of As2O3 10 mg.kg-1 s.c. or repeated doses of 2.5 mg.kg-1 bis in die (b.i.d.)
  • (18) Histopathological studies confirmed that mice fed 933cu-rev died from bilateral renal cortical tubular necrosis consistent with toxic insult, perhaps due to Shiga-like toxins.
  • (19) Thirty had an in situ tumor (mean age: 30 years) and 34 had an invasive adenocarcinoma (mean age: 45 years), 7 of whom died of their cancer.
  • (20) These patients developed mediastinal lymph node metastasis and died 4 and 11 months after surgery, respectively.

Emboss


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To arise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
  • (v. t.) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
  • (v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
  • (v. t.) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
  • (v. i.) To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The water is embossed with small waves and it has a chill glassiness which throws light back up at the sky.
  • (2) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (3) In the passive task, subjects sat with their arms and hands immobilized while a rotating drum stimulator pressed the embossed letters onto the right index finger.
  • (4) A rare but distressing complication of frontal embossment was managed after osteoplastic flap surgery.
  • (5) This Registry, while accelerating and embossing confirmation of the suspected relationship, served an even more useful purpose by collecting under one roof and in front of one cluster of observers all the necessary and relevant data on a sufficiently large number of cases to enable rapid (1973-1974) wide dissemination of knowledge about the occurrence and behavior of the disease and its response to treatment.
  • (6) She was left at Nizhny Novgorod's railway station with her passport but no money, still wearing her prison overalls embossed with her name and prisoner number.
  • (7) Experiment 2 showed that tilt lowered performance for tangible, large embossed letters, as well as for braille.
  • (8) Heading towards the narrowest capillary spaces, groups of bacilli form, immediately after seeding, protrusions that emboss the outer contour of the droplet ("protuberances" Fig.
  • (9) I pull out my business card with the red embossed logo of Time magazine.
  • (10) This is where Irving is happiest, rolling around in swastika-embossed paper.
  • (11) An ostentatious leather-bound album with Kniga Dlya Dam embossed in gold on the cover opens to reveal a Chinese silk drawing of an entwined couple.
  • (12) Plastic surfaces embossed with patterns of dots designed to produce predictable alterations in temporal and spatial firing rate variation were used as stimuli in psychophysical and neurophysiological experiments.
  • (13) Shrunken cells with intracellular yolk granules embossed on the surface are produced by the strongly hypertonic Karnovsky's fixer (Final: 2010 mOsm).
  • (14) In the normal arachnoid membrane, two basic surface patterns were observed; one fenestrated and the other embossed with parallel fibers.
  • (15) These are inspired by the label's legendary tuxedo, le smoking , while the embossed rectangles on the packaging are modelled on art deco panelling in Yves's rue de Babylone home.
  • (16) Embossed letters, used previously in pattern recognition experiments in humans, were used to study the spatial patterns of neural activity evoked in peripheral fibers and cortical neurons in areas 3b and 1 of the primary somatosensory cortex of alert rhesus (Macaca mulatta) monkeys.
  • (17) Embossed in gold with the letters LXB, they stayed there for the remainder of the hour-long ceremony.
  • (18) In addition, when fusion was completed, occasional double lines of large particles transiently embossed the P face of the plasma membrane (postacrosomal) side of the fusion zone.
  • (19) Embossed upon it in oh-so-subtle slightly darker grey was an advert for Facebook.
  • (20) None of the past methods of marking call numbers on the spines or covers of books-direct hand lettering by pen, brush, or stylus; affixing cold release characters; embossing by hot type; or gluing labels which are handlettered, typed, or printed-nor even present automatic data processing systems have offered all the advantages of the relatively new Se-Lin labeling system: legibility, reasonable speed of application, automatic protective covering, permanent bonding, and no need for a skilled letterer.

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