What's the difference between douce and doucet?

Douce


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet; pleasant.
  • (a.) Sober; prudent; sedate; modest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sarris later conceded most of his ground, possibly because even bad 60s Wilder (the shriller stuff that was in the air when Sarris was writing: Irma La Douce, Kiss Me, Stupid) couldn't help but look better with the passage of time.
  • (2) In the result, Glasgow and Dundee called for independence, but Aberdeen and douce old Edinburgh said: "No thanks."
  • (3) Douce Quietude is one of the better sites in Provence, lively but not too raucous and with a great location in the hills above the seaside town of Saint-Raphaël, and a 10 minute-drive from the lovely beach at Agay.
  • (4) The karyotypes of 7 douc langurs (Pygathrix nemaeus) and 3 crowned lemurs (Lemur coronatus) were examined.
  • (5) Intrauterine fetal demise was suspected in a Douc langur monkey based on measurements of declining urinary estrogen levels.
  • (6) Anyone who recalls the douce calmness of Edinburgh on referendum day in 1997, which re-established the Scots parliament through an act of devolution, won't be surprised at the general even-temperedness (barring, of course, the usual social-media incontinents).
  • (7) As actor-manager, Gassman had continued to choose appealing roles, but, after a successful season appearing in Irma La Douce in 1959, and, in the same year, winning national popularity by exploiting his over-the-top versatility on a television series, Il Mattatore (something between "matador" and "madman"), he decided the time had come to launch a long-cherished project, his Teatro Popolare Italiano (TPI), which made him one of Italian television's first nationwide stars.
  • (8) The very long lag phase observed for ATP and P-choline evolution was comparable with that observed for the progressive intracellular digestion of cytoplasmic constituents (Journet, E., Bligny, R. and Douce, R. (1986) J. Biol.
  • (9) The availability of methods to fractionate non-green plastids and to prepare their limiting envelope membranes [Alban, Joyard & Douce (1988) Plant Physiol.
  • (10) Abnormalities in 23.5% of the karyotypes of 1 male douc langur were associated with a history of fathering stillborns and abortuses (38%).
  • (11) MacLaine, who has made more than 60 films, made her debut in Alfred Hitchcock's 1955 movie The Trouble with Harry ; her performance winning her the first of seven Golden Globes that she has amassed over a career that has included movies such as Some Came Running (alongside Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra), Irma la Douce (with Jack Lemmon) and Steel Magnolias.

Doucet


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Dowset

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data in the chinchilla (Relkin and Doucet, 1991), suggest that these differences may arise in part from differences in inter-stimulus recovery processes in the different spontaneous rate groups.
  • (2) The BBC World Service won two awards, including best news and current affairs programme for Newshour and Lyse Doucet, who won news journalist of the year.
  • (3) Contacted by Canada.com, Doucet issued this response : "Mr Morrissey’s disrespect for all those who have been affected by the Holocaust won’t change our position ... [The] government has been steadfast in its support for our Canadian sealers and the communities where they live."
  • (4) Other recipients have included Lyse Doucet, Michael Buerk, John Simpson, Robert Fisk, Charles Wheeler, Bridget Kendall, George Alagiah, Fergal Keane and Ann Leslie.
  • (5) A highly porous and efficient discontinuous sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide slab gel electrophoresis system was recently described by J. P. Doucet and J. M. Trifaró [1988) Anal.
  • (6) Our dear Lebanese friend Kamal, the kindest of hosts, was killed in Taliban attack," BBC journalist Lyse Doucet said on Twitter.
  • (7) These large midlevel jnds were measured as a function of signal delay, revealing that they are not completely recovered to the normal (unmasked) values by 400 ms. We interpret these data as a consequence of the slower recovery of low-spontaneous rate, high-threshold neurons following prior stimulation (Relkin and Doucet, 1990).
  • (8) They suggested that this effect is related to the finding that low spontaneous rate (SR) auditory-nerve neurons take a considerable time to recover from adaptation [E. M. Relkin and J. R. Doucet, Hear.
  • (9) New factual programmes will focus on the children of the Gaza war, with Lyse Doucet, Britain’s forgotten slave owners and a series about a new sex offence unit set up by the Greater Manchester Police force.
  • (10) This slow recovery of the midlevel jnd's is consistent with the finding that low-spontaneous rate (SR) neurons have a slow recovery from forward masking [E. M. Relkin and J. R. Doucet, Hear.
  • (11) Two instruments were used: a sociodemographic questionnaire and a semi-structured interview developed by Desjean, Doucet, and Gagnon (1983) specifically for phenomenological studies.
  • (12) As for her assertion that Canadian sealers are just "hard-working men and women in rural communities", Morrissey went straight to the second world war for an analogy: "I should remind Sophie Doucet that building and maintaining the concentration camps of Auschwitz also provided livelihoods, but this hardly made the camps warranted," he wrote.
  • (13) The combined use of the discontinuous gel electrophoresis system of J. P. Doucet and J. M. Trifaró [1988) Anal.
  • (14) In a new post to the blog True To You , Morrissey replied to comments by fisheries ministry spokesperson Sophie Doucet, who had called the star "a millionaire celebrity, desperate for a hobby".
  • (15) "I can assure Sophie Doucet that I know more about the seal hunt than I wish to know," he wrote.
  • (16) I mean, when the axe falls, it will be swift, and I will read about it in a newspaper before I will get told by the BBC – that’s just life.” Bruce said attitudes about women on TV news had been changed by reporters such as the BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.

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