What's the difference between dulce and soothe?

Dulce


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sweet; to soothe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • Doubles from €90, junior suites from €130, Calle Marqués de Larios 2 and Calle Casas de Campos 17, +34 912 17 92 87, room-matehotels.com Dulces Dreams Facebook Twitter Pinterest Right next to the hammam, this bijou hotel, which opened last year, has just eight rooms (one with two double beds), five with their own bathroom.
  • (2) Mineral in bone specimens content was estimated by Dulce method.
  • (3) I can remember Wilfred Owen's terrifying Dulce et Decorum Est, about a mustard-gas attack, being read aloud in the classroom when I was 10 or 11.
  • (4) To Wilfred Owen, the words Horace had used to glorify war centuries before, "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" – how sweet and fitting it is to die for your country – were simply "the old lie".
  • (5) "Tamales de dulce" and chocolate cookies were made with the flour obtained.
  • (6) A mixed-ability year seven class impressed Ofsted because all the students were able to reinterpret Dulce et Decorum Est in their own words .
  • (7) Should he be evicted he will have to leave behind his one-year-old daughter and wife Dulce, who came to the US as a child and was granted temporary legal status as a “Dreamer” by Obama.

Soothe


Definition:

  • (a.) To assent to as true.
  • (a.) To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter.
  • (a.) To assuage; to mollify; to calm; to comfort; as, to soothe a crying child; to soothe one's sorrows.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (2) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (3) The latter practice has previously been ascribed to imprinting and the soothing sound of the mother's heartbeat on the infant.
  • (4) Mourinho's gloating will have done little to soothe Tottenham's anger.
  • (5) One peer, Lord Best, back in the House of Lords debate in 2011 , caught the deep importance of how a home should soothe and protect.
  • (6) For the past year, she has given the same talk at up to four "home parties" daily, fuelled by little more than coffee and larynx-soothing Malva tea.
  • (7) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (8) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (9) Sceptics think Prokhorov will be one of half a dozen "approved" candidates used to soak up discontent with his soothing talk of inexorable change, while posing no real threat to Putin's supremacy.
  • (10) But that still puts the UK's deficit, at more than 12% of GDP, in line with that of crisis-hit Greece, and the numbers gave new momentum to the increasingly bitter row about what should come first: soothing the concerns of the bond markets with public sector cutbacks, or making sure the economy has recovered before switching off the life-support.
  • (11) Three precious points appeared to be theirs and they stood not only to crown a fightback that had hardly been trailed, but to soothe the pain of the 6-0 humbling at Chelsea from last Saturday.
  • (12) Cameron’s EU deal: the verdict from our panel | Matthew d’Ancona, Daniel Hannan, Tom Clark and Natalie Nougayrède Read more There was still a long way to go and the deal was far from sealed, Dave soothingly cajoled, but “what we’ve got is what I basically asked for”.
  • (13) It is a bit rich to expect us to state exactly how we’ll whip our troops when Cameron himself still can’t come out and say what he’ll do with his own cabinet.” Behind the scenes, “sources close to Corbyn” could usefully soothe pro-European nerves: “As an internationalist party, our inclination is of course to remain within the European family, but it would be irresponsible to declare our hand now, leaving Cameron to barter away British employment rights.” However Corbyn votes himself, it is perfectly plain that he will not have the authority to whip individual Euro-enthusiast MPs to vote against their consciences, so he may as well concede that at once.
  • (14) The results suggest that, in the presence of variation in feeding practice greater than that which is typical for our society, feeding interval may be a significant factor in early (but not later) crying behavior; furthermore, this effect is independent of and additive to the soothing effect of short response latency.
  • (15) In the three-minute video, ‘From Candles to Computers: Bringing Electricity to China’s Jing Jin village’, she says: “The coal industry is a major force in eliminating fuel poverty in China but, more importantly, it’s a critical driving force for the phenomenal economic growth China has experienced.” The video comes with a soothing soundtrack of traditional Chinese music, and is beautifully shot.
  • (16) Particular facets examined include the "soothing" function of medication, the placebo effect, and medication compliance, as well as countertransference difficulties encountered in administering the medicine.
  • (17) Their encouragement may soothe nervous Republicans but they have conflict of interest issues of their own .
  • (18) She also took the family's pet rabbit to soothe Hardwick, who had severe learning disabilities and a mental age of about four.
  • (19) If the prime minister had hoped to soothe old tensions, however, he failed – at least partially.
  • (20) Being responsible was more helpful to fathers who saw their infant as responding positively to soothing techniques and as smiling and laughing frequently, but less helpful to fathers who perceived their infant as being fearful and distressed by limitations.

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