What's the difference between dusty and powdery?

Dusty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
  • (superl.) Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Across a dusty lot sits a heap of scrap metal, patrolled by a couple of emaciated dogs, while a toddler squats in the street, examining the sole of a discarded shoe.
  • (2) In between the two sets, we slip to the Silverlake Lounge ( foldsilverlake.com ), where Silversun Pickups used to play, to listen to Dusty Rhodes and the River Band, a six-piece that meshes folk rock with the Beach Boys with Yes.
  • (3) As a result of the findings, a further study was undertaken by the same research team to investigate one possible solution to the problem of alcohol consumption at work in a paper-producing factory, predominantly under hot and dusty conditions.
  • (4) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (5) Two cases of PAME in children occurring during dusty harmattan period in Northern Nigeria are reported.
  • (6) In the vast dusty fields and ramshackle towns of Shinyanga the problem is that sex education is minimal.
  • (7) The patient, a bulldozer-operator, worked in Africa for a long period in extremely dusty conditions without any protection.
  • (8) "Fisherwomen, who before in a week would get 20 to 30 kilos of shellfish, now take a whole week to get 2 or 3 kilos," says De Alcántara, sitting on a folding metal chair in a dusty meeting hall.
  • (9) The dusty and impoverished town has few signs of diamond wealth, and the word is that its senior baron recently fled to Maputo to evade Zimbabwe's secret police.
  • (10) Six years later, as the cultural revolution wreaked havoc, young Xi was dispatched to the dusty, impoverished north-western province of Shaanxi to "learn from the masses".
  • (11) The results indicated that the manner in which a powder is handled may be as important as material dustiness as measured by a dustiness tester.
  • (12) dusty atmosphere also influence the tolerance; local state of the tissues.
  • (13) Politicians who claimed to sense the hand of history on their shoulders got a dusty response from Simon, especially if they did so in verbless sentences.
  • (14) These results show that antismoking campaigns are important among workers in a dusty work environment.
  • (15) Thorn says: ‘ I’ve always thought if Dusty’s voice was a colour, it was silver.’ Photograph: Ian Berry Ugh, all the same old words, and they won’t do, will they?
  • (16) Whether you’re into Dusty’s Deep Cut reggae, minimal electronics, symphonic pop, Texas blues, Japanese noise, power electronics, children’s music, christmas music, Raymond Scott, or Burl Ives, I guarantee there is an online community where you can connect with other enthusiasts to indulge the minute specificity of your tastes.
  • (17) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
  • (18) Two kinds of herbivorous rabbit-fish – the dusty spine-foot and its cousin the marbled spine-foot – have destroyed vast swaths of underwater seaweed forests in the eastern Mediterranean, after migrating through the Suez in recent decades.
  • (19) A few yards in the dusty distance are some small houses; in better days, these served as nurses' quarters.
  • (20) 766 dockers exposed to dusty materials were examined.

Powdery


Definition:

  • (a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
  • (a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
  • (a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not only separation of native, two-stranded DNA from denatured molecules but more distinct fractionation of single-stranded DNA was demonstrated on unmodified powdery and microgranular cellulose.
  • (2) However, it inhibited some Mycobacterium and Rhodotorula, and it showed excellent control of powdery mildew of barley plants in greenhouse tests at concentrations between 31.2 and 62.5 ppm.
  • (3) We report here the complete amino acid sequence of a pathogen-induced putative peroxidase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as deduced from cDNA clones representing mRNA from leaves infected with the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe graminis.
  • (4) The kit INPOLIN is intended for the local therapy of a tuberculosis cavern by spraying its walls with the powdery medicinal preparation.
  • (5) A full length cDNA of a barley leaf messenger, found to increase in amount during infection attempts by the powdery mildew fungus (Erysiphe graminis), is characterized.
  • (6) Wheat (Triticum aestivum) exhibits local acquired resistance to the powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe graminis f. sp.
  • (7) But back then, if you had a headache, you'd wait until you got home, open the dusty bottle, and swallow a white, powdery pill, which tasted disgusting.
  • (8) The development of inflammatory reaction in 106 patients with severe and extremely severe burns in combined use in the complex treatment of extracorporeal hemosorption, enterosorption, applicative sorption by the powdery PMS-Zn sorbent, passive immunotherapy was studied.
  • (9) A taxonomic study of strain B-98891, which produced an antibiotic effective against powdery mildew of barley, identified it as Streptoverticillium rimofaciens.
  • (10) The chromatin pattern was fine and "powdery" with multiple small micronucleoli.
  • (11) The blue flag beach is backed by powdery dunes and looks out towards Caldey island.
  • (12) Round, saucer-type sleds work best on the powdery sand.
  • (13) In use of a powdery composition containing the dry pharmaceutical collagen (20 component parts), ampicillin (20), methyluracil (1), dioxidine (1) for the treatment of suppurative wounds after different operative interventions on the abdominal organs, the wound cleaning of purulent-necrotic masses occurred in average 9 days, the onset of granulation formation--7.7, epithelization--8.4 days earlier than in patients treated by the conventional preparations.
  • (14) A search for practically valuable mutant genes conferring resistance to barley powdery mildew applied a screening system where four commercial varieties of barley without known genes for resistance were tested to the successful mildew race D1.
  • (15) Of forest and sea and mountains, and powdery white beaches.
  • (16) Rub this in using your fingertips so that the crumble mix is not powdery but has a few lumps and bumps in it.
  • (17) The reasons for this approach which we termed enterosorption, were good adsorptive properties, smooth surface, strength and uniformal nature of synthetic carbon adsorbents, causing practically no symptoms of enteropathy which are typical for high doses of powdery carbons.
  • (18) Sodium salts of the inositol phosphates were more powdery and less hygroscopic than the potassium salts.
  • (19) Genetical analyses of these dominant resistant lines included crosses to susceptible material, crosses to the ml-o variety 'Refoma', crosses among the lines, crosses to sources of known dominant resistance genes, and tests to a panel of 30 different races of barley powdery mildew.
  • (20) A new antibiotic mildiomycin, strongly active against powdery mildew, was isolated from the culture filtrate of Streptoverticillium rimofaciens B-98891.