What's the difference between ermined and white?

Ermined


Definition:

  • (a.) Clothed or adorned with the fur of the ermine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ermine cloaks the coalition's first post-local election test on Wednesday.
  • (2) I’ll know that the high walls of inequality are tumbling down when a lass from Lincoln’s Ermine estate with a degree from Lincoln University and years of frontline policing experience, including running a police force, gets to run the Met.
  • (3) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
  • (4) The site of modification of the COOH-erminal half was localized in the tryptic peptide which contained the only glutamic acid residue in this fragment of H1...
  • (5) In the hundred years since the shake-up provoked by the People's Budget, countless blueprints for wholesale rationalisation have run up against ermine-trimmed facts on the ground.
  • (6) For services to West Ham, women in business and The Apprentice, Karren Rita Brady, hereafter to be known as Baroness Brady of Knightsbridge, stood robed in ermine before the Speaker, Baroness D’Souza, to be formally introduced into the House of Lords.
  • (7) Among 22 adult ermines, 41% were infected by one or more of five species (Taenia mustelae, Alaria mustelae, Molineus patens, M. mustelae and Trichinella spiralis).
  • (8) When I got my first electric guitar, I wasn't happy with the look of it, so he found me some ermine white [paint], left over from his second beloved Ford Cortina, and helped me spray it.
  • (9) The royal horses could have been left to munch hay in their stables, the ermine stored in mothballs, and the Crown jewels kept on show at the Tower.
  • (10) The potassium concentration (aK) of the environment of a repetitively discharging membrane can increase sufficiently for a supra-threshold depolarization at afferent erminals.
  • (11) This was no coronation, rather an investiture or an inauguration, almost republican with some red ermine attached.
  • (12) Once burgers and hot dogs had been given the pimped ermine-collar treatment, it was only a matter of time before chicken went the same way.
  • (13) A vision in ermine, tiaras, wigs and scarlet robes.
  • (14) Trichinella spiralis occurred with a maximum prevalence of 50% in martens, but only occurred in 9% of ermines.
  • (15) Dealing as it does with a family of ermine miscreants, the show looks and feels luxurious, even when Fleming is unfurling reams of dickheadery.
  • (16) A study was made of the pathogenicity of brucellae culture isolated from various wild and Game animals of the extreme North of the USSR (wolf, polar fox, ermine, glutton).
  • (17) The term ermine phenotype has been chosen to describe patients with white hair with black tufts.
  • (18) Helminths are reported for the first time from ermines (Mustela erminea) and martens (Martes americana) in Washington (USA).
  • (19) The Guardian's Ermine Sayer spent the day at Passmore's Academy.
  • (20) Labour donor Sir Gulam Noon will also be taking ermine, as will broadcaster and campaigner Joan Bakewell and Gordon Brown adviser Stewart Wood.

White


Definition:

  • (superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
  • (superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  • (superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  • (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • (superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  • (superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  • (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
  • (n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
  • (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  • (n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
  • (n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
  • (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
  • (2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
  • (3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
  • (20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.

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