What's the difference between fishy and stink?

Fishy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish.
  • (a.) Extravagant, like some stories about catching fish; improbable; also, rank or foul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) produced strong rotten, fishy, hydrogen sulphide off-odours.
  • (2) Humans treated with large doses of choline smell "fishy" (the odor of TMA).
  • (3) We conclude that uremic breath reflects the systemic accumulation of potentially toxic volatile metabolites, among which dimethylamine and trimethylamine have been positively identified and correlated with the classic fishy odor.
  • (4) In a simple randomized trial of 90 cases (30 cases in each group) with demonstrated clinical bacterial vaginosis on the presence of 3 of 5 of the following signs: (1) Characteristic thin homogenous discharge; (2) vaginal pH greater than 4.5; (3) release of a fishy amine odor from vaginal fluid mixed with 10% KOH; (4) presence of clue cells (usually representing at least 20% of vaginal epithelial cells); and (5) vaginal fluid contains few or no lactobacilli.
  • (5) It is properly diagnosed using three of the four following criteria: (1) presence of homogenous, thin, milklike vaginal discharge; (2) vaginal pH > 4.5; (3) fishy odor on alkalinization of the vaginal secretions; and (4) presence of clue cells on microscopic examination of vaginal secretions.
  • (6) On good days friends would comment on the fishy smell; other days, when the aroma was likened to sperm, were more bleak.
  • (7) He’s not credible at all.” One of the Lucas charges was a “fishy” September 2010 trip to India, where he speculates Snowden may have met unspecified Russians or intermediaries, and attended a hacking course.
  • (8) No serious side effects were noted other than a "fishy aftertaste."
  • (9) It is concluded that trimethylamine is the primary cause of the fishy odor associated with bacterial vaginosis.
  • (10) Bacterial vaginosis can be reliably diagnosed through clinical indicators such as clue cells on wet preparation of vaginal discharge, an increased pH of vaginal discharge, a fishy, amine odor emitted when a sample of vaginal discharge is placed in potassium hydroxide, and cultures that isolate G. vaginalis.
  • (11) Illustration: David Foldvari There's something fishy about Google's motto, "Don't be evil."
  • (12) So large cuttlefish and octopus are happiest when slow-roasted or stewed – and if that involves red wine and hard herbs, the result is tender, robust and meaty all at once: a knockout ragout with a fishy twist.
  • (13) The skins lying on the ground give off a powerful fishy smell.
  • (14) Besides isolation of the organism by culture, two alternative diagnostic procedures have been claimed to be useful: the investigation of "clue cells" in clinical specimens and the amine volatilization test or fishy odor perception in genital secretions.
  • (15) Samples were collected from 11 women with a vaginal discharge having a fishy odor and from 10 women with no detectable odor.
  • (16) A fishy odor, present in bacterial vaginosis, was also found in almost half of the T. vaginalis cases.
  • (17) But he also hinted the duke’s office should cease its intermediary role on Sunninghill saying: “I think I should now deal direct with the incoming purchasers on any detail relating to the site.” The crown estate said that no deal on any London properties went through as a result of the intervention, but Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, said the duke’s role was “unacceptable” and “looks very fishy”.
  • (18) (The golden trout , native only to a small area of these mountains, is a subspecies of rainbow trout that blazes with red and gold during its spawning season; I have caught bushels of them over the years, not out of hunger or to satisfy my predatory instinct, but just to marvel at the beauty of them, after which I give each one a little kiss before releasing it to go on living its fishy life in peace.
  • (19) The crickets had a slightly fishy aftertaste and the buffalo worms a metallic one.
  • (20) A patient complaining of fishy smelling urine and perspiration appeared for evaluation.

Stink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To emit a strong, offensive smell; to send out a disgusting odor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stink; to affect by a stink.
  • (n.) A strong, offensive smell; a disgusting odor; a stench.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ken Livingstone's campaign said: "It stinks of the abuse of public resources for the Conservative party to appropriate the official social media of the mayor.
  • (2) But nothing has been done about the stinking open sewers that run through the densely packed community and overflow whenever there is heavy rain.
  • (3) Those Lords resisting an elected chamber had better prove their vaunted independence by kicking up an almighty stink at being denied any voice in the main cuts legislation whizzing through Westminster.
  • (4) Rare that a story stinks from every possible angle: the source, the content, the consequence, the messenger, the target,” tweeted Wolfgang Blau, chief digital officer of Condé Nast International and a former Guardian executive.
  • (5) For many people in this former railway town, the lies told by a politician do not stink as much as the pooch problem.
  • (6) Candidate members of the family include kangaroo hepatitis virus (KHV) and stink snake hepatitis virus (SSHV).
  • (7) wen we 1st met at one of her regular dog fights, i was bein sick cos of all the blood and she came up 2 me and sed 'all dogs deserve to suffr cos they stink and they are stupid'.
  • (8) But the wages still stink, the hours are still brutal, and the children are still there, stitching away in the backstreets of the slums.
  • (9) Some Romney supporters might argue that this election is still about the economy and the economy stinks – bad for the incumbent.
  • (10) And when you ask someone who’s passed along some specious “don’t get raped” tips or suggested a self-defense class to a woman concerned about rapes in her neighborhood what they were thinking, they’re likely to respond with something like “Better safe than sorry!” Translation: Even if what I’m telling you to remember is a pile of stinking horseshit, you should still engage in this ritualized expression of anxiety with me, because it makes me feel slightly better about things I can’t control.
  • (11) This time it was so obviously, demonstratively false, that it cut through the usual stink cloud of dubious accuracy that hovers over Fox at all times, and caused international outrage as opposed to just tweaking American liberals.
  • (12) They marched with signs that read, “Fear City, Stink City and now, Stupid City.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Striking New York garbagemen stand by signs reading “Stink City” AND “Abe is nuts”.
  • (13) Jeremy, stinking and stinging rather than digging for interview victory, can't match what James O'Brien of LBC did to Farage last month .
  • (14) One minute it's all "when will you WAKE UP to the fact that your STINKING LIBERAL MANURE has DESTROYED THIS COUNTRY" and the next thing you know, you'll get a message saying, "Sorry I was testy, I just got stuck in traffic on my way back from the garden centre."
  • (15) The alarm call came a year later, when he woke up on the sofa one morning, stinking of booze, with his baby son crawling on him and half a can of beer on the floor next to him.
  • (16) Twice, Dughan boarded pitching, stinking decks to transmit to them close-up footage, from which they learnt nothing.
  • (17) Shami Chakrabarti has undermined the education system she argues for | Frances Ryan Read more It’s the system that stinks, of course, and it has to be fought at the policy level, not by individuals at the school gates.
  • (18) But what sticks in my craw is the sheer stinking, blunted crapness of them.
  • (19) The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure "sweet bonny" light crude oil.
  • (20) It is a real education for people as well to see seaweed as a food and not as the slimy green, black stuff that you find stinking and rotting on the beach,” he adds.

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