What's the difference between gala and mala?

Gala


Definition:

  • (n.) Pomp, show, or festivity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neither could hydrolyze gala-type glycosphingolipids, cerebrosides, sulfatides, glycoglycerolipids, or sphingomyelins.
  • (2) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (3) Having visited all 10 members of Asean in his first year, he will host a gala Asean summit in Tokyo on 13 December that looks very much like an anti-China jamboree.
  • (4) Here's a sample: Having watched this fantastically unthinking and heavy-handed adaptation, the opening gala of this year's Cannes festival, I feel the only way to make it less subtle would be to let Michael Bay direct it.
  • (5) At the special gala dinner the next night, Geoff, Élodie and Daniela were delightful.
  • (6) Hall, R. Dolin, C. L. Gala, D. M. Markovitz, Y. Q. Zhang, P. H. Madore, F. A. Disney, W. B. Talpey, J. L. Green, A.
  • (7) They are also often silly, an immediate snapshot commemoration of the big and small events in our lives: witness Sasha and Malia Obama mean-mugging into Sasha's phone shortly after their father was sworn in a second time, or Hillary Clinton and Meryl Streep taking a toothy joint selfie at a state department gala last year.
  • (8) In 2008, Akhras was invited to a Tory gala dinner and he became an unofficial conduit for journalists seeking interviews with the government.
  • (9) Each large fraction from GR-2IIa and -2IIb consisted mainly of Ara, Gal, and GalA, whereas the intermediate fractions were composed of small proportions of 2-Me-Fuc, 2-Me-Xyl, and apiose (Api), in addition to Rha, Ara, Gal, and GalA.
  • (10) There were Francis Ford Coppola and Jeremy Irons, Orlando Bloom and Steven Seagal, Sophia Loren and Dionne Warwick, all gathered in the leafy heights of southern Moscow for a charity gala like no other: this charity does not dispense its largesse.
  • (11) Mannose 6-phosphate (man 6-P)-receptor mediated and Concanavalin A (ConA)-mediated uptake of purified alpha-galA was attempted in the endothelial cells as well as in cultured fibroblasts from the same fetus.
  • (12) All three candidates spoke at the gala, intended to raise funds for the state’s Republican party.
  • (13) This Wednesday, the Garden Bridge Trust will embark on its latest attempt to drum up financial support with a three-course dinner and “fundraising gala” within London department store Harrods.
  • (14) At a congressional hearing on the Virginia couple who gatecrashed last week's White House gala for the Indian prime minister, Mark Sullivan took full responsibility for the security breach that saw two US reality TV show hopefuls, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, get close enough to Obama to have their photo taken with him.
  • (15) In her acceptance speech for an equality award at a Human Rights Campaign gala, Jan shared her concern that I was fearful of bringing my whole self to work.
  • (16) Alibaba will kick off its Singles’ Day promotions with a televised gala on Thursday evening, with David Beckham replacing the singer Katy Perry as the event’s “global ambassador” after she pulled out at the last minute.
  • (17) The galacturono-tetra- and -penta-saccharides had one and three methyl-esterified GalA units, respectively, and some of the galacturono-oligosaccharides contained 2,4- or 2,3-linked GalA.
  • (18) Ensler used some of the proceeds to found V-Day, a worldwide movement to end violence against women, and persuaded famous actors to star in gala performances in Los Angeles and New York.
  • (19) "Welcome to the Academy Awards," he said at one gala, "or, as it is known in my house - Passover."
  • (20) Suárez will be presented with the award at a gala dinner at the Lancaster Hotel on 15 May.

Mala


Definition:

  • (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
  • (pl. ) of Malum

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (2) The inhabitants of Mala Kladusa are mostly refugees from Cetingrad and Dreznik, and between 1790 and 1878 they had chances to cure more than 1200 wounded and a few thousand ill people in barber's shops in Gornja and Donja Baraka.
  • (3) The insensitivity of wild-type Shigella flexneri 2a to coliphage lambda is a consequence of its native genetic defect in the malA gene cluster.
  • (4) The OB reaction of the TLMs could be partially inhibited by anti-LFA-I or anti-MALA-2 antibodies, and was completely inhibited by anti-CR3 antibodies.
  • (5) Because cases of intracistronic complementation have been found, the active lamB product may be an oligomeric protein.-Previously all lambda resistant mutations in the malA region have been shown to map in the malT cistron.
  • (6) Active disease episodes (acute and relapse) were associated with the up-regulation of MALA-2, the murine homologue of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1), on CNS endothelia and the infiltration of ICAM-1-positive mononuclear cells.
  • (7) We have previously reported a murine lymphocyte surface antigen MALA-2 of approximately 95,000 Mr which is expressed mainly on activated lymphocytes.
  • (8) Although the fibroblasts did not express the ligand Mala-2, the murine homologue of human ICAM-1, a monoclonal antibody against LFA-1, its cognate receptor on the lymphocytes, nevertheless effectively inhibited binding.
  • (9) Esterase D polymorphism was investigated in six endogamous Brahmin sub-sects and in the Mala and Madiga castes of Andrah Pradesh.
  • (10) Most mutations rendering E. coli K12 resistant to phage lambda, map in two genetic regions malA and malB.-The malB region contains a gene lamB specifically involved in the lambda receptor synthesis.
  • (11) The frequency of 0.3565 found in the Mala is the highest recorded on the Indian subcontinent.
  • (12) The division of lesion in strain JS10 is cotransducible with malA, aroB, and glpD and maps within min 72 to 75 on the E. coli chromosome.
  • (13) The genetic lesions responsible for tryptophan auxotrophy in these strains map between str and malA.
  • (14) Lambda propagated on a malA(+) rough S. flexneri host was restricted by Escherichia coli K-12 and E. coli B, but not by E. coli C. This S. flexneri host did not restrict lambda grown on these E. coli strains.
  • (15) Spokesman Captain Farhad Hama Ali said fighting was going on in two areas immediately south of the city: the subdistrict of Mala Abdulla, which has a mixed population of Arabs and Turkmen, and the contested village of Besir.
  • (16) Therefore, we consider MALA-2 to be the murine homolog of human ICAM-1.
  • (17) malT is believed to be a positive regulatory gene necessary for the induction of the "maltose operons" in the malA region and in the malB region of the E. coli K12 genetic map.
  • (18) To assess interrelationships between consanguineous marriage and fertility, 3 caste groups in Andhra Pradesh--the Desuri Kapu, an affluent agricultural caste; the Devanga, an artisan caste in the middle range of the hierarchy; and the Mala, a scheduled caste at the bottom--were selected for field study.
  • (19) The mapping data indicate that the genetic distance between malA and xyl is greater than that now allowed.
  • (20) The function, cellular distribution and molecular properties of MALA-2 are indistinguishable from those of human ICAM-1.