What's the difference between gild and gilt?

Gild


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold.
  • (v. t.) To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten.
  • (v. t.) To give a fair but deceptive outward appearance to; to embellish; as, to gild a lie.
  • (v. t.) To make red with drinking.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hitchcock's attempts to keep Hedren in a gilded cage arguably ruined her career.
  • (2) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
  • (3) said a colleague, referring to the former Chadian dictator, who had been living in gilded exile in Dakar since his overthrow in December 1990.
  • (4) His line on white privilege is ace: “There ain’t a white man in this room that would change places with me,” he says on his DVD Bigger & Blacker , then adds gleefully, “And I’m rich!” He makes lots of films, too, but as is often the way with comedians, those are, shall we say, less gilded affairs.
  • (5) The Front National, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen in 1972, has never been this close to installing its leader inside the gilded rooms of the Élysée Palace.
  • (6) Gilded molybdenum-wire remains in the sclera and episclera without any reaction of the tissue.
  • (7) The last gilded chance for Oscar came to his head: but, like his team, he could not deliver.
  • (8) The Downton journey has been amazing for everyone aboard,” said Fellowes, who wants to start focusing his attention on his long-awaited US drama The Gilded Age for NBC .
  • (9) Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah rushed to telephone Hosni Mubarak to express his support, after welcoming Tunisia's exiled leader Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali to a gilded exile in Jeddah.
  • (10) He laughs from a red leather chair in his gilded suite at the Foreign Office, the most opulent of ministerial quarters.
  • (11) They choose to pay less because of a business model that sees the workforce as a cost to be driven down in the pursuit of ever higher profit, often linked to bloated bonuses and share options for a gilded few at the top – and subsidised with billions in publicly funded tax credits.
  • (12) The BBC's bosses are not alone in roaming the gilded halls of the public sector.
  • (13) But as he sat in the gilded hall, where Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev had all received the prize in recent decades, Clegg decided he was witnessing a special moment.
  • (14) Just the fact of its being there at all took my breath away - a discordant modernist appendage to the gilded baroque former courthouse which is the entrance to the museum, and thus a symbolic reproach to bürgerlich Berlin itself.
  • (15) But they were not tired-and-emotional, and for such mannerly foreigners to have been given a practical definition of that local idiom would have been gilding the lily.
  • (16) It obliged them to keep the majority poor while the rich enjoyed a gilded age.
  • (17) Some claim her as an unlikely feminist escaping the gilded cage of France's first lady.
  • (18) Karen Koren, artistic director of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon, says that the two companies made comedy the new rock and roll.
  • (19) On a platform level with the octagonal cage in which the fighters would assault each other, was a row of gilded sofas, scattered with red cushions, which still lacked occupants.
  • (20) The house-guests were sufficiently gilded to feel at ease in its Palladian splendour – but even to these worldly young things, their friends' dad must have cut a daunting figure.

Gilt


Definition:

  • () of Gild
  • (v. t.) A female pig, when young.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Gild.
  • (p. p. & a.) Gilded; covered with gold; of the color of gold; golden yellow.
  • (n.) Gold, or that which resembles gold, laid on the surface of a thing; gilding.
  • (n.) Money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
  • (2) The litter size of vaccinated gilts was larger than that of the control gilts.
  • (3) Gilts that had already reached sexual maturity at the time of insemination showed a higher rate of oestrus and better litter size than immature animals.
  • (4) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
  • (5) Muscle glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase activity was reduced 75% in vitamin B-6-deficient gilts.
  • (6) However, antiviral activity was undetectable in medium conditioned by endometrium from one of the Day-12 gilts.
  • (7) However, financial markets seem unconcerned: 10-year gilts have rallied since the statement.
  • (8) The influence of embryos on growth of the uterus was determined by comparing uterine length, weight and diameter between gravid and nongravid horns within unilaterally pregnant gilts.
  • (9) The effects of exogenous oestradiol-17 beta on blood leukocytes were studied in four ovariectomized gilts.
  • (10) Control gilts given saline had ovaries containing antral follicles (4 to 6 mm in diameter).
  • (11) Relaxin stored in luteal cells of hysterectomized gilts was consistently greater (P less than 0.01) than that during the same days of late pregnancy; however, progesterone was greater (P less than 0.01) in hysterectomized compared with pregnant gilts only on day 116.
  • (12) Three gilts that were given zearalenone on PMD 7 to 10 were not pregnant and had regressing corpora lutea on the ovaries at euthanasia.
  • (13) Each uterine horn in treated gilts (N = 5) was infused with 150 micrograms PGE2 in 3 ml of saline at 0900 h on day 12, 15 and 18 of the estrous cycle.
  • (14) It was concluded that puberty may have been attained when a certain BF or fatness was achieved, because growth rate of restricted-fed gilts and quickly growing gilts with ad libitum access to feed may have been associated with reduced fat deposition.
  • (15) The effect of ovarian steroids on the uterine secretion of ir-MENK was examined by measuring ir-MENK in uterine fluids from cyclic and pregnant gilts as well as ovariectomized, ovarian steroid-treated gilts.
  • (16) A corn-soybean meal diet fed to all gilts was formulated to meet or exceed nutrient requirements except for energy.
  • (17) At slaughter, uterine length (P less than 0.05), uterine weight, width of uterine horns, endometrial surface area, endometrial weight and percentage of uterine weight represented by endometrium was greater (P less than 0.01) for Large White gilts.
  • (18) This study provides strong evidence that purified pPRL maintains both relaxin and progesterone secretion as well as the morphology of aging corpora lutea for at least 10 days after hypophysectomy in hysterectomized gilts.
  • (19) Receptor number was greater for M than for P gilts on d 14 (P less than .07) and d 18 (P less than .01).
  • (20) Thirty-four gilts in two experiments were fed altrenogest for 18 d to block spontaneous growth of ovulatory follicles after luteolysis.