What's the difference between glacial and icy?

Glacial


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to ice or to its action; consisting of ice; frozen; icy; esp., pertaining to glaciers; as, glacial phenomena.
  • (a.) Resembling ice; having the appearance and consistency of ice; -- said of certain solid compounds; as, glacial phosphoric or acetic acids.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Denni Karlsson and I are standing by a glacial river as it hammers through a rocky gorge.
  • (2) The fundamental behavioural adaptations implicit in the 'Upper Palaeolithic Revolution' (possibly including language) are thought to have been responsible for this rapid dispersal of human populations over the ecologically demanding environments of last-glacial Europe.
  • (3) IXb, diacetate of IX, unpurified, was converted to IXf with chromium trioxide in glacial acetic acid.
  • (4) The same analogue also manifested a marked analgesic effect with the two tests used: hot plate test and the peritoneal test with glacial acetic acid.
  • (5) Fix for 4 days in 18 parts 80% ethanol, 1 part 10% formalin, and 1 part glacial acetic acid.
  • (6) Larvae for morphological study were collected by pepsin digestion, fixed in glacial acetic acid, and cleared in glycerin.
  • (7) We used a polyclonal antibody (West antibody) to measure ACTH-like immunoactivity in glacial acetic acid extracts of five tissues in adult male rats at increasing times (1, 7, 14, and 28 days) after hypophysectomy or adrenalectomy, and in normal control rats.
  • (8) This report presents a case of disseminated intravascular coagulopathy developing within 2 h after ingestion of 96% (glacial) acetic acid in an attempted suicide.
  • (9) It’s because we are right, and however glacially society evolves, it is evolving in the right direction.
  • (10) Thirty-nine patients with benign prostatic enlargement were treated by transperineal intrasprostatic injections composed of phenol 2%, glacial acetic acid 2%, and glycerine 4%, in distilled water.
  • (11) Guinness also wielded glacial fierceness and terror with unchallengeable authority.
  • (12) A variant Golgi technique was developed that consisted of substituting osmium tetroxide with formaldehyde as the initial fixative in intracardiac perfusion, along with the addition of glacial acetic acid to the chromating fluid.
  • (13) The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there .
  • (14) The mobile phase was used in the form of a solvent system: n-heptan-glacial acetic acid (95:5).
  • (15) And yet despite the iconography of her glacial portraits and the tales of wicked Sir Oswald, Britain's only significant fascist (and, in case it should be forgotten, previously a leading light in the MacDonald-era Labour party), Lady Mosley's real significance rests on her supporting role in a much grander tableau: the story of the Mitford girls and the 80-year sway that they have exerted over upper-level English society.
  • (16) The level of all three microbial parameters studied slowly increased as the river flowed from its glacial source out into the prairies.
  • (17) And there are signs from Europe, too, that attitudes are – albeit glacially – starting to shift: on Monday, Europe's food safety agency ruled against a temporary French ban on a strain of GM maize made by the US company Monsanto , saying there was "no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment" to justify it.
  • (18) But Big Content and Big Telecom, as we know, move glacially.
  • (19) The main product of the oxidation of catechol in glacial acid is N-(2-carbomethoxyethyl)-phenoxaz-2,3-dione.
  • (20) When Fritz Müller and Erwin Schneider battled ice storms, altitude sickness and snow blindness in the 1950s to map, measure and photograph the Imja glacier in the Himalayas, they could never have foreseen that the gigantic tongue of millennia-old glacial ice would be reduced to a lake within 50 years.

Icy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
  • (superl.) Characterized by coldness, as of manner, influence, etc.; chilling; frigid; cold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dog and the pig also have an endoperoxide-sensitive constrictor system activated by the 11,9-(epoxymethano) analogue of PGH2 and, of particular note, ICI 79939 and its 11-oxo analogue.
  • (2) The second experiments entailed use of the nonspecific opiate antagonist, naloxone, as well as the specific delta antagonist, ICI 154,129, against seizures induced by icv-administered morphine, morphiceptin, DADL, or DSLET.
  • (3) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
  • (4) ICI 74 205, a synthetic analogue of prostaglandin F2 alpha (PGF2a) with an alkyl side chain extended by an ethyl group, was administered intravenously in 6 patients using normal saline as the vehicle.
  • (5) However, the pressor response to the stressors was greater in ICI 118,551- than vehicle-treated F1, but the tachycardia was equivalent for both groups.
  • (6) Rapid cellular uptake and metabolism of polyglutamate forms that are approximately 100-fold more potent as inhibitors of TS can translate a modest TS inhibitor such as ICI D1694 into a very potent inhibitor of cell growth (approximately 500- and approximately 10-fold more potent than CB3717 or ICI 198583, respectively).
  • (7) Naloxone affected CS levels in control mice and appeared to reduce the CS response to stress: ICI 154,129 and ICI 174,864 did not produce consistent effects on plasma CS levels.
  • (8) Treatment of hamsters with the same protocol and doses of ICI 200,880 for 8 wk prevented the destructive lesion induced by a single intratracheal dose of HNE.
  • (9) Tamoxifen (ICI 46474) is the trans-isomer of 1(p-beta-dimethylaminoethoxy-phenyl)-1, 2-diphenylbut-1-ene.
  • (10) However, with 50 nM ICI 118551 there was a reduction in the maximum response to isoprenaline.
  • (11) The effect of methallibure (ICI 33828) on spermatogenesis was studied in the gerbil, hedgehog, and mouse.
  • (12) The two LTD4 receptor antagonists (MK-571 and ICI-204,219) significantly reduced the permeability changes induced by indomethacin, while the two LTB4 antagonists (SC-41930 and LY-255,283) were without significant effect.
  • (13) Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled crossover design, we tested the hypothesis that the LTD4 receptor antagonist, ICI 204,219, could inhibit LTD4-induced bronchoconstriction in normal subjects.
  • (14) However, a glutamate antagonist (MK801) and three serotonin antagonists (ritanserin, ketanserin and ICI 170,809) were all unable to alter the MPTP effects, at the doses used in our study.
  • (15) However, the ICI-ER complexes that remain are in sufficient quantity to bind to gene activation reporter constructs, and in these cells, ICI still behaves as a pure antagonist of gene transcription and does not activate reporter genes.
  • (16) Only ICI 111,581 (5 mg kg-1) and propranolol (1 and 10 mg kg-1) prolonged P-R interval.
  • (17) After 7 injections of Zoladex Depot (ICI Pharma, Heidelberg, Germany), the uterus was reduced to normal size carrying dorsally a myoma of the same size.
  • (18) Pulse-chase experiments indicate that the half-life of the receptor is reduced from approximately 5 hr in the presence of estradiol to less than 1 hr by ICI 164,384.
  • (19) Plasma concentrations of AUC for ICI 169, 369 were low.
  • (20) The compound ICI 164,384 [N-n-butyl-N-methyl-11-(3,17 beta-dihydroxyoestra-1,3,5(10)-trien-7 alpha-yl) undecamide] was entirely devoid of oestrogenic activity in the rat and mouse uterus but completely blocked the uterine stimulatory effects of oestradiol and of tamoxifen.