What's the difference between gleg and gley?

Gleg


Definition:

  • (a.) Quick of perception; alert; sharp.

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Gley


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To squint; to look obliquely; to overlook things.
  • (adv.) Asquint; askance; obliquely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In three profiles of a semi-gley soil under the floodplain forest, variations were studied in the activities of invertase, amylase, cellobiase, cellulase, proteases, and phosphatases.
  • (2) In temperate climates, trace element mobilization is greatest when weathering takes place under conditions of impeded pedological drainage, leading to the formation of gleyed soils.
  • (3) In total 30 nitrogen-fixing, saccharolytic Clostridia and 4 nitrogen-fixing bacilli, all freshly isolated from gleyed soils, were screened for sensitivity to 20 antibiotics.
  • (4) In the 1890s Gley found that tetany after thyroidectomy was due to removal of the parathyroids.

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