What's the difference between glutinous and sticky?

Glutinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of glue; resembling glue; viscous; viscid; adhesive; gluey.
  • (a.) Havig a moist and adhesive or sticky surface, as a leaf or gland.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (The day before, they filmed a car chase down the main street and the excitement still ripples through the glutinous air.)
  • (2) From the digest of beta-limit dextrin (prepared from glutinous rice starch) with saccharifying alpha-amylase of Bacillus subtilis [EC 3.2.1.1] (BSA), two extensibely branched dextrins consisting of nine (No.
  • (3) This develops strong two-dimensional glutinous layers and traps air between them.
  • (4) The ultimate form of this glutinous type of pastry is filo, which in its raw form consists of one thin glutinous layer.
  • (5) A new diterpenoid compound named glutinic acid had been isolated from Caryopteris glutinosa Rehd by liquid chromatography on Al2O3 and silica gel column.
  • (6) The animals were given milk replacers in which 75% of the dried skim milk protein had been replaced by American soybean flour (ASP), Egyptian soya meal (ESP), or corn glutine (GP).
  • (7) In other strains, however, even a very high number of bacteria caused death only 7 days after infection or later, in which cases the disease became manifest long in advance by ruffled fur and glutinous eyes.
  • (8) Best results were obtained in static fermentations on glutinous rice at 30 degrees C. The isolated yield of pure luteoskyrin was approximately 400 mg per kg of rice.
  • (9) 2 Meanwhile, mix the glutinous rice flour and rice flour or tapioca starch with 150ml luke-warm water to make a soft dough, adding more water if necessary.
  • (10) Tang yuan (glutinous rice balls) The round shape of these small, sweet dumplings symbolises family togetherness; the stickiness echoing the fact that family should stick together.
  • (11) Proximal part of stylostome is formed in both cases by amorphous glutinous substance bearing imprints of mite's mobile digits of chelicerae and hypostome.
  • (12) The growth and ochratoxin A production of Aspergillus ochraceus strains S-235-100 and IFM 0458, which were isolated from green coffee beans and glutinous rice, respectively, were examined in yeast extract-sucrose (YES) medium containing 0.1 to 1.0% caffeine.
  • (13) A path had been cleared to the garishly decorated church of St Demetrius, a warrior saint popular in the region, but inside the glutinous mud clung to the floor and altar drapes.
  • (14) In groups 2, 3, and 4, 50% of the milk protein were replaced by American soybean flour, Egyptian soya meal, or corn glutine.
  • (15) A waxy mutant of O. glaberrima showing a glutinous phenotype was found to contain a substitution mutation generating a termination codon in the coding region of the wx gene.
  • (16) Glutinous (waxy) rice had the highest values, and mung bean noodles the lowest.
  • (17) The currently abortive Canadian treaty is a glutinous mess of beef hormones, investor protection, Romanian visas, patent term regulations and cheese definitions.
  • (18) In the wake of "Tricky" Dicky Keys and Andy "Grey" Gray's Sky Sports shame, where the pundits' banter leaked glutinously through the cracks in media and mutated into news, and the introduction of "banter nights" at comedy clubs, and a sacked postman suing the Royal Mail for unfair dismissal, explaining that what they called bullying was in fact just "a lot of banter", the Uni Lad story only added to the instability.
  • (19) No significant difference was observed in Cd-R and Pb-R between common rice (188 samples) and glutinous rice (19 samples), whereas effects of polishing were absent on Cd-R and inconclusive on Pb-R.
  • (20) Occasionally the additives used for the storage, preservation, and coloring of blood bank reagents are a source of anomalous a-glutination reactions.

Sticky


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (2) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (3) Most of the drugs tested were designed to target the accumulation of sticky plaques, called beta-amyloids.
  • (4) Among junior high school students the results suggested that consciousness about and interest in such factors as gingival bleeding, bad breath and sticky feeling in the mouth caused better dental health behavior.
  • (5) In addition, the co-aligned configuration of the ends of the sex-chromosome axes of this species and the lack of silver-stainable threads or filaments connecting them suggest the existence of two mechanisms for association of the sex chromosomes during prophase I and metaphase I: attachment of the ends of both sex chromosome axes to the nuclear envelope and heterochromatin "stickiness."
  • (6) The most relevant factors causing these differences were: saltiness, fluor flavor, stickiness, dryness, and uniformity of color.
  • (7) The onions are easy to store and to handle, and the root tip cells constitute a convenient system for macroscopic (growth, EC50 values) as well as for microscopic parameters (c-mitosis, stickiness, chromosome breaks).
  • (8) For primary explorers, build habitats out of cardboard with sticky tape and get them to decorate their designs.
  • (9) I like your advice about having a sticky note on the phone, saying: "Lunches are better for me."
  • (10) Remnants of the highly viscous and sticky contrast medium that remain attached to the vascular wall complicate the technical procedure of anastomosing.
  • (11) Illustration: Virtual Design Agency As the original sketches were made from sticky tape, the corners of the letters in the final design are missing.
  • (12) Kazimierz Karasinski has been honorary consul of the UK in Krakow for 16 years, helping British citizens in sticky situations.
  • (13) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
  • (14) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
  • (15) Now he has tipped the prime minister and the chancellor into the sticky stuff.
  • (16) She says it began as a "defence mechanism" – "it gets you out of so many sticky situations" – but it has now become the means by which Delevingne communicates her sense of fun, in a world where most models seem to adopt a bored, peevish expression of someone queuing to return a faulty toaster in Argos.
  • (17) This "sticky" interpersonal style may be particularly common in TLE patients with a left sided temporal lobe seizure focus.
  • (18) But in and among the general approval, there was the odd titter that such a well-established prize should find itself being backed by a purveyor of sticky drinks.
  • (19) Macroscopic examination of the 97 explanted prostheses provided information on their integrity (38.1% of prostheses ruptured), gel differentiation (24.7%), sticky surfaces (26.8%), surface deposits (33%), memory folds (54.6%), and Dacron fixation patches (20.6%).
  • (20) It has been shown that sulfinpyrazone is able to interfere with the dynamic interaction between sticky Walker-256-carcinosarcoma cells and the vascular endothelium.