What's the difference between grey and reseda?

Grey


Definition:

  • (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mendl's candy colours contrast sharply with the gothic garb of our hero's enemies and the greys of the prison uniforms – as well as scenes showing the hotel later, in the 1960s, its opulence lost beneath a drab communist refurb.
  • (2) Ectopias of grey matter are recognised foci of epilepsy, but from an epileptological and a clinical viewpoint little attention has been given to these disorders.
  • (3) Intracerebral injection of the GABAA agonists muscimol (1 nmol), isoguvacine (1 nmol) or THIP (1, 2 and 4 nmol) in rats with chemitrodes implanted in the dorsal midbrain central grey raised the threshold electrical current for inducing escape behaviour.
  • (4) A medium amount of degenerated terminals were observed in the nucleus pretectalis anterior (pars reticularis), the dorsal part of the periaqueductal grey at its most rostral levels, the caudolateral parts of the nucleus pretectalis posterior and the nucleus of optic tract, the H field of Forel, parts of the somatic cell columns of the oculomotor nucleus and the trochlear nucleus.
  • (5) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
  • (6) The novel sampling scheme used in this study is unbiased and was designed so that only a small amount of neocortical grey matter had to be removed.
  • (7) Frequently it is possible to distinguish between grey and white matter in the basal ganglia.
  • (8) Life exists in the noisy grey bits between a 'no' and full, enthusiastic consent.
  • (9) The first eigenvector, when represented by grey scale maps depicting a pair of eyes, reveals that, as average threshold increases, the visual field rises and flattens, like an umbrella that, initially closed, is simultaneously opened and thrust upwards.
  • (10) It moved new synthetic drugs from a legal grey area to a well-defined and robust regulatory framework.
  • (11) The shapes of scapulae and basi-occipital bones from three genetically distinct achondroplastic mutants and one osteopetrotic mutant in the mouse (achondroplasia, brachymorphic, stumpy and grey lethal), and appropriate controls, have been compared using Fourier analysis and multivariate statistical techniques.
  • (12) Repeated analyses of identical tracks across grey level revealed a statistical interaction between grey settings and curvilinear velocity.
  • (13) From these data, three graphs are derived, including trends in age-standardised rates, age-specific rates centered on birth cohorts and maps plotted in different shades of grey to represent the surfaces defined by the matrix of various age-specific rates.
  • (14) Tiny, tiny... rodents – some soft and grey, some brown with black stripes, in paintings, posters, wallcharts, thumb-tacked magazine clippings and poorly executed crayon drawings, hurling themselves fatally in their thousands over the cliff of their island home; or crudely taxidermied and mounted, eyes glazed and little paws frozen stiff – on every available surface.
  • (15) Kidneys were approximately double the normal size and were pale tan to grey in color.
  • (16) The beach curved around us and the sun shone while the rest of the UK shivered under grey skies and sleet.
  • (17) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
  • (18) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
  • (19) At autopsy there were scattered purpura on the skin, and the muscles were atrophic and yellowish-grey in color.
  • (20) The degree of colocalization was lower and more variable in other regions including the ventral and central periaqueductal grey matter and dorsal raphe nucleus.

Reseda


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of plants, the type of which is mignonette.
  • (n.) A grayish green color, like that of the flowers of mignonette.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wedgwood, Reseda Iutea L. And Keseda Odorata L. have demonstrated that 3-(3-carboxyphenyl) alanine and 3-(3-carboxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) alanine can be derived from the corresponding pyruvic acids, presumably by unspecific transaminations, and that (3-carboxyphenyl) glycine and (3-carboxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) glycine can be derived from the corresponding phenylglyoxylic acids.
  • (2) 14C-labelled shikimic acid and double labelled shikimic acid tritiated stereospicifically at C-6 are incorporated into 3-(3-carboxyphenyl) alanine, 3-(3-carboxy-4-hydroxyphenyl) alanine, phenylalanine, and tyrosine in Reseda lutea L., Reseda odorata L., Iris x Hollandica cv.

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