What's the difference between honey and honeymoon?
Honey
Definition:
(n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.
(n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey.
(n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment.
(v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn.
(v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
(2) The elution curves of the individual honeys were very similar.
(3) Pure honey bee cytochrome c was isolated from workers and used to produce antibodies in rabbits.
(4) Skin tests to seasonal outdoor aeroallergens were negative, as were inhalation challenges with two insecticides used inside the building during the honey pack.
(5) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(6) The Refugee Council expressed “grave concerns” as the Home Office minister James Brokenshire defended plans to remove automatic benefits from families who did not win asylum as a way of signalling that the UK was not “a land of milk and honey”.
(7) Domestic and imported honey samples (115) contained 2.00% maltose and 0.71% isomaltose.
(8) Honey bee mitochondrial trehalase was significantly activated by Lubrol WX treatment (30.0-fold), by high pH treatment (20.8-fold), and by a treatment consisting of 10 passes through a French press (37.9-fold) but not by the other treatments tried (salt, proteases, Waring blender, and sonication), despite the fact that these treatments also disrupted the mitochondria significantly.
(9) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(10) Unilateral microinjections of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), acetylcholine (ACh) and related substances into central parts of the brain of the honey bee elicit a quantifiable circling behavior.
(11) At present, the sweetening carbohydrates have a share of about 49% of the total-carbohydrate-consumption, from which 24% is sugar in its conventional form; a further 3% comes from fruits and vegetables; 5% of the carbohydrates are lactose, 15.5% are monosaccharides, from which 12% are derived from vegetable foodstuffs and honey.
(12) Six years ago, officials dismissed as ridiculous allegations that he had shot a drunken Russian bear that had been plied with honey and vodka.
(13) The British foreign secretary flatly admits that it was Jolie's film, Land of Blood and Honey , that inspired his commitment to the cause.
(14) These monoclonal antibodies were more suitable than polyclonal rabbit anti-human IgG antibody in Phadebas RAST for honey bee venom-specific IgG antibody.
(15) A publisher has claimed that Apple has removed Salwa Al Neimi's erotic novel The Proof of the Honey from the iTunes store because its cover – which features part of a woman's naked back and bottom – is "inappropriate".
(16) while hydrated colocynithin was more toxic to housefly than honey bee, cotton leafworm was less affected with both toxicants.
(17) Shelagh Delaney's A Taste Of Honey (1959) was "about as true to Lancashire as anything ever written by Ivor Novello about Ruritania," though no one believed that Shulman had set foot in that county, or understood his reason for being such a loud and assiduous notetaker at opening nights.
(18) It is concluded that: 1) honey and bread produce similar degrees of hyperglycemia in type II diabetics.
(19) Studies have been made on thermal regulation in the nests of families of the honey bee Apis mellifera, wasp Dolihovespula silvestris and bumblebees Bombus terrestris, B. agrorum and B. lapidaris during their maximum development.
(20) In addition, the procedure detects the presence in honey of all starch-derived sugar sirups tested thus far, regardless of the plant source.
Honeymoon
Definition:
(n.) The first month after marriage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Five days later a French "honeymoon" couple, Alain Jacques Turenge and his wife Sophie Turenge, were arrested.
(2) Coincidentally, the survey was conducted during Malcolm Turnbull’s first five months in office – peak honeymoon.
(3) As far as local intermediaries are concerned, these hunters are simply the latest bunch of rich eccentrics, coming to or travelling through Africa either to hunt like the white explorers and colonialists, or go on safaris like honeymooners.
(4) Since the coalition's honeymoon began to fade in mid-2010, small leads had alternated between the two parties.
(5) The dystonia began 1 to 4 days after the trauma and differed clinically from idiopathic torticollis by marked limitation of range of motion, lack of improvement after sleep ("honeymoon period"), and absence of geste antagonistique.
(6) The phrase of that moment, indeed of the whole honeymoon period for the coalition, was "appropriately ambitious".
(7) Kaplinsky, the TV presenter who won Strictly Come Dancing in 2004, was said to have been “heartbroken” when private details of her wedding and honeymoon were published.
(8) Not only is Corbyn not being granted a honeymoon, relatives are determined to have a brawl at the wedding.
(9) It's a much-needed tonic for president François Hollande, whose attempts to implement spending cuts and labour reforms have killed his post-election honeymoon.
(10) Feeding the anger is the fear that the attack could mark the end of India's honeymoon with globalisation.
(11) She was then due to go on honeymoon in Tahiti with her new husband, Aaron Leeson-Woolley.
(12) This is from the 1949 Variety Programme Policy Guide for Writers and Producers: "There is an absolute ban on the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind; suggestive reference to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, prostitution; extreme care should be taken in dealing with references to or jokes about marital infidelity."
(13) In a sign that the government’s honeymoon has ended, May was called “Theresa Maybe” and compared to her predecessor Gordon Brown in the right-leaning Economist magazine .
(14) We know there have been holidays interrupted and personal events that have been interrupted and people waiting in queues for a really long time.” Cruz described the impact of the disruption on honeymoons and long-planned family holidays as a tragedy and pledged that the airline would follow all applicable compensation rules.
(15) Vancouver Facebook Twitter Pinterest This promotional mini-film from 1960 pitches the biggest city in British Columbia, Canada as a romantic destination for a honeymoon.
(16) Clearly it has a long way to go, and the scrutiny will once again be intense: any honeymoon period the new government might have enjoyed is now over.
(17) Accommodation ranges from tents in a covered long house, small bamboo huts, a raised platform named “the honeymoon suite” and the relative luxury of riverside chalets.
(18) Everyone deserves a honeymoon for at least five minutes.
(19) However, he said “in retrospect” Rudd should have gone to the polls sooner because the initial honeymoon which put Labor back in contention against Abbott could not, in the end, be sustained.
(20) Polls suggest Tony Abbott’s honeymoon with the voters since the election has been very short lived.