What's the difference between honey and jam?

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.

Jam


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of frock for children.
  • (n.) See Jamb.
  • (v. t.) To press into a close or tight position; to crowd; to squeeze; to wedge in.
  • (v. t.) To crush or bruise; as, to jam a finger in the crack of a door.
  • (v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.
  • (n.) A mass of people or objects crowded together; also, the pressure from a crowd; a crush; as, a jam in a street; a jam of logs in a river.
  • (n.) An injury caused by jamming.
  • (n.) A preserve of fruit boiled with sugar and water; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is little doubt that when it opens next Thursday, One New Change will be jam-packed with City workers and tourists.
  • (2) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
  • (3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (4) Jim Ewing tweeted a picture of the station concourse jammed with travellers , adding that he had been stuck in a corridor for more than an hour.
  • (5) Full set list, show one (thanks to princevault.com ) Take Me With U (acoustic) Raspberry Beret (acoustic) U Got The Look (acoustic) Instrumental jam (acoustic) Train In Vain (acoustic) Q & A (1) incl.
  • (6) "It's jam tomorrow for the investors but champagne today for the investment bankers," said another.
  • (7) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
  • (8) Innovations such as jam jar accounts, run by credit unions, have been much lauded, but where they have been offered take up has been low with many complaining about the complexity and costs involved.
  • (9) Then there's a figure like Bassnectar, who can play the big carnival-style festivals but also takes his gnarly-but-trippy version of dubstep to events like Electric Forest, where he'll play on the same bill as jam bands like String Cheese Incident.
  • (10) Even now, the surest sign that a developing country has started making money is the length of its traffic jams.
  • (11) 5 Dollop the blackcurrant jam all over the surface of the cooked custard and spread gently to level it.
  • (12) Kremlin-backed TV channels were jammed into the airspace, Russian-language newspapers disseminated stories and content produced in Moscow, while NGOs, funded by Russian money, offered up talking heads on every issue under the sun.
  • (13) So here we are in Chester's Mill, a snoozy Maine town about to be rent asunder by the arrival of a mysterious transparent dome, shooming down like a giant jam jar on its coffee shops and car lots and effectively cutting its residents off from the rest of civilisation.
  • (14) But we were, and are, important enough for them to spend millions of dollars on anti-riot gear, phone-tapping and tracing technology, CCTV and crowd-monitoring tools, satellite signal jamming and hundreds of other suppression devices to take us down.
  • (15) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (16) "Everybody was like, 'It's not gonna work, it's not gonna work', the big names, [Def Jam CEO] Russell Simmons, everybody ," he remembers.
  • (17) In London, Trafalgar Square and Whitehall were jammed from the start of the planned "go slow" at 2pm, as thousands of black cabs gathered honking their horns, bringing total gridlock to the centre of the capital, while supporters waved banners and started occasionally chanting: "Boris, out!"
  • (18) So this significant step by the UK government could help to remove the log-jam."
  • (19) This alteration has been attributed to ribosomal traffic jams caused by starvation for ile-tRNA at mRNA codons corresponding to the locations of isoleucyl residues at positions alpha(10), alpha(17), alpha(55) and beta(112).
  • (20) Now it is time to add the sweet heart to your jam tart.

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