What's the difference between ilk and silk?

Ilk


Definition:

  • (a.) Same; each; every.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We show that preservation of the correct PE carboxyl-terminal amino acid sequence, REDLK, allows the toxins containing TGF alpha carboxyl inserts to retain significant cytotoxicity against target cells, since another molecule (PE4E-TGF alpha-ILK) containing a nonfunctional carboxyl-terminal sequence was over 100-fold less active.
  • (2) We need to get back something of that ilk – where each team has three or four players from the home countries at the start of every match."
  • (3) Fashion's current preoccupation with art is effectively the death knell of the minimalist look – most art (Donald Judd and his ilk aside) is about getting messy.
  • (4) It is as honest as the report that emerged the same day from the world’s climate scientists, which demonstrated that if Exxon Mobil and its ilk keep their promise to dig up their reserves and burn them, then the planet will no longer function effectively.
  • (5) It's harder to romanticise living in such a dwelling in NYC – a Londoner can live in a bedsit and be reminded of Fleur and her ilk, but a New Yorker might be apt to think of SROs – but not impossible; in order to survive here, you have to develop the ability to romanticise just about anything.
  • (6) It's a little sweetly, wishy-washy in the body, but, for a beer of its ilk, it has a real thirst-quenching bitterness to it.
  • (7) It is a much more natural creed for rightists, like Charles, who dream of an ancient pastoral world where material goods were the prerogative of his ilk.
  • (8) Never mind that it was the overwhelmingly Tory shire votes of Jacob Rees-Mogg ’s ilk that swung the referendum, while two thirds of Labour voters were remainers.
  • (9) Some of us enjoyed it so much that we were all for Griffin and his ilk appearing on television all the time, purely in the spirit of political fair play, you understand.
  • (10) The trouble is that these supposed victims are very, very able to defend themselves and their ilk.
  • (11) You go to an amazing venue, there are influential people in the room of all ilks, people you wouldn’t normally meet in your day job.
  • (12) But it's clear that Chimpanzee and its ilk have strayed from the evolutionary path of nature documentary film-making.
  • (13) Forbes and his ilk have reached a sort of quantum theory of food: the more they look, the more they see.
  • (14) Democracy forgets you, no one cares what you think, and governments will spend a lot less on you and your ilk.
  • (15) Perhaps what Claire Alexander at the University of Manchester calls the “jovial bigotry” of Farage and his ilk has helped channel their rage.
  • (16) "If our critical culture handled films of this ilk with something other than kid gloves, we might not have to continually address these same, tired questions.
  • (17) But there is no need to apologise to somebody of that ilk.” Leicester are on an 11-game winless run and are bottom of the Premier League going into Saturday’s match at West Ham United, who are fourth.
  • (18) He told the Guardian: “I am delighted that Eddie Redmayne won [a Golden Globe for best actor], but we can’t just have a culture dominated by Eddie Redmayne and James Blunt and their ilk.
  • (19) A Mail Online columnist declared : “Next time you hear someone say we are safer IN the EU – remember Brussels.” And in an astonishing removal of guilt from the terrorist murderers, added: “Merkel – and her ilk – blew up Brussels.” I will vote to remain within the European Union, even though I am critical of its current incarnation and want to change it.
  • (20) Though frequently labelled super-injunctions, they are not of the same ilk as the case that prompted the original coining of the term, because it referred to the fact that the very existence of the injunction must remain secret.

Silk


Definition:

  • (n.) The fine, soft thread produced by various species of caterpillars in forming the cocoons within which the worm is inclosed during the pupa state, especially that produced by the larvae of Bombyx mori.
  • (n.) Hence, thread spun, or cloth woven, from the above-named material.
  • (n.) That which resembles silk, as the filiform styles of the female flower of maize.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To ascertain whether azo dyes are associated with risk of development of bladder tumors in workers who handpaint Yuzen-type silk kimonos in Kyoto, we investigated the disintegration of dyes to benzidine.
  • (2) Serial keratometry readings were obtained pre- and postoperative cataract extraction utilizing all silk closure.
  • (3) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
  • (4) The country’s other attractions include a burning pit at “the door to hell” in the Darvaza crater, and rarely seen stretches of the silk road, the region’s ancient trade route.
  • (5) The polylactic-polyglycolic acid suture is braided and dyed, and has handling characteristics similar to those of black silk.
  • (6) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
  • (7) But lest the duchess feel overlooked, the end section of the show featured long, pale-blue bias-cut crepe dresses with more of a charity gala feel; and knee-length silk crepe dresses with black grosgrain belts seemed princess friendly.
  • (8) A clinical survey in two silk filatures revealed that 36.2% of the persons engaged in the processing of natural silk were suffering from bronchial asthma, while 16.9% of the total subjects had asthma of occupational origin.
  • (9) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
  • (10) Silk Road is just one website; bitcoin is potentially the foundation for a whole new economic order.
  • (11) The presence of specific antibodies against extracts of silk has been shown by the direct RAST and confirmed by the indirect RAST.
  • (12) The skin stapler produced less inflammation and a better aesthetic result over time than the silk stitches.
  • (13) Transcription of the Bombyx mori fibroin gene in a posterior silk gland extract can be separated into three functional steps on the basis of sensitivity to Sarkosyl: 1) formation of an initiation complex, which is blocked by 0.025% Sarkosyl; 2) conversion of the initiation complex to an elongation complex, a step sensitive to 0.05% Sarkosyl; 3) the subsequent elongation of RNA chain which occurs in the presence of 0.05% Sarkosyl.
  • (14) High-waisted flared pleated silk trousers was the key shape, in colours Saint Laurent would have approved, such as like pumpkin orange, sea green and glowing fuchia.
  • (15) 37 Castle Street, Somerset, A5 1LN; 01278 732 266; janetphillips-weaving.co.uk East Assington Mill's rural skills courses range from cane-and-rush chair making to silk scarf dyeing– and some more unusual options, too.
  • (16) Thankfully, mazot guests can also use the lounge and dining room in the Chalet Les Mazots, a lovely wood-panelled home full of antique chairs, chests and cabinets, built by a family of silk manufacturers from Leon who chose the location for their farm for its south-facing views of Mont Blanc.
  • (17) The abdominal safety line, which is a size 1 silk passed through the eyes of the urethral splint (Foley catheter) and rolled up on gauze with some tension on the anterior abdominal wall has been used in three cases.
  • (18) Pretreatment which gave higher grafting onto silk did not always promote the bond strength to the dentin pretreated by the same pretreatments.
  • (19) Six monkeys had significant drops in alveolar bone mass 14 days after the the application of a silk ligature around the gingival margin of an adjacent tooth.
  • (20) Silk ligatures were tied around selected posterior teeth and replaced weekly for 4 weeks.

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