What's the difference between illumine and lighten?

Illumine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (2) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (3) Naloxone injection into those rats exposed to constant illumination significantly increased hypothalamic levels of beta-endorphin compared to saline injected controls.
  • (4) These data show an extra-hepatic lipolytic effect of glucagon in vivo, but do not illuminate the significance of this effect in the intact animal.
  • (5) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
  • (6) Both eosin derivatives, however, inactivate acetylcholinesterase upon illumination of air-equilibrated samples of hemoglobin-free labeled ghosts.
  • (7) This 520-nm change can be used for the continuous measurement of pH changes in thylakoids during steady-state illumination.
  • (8) Photosynthetic activity of the cells was checked by placing the cell evenly illuminated in a (14)CO(2) atmosphere.
  • (9) The visual processes revealed in these experiments are considered in terms of inferred illumination and surface reflectances of objects in natural scenes.
  • (10) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
  • (11) Superoxide anion (O2.-) was photogenerated upon illumination of riboflavin in fluorescent light.
  • (12) One of these has high sporulation-inducing activity after illumination in vitro.
  • (13) Upon illumination, a dark-adapted photosynthetic sample shows time-dependent changes in chlorophyll (Chl) a fluorescence yield, known as the Kautsky phenomenon or the OIDPS transient.
  • (14) The effects of continuous illumination, adrenalectomy and induction or inhibition of microsomal enzymes on antipyretic action of phenacetin were evaluated.
  • (15) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
  • (16) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
  • (17) superficial or interstitial illumination) and the optical interaction coefficients of the irradiated tissue.
  • (18) Activity was stimulated by the change in illumination levels at dawn and dusk.
  • (19) On prolonged UV-A illumination the ESR spectrum of 16-doxylstearic acid in dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles loaded with 8-methoxypsoralen changed dramatically as a second broad component gradually appeared.
  • (20) All plasma porphyrins could be protected for several days from similar photodegradation by performing all blood drawing, processing, and assay procedures under ordinary red-incandescent illumination, and by storage in the dark.

Lighten


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To descend; to light.
  • (v. i.) To burst forth or dart, as lightning; to shine with, or like, lightning; to display a flash or flashes of lightning; to flash.
  • (v. i.) To grow lighter; to become less dark or lowering; to brighten; to clear, as the sky.
  • (v. t.) To make light or clear; to light; to illuminate; as, to lighten an apartment with lamps or gas; to lighten the streets.
  • (v. t.) To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
  • (v. t.) To emit or disclose in, or as in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
  • (v. t.) To free from trouble and fill with joy.
  • (v. t.) To make lighter, or less heavy; to reduce in weight; to relieve of part of a load or burden; as, to lighten a ship by unloading; to lighten a load or burden.
  • (v. t.) To make less burdensome or afflictive; to alleviate; as, to lighten the cares of life or the burden of grief.
  • (v. t.) To cheer; to exhilarate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Daily subcutaneous injection of L-dopa for 4 weeks into 2-year-old low egg production hens resulted in a lightening of feather color to snow white and increased oviduct and ovary weights and the development of well developed follicles.
  • (2) I ask if he ever wishes the critics would lighten up around him.
  • (3) This unexpected non-linear trend may reflect a progressive tendency toward 'lightening' of sleep with increasing age.
  • (4) Clinical trials on 28 patients with port-wine stains of the face and neck using this laser demonstrated a 75% response rate with greater than 50% lightening of the lesions.
  • (5) Their carefully judged mischief lightened the whole mixture like stiffly beaten egg-whites.
  • (6) But it's also undeniable that Indians who grew up in the 80s and 90s have been in many ways morally and imaginatively conservative: they are the context, for instance, in which wish-fulfilling skin lighteners like Fair & Lovely have flourished.
  • (7) As previously shown with colchicine, preincubation of frog skin with vinblastine, vincristine, or colcemid produced an increase in darkening induced by MSH, as compared to control skins, and a dosage-dependent inhibition of subsequent lightening.
  • (8) Skin-lightening creams are widely used in Taiwan, but their content is poorly controlled.
  • (9) Patients aged between 3 months and 6 years (44 patients) had a better response after the first treatment (55% lightening) than did patients aged between 7 and 14 years (29 patients with a 48% lightening; p = 0.027).
  • (10) By sharing the load, we lighten the load – and together we can chip away at the debt and deficits that are currently costing Australians $1bn every single month in interest, in dead money,” Abbott said in a YouTube video released on Monday.
  • (11) This difference in density is not related to increased sensitivity to ionizing radiation but the degree of post-irradiation change in density (lightening) is proportional to the initial density, i.e.
  • (12) Following a complete repair, the anesthesia of the mothers was allowed to lighten.
  • (13) Forty-one over-the-counter skin lightening creams were analysed for hydroquinone content, and the accuracy of tables of contents supplied with these products was assessed.
  • (14) Advocates of open adoption believe that it lightens and in some cases alleviates the grieving process after relinquishment.
  • (15) In his speech, Hunt also called for the regulatory burden to be lightened for broadcasters to allow them to be more flexible and said Ofcom would be slimmed down under a Tory government.
  • (16) The court said his sentence was lightened because he was an accessory to the murder, not the instigator, and because he had confessed and shown remorse.
  • (17) Over a couple of pints, we cover all the big stuff: Victoria Beckham, rivers of blood, what it'll be like being deputy PM to Boris ("Boris needs me; he needs lightening up"), and the attempt to ban menthol cigarettes .
  • (18) This article describes a simple way to circumvent major internal alteration to the Blue Ray copier to permit an easy and effective lightening process.
  • (19) A properly functioning general-practitioner hospital with good facilities including visiting consultants can greatly lighten the work load of the district general hospital.
  • (20) Substantial lightening or total clearing occurred in 18 (78%) of 23 amateur tattoos and 3 (23%) of 13 professional tattoos in which the protocol was completed.