What's the difference between imperishable and perishable?

Imperishable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, if Tynan's screen output was small, his writing on film is imperishable.
  • (2) And they were the inheritors of an imperishable Labour movement tradition.
  • (3) His contribution to the music community is imperishable,” managing director Rory Jeffes said.
  • (4) But in the desire to maintain the orthodoxies of the day (which must always pass as imperishable truths), instead of reaffirming the common wisdom, the disseminators of (fixed) ideas have been in danger of defeating their own purpose.
  • (5) Perishable, it attempts to arrogate to itself the prerogative of imperishable time, of separating good books from bad."
  • (6) It was the cause not very célèbre which not only resulted in an unlikely and humdrum Czechoslovakian clay-courter Jan Kodes being elevated into the imperishable pantheon of Wimbledon champions but gave the OK for a large and itinerant bunch of professional tennis players to bond themselves into the richest group of travelling sportsmen on the planet, which they remain.
  • (7) Nevertheless, Bowie persevered, moving to New York even while songs as imperishable as Rebel Rebel were missing the US top 40 (though scoring at home in the UK), and in 1974 embarking on his Diamond Dogs tour, a massively theatrical undertaking that traversed America without going to Europe at all.
  • (8) In an essay celebrating the award, the critic Elaine Showalter acknowledged him as an artist who "changed imperishably the way we see and understand the world".
  • (9) The music, it seems, is imperishable, even if the drama should be treated more carefully.
  • (10) The book contains dozens of imperishable phrases and judgments, but few stick in the mind like the opening of his Wilder demolition: "Billy Wilder is too cynical to believe even his own cynicism."
  • (11) The British army cameramen also filmed the arrival of a mobile bath unit, and it is here, as the women survivors re-encounter warm water, that the film imperishably supplies the idea that, in spite of man-made horror, life somehow remains a blessing.
  • (12) I grew up playing beach soccer with all my buddies,” said Hejduk, a midfielder with 85 US caps who grew up nearby in Cardiff-by-the-Sea and has the southern Californian aura and vocabulary of Jeff Spicoli, Sean Penn’s imperishable character from the 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
  • (13) Once again it is demonstrated that people do not love their chains or their jailers, and that the aspiration for a civilised life, that "universal eligibility to be noble," as Saul Bellow's Augie March so imperishably phrases it, is proper and common to all.
  • (14) This from a man, as she noted, who had written more lovingly of the ditches and the daisies and the ruinstrewn land “with a beautiful and imperishable loneliness”.

Perishable


Definition:

  • (a.) Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
  • (2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
  • (3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
  • (4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
  • (5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
  • (6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
  • (7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
  • (8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
  • (9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
  • (10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
  • (11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
  • (12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
  • (13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
  • (14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
  • (15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
  • (16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
  • (17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
  • (18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
  • (19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
  • (20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.