What's the difference between incense and insense?
Incense
Definition:
(v. t.) To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn.
(v. t.) To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
(n.) To offer incense to. See Incense.
(n.) To perfume with, or as with, incense.
(n.) The perfume or odors exhaled from spices and gums when burned in celebrating religious rites or as an offering to some deity.
(n.) The materials used for the purpose of producing a perfume when burned, as fragrant gums, spices, frankincense, etc.
(n.) Also used figuratively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(2) Brown’s parents were incensed, accusing Jackson of mounting a smear campaign.
(3) He’s not the first Tory MP to speak out about the problem of housing yourself while rich: Johnny Mercer told the Telegraph that he was so incensed by the cost of London property that he brought his family boat up from the south coast, moored it in east London, and stays there several nights a week.
(4) That displaced machinists on the banks of Lake Erie were so incensed by the Podesta emails that they voted for Trump instead of Clinton?
(5) Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet in Kent, whose constituents include Hermitage and Middleton, has lobbied successive Foreign Office ministers for Africa over the years and is incensed that the British government is encouraging British companies to invest in Tanzania despite what happened at Silverdale.
(6) It was therefore attempted to combat the hospital infections by all means with desodorizing procedures, thus trying primarily to suppress the stench by frequent whitewashing of the rooms, spraying of vinegar, by burning powder and even using precious incense.
(7) Incensed by Sánchez, he went to remonstrate with Dean.
(8) I still don’t know if my brother is alive.” He said he was incensed by the intrusion.
(9) Ghani’s predecessor, Hamid Karzai, incensed the Obama administration by refusing to sign the basing deal, rebuking the country that installed him as Afghanistan’s leader after the US drove the Taliban from Kabul in 2001.
(10) The only souls around are a small group of Buddhist pilgrims, lighting incense at the rear of the spectacular Khmer temple.
(11) Hugh Morgan Williams, chairman of North East Access to Finance, was incensed.
(12) At the time, the sonic experimentation didn’t just divide opinion, it incensed some people.
(13) Incense Bata túise Lipstick Béaldath Shut your mouth!
(14) Comparisons with a year ago – when the bank incensed politicians by announcing £39.5m of bonuses on budget day – are difficult, as the composition of the management team has changed dramatically and the share price has fallen from 308p to 232p.
(15) MQM officials were incensed at the death of party activist Waqas Ali Shah, who was shot dead during the raid, although the Rangers denied they were responsible for firing the bullet that killed him.
(16) Mourinho was incensed that Clattenburg did not award his team a penalty and show a red card to Claudio Bravo after Manchester City’s new goalkeeper, at fault for Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s goal, dived into a challenge on Wayne Rooney 11 minutes into the second half.
(17) While contact was made, Mourinho was incensed on the bench and strode down the touchline to berate the visiting striker as he complained to the officials.
(18) By nightfall, an incensed Lisa told an officer at a nearby police station that she intended to file a missing persons report, and said “the media is gonna be in here” unless Stephanie was freed within a half an hour.
(19) Fusillades of incensed Times columnists from Finkelstein to Parris have the freedom to write what they believe.
(20) Dershowitz, who spoke to Epstein over the weekend, said the multi-millionaire was incensed by the the Florida court motion.
Insense
Definition:
(v. t.) To make to understand; to instruct.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two sets of equations have been proposed to estimate the convective or sensible (WCV) and the evaporative or insensible (WEV) respiratory heat exchanges.
(2) The rapid insensible loss of water in tropical areas was reflected in the rise in serum urea while homeostatic mechanisms maintained a slower fall in sodium and chloride by renal conservation.
(3) The authors conclude that laminectomy on a chronic paralytic through the insensate area should be coupled with fusion and instrumentation even if the facet joints and capsules are preserved during the laminectomy.
(4) The losses included Ca and Na in exfoliated skin cells as well as in insensible perspiration.
(5) Anti-heparin activity of the paraprotein was suggested by insensibility of the patient's plasma to heparin in heparin-thrombin clotting time.
(6) The cutaneous insensible perspiration of adult healthy volunteers was measured by a new method based on estimation of the vapour pressure gradient in the air layer immediately adjacent to skin.
(7) There were a few instances of hypernatraemia in the first week caused by high insensible water loss.
(8) The infants were treated in incubators with high air humidity in order to minimize insensible water loss and total fluid intake was restricted.
(9) It is shown that the water flow density through SC controlling the evaporation rate from the skin surface in the process of insensible perspiration depends upon the skin capillary pressure.
(10) A method is described for determining the concentration of volatile substances that are excreted through the skin via insensible perspiration.
(11) During the first 12 days there were 54.2% urinary and 10.6% insensible losses.
(12) Higher strengths of Nestogen which obligate greater urinary fluid are probably unsafe in a hot climate which induces considerable insensible losses of water.
(13) Five commercially available body-support systems used in the prevention of decubitus heel ulcers were objectively compared for their capacity to dissipate or decrease pressure concentration at the most prominent posterior aspect of the heel in bedridden, insensate patients.
(14) Soft-tissue coverage was the most frequent (56.3%) indication, followed by unstable wound, extensive bone loss, chronic osteomyelitis, insensate scar, loss of specialized tissue, and contour deformity.
(15) Insensible water loss (IWL) was measured in five premature infants, 1 to 4 days old, by multiple weighings on an electronic balance inside an incubator.
(16) Fluid intake was restricted and air humidity in the incubator was high in order to minimize insensible water loss.
(17) In a population having a biologic distribution of repellent protection period against mosquitoes, an inverse linear correlation was observed between repellent duration and insensible water loss.
(18) The numerous factors that influence insensible water loss make calculation of fluid management in the high risk infant even more challenging.
(19) With in 7 years he developed a progressive paralysis of the upper and lower motor neuron type and an insensibility of the inferior extremities.
(20) This insensibility was already acting in the third month of intrauterine life of the fetus.