What's the difference between ink and inky?

Ink


Definition:

  • (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
  • (n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
  • (n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
  • (v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
  • (2) Histologically, the ink was noted within macrophages which aggregated around blood vessels.
  • (3) The root canal anatomy of 149 mandibular second molars was studied using a technique in which the pulp was removed, the canal space filled with black ink and the roots demineralized and made transparent.
  • (4) After visualization with an avidin-biotin alkaline phosphatase procedure, the blot is post-stained with India ink to visualize the protein pattern context.
  • (5) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
  • (6) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
  • (7) The apical 5 to 6 mm of the filling materials were exposed to india ink for 48 hours.
  • (8) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
  • (9) "It is a good idea," she noted in blue ink on the letter, "but not at that price.
  • (10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (11) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
  • (12) The government is expected to borrow £165.7bn this year to balance the books, with further massive borrowing already inked in for future years.
  • (13) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
  • (14) The anatomy of the venous system was determined from observations of vascular casts in adult rats; the development of the vascular system was established by examination of ink-injected embryos.
  • (15) The pad is saturated with gentian violet ink which enables an ideal transfer of inked marks from the marker to the eye or skin.
  • (16) An immune Indian ink micro-agglutination method has been evolved for the detection of an antigen present in the blood associated with infectious hepatitis (called IHxAg).
  • (17) A version of the Stroop colour-word test was used, in which the words 'red' and 'green' were presented in the complementary coloured 'ink'.
  • (18) The transplants survived and at 7 days were able to entrap india ink particles, or particles of radioactive gold, injected in the distal part of the extremity.
  • (19) The staining sensitivity of directly blotted proteins is about 200 ng protein per band as revealed by India ink staining.
  • (20) Phagocytosis of India ink and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction were revealed tend to be increased, but not exceeded significantly to normal range.

Inky


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
  • (2) The lights of smart hotels and restaurants bob in inky water, and the iconic bronze-cast Liver birds look down from above on the city’s Liver building.
  • (3) Photograph: Supplied Compared with his famously mute mother, the prince has gained a reputation for bombarding ministers with his “black spider memos” – letters written, it is said, in his black inky scrawl on red-crested HRH notepaper.
  • (4) Feeding off the spectacular scale of American land art as a student in the 1970s, he first shot to prominence in the late 80s when he filled Matt's Gallery in east London with sump oil, drawing visitors into an inky black abyss.
  • (5) Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister who lobbied with Charles for NHS trials of complementary medicine, summed up his influence in this way: “He could get a hearing where all the noble, diligent lobbying of the various different associations in the complementary medicine field found it hard.” Letters, written in black inky scrawl, are a key part of his lobbying arsenal .
  • (6) After his Burberry show, Christopher Bailey enthused about flowers being "fragile and vulnerable", Christopher Kane talked about their "sexual undertones", while at House of Holland , dresses were decorated with the inky drawings of roses used in tattoo parlours.
  • (7) Best of all there are chicken enchiladas, in the inky blackness that is that mole, a dense, deep thick sauce with dark caramel tones and chilli heat but most of all a robust ripe savouriness.
  • (8) • 145-147 West Port, 0131-229 4431, edinburghbooks.net , westportbookfestival.org , 13-16 Oct Inky Fingers @ Forest Cafe Photograph: Chris Scott In 2010 Inky Fingers began as an open mic night at the Forest Cafe, after Harry Giles and Alice Tarbuck spotted a yawning gap in the Edinburgh scene.
  • (9) They are pictures of supersaturated shades – inky reds, livid oranges, fizzing greens – so unlike the tonal politeness of his earlier pale work.
  • (10) Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and the blackberries burst and ooze their inky black juice.
  • (11) Birds and insects fall quiet, streams turn inky and trees become stunted, their leaves blackened and scrunched up, like fists.
  • (12) Adams's accuser was not some inky-fingered hack, but a respected musicologist, Richard Taruskin of the University of California.
  • (13) David Lynch album cover Crazy Clown Time album cover With its fateful inky finger casting an ominous aura, the artwork for David Lynch's first solo album Crazy Clown Time taps the shadowy horror of silent cinema's expressionist masterpieces – such as The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) – and his own debut, Eraserhead.
  • (14) To be clear, in the inky print world of the 1990s, the pleasure of putting out an exclusive at 10 or so in the evening, and knowing newsdesks would at that instant be bollocking my peers and rivals for missing the story, well there was nothing quite like it.
  • (15) The inky stamps are gone now and my son is not limited to four.
  • (16) In moments of danger, their ink sacs release clouds of blackness to give the impression that they're much bigger than they really are and, with a wave of their big inky capes, they make a quick getaway.
  • (17) A gnawingly stunning Mary Magdalene gazing up at you with inky eyes as she metaphorically washes your feet with her hair?
  • (18) Most facilities are in and around the adobe village of Pisco Elqui where inky skies abound.
  • (19) He lost his footing in an inky stairwell and nearly fell down the concrete steps.
  • (20) The result is a version of Paltrow that we have seen nowhere near enough of: light, frothy, easy-going; eating raw clams from the shell, burying her nose in big glasses of inky red wines, enthusing over huge, steaming vats of paella.