What's the difference between intricate and lustrous?

Intricate


Definition:

  • (a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) These channels form an intricate network throughout the submucosa.
  • (3) A large number of samples can be analyzed without specialized equipment or intricate experimental steps.
  • (4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
  • (5) The program helps easy study of the different parameters on the conducting rate of the permeable ion through the channel which otherwise would demand intricate experimental set-ups.
  • (6) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.
  • (7) Neuroimaging data are particularly complex owing to (a) the high number of potential dependent variables (i.e., regions of interest) coupled with the practical limitations on sample size; (b) the known physical properties of scanners (e.g., resolution) interacting with the intricate and variable structure of the human brain; and (c) mathematical properties introduced into the data by the physiological model for quantification.
  • (8) Bungie says it has a vast and stable infrastructure, which it has intricately tested.
  • (9) Age, height and weight are intricately related to performance in a specific sporting activity.
  • (10) In brief, the results suggest that the categorical usage of relative terms involves a rich and intricate knowledge system and that it takes children considerable time to acquire and organize the relevant pieces of knowledge.
  • (11) Further experimentation is likely to be technically demanding because of indications that intricate hormone-prostaglandin-cytokine networks regulate uterine macrophage activities.
  • (12) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
  • (13) Worldwide literature and ten or so personal cases are reviewed as a basis for distinction or intrication of two aspect of post-hydatid sclerosing cholangitis; that of a localized lesion of diffuse lesions of the biliary tract.
  • (14) It was found that underweight children showed significantly less favourable indices in all of the above categories except stool parasitology suggesting an extremely intricate and complex interaction of a host of ecological variables in the causation of undernutrition.
  • (15) What at first appeared to be a frustrating, difficult-to-control case of diabetes mellitus was later revealed to be an intricate drama involving multiple voices and issues: marital, life stage, family, religious, occupational, regional, economic, and physician family-of-origin.
  • (16) To analyze intricate roentgeno-diagnostic complexes the need for application of frequency-contrast characteristics (FCC) is generally acknowledged at present.
  • (17) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
  • (18) "In Trapani, the mafia and the masons are intricately linked," Principato said.
  • (19) Qualitative analyses resulted in the identification of descriptors of fatigue, conditions under which fatigue occurs, an intricate repertoire of strategies used to prevent and manage fatigue, and the consequences of chronic fatigue.
  • (20) It appears, then, that the interrelation between glial cell lines during differentiation is more intricate than previously suspected and is closely dependent, for each line, upon the integrity of axons.

Lustrous


Definition:

  • (a.) Bright; shining; luminous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
  • (2) There’s the way my character Henman fist-pumps when successfully finishing a date (not a euphemism), and the way he looks just like me, except with a better tan, less-British teeth and the ability to suddenly sprout lustrous golden locks like Kid Rock dipped head-first in a bath of Timotei and lemon juice: The guy out of Hanson is ageing well... On a more serious note, there’s the way you can choose to be gay or straight: a feature introduced without fuss, but which makes Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood more progressive than the way most (not all, thankfully) traditional games address sexuality, if they do at all.
  • (3) They’re in the business of selling you the $11 beer to you once you’re inside the stadium.” Today’s athletic amphitheatres last just a few decades before being thrown away for more lustrous replacements.
  • (4) As well as earning him lustrous reviews, it meant that Hytner never need worry about money again.
  • (5) Shot in a lustrous but melancholy monochrome entirely appropriate to the movie's sombre tone, Nebraska is less about a quest for a million bucks than a search for meaning late in life, and the sadness that comes when we realise there isn't any.
  • (6) Smooth and lustrous surfaces were obtained with finishing discs, in contrast to techniques using other finishing instruments.
  • (7) Evaluation of the patient's intestinal abnormality was aided by the use of magnifying endoscopy; the duodenal villi were lustrous and swollen and of various size, a pattern different from that previously described for intestinal lymphangiectasia.
  • (8) With Gordon Willis’s gorgeous cinematography, Manhattan is rendered in a lustrous, glowing monochrome, fetishing the city, erasing its poverty and crime – then at its notorious zenith – and making of it a shangri la of sophistication.
  • (9) Whatever, its omnipresence on all Drake’s albums carves out a whole lustrous landscape that has seldom been touched and certainly never bettered by his singer-songwriter peers.
  • (10) Geopolitical pageantry of this sort burnishes the already lustrous advantages of incumbency.
  • (11) Dead straight hair can be grown into thick, lustrous braids that stretch to the middle of the back, even to the waist.
  • (12) It is a mystery as baffling as what Dorian Grey-like bargain Bateman, 45, struck to maintain such lustrous hair (seriously, it puts Kate Middleton’s to shame) that a man who has been acting since the age of 13 (in US sitcoms Silver Spoons and Valerie ), who was, by his own admission, a “cut-up” in his 20s with a taste for alcohol and drugs, but is now, via some classy supporting roles ( Juno , Up in the Air ), a bona-fide comedy leading man ( Horrible Bosses , Identity Thief ) can be so darned nice.
  • (13) The internal surface of a normal duct was lustrous and smooth.
  • (14) Many local shoppers have turned toward more lustrous megamalls in outer suburbs.
  • (15) It is possible to endoscopically diagnose lymphangiomas because they are lustrous and smooth on the surface, pliable on compression, and half of them have a stalk or a waist at the base.
  • (16) A new dynamic visual illusion is reported: contrast reversal of a horizontal and vertical plaid pattern (produced by adding two orthogonal sinusoidal gratings) causes the pattern to appear as an array of lustrous diamonds, cut by sharp lines into a diagonal lattice structure.
  • (17) Pretty much every scene is filmed in lustrous slow-motion, from a coin toss to the Blinders hacking away at rivals with their razor-fronted caps.
  • (18) Although actually many millions of miles apart, the two planets will appear close together and both are shining lustrously.
  • (19) Linda Winer, Newsday : Menzel doesn't have much vocal variety, but that sound – soft, medium, loud – has a lustrous integrity.