What's the difference between julienne and sliver?

Julienne


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Before serving, whisk the last 200ml of cream, and then decorate the mousse with whipped cream and lemon balm or caramelised julienne-cut lemon zest: let the zest simmer in a syrup made from equal quantities of sugar and water for 15-20 minutes, and then leave to cool.
  • (2) We broke the record by a lot", says the NSIDC scientist Julienne Stroeve .
  • (3) "Boil the kettle," snaps Sister Julienne, wimple-deep in amniotic fluid.
  • (4) In the six-part series, which will air early next year, Jenny lives with a community of nuns and nurses with Agutter playing sister Julienne, Little Dorrit's Ferris playing Sister Evangelina and Judy Parfitt playing sister Monica Joan.
  • (5) thejameskitchen.wordpress.com via GuardianWitness Serves 2 1 small Chinese cabbage A small bunch of choi sum or any other bitter dark greens like kale 2 large carrots 6 spring onions 35g plain flour Shichimi togarashi seasoning, or chilli Salt and pepper 3 eggs Oil, to fry Kewpie mayonnaise Okonomi sauce (or tonkatsu or BBQ sauce) A small bunch of coriander 1 Finely slice the cabbage and choi sum leaves (you can use the stems in a stir fry), julienne or grate the carrot, thinly slice 4 of the spring onions and mix the lot together in a bowl.
  • (6) This is an open struggle that cannot be taken lightly and should be taken on by everyone collectively.” Julienne Uwacu, another MP, was quoted as saying that Rwandans should “switch it off completely”.
  • (7) Julienne Stroeve, a sea ice researcher with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said in an email, “It would be great to have a long-term sea ice thickness dataset,” like the one Lindsay and Schweiger compiled, but there are inherent and varying biases in the data that make conclusions from such combined data hard to trust.
  • (8) "It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre.
  • (9) It began with Mona Hatoum creating large versions of everyday objects such as a julienne vegetable slicer, and has included Martin Creed getting people to run very fast through the galleries, Mark Wallinger recreating anti-war activist Brian Haw's Parliament Square protest, and Michael Landy replicating his parent's house.
  • (10) Julienne Stroece, an Nsidc ice research scientist who has been monitoring ice conditions aboard the Greenpeace vessel Arctic Sunrise, said the data suggested the Arctic sea ice cover was fundamentally changing and predicted more extreme weather.
  • (11) It might happen this weekend, almost certainly next week," Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, told the Guardian.
  • (12) As we tiptoed over to watch the filming, Jenny Agutter , who plays Sister Julienne, was waiting too.
  • (13) Julienne Stroeve, another NSIDC researcher, noted that this year's low minimum was reached amid cooler temperatures than the last several summers, which helped to slow melting.
  • (14) "It certainly is continuing the long-term decline," said Julienne Stroeve, a scientist at the centre.
  • (15) (Billericay, Essex) Professor Julienne Elizabeth Meyer.

Sliver


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.
  • (n.) A long piece cut ot rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
  • (n.) A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
  • (n.) Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Once in the mountains, we were immediately careering along slivers of swerving tarmac under a crystal-blue sky.
  • (2) The slivers of muscle grow between pieces of Velcro and flex and contract as they develop.
  • (3) Given their ages (Pacquiao is 36), it was not a total surprise that neither of them could sustain the quality of the exchanges or the vigour of their past over the course of 12 rounds, although there were slivers of magic from both.
  • (4) Slivers of articular cartilage were stored in Ham's medium, plasma, polyvinyl pyrrolidone, and dimethyl sulphoxide at 0, -20, 4, and 38C.
  • (5) But in just a tiny sliver of its history - the last few thousand years - the patterns of vegetation altered much faster than before.
  • (6) All the foreign bodies evaluated (lead and plastic pellets, pieces of wire, nails, needles, small fragments of rock and glass, wooden slivers, surgical sponges and surgical threads) were detectable with ultrasound.
  • (7) • House Republicans passed or planned to pass at least 11 mini spending bills to fund slivers of government.
  • (8) But visible change has accelerated rapidly in the past few thousand years – a tiny sliver of the Earth’s history.
  • (9) As I prepared to make tracks, Charlie Meckna pointed up at some slivers of grey cloud that hung in the vast powder-blue sky.
  • (10) There was little cinching of the waist, and almost no flashing of leg; sex appeal came through the element of surprise, as the designer put it backstage, with unexpected slivers of skin shown at the back of a dress.
  • (11) For people with busy lives Slivers of Time is a website that allows you to show volunteer-seeking organisations the precise hours you are free and would like to help organisations in your local area.
  • (12) Huhhhhhhhh,” goes another, when the drowsy, pitched-down vocal of DOEP drops in, a sliver of R&B squashed under a hobnailed boot.
  • (13) "We believe scale will be an increasing source of competitive advantage in both the confectionery category and the global food business as a whole," said Rosenfeld, who pointed out that the tie-up will allow Kraft to become the world's leading confectionery company with a market share of 14.8%, a sliver higher than its US rival Mars, which recently bought Wrigley's chewing gum to take its share to 14.6%.
  • (14) Far from being a straight-up sci-fi, it adds a dash of Scandi-noir, a pinch of thriller and the occasional sliver of black humour into the mix.
  • (15) And, whatever happens to nature, it is our own highly complex interconnected society, built on a lucky period of stable climate during a tiny sliver of planetary time, that looks most at risk.
  • (16) 12 cords were cut with scissors, and 4 with a sharpened sliver of reed.
  • (17) An earlier version said that Holyrood controls only a small slither, rather than sliver, of its own spending.
  • (18) With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
  • (19) When an attempt was made to remove the screw 12 weeks after its insertion, the screw broke at its neck releasing several small slivers of metal into the joint.
  • (20) They can even say Obama only beat Romney by 50% to 48% – a sliver that only grows large in the undemocratic electoral college.

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