What's the difference between lake and slake?

Lake


Definition:

  • (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
  • (n.) A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
  • (v. i.) To play; to sport.
  • (n.) A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (2) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
  • (3) Biological magnification of insecticides and PCB's occurred in both lakes.
  • (4) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
  • (5) Tepco has taken on a US consultant, Lake Barrett , who led the NRC's cleanup of Three Mile Island, the worst commercial nuclear power accident in the nation's history.
  • (6) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
  • (7) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
  • (8) In order to control adult midges, the distribution of larvae in the lake, the period and quantity of emergence from water, the time of flight, and the dispersal range of T. akamusi midges were studied.
  • (9) An IOC member for 23 years he has assidiously collected the leadership of the acronym heavy subsets of that organisation, which may be less riddled with corruption than it was before the Salt Lake City scandal but has swapped outlandish bribes for mountains of bureaucracy.
  • (10) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
  • (11) A nearby sign warns that the lake and its environs are a protected natural area, where building is prohibited.
  • (12) See kajakkompaniet.se and langholmenkajak.se for information Swimming, Liljeholmsbadet Stockholmers swim all year round at the floating bath on lake Mälaren in Hornstull on Södermalm.
  • (13) Over 40% of fish originated from private fishfarms whereas 20% were of governmental origin (governmental fishfarms, rivers, lakes) and 20% from aquaria.
  • (14) Biological nitrogen fixation, as determined by acetylene reduction, occurs in Lake Erie.
  • (15) Jason Kreis and the unremarkable success of Real Salt Lake Read more Kreis had built a serial playoff team in Salt Lake by defining a philosophical approach to the churning personnel turnover that the league’s roster-building restrictions tend to dictate.
  • (16) Aggregated virus was not dispersed by one-step dilution (7,000-fold) in distilled or untreated lake water but was dispersed if phosphate-buffered saline or clarified secondary sewage plant effluent was used as diluent.
  • (17) The paper presents data concerning the activity of microflora in water and ooze deposits of lakes of the Yaroslavl Region.
  • (18) Gardner was sentenced to death for fatally shooting a Salt Lake City attorney in 1985 while trying to escape from a courthouse.
  • (19) Total concentrations can range from a few parts per million in non-polluted intertidal and oceanic areas to parts per thousand in heavily contaminated estuarine, lake and near-shore environments.
  • (20) "My mother was born in Monte Carlo where her father – from the Lake District – was working for Cook's the travel agents, and educated in Nice.

Slake


Definition:

  • (a.) To allay; to quench; to extinguish; as, to slake thirst.
  • (a.) To mix with water, so that a true chemical combination shall take place; to slack; as, to slake lime.
  • (v. i.) To go out; to become extinct.
  • (v. i.) To abate; to become less decided.
  • (v. i.) To slacken; to become relaxed.
  • (v. i.) To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place; as, the lime slakes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (2) Photograph: Nerissa Sparkman This being Dublin, visitors to Stoneybatter will find no shortage of opportunities to slake their thirst.
  • (3) A link between the generation of areca nut-related N-nitrosamines in the saliva, the induction of genotoxic damage in the oral mucosa, as judged by an increase in micronucleated exfoliated cells (MEC), and a low incidence of oral cancer was studied in 2 population groups characterized by their habit of chewing quids without tobacco: Guamanians, who chew areca nuts (Areca catechu) with or without the addition of betel leaf (Piper betle); Taiwanese, who use areca nut, betel leaf or inference and slaked lime.
  • (4) Watering crops, slaking thirst in expanding cities, cooling power plants, fracking oil and gas wells – all take water from the same diminishing supply.
  • (5) "Reverse"-cigar smokers (who hold the burning end of cigars within the mouth), dippers (who place a mixture of Khaini-tobacco and slaked lime into the lower gingival groove) and users of tobacco-containing toothpaste (gudakhu) in Orissa, India, were examined for precancerous oral lesions, the frequency of micronucleated cells at 3 different intra-oral sites, and levels of tobacco-specific nitrosamines (TSNA) in the saliva.
  • (6) I have come to the conclusion that the smoked tobacco and the slaked lime in the Indian "Pan" are the two important carcinogenic agents.
  • (7) Then, they report on the three main basic components: Piper betle L. leaf, Areca catechu nut, and slaked lime.
  • (8) This illness will be caused by longterm exposure in viniculture against "Bordeaux mixture" a solution of copper sulphate and slaked lime.
  • (9) The restaurateur Leonid Shutnov will soon open Biblioteka in St James, where he will offer 100 vintages of Château d'Yquem and 80 of Château Mouton Rothschild, should 79 of Château Mouton Rothschild not be enough to slake the thirst of London's rich.
  • (10) Finally, some exasperated nutritionist will pop up and say, to be honest: "This is all sugar that doesn't fill you up and doesn't even slake your thirst particularly well."
  • (11) Not even a majority Conservative government in 2015 will slake the thirst for EU departure of the Eurosceptics.
  • (12) In the case of many oropharyngeal cancers in Asia and Africa it is the alkaline slaked lime in the betel quid which is responsible; in the case of gastric cancers it is the reflux of the alkaline duodenal contents into the stomach; in the case of colon it is the absence of roughage, cellulose and vegetable fibres from the diet; in the case of the cervix uteri it is the frequency of coitus which gives rise to a highly alkaline seminal fluid; and in the case of cancer lung it is the alkaline cigarette smoke.
  • (13) Europeans slaked their need for labour in the colonies – in the mines and on the plantations – not only by enslaving indigenous Americans but also by shipping slaves across the Atlantic from Africa.
  • (14) Different strategies will be required in the administration of chemopreventive agents in order to trap ROS formed in the alkaline (due to the addition of slaked lime) chewing mixture within the saliva of a chewer, to scavenge ROS within mucosal cells exposed to an array of tobacco- or areca nut-related carcinogens or tumour promoters, and to inhibit the action of ROS released from ROS-generating white cells during lymphocytic infiltration of the oral mucosa at a precancerous stage.
  • (15) The frequency of MEC did not increase in the oral mucosa of areca nut chewers who do not use slaked lime, but showed a small but significant elevation in individuals using lime-containing quids.
  • (16) Zero Dark Thirty slakes a thirst for vengeance and leaves an aftertaste of gall.
  • (17) Here’s Tom Jenkins’s match gallery from Craven Cottage Updated at 4.17pm GMT 4.10pm GMT More goals in the Championship ... Leicester have taken a two-goal lead against Charlton at the King Power Stadium, courtesy of Danny Drinkwater, who has slaked his thirst for liquid finishing to make it 2-0.
  • (18) And still it wasn’t enough to slake the insatiable thirst of the financial markets for more and more stimulus.
  • (19) A giant cross made of wooden slakes was erected on the grassy slope near the Washington Monument.
  • (20) Andy Murray’s thirst for making history could not be denied here on Sunday – even by lingering but passing pain in his back – and will be further slaked when Great Britain contest their first Davis Cup final in 37 years.