What's the difference between lather and suds?

Lather


Definition:

  • (n.) Foam or froth made by soap moistened with water.
  • (n.) Foam from profuse sweating, as of a horse.
  • (n.) To spread over with lather; as, to lather the face.
  • (v. i.) To form lather, or a froth like lather; to accumulate foam from profuse sweating, as a horse.
  • (v. t.) To beat severely with a thong, strap, or the like; to flog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the beginning of time, man has had the instinct to pour things in wounds to kill microorganisms and enhance healing, and..... "wounds are still lathered, bathed, and sprayed with various notions, potions, and lotions".
  • (2) He has also moved towards building up a sense of culture shock through withholding information rather than lathering on baroque descriptions.
  • (3) In the Commons and in the media, commentators and politicians got themselves in a lather about matters that were undoubtedly important, but not exactly uppermost in the public mind.
  • (4) And Twitter must get into a lather about something.
  • (5) The American people would probably even take a good court case over mortgage-backed securities, though it has been at least a year since anyone got in a good lather about derivatives.
  • (6) In training ground car parks where the football stars of the 1970s were doing well to park a Cortina, it is common now to see Bentleys and Porsches being lathered and valeted by young lads, ready for when the top players finish training and come back out.
  • (7) In a two-part series, Claire Lathers and colleagues highlight some of the current questions in this field.
  • (8) The employment rights and financial speculation tax plans that get the British chauvinistic press in such a lather are the kind of things people in Britain mostly like about the EU.
  • (9) That is where this all ends up.” Clegg said the Conservatives are in such “a total lather about Ukip” that they are even “bizarrely tearing up their own homework” as their own former prime minister Margaret Thatcher oversaw the formation of the common market.
  • (10) Lather, as a result of fusion of cleavage vesicles, curvature of the plasma membrane in the spore initials returns to their original state.
  • (11) Aside from being a hermit, you can reduce your infection rate by ensuring you – and your family – wash your hands regularly and properly (lathering both sides with soap for at least 20 seconds).
  • (12) In this second article in the two-part series on pharmacology in space, Claire Lathers and colleagues discuss the pharmacology of drugs used to control motion sickness in space and note that the pharmacology of the 'ideal' agent has yet to be worked out.
  • (13) Subjects took a single shower employing a whole body lather with approximately 7 gm of soap containing 2% 14C-triclocarban on a soap basis.
  • (14) For detailed review articles, the reader is referred to the following references: Gillis et al; Gillis and Quest; Roberts et al; Lathers and Roberts; Farah and Alousi; Benthe; Levitt et al; Smith and Haber; Somberg; Lee and Klaus; Mason; Schwartz.
  • (15) Murdoch, rambling away to Sun journalists off the record , probably lathered on the soft soap too hard.
  • (16) Lathers and Schraeder (1) have shown that autonomic dysfunction is associated with epileptogenic activity induced by pentylenetetrazol while Vindrola et al (2) found increased D-ALA2 methionine-enkephalinamide (DAME) levels in the rat brain after pentylenetetrazol-induced epileptogenic activity.
  • (17) "I'm just as comfortable with a chapati in my hand as a bag of chips," says the characteristically subdued headline, leading into text that celebrates Yousaf as "the motorbike-riding, kilt-wearing nationalist who also cooks a mean curry", and gets in a lather about his "'united colours of Benetton' family home".
  • (18) But next month they may be getting in a lather about the slow growth caused by the austerity programmes they themselves have necessitated.
  • (19) Puttnam denied that the BSkyB outcry was a case of the "liberal chattering class getting itself into a lather over its favourite straw man".
  • (20) And what thrills lay in store – each week, a pig was seized from the fields and brought to the pub, where it had its tail lathered in soap.

Suds


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The condition of the blood-brain barrier and changes in intracranial pressure were studied in cats with surgical brain wounds and after sudded decompression.
  • (2) Physiological concentrations of vinblastine sulfate elicited ribosomal helices in large numbers in growing cultures of the osmotically sensitive mutant sud 24 and, after treatment with ethylenediaminetetraacetate, also in the K-12 strain.
  • (3) Moreover, the positive and negative predictive values were 84.9 and 99.2%, respectively, when results of the SUDS assay and IFA were compared.
  • (4) Compared with hospital laboratory culture, the sensitivity of office SUDS (73.8%) was superior to that of office culture (66.6%) at P = 0.05.
  • (5) By using Miettinen's matched analysis for comparison of SUD cases and matched controls, the relative risks for the accepted coronary heart disease risk factors of ever smoking and hypertension were 8.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.3 to 57.3) and 5.7 (95% CI, 1.2 to 26.9), respectively.
  • (6) Over 70 days of age, the combined presence of viral infection and wrapping in excess of 10 togs produced an odds ratio of SUD of 51.5 (95% CI 5.64 to 471.48) compared with wrapping of less than 6 togs.
  • (7) "We have already learnt a great deal but new results could emerge in certain situations – only we don't yet know which ones," said Mark Goerbig, another CNRS researcher, who works in the solid physics department at Paris-Sud Orsay University.
  • (8) The number of cases on IHD, CVD and SUD was 36, 60, and 52, respectively.
  • (9) The sensitivity of the SUDS Rubella was 99.5%, and the specificity was 100%, when compared with Rubascan.
  • (10) The influenza A associated SUD cases had a significantly higher rate of pathological and histological findings previously described for cases of primary viral pneumonia than did SUD cases without recent influenza A infection and NON-SUD cases.
  • (11) In this article we review and compare studies on SUDS in the United States and South-east Asia.
  • (12) The verified SUDS victims were all men wth a mean age of 35.9 years (SD 7.8).
  • (13) Out of the 4 initial serum specimens tested, all were positive by PA, 2 by SUDS, Wellcome and Pasteur, 1 by SeroCard and DB, and none by Organon.
  • (14) All newly diagnosed cases of CHD (sudden unexpected death [SUD], N = 18; myocardial infarction [MI], N = 90; and angina, N = 133) among female Rochester residents 40 to 59 years of age during the years 1960 through 1982 were identified, and two community control subjects were matched for age and duration of community medical record.
  • (15) Acute vascular accidents within the critical centers of cardiac impulse formation and conduction deserve more frequent consideration in the explanation of unusual cases of "epilepsy", of seizure disorders of the elderly, of neurologic manifestations (which may be secondary as well as primary) of systemic diseases such as lupus erythematosus or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, and indeed of every case of otherwise unexplanined syncope or sudded death at any age.
  • (16) The SUD union complained that free tickets for VIPs were scandalous at a time when the airline is telling staff its financial situation is "catastrophic".
  • (17) The call – signed by Alliance Sud, Les Amis de la Terre, Christian Aid, the Global Alliance for Tax Justice, Counter Balance, Oxfam, the Centre for Trade Policy and Development, Sherpa, Déclaration de Berne, Tax Justice Network Africa and Eurodad – concludes: "We cannot conceive of anything that would justify such secrecy and we therefore urge the bank to reveal the truth by publishing the report as a matter of urgency."
  • (18) We investigated 44 cases of SUDS for details of seizure history, treatment, medical and psychological history, events at the time of death, and postmortem findings.
  • (19) When SUDS was compared with IHA, sensitivity (96.4%), specificity (97.9%), and negative predictive value (99.4%) indicated that there were similar reactivities between the two tests.
  • (20) When these tests were employed on sera from 16 immigrant Thai construction workers who died of sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS) and 73 healthy Thai fellow workers, 93.8% and 68.8% of SUDS cases had IHA titre of greater than or equal to 4 and IgM-IFA titre of greater than or equal to 10 respectively, in contrast to 39.7% and 12.3% found among healthy Thai workers.

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