What's the difference between levantine and mediterranean?
Levantine
Definition:
(n.) Of or pertaining to the Levant.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Levant.
(n.) A stout twilled silk fabric, formerly made in the Levant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Manakish These Levantine flatbreads work as a snack or part of a mezze spread.
(2) The sheikh’s PR brief says that he should say “there are Egyptians and Levantine employees who allow their personal politics to guide their professional activities.
(3) This new formation has no ties with any foreign party,” he said, giving the group’s new name as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham – the front for the liberation of al-Sham, the historical Arabic name for the Levantine region.
(4) A more moderate conclusion comes from the historian Tom Holland: “The likelihood that the biblical story records an actual event is fairly small.” Cyprian Broodbank, the Disney professor of archaeology at Cambridge University, wrote in his recent history of the Mediterranean that the exodus was “at best a refracted folk memory of earlier expulsions of Levantine people” following the reconquest of the Nile delta by the Egyptian king Ahmose around 1530BC.
(5) It is often paired with tahini (another Levantine essential, which I featured last week) , and then spooned over vegetables, crushed pulses, grilled meat and all manner of stews.
(6) Thus, not only is a taco a sandwich, but so is a burrito (and its Levantine antecedent, the gyro) – the only difference being that one is more neatly packaged than the other, analogous to the difference between a sloppy-pressed reuben and the near-hermetic sandwich tubes of Jimmy Johns.
Mediterranean
Definition:
(a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
(a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Mediterranean Sea; as, Mediterranean trade; a Mediterranean voyage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Six marine bacteria which synthesize macromolecular antibiotics were isolated from neritic waters on the French Mediterranean coast, and their frequency recorded over two successive years.
(2) The authors report a resurgence of this disease during the last years, with a 5 human cases per 100,000 annual prevalence and a 6 per cent of rate death, the most active part of mediterranean area appears to be the region of Grand-Kabylie.
(3) It is now recognized that dwarfism in males is frequent around the Mediterranean, where wheat is the staple of life and has been grown for 4,000 years on the same soil, thereby resulting in the depletion of zinc.
(4) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
(5) The functional and phyletic significance of this material reveals a complex pattern of behavioral and phyletic diversity among large-bodied catarrhines in Europe and suggests that this diversity evolved in situ from circum-Mediterranean middle Miocene ancestors.
(6) Mediterranean countries, parts of southern Africa and South America would experience 20% to 30% less water availability.
(7) This condition is a genodermatosis, seen chiefly around the shores of the Mediterranean, characterised by early pigment disturbances which progress virtually inexorably towards a diffuse epitheliomatosis which usually results in death before the age of 20 years.
(8) A variety of sources can account for marine pollution by genotoxic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic compounds, but there is a relative paucity of analytical data concerning the Mediterranean.
(9) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
(10) Novel structural changes in members of the serum amyloid A (SAA) gene family have been found in four patients of varied ethnic backgrounds with familial Mediterranean fever.
(11) Up to 100 children may have died in the weekend’s catastrophic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a relief agency has said as prosecutors in Sicily arrested the alleged commander of the wooden fishing vessel and a member of his crew.
(12) This was equivalent to nearly nearly half the number rescued last May, a month which saw an unprecedented level of migration in the Mediterranean.
(13) Cases of cystic echinococcosis (E. granulosus) diagnosed in Central Europe are often imported from mediterranean countries.
(14) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
(15) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(16) About one-third of our postmastectomy patients are corpulent, middle-aged women with "Mediterranean" body structures.
(17) The northern Mediterranean has been Europe's soft underbelly during the crisis.
(18) They belonged to two ethnic groups--Mediterranean and Asian--and 53% were under the age of 6 years, the oldest being 20 years.
(19) Mediterranean patients (N = 16) had features intermediary between the two other groups.
(20) A C----T mutation at nucleotide 563 of G6PD Mediterranean has been identified by Vulliamy et al., and the same mutation has been found by De Vita et al.