What's the difference between liman and limn?

Liman


Definition:

  • (n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was recently shown that oligolamellar vesicles of 3:1 mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and the photopolymerizable lipid 1,2-bis[10-(2',4'-hexadienoyloxy)decanoyl]-sn-glycero-3-phosphocho line (SorbPC) are destabilized by polymerization of the SorbPC [Lamparski, H., Liman, U., Frankel, D.A., Barry, J.A., Ramaswami, V., Brown, M.F., & O'Brien, D.F.
  • (2) 7, 2457-2463; Koren, G., Liman, E. R., Logothetis, D. E., Nadal-Ginard, B., and Hess, P. (1990) Neuron 4, 39-51) into Xenopus oocytes resulted in the expression of currents that have tetraethylammonium inhibition curves that differ from the linear combination of inhibition curves of the two types expressed individually.
  • (3) The actor will be seen next on the big screen in sci-fi outings Oblivion , for Tron's Joseph Kosinski, and All You Need Is Kill , for The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman.
  • (4) All You Need Is Kill , directed by The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman, is due out on 7 March 2014.
  • (5) There was only one US movie in this year's competition – Doug Liman's Iraq drama Fair Game – but there was plenty of Hollywood glamour out of competition.
  • (6) Parallel with this physiotherapeutic modality, the patients were administered FiBS (a liman mud biogenic stimulant), vitamins B1 and B6, and andecalin.
  • (7) Multiple-modality treatment making use of therapeutic factors of the Sea of Azov (sea water, liman and sea muds, solar or UV irradiation, mineral water) and (in some cases) drugs was employed.
  • (8) Cruise and Liman reportedly visited Nicholson at his Hollywood Hills home to convince him to take the role.
  • (9) But the former agent – whose cover was blown after her husband wrote a newspaper article critical of the Bush administration – is in town for two reasons: first, as the subject of Doug Liman's biopic, Fair Game (scripted by Jez Butterworth), which screens in competition for the Palme d'Or tomorrow; second, as one of the main interviewees in British documentary maker Lucy Walker's film Countdown to Zero, which aims to raise awareness of a rising nuclear threat.
  • (10) Doug Liman directs a script based on the Japanese young adult novel All You Need is Kill, which sees an extra-terrestrial race known as the Mimics invade earth.
  • (11) Zonguldak’ta yapılması planlanan yeni santralin yer alacağı bölgenin kıyısındaki yeşil dağlık alanın ağaçları liman genişletme inşaatı için kesiliyor.
  • (12) In the film, which The Bourne Identity 's Doug Liman is to direct, Cruise will play a straight-arrow US Secret Service agent assigned to protect the country's worst-ever former commander-in-chief.
  • (13) One excitable Ukrainian news website claimed on Monday that 100 separatists had seized the police HQ in Krasniy Liman, a small rustic town just north of Slavyansk.
  • (14) Some thought that the casting of Naomi Watts in Liman's film was typical Hollywood fancifulness, but this turned out to be quite wrong.
  • (15) Cruise got everyone wound up about the Doug Liman sci-fi Edge Of Tomorrow that is headed to US screens on 6 June 2014.
  • (16) The release states: In an indication that the April 12 operations were planned in advance, the takeovers have occurred simultaneously in multiple locations in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Slavyansk, Krasnyi Liman, Kramatorsk, Chervonoarmiysk, and Druzhkovka.

Limn


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To draw or paint; especially, to represent in an artistic way with pencil or brush.
  • (v. t.) To illumine, as books or parchments, with ornamental figures, letters, or borders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (2) Thus, the numbers of ventral horn cells remaining after early amputation is a measure of the numbers of cells in the normal animal that are still independent of the limb (Phase I cells) and hence by subtraction, the other cells (post-Phase I cells) are those that only survive by virtue of having contacted the limn.
  • (3) With the development of new chemolitholytic substances and the crushing of the stone on endoscopic and extracorporal way new perspectives again begin to limn themselves in the conservative treatment of cholelithiasis.
  • (4) I think it is part of Dadd's predilection for double-speak and dangerous puns: "Elimination" contains the word "limn" which is a good word for painting, but also is part of Dadd's habit of decrying painting as pointless and worthless.
  • (5) The imposing limestone monument, crowned by a shiny copper dome and limned with John Steuart Curry’s luminous murals, has just undergone a $325m facelift.
  • (6) However, it limns oneself already that it is possible with its help to establish many endangered persons and patients and to subject them to the primary and secondary prevention.
  • (7) Some, such as a condition of detachment, reminiscent of the archetypal 'blissful indolence' of the lotus-eaters of Greek tradition as limned by the poet Homer, are obvious to the lay observer.
  • (8) There is less accord about whether the frames are pure structural configurations or limnings of meaning.

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