What's the difference between limpid and limpin?

Limpid


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, a limpid stream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All is limpid observation, gliding from one bittern to another, until the startling remark that fading colour enhanced the flowers' "sincerity", as if they have been pressing a case.
  • (2) It's a stretch that has at least 243 beaches of unparalleled beauty , and the kind of limpid aquamarine saltwater that has sent poets into raptures.
  • (3) What was rather sweet was that he clearly thought he was making everything limpidly clear while almost everyone around him reeled in utter bewilderment.
  • (4) Flugge points out a paradox: her limpid translation style has meant that her work travels, and her visibility in terms of international awards has been part of her service to literature.
  • (5) Enamel resins were grouped into two types according to different color groups, one group similar to achromatic color with low limpidity and the other similar to the dentin color with high limpidity.
  • (6) Anna Martens Vino di Anna Etna Rosso Jeudi 15, Sicily, Italy 2012 (£15.54, winebear.com ; Les Caves de Pyrene ) Like all Italian wines, this limpid and fluent light red from the slopes of Etna is built with plenty of acidity to cope with food, and there's a red-berry-and-herbs flavour here too that has a kinship with pasta with tomatoes either in a sauce or al crudo.
  • (7) The sea in Pembrokeshire, everyone agreed, had the gorgeous turquoise limpidity of the waters around the Seychelles or Maldives.
  • (8) Injection of a pilocarpine solution into the hemocoele of female B. microplus through the respiratory spiracle induced the flow of limpid saliva, collected from the mouth parts with a capillary tube.
  • (9) In a limpid dining room are portraits of Tolstoy and his family by the painter Repin; round the corner is his 22,000-volume library; in the woods is his unmarked oblong grave.
  • (10) However, this multiplication never leads to appearance of a sufficiently great number of populations to affect the limpidity of the water.
  • (11) I'm going to take the most extraordinary political event that has happened in Britain for however many years and I am going to doggedly interiorise it and depoliticise it with a certain type of limpid prose .

Limpin


Definition:

  • (n.) A limpet.

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