What's the difference between linen and linseed?

Linen


Definition:

  • (n.) Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
  • (n.) Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
  • (n.) Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.
  • (n.) Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (2) If you needed a soundtrack to a film about dodgy diplomatic manouvering by folk in linen suits, this would do the job.
  • (3) They wrapped the heads of these 41 infants with a dry linen cloth.
  • (4) The present work reports the survival capacity of a strain of Brevibacterium linens isolated from a French camembert cheese and the ensuing changes in cell composition.
  • (5) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (6) It shows the costs in 1979 included £464 spent on replacing linen, £39 on "sewing carpet seams", £19 on an ironing board and £527 on cleaning carpets.
  • (7) Then go beg the lady with the clipboard, while others swan past to join the cocktail-swilling vacationers swathed in white linen on the porch.
  • (8) It was concluded that respiratory acidosis, rather than hypoxia, resulting from restraint in a linen cloth decreases muscle protein synthesis.
  • (9) To really be beloved in France he needs to learn to swear with the virtuosity of a Frenchman who's mislaid his linen Agnes B scarf in the Rue du Bac.
  • (10) You're on a journey, so this is not the moment for lobster and posh table linen, but there's a big car park, useful paths up Glen Fyne where you can exercise the dog, and the excellent Tree Shop .
  • (11) A laundry facility supplying linen to several hospitals needs to keep a good account of the numbers of different types of linen which enter and leave its premises so as to allocate the costs fairly and equitably among member hospitals.
  • (12) Mercerization of linen threads for surgical use does not improve their properties.
  • (13) The British elite wore Indian linen and silks, decorated their homes with Indian chintz and decorative textiles, and craved Indian spices and seasonings.
  • (14) The proposed procedures include linen washing after its pediculicidal treatment.
  • (15) Under conditions of our test, Quarpel treated Pima tight-woven cotton cloth was impermeable to moist bacterial strike-through, through up to 75 washing and sterilizing cyclings, while ordinary linen and untreated Pima cloth permitted bacterial permeation almost immediately.
  • (16) The rooms are cosily furnished, with wooden beds and crisp, white linen and some have little balconies with cushioned seating overlooking the cloud forest and the town below.
  • (17) Photograph: Teri Pengilley for the Guardian In Scotland, vitriol replaced or supplemented sour milk and citric acid in textile bleaching and dyeing at a time when linen and cotton were Scotland’s largest manufacturing industries.
  • (18) This study was the find cut how to refine linen surgical threads by bettering some parameters of raw material and by replacing the preparations used in Poland, consisting mainly of wax and paraffin, with preparations of synthetic polymers of acknowledged suitability for medical use.
  • (19) He was "shown a long piece of linen on which was impressed the figure of a man and told to worship it, kissing the feet three times".
  • (20) Its function is to fulfill all hospital requirements for disposable minor medical and linen supplies.

Linseed


Definition:

  • (n.) The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the unsaponifiable fraction (63 g) of linseed oil (25 kg), two terpenic alcohols were isolated by alumina column, thin-layer, and gas-liquid chromatography.
  • (2) Dietary cholesterol supplementation elevated the cholesterol concentration in liver in the order: linseed oil greater than beef tallow greater than fish oil (8.6-, 5.5-, 2.6-fold, respectively).
  • (3) High responses to insulin in the epididymal fat cells were obtained with sunflowerseed oil, linseed oil and olive oil, whereas low responses were found for cocoa butter, palm oil or coconut oil.
  • (4) The analysis of hydrogenated cyclic fatty acid monomers isolated from heated linseed and sunflower oils is achieved by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry of their pentafluorobenzyl esters.
  • (5) The dietary treatments did not produce significant differences in tumour incidence and mortality, but tumour size was decreased by diets supplying omega-3 fatty acids: in the EL4 mice tumour weight was markedly depressed by linseed oil, compared to soya-bean oil, whereas thymoma tumour weight was lowest in mice receiving fish oil and highest in the soya-bean oil group.
  • (6) The effect of feeding semipurified diets enriched in linseed (rich in C18:3, omega 3 fatty acid) or fish (rich in C20:5, omega 3 and C22:6, omega 3 fatty acid) oil with and without cholesterol supplementation on the desaturation of linoleic acid (C18:2, omega 6) by rat liver microsomal fractions was investigated.
  • (7) Feeding diets high in cholesterol or fish oil increased basal and LH-stimulated testosterone synthesis relative to that in animals fed the low cholesterol diet containing linseed oil.
  • (8) A methanol extract of linseed meal did not interfere with the normal increase in plasma glutathione peroxidase activity in chicks fed diets supplemented with low levels of selenium even though the extract counteracted the growth depression obtained by adding 20 ppm selenium.
  • (9) The replacement of corn oil with linseed oil in the purified diet also restored the hexobarbital sleeping times to those observed in mice fed rodent chow.
  • (10) Diets rich in linoleic acid (CO) from corn oil, or in linoleic acid and either alpha-linolenic acid (LO) based on linseed oil or n-3 fatty acids (MO) from menhaden oil were fed to male and female Cynomolgus monkeys for 15 wk.
  • (11) Addition of 2% cholesterol to the beef tallow or linseed oil diet increased plasma cholesterol concentrations but not when fish oil was fed.
  • (12) The purpose of the studies reported here was to obtain information on the mechanism of action of the linseed meal factor in counteracting selenosis in chicks.
  • (13) Three groups of cows--one group given linseed supplement, the second split rations of concentrates and the third as control--were studied for five months to investigate the biochemical parameters of rumen fluid and blood serum in animals with the "low-fat milk syndrome".
  • (14) Results suggest that linseed oil supplementation may be an aid in prophylaxis of endotoxemia in horses.
  • (15) The improved nutritional quality of hydrogenated oil appeared not to be related to the decreased concentration of linolenic acid, because that fatty acid in linseed oil with or without erucic acid did not increase the incidence of lesions.
  • (16) Representative samples of linseed meal were collected from the productive nineteen oil mills of Egypt.
  • (17) Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were fed diets enriched with evening primrose (EPO), sunflower (SO) and linseed oils (LO) as well as palm kernel fat (PKF), the latter being deficient in polyunsarated fatty acids (PUFA).
  • (18) It could be a metabolite of one trans isomeric linolenic acid formed during the heat treatment of linseed oil.
  • (19) Levels of eicosapentaenoic acid (C20:5n-3) were increased (P less than .05), compared with the controls fed the same level of corn oil, in the groups fed the two higher levels of linseed oil, and in all the groups fed menhaden oil.
  • (20) Dietary linseed oil and fish oil lowered the arachidonic (C20:4, omega 6) acid content of rat liver microsomes, with an accompanying increase in membrane eicosapentaenoic (C20:5, omega 3) and docosahexaenoic (C22:6, omega 3) acid content, in comparison with the group fed beef tallow.

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