What's the difference between liquorice and sweet?

Liquorice


Definition:

  • (n.) See Licorice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have evaluated the effect of the synthetic liquorice derivative, carbenoxolone, on this enzyme complex.
  • (2) After a wide survey of the literature, the clinical and biological picture in four patients with chronic Liquorice ingestion and Pseudoaldosteronism syndrome is described.
  • (3) The town is also home to Svaneke Bolcher, where you can watch traditional Danish sweets being made, and Johan Bülow ’s inventive liquorice, which is now sold in shops such as Harvey Nichols and Fortnum & Mason.
  • (4) These results show that potentially serious metabolic effects may occur in some people who eat modest amounts of liquorice daily for less than a week.
  • (5) Both tragant sulfate, a pepsin inhibitor, and deglycyrrhizinized liquorice extract proved to be without prophylactic effect.
  • (6) We have previously demonstrated, in adrenalectomized male rats, that the liquorice derivative carbenoxolone (CS) can confer mineralocorticoid (MC)-like activity upon the glucocorticoid corticosterone (B) and amplify the Na(+)-retaining actions of aldosterone (Aldo) and deoxycorticosterone (DOC).
  • (7) A case of pseudo-hyperaldosteronism secondary to prolonged daily ingestion of liquorice is reported.
  • (8) They ate liquorice in daily doses of 100 g or 200 g (equivalent to 0-7-1-4 g glycyrrhizinic acid) for one to four weeks.
  • (9) The binding of agonists (liquorice derivatives) and antagonists (spironolactones and cyproheptadine) to Type I aldosterone binding sites was evaluated in human mononuclear leucocytes and compared with data previously obtained using kidney cytosol or kidney slices from adrenalectomized rats.
  • (10) A double-blind trial of deglycyrrhizinated liquorice was performed in 47 patients with active duodenal ulcer.
  • (11) Bassett's Liquorice Allsorts were created by accident in 1899, when salesman Charlie Thompson tripped up, mixing up all the different sweets he was carrying.
  • (12) Six geographically diverse samples of liquorice root contained similar (22.2-32.3 mg g-1) glycyrrhizin contents.
  • (13) These findings seem to explain why sodium retention, hypokalaemia, and hypertension develop in subjects with congenital deficiency of 11 beta-OHSD and those in whom the enzyme has been inhibited by liquorice.
  • (14) The first example is liquorice root, its active principle carbenoxolone, and the drugs Biogastrone and Caved-S for the treatment of gastic, peptic and duodenal ulcers; the second example is the fruits of the milk thistle, its active principles silymarin and silybinin as well as the drug Legalon for the treatment of liver diseases.
  • (15) after liquorice ingestion) results in cortisol acting as a potent mineralocorticoid.
  • (16) No side effects of treatment were observed.Our study was not able to demonstrate any healing effect of the liquorice extract (Caved-S) on gastric ulcer.
  • (17) The patients were treated during two consecutive periods of four weeks each with either liquorice extract during the first period and placebo during the second or placebo during the first period and liquorice during the second.
  • (18) Her diva demands do not extend beyond the stage-door staff voluntarily leaving a hand-picked packet of her favourite black liquorice allsorts in her pigeonhole.
  • (19) When the activity of the enzyme is impaired (syndrome of apparent MC excess, liquorice or carbenoxolone administration), F acts as a MC and MC-hypertension with hypokalemia occurs.
  • (20) The dosage of the liquorice extract was 760 mg three times daily.

Sweet


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet voice; a sweet singer.
  • (superl.) Pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair; as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
  • (superl.) Fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water.
  • (superl.) Not changed from a sound or wholesome state. Specifically: (a) Not sour; as, sweet milk or bread. (b) Not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as, sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
  • (superl.) Plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable; winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
  • (n.) That which is sweet to the taste; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) Confectionery, sweetmeats, preserves, etc.
  • (n.) Home-made wines, cordials, metheglin, etc.
  • (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant in odor; a perfume.
  • (n.) That which is pleasing or grateful to the mind; as, the sweets of domestic life.
  • (n.) One who is dear to another; a darling; -- a term of endearment.
  • (adv.) Sweetly.
  • (v. t.) To sweeten.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (2) Try the sweet potato falafel, quinoa, roast vegetables, harissa and sumac yogurt ($23).
  • (3) Imported sweets and liqueurs were homogenized and extracted with ethyl acetate.
  • (4) It is concluded that the development was influenced by several factors, such as different snacking habits and access to sweets, the study per se, and xylitol-induced effects.
  • (5) The halfwidth of the fluorescence emission band increases in parallel with the loss of sweetness.
  • (6) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
  • (7) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
  • (8) The sensitivity of the taste system to the various qualities was, in decreasing order, salty, sweet, sour, and bitter.
  • (9) A case of Sweet's syndrome developed as a presenting feature of multiple myeloma.
  • (10) Though the thought of a Panama team listening to the USA team huddle coyly sharing their secrets is a rather sweet thought.
  • (11) The sweetness of monellin under these two types of denaturing conditions, temperature and pH, can be predicted by the fluorescence emission spectrum of the protein.
  • (12) Potential, polarization, and pH measurements were performed before and after Coca-Cola and orange juice rinsing and intake of sweets, which were used as test products.
  • (13) A solid-phase extraction method with a strong anion exchanger was used to determine these compounds in sweet wines and in grape musts.
  • (14) Sweet flavours were often correctly identified, with the exception of egg nog, but savoury flavours were recognised less frequently.
  • (15) Thus, the B center of the Shallenberger A-H,B theory of sweetness is best regarded as being -SO3- rather than -SO2- for sulfamates.
  • (16) in Shibuya-ku goes a little easier on the sugary sweet styles.
  • (17) Two subjects with Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in whom pustular Sweet's syndrome was diagnosed are reported.
  • (18) In this paper, the sweetness receptor is refined with use of the shapes of 3-anilino-2-styryl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (sweet) and of 3-anilino-2-phenyl-3H-naphtho[1,2-d]imidazolesulfonate (tasteless), two large and almost completely rigid tastants.
  • (19) It was very sweet, really nice, but it was like an obituary.
  • (20) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.