What's the difference between lite and lithe?

Lite


Definition:

  • (adv., & n.) Little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet what has been unfolding in the past 15 months or so should make even the most ardent pro-European think about an orderly mechanism for making member states exit: the euro crisis and, less obviously, Hungary's backsliding from liberal democracy to a soft form of authoritarianism, or what an American paper recently called " Lukashenko lite ".
  • (2) Correlations with an immunoradiometric assay (Embria), using 522 samples, gave: Stratus = 0.999 (Embria) -3.3; r = 0.969, and Magic Lite = 1.225 (Embria) -3.03; r = 0.971.
  • (3) Asked how he would respond to constituents and colleagues who call the Republican bill “Obamacare-lite”, he replied: “You’re looking at some of the top conservatives in the House.
  • (4) The features that Magic Lite products offer as an immunoassay delivery system are discussed.
  • (5) He also said tax evaders using Liechtenstein had been offered "amnesty-lite" deals.
  • (6) Similarly, tumor appearance was more rapid in MITE rats consuming the low fat corn oil diet in comparison to the low fat diet-fed LITE group (57 day vs. 67 day, P = 0.046).
  • (7) Second place goes to So Sporty Barbie, a kind of Rihanna-lite in Balmain-ish mesh vest dress and open-toe shoe boots.
  • (8) This study demonstrates the safety of Plak-Lite disclosing solution when administered at exaggerated dose levels via routes simulating human use.
  • (9) DMGT executives approached News International to try to end the bitter loss-making battle the two companies have waged since launching their respective free afternoon papers, London Lite and the London Paper, which hit the streets in late August and early September 2006 , according to sources.
  • (10) For those who like verisimilitude in their faux fags there are disposables – the hefty but effective Ten Motives or the petite, feminine NJOY – and rechargeable kits complete with USB chargers and cartridges from the likes of E-Lites, Halo and Skycig.
  • (11) We will continue to assess the situation regarding London Lite," said the managing director of Associated Newspapers' free newspaper division, Steve Auckland.
  • (12) In December the London Paper distributed 495,398 copies daily and London Lite 390,353.
  • (13) In July 2006, before the free London Paper and London Lite launched, the Standard sold 300,993 copies a day.
  • (14) So far, the culture of the debate has been Scottish Enlightenment-lite: ramped-up editorial in the papers and among broadcasters, rashes of serious hustings in community halls, academics moving their heavy artillery into place.
  • (15) At the 10 August meeting, the Fed took a cautious step towards pumping extra liquidity into the financial system through an operation described as "QE lite".
  • (16) In theory, Lite should pick up more advertisers, but it depends whether or not the advertisers are there.
  • (17) DMGT is also home to a 120-strong regional newspaper division, Northcliffe – which it could have sold for £1bn in 2006 but is worth a fraction of that today – as well as TV content provider Teletext and commuter freesheets Metro and London Lite.
  • (18) A new chemiluminometric immunoassay (Magic Lite) and a direct immunofluorescence technique (MicroTrak) were compared with cell culture in the diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections.
  • (19) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
  • (20) The campaign they came up with for the diet beet which became Miller Lite (“Tastes Great, Less Filling”) was named by Ad Age as the eighth-best ad campaign of the 20th century .

Lithe


Definition:

  • (v. i. & i.) To listen or listen to; to hearken to.
  • (a.) Mild; calm; as, lithe weather.
  • (a.) Capable of being easily bent; pliant; flexible; limber; as, the elephant's lithe proboscis.
  • (a.) To smooth; to soften; to palliate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is not as lithe as he was, however, and he had to leave the field immediately after injuring his back in the act of scoring.
  • (2) Long before the Syria vote, Liz Kendall and Yvette Cooper complained of misogyny, and not just from the Mail , which was more interested in Kendall’s “lithe figure” than her politics.
  • (3) The acclaim for Riva and Amour are exceptional in an industry that has always preferred its mainstream stars to be fresh of face, lithe of figure and delivering their lines in English.
  • (4) He bounces into the room unaccompanied, a little stiff in the lower back perhaps, but otherwise breezy and lithe.
  • (5) While Attitude describes him as "tall and lithe and tanned with big brown eyes and a sexual charisma that envelops you like a kidnapper's sack over your head", the Daily Mail reckons Cooper is the "new Mr Darcy".
  • (6) Evolution of H2, however, occurs during growth at lithe intensities as low as 50 to 100 ft-c (540 to 1,080 lux), i.e., under conditions of energy limitation.
  • (7) The present case is the first one to expectorate bronchial lith without marked pulmonary diseases.
  • (8) This appears to be another patient with oligo-cone trichromasy (general cone dysfunction without achromatopsia), as described by Van Lith.
  • (9) He may be lithe and louche and blessed with a gossamer touch but he is fearless too, not just decorating this team but driving it on too.
  • (10) While recording from the statocyst nerve of Homarus americanus, we deflected the statolith hairs from the "rest" position they assumed after the lith was removed.
  • (11) Powerfully built, but lithe and flexible, Grosics was a key figure in Hungary's "Mighty Magyars" squad from 1947 to 1962.
  • (12) Ismene Brown, Daily Telegraph, 2001 "Liquid, lithe choreography that can draw the spectator into a spellbinding world of heightened sensation and scintillating body sculpture."
  • (13) A lithe and lethal finisher, he scored prolifically for Wolfsburg and Dinamo Zagreb before joining Bayern, for whom he struck on his debut to help win the German Super Cup.
  • (14) His camera has a tendency to linger on its subjects, their lithe, young, often barely clothed bodies lit with lush tones.
  • (15) Proteoglycan fractions isolated from cartilage extracted lith 0.15M-KCl separated into two main components on large-pore-gel electrophoresis with mobilities greater than those of proteoglycans extracted with 2.0M-CaCl2.
  • (16) The show was well reviewed by Rolling Stone : “No powerhouse band, no impossibly lithe dancing, no masterful guitar fireworks.
  • (17) The hotel is teeming with security: lithe gentlemen in loose slacks and dark glasses, trying not to kill the birthday vibe.
  • (18) He's stiff-backed and lithe, stamping his hardened feet on the ground.
  • (19) The sputum lith, 1 to 3 mm in diameter, were examined by microanalyser and by the method of X-ray diffraction, which revealed that the lith was composed of calcium carbonate and calcite in crystalline style.
  • (20) Sport benefits everyone, even those of us who don’t have a lithe, size 10 figure – indeed, us most of all.