What's the difference between lithe and supple?

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.

Supple


Definition:

  • (a.) Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
  • (a.) Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
  • (a.) Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious.
  • (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
  • (v. t.) To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
  • (v. i.) To become soft and pliant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (Acta Chir Scand [Suppl] 346:1-12, 1965) was determined.
  • (2) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (3) Ultrastructural studies of Aeromonas hydrophila strain AH26 revealed two distinctive pilus types: "straight" pili appear as brittle, rod-like filaments, whereas "flexible" pili are supple and curvilinear.
  • (4) Priestman (Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol 25:529-533, 1989 [Suppl]) reported on a pilot and randomized study with ondansetron after single doses of 8 to 10 Gy to the upper abdomen.
  • (5) 11 (suppl 14) 331 (abstract)] [14] also indicates that sensitivity to 4-HC can be used to distinguish primitive progenitor cells from committed progenitor cells.
  • (6) Large-scale clinical trials have established that lowering blood pressure in patients with mild to moderate diastolic hypertension results in a decreased incidence of stroke and, to a lesser extent, a reduction in incidence of coronary heart disease [MacMahon SW, Cutler JA, Furberg CD, et al: Prog Cardiovasc Dis 1986; 29 (suppl 1): 99-118].
  • (7) We have used either superior or inferior flaps but over the last 25 years we have preferred the latter type of flap (Rosenthal) which produces better results because: 1) it is retracted laterally to a lesser degree, 2) it is more supple, 3) it is attached below and posteriorly to the soft palate (which permits the pharyngeal constrictor muscles, during contraction, to apply pressure against the lateral borders of the flap, and thus avoid any nasal regurgitation).
  • (8) "When you're inside an idea it's hard to think of it as ambitious, but yes it is a huge mountain we are climbing, it's a huge sea we are crossing," said Supple.
  • (9) Wide subperiosteal undermining in primary surgical correction of labio-maxillary clefts not only enhances the osteogenic activity of the periosteum but in addition, if the exposure is extended from the superior limit of the ascending maxillary process and the nasal bone to the inferior orbital rim above the infra-orbital foramen and the malar eminence, good suppleness of the overlying muscles can be achieved.
  • (10) The authors observed an abnormal frequency of laryngo-tracheal stenosis over a period of three months, corresponding to the use of a defective lot of supple catheters for single use and made of polyvinyl chloride.
  • (11) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
  • (12) One may thus carry out by an extremely benign operation without any mortality, a surgical cure not only of supple stenoses, but also of certain tight fibrous stenoses, considered insuperable.
  • (13) The second stage of the reeducation concerns the tongue moving tonicity and suppleness.
  • (14) This flap provides thin, supple skin for reconstruction of moderately sized vaginal defects leaving a minimal donor defect.
  • (15) Preoperative requirements include a well-motivated patient with a supple digit and an established wide discrepancy between the active and passive ranges of digital motion.
  • (16) Microscopic normalization of the actinically damaged epidermis and papillary dermis was manifested clinically by the replacement of dermatoheliosis with supple, smooth-textured facial skin that remained clinically evident well beyond 8 years after dermabrasion.
  • (17) Speedy postpartum weight loss isn't just for celebs In Karnataka, southern India, older women in the community who care for new mothers urge them to become thinner than they were before pregnancy, "like the tip of a mantani leaf – thin, slender, fresh and supple," says Dr Saraswathy Ganapathy of the Belaku Trust , which works to improve the lives of women in the area.
  • (18) Suppl 2 decreased plasma triglycerides, further increased the RBC alpha-tocopherol, moderately increased the RBC double-bond index, but decreased the RBC total fatty acid-cholesterol ratio.
  • (19) He tests the suppleness of his editing muscles by running a clip of film, noting where the actor blinks, then re-playing and halting at exactly that frame (there's 24 of them a second).
  • (20) LBA was done using a supple balloon catheter (LBA-c) which was placed blind down the intubation tube, until a distal bronchus was blocked (under radiographic control).