What's the difference between louse and souse?

Louse


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
  • (n.) Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
  • (n.) Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
  • (v. t.) To clean from lice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prevalence of head louse Pediculus capitis Deg.
  • (2) The bushbuck were infested with 8 ixodid tick species, 2 louse species and a louse-fly species.
  • (3) The louse (Menacanthus stramineus) and the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) were the only parasites recovered.
  • (4) The common duiker harboured 7 tick species and 2 louse species.
  • (5) The ultrastructure of the Malpighian tubes in human louse Pediculus humanus corporis has been studied.
  • (6) In one brief moment a soldier thoughtfully removes a louse from his girl’s army jacket before kissing her.
  • (7) The louse-fly, Lipoptena paradoxa, was recovered from some of the bushbuck from October to May.
  • (8) Some of the treated cows were identified as carriers of louse infestation (subgroups A1 and C1), while others were noncarriers (subgroups A2 and C2).
  • (9) Besides other factors for such a high prevalence, the lack of health education of family members may play a crucial role in transference and louse infestation.
  • (10) A prospective study of 120 louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) patient admitted to Mekele Regional Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia from September to November 1991 was done.
  • (11) However, juvenile wild fish, which migrate from the rivers to the sea each spring, are simply not designed to cope with more than the odd louse.
  • (12) One hundred and sixty patients with louse-borne relapsing fever were treated with a combination therapy of procaine penicillin and tetracycline.
  • (13) Based on evidence of intercellular cohesion, as seen in the histologic results, the patients were placed into two subtypes, compact growth type and louse structure type.
  • (14) At the end of the trial the mean red blood cell and mean total blood content of one louse was evaluated at 0.157 microliters and 0.443 microliters respectively, using 51Cr, and 0.120 microliters and 0.350 microliters respectively, using 59Fe.
  • (15) New host records are given for two species of Acari, one of louse, and one of flea.
  • (16) This sucking louse is typically parasitic on domestic rats, which are murid rodents.
  • (17) To evaluate the efficacy and to determine the minimum effective dosage of four pediculicides against head louse infestation, as well as to select a safe, effective, practical, and cheap agent, 1,657 infested school children in 25 primary schools in Szu-Hu, Kou-Hu, and Ku-Keng Districts of Yunlin County were treated and 1,611 of them were examined.
  • (18) Three 2-(2-phenylethyl) chromone derivatives were isolated from the ethyl acetate soluble fraction of the alcoholic extract of Aquilaria sinensis (Lous.)
  • (19) Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is an acute febrile illness endemic Ethiopia.
  • (20) During recent archaeological excavations in Viking Greenland, specimens of the human flea, Pulex irritans L., and the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus L., were recovered from several farmsteads.

Souse


Definition:

  • (n.) A corrupt form of Sou.
  • (n.) Pickle made with salt.
  • (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine.
  • (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear.
  • (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water.
  • (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle.
  • (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid.
  • (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet throughly.
  • (v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack.
  • (v. t.) To pounce upon.
  • (n.) The act of sousing, or swooping.
  • (adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The catalyst was a series of confrontations between immigrant youth and the police in the Parisian banlieue of Clichy-sous-Bois .
  • (2) The two teenagers were electrocuted while hiding in a power substation in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, in October 2005.
  • (3) Vulnerable people such as the elderly and hospital patients are increasingly likely to consume food produced by new systems such as 'cook-chill' and 'cuisson sous vide'.
  • (4) Along the main water courses in the sparsely populated areas of the Sous-Préfecture of Tcholliré, the vectors of onchocerciasis were mainly Simulium damnosum s. str.
  • (5) Ever since the riots in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005, all matches with North African teams had become potential triggers for trouble in Paris.
  • (6) In Aulnay-sous-Bois, which has seen some of the worst of the rioting, residents walked past burnt-out vehicles and buildings with banners reading 'No to violence' and 'Yes to dialogue'.
  • (7) Their deaths by electrocution triggered riots on the boys' run-down estates in Clichy-sous-Bois, north of Paris, which soon spread across France.
  • (8) Nutritionists and food scientists have concerns about the food safety of sous vide products and the possible increase in food borne illnesses.
  • (9) The "Iles sous le Vent" are well staffed and well equipped, but other islands are under privileged.
  • (10) Of the sausage samples examined, 38% of the fresh pork sausage, 9% of the smoked pork sausage, and 1 sample (souse) of 16 samples of miscellaneous sausage products were contaminated.
  • (11) Yesterday the right-wing mayor of Aulnay-sous-Bois, Gérard Gaudron, led a silent march of 600 residents between the destroyed fire station and the burnt-out pensioners' day centre in Mille-Mille.
  • (12) The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois).
  • (13) It comes after an investigation by Channel 4 News estimated last month that more than 11,000 positions currently advertised on the government's Universal Jobmatch website may not actually exist, ranging from vacancies for sous chefs to dry-cleaners.
  • (14) "Most of the kids in this neighbourhood are the fourth generation of their family in France," said Mohamed Mechmeche, 44, a youth worker in Clichy-sous-Bois who after the riots founded the community pressure group Aclefeu.
  • (15) Even if they did, the warnings did not deter Bouna Traore, 15, and Ziad Benna, 17, from going into the electricity substation in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois.
  • (16) Activists and youth workers in Clichy-sous-Bois had said that if the case did not go to trial it would be a message that poor families on run-down estates did not deserve justice in France.
  • (17) While unemployment, poor housing, daily discrimination and racism have run local people into the ground in the poorest parts of Clichy-sous-Bois, it is the daily conflict with police that remains a tinderbox.
  • (18) It was here in Clichy-sous-Bois in 2005 that the deaths of two boys who had been running from police were the catalyst for the worst riots in modern French history.
  • (19) That same night, 15 cars were torched in Clichy-sous-Bois, a classic French banlieue of rundown postwar high-rises that are home to 30,000 people, overwhelmingly second and third-generation immigrants whose parents arrived in France as cheap migrant labour from north Africa.
  • (20) Photograph: Annabel Moeller Heston Shops selling blowtorches, sous-vides and gold leaf should be ready for a last-minute rush as Britain’s peculiar-fusion chef Heston Blumenthal makes his debut as a Radio 2 DJ and gives festive cooking tips.