What's the difference between maslin and muslin?

Maslin


Definition:

  • (n.) A mixture composed of different materials
  • (n.) A mixture of metals resembling brass.
  • (n.) A mixture of different sorts of grain, as wheat and rye.
  • (n.) A vessel made of maslin, 1 (a).
  • (a.) Composed of different sorts; as, maslin bread, which is made of rye mixed with a little wheat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Bean said Maslin purchased a knife and went to the salon to attack her.
  • (2) Maslin told the FA’s website: “We strive to deliver the best possible surface, so I’m slightly disappointed that the surface isn’t as good as it should be but I’m confident it will be back to its pristine state after a winter renovation.
  • (3) In the other similar case reported in the literature, a vesico-uterine fistula was related to a Maslin Spring IUD that had been inserted 14 years prior to presentation.
  • (4) The children’s parents, Rin Norris and Anthony Maslin, who live in Scarborough, had stayed behind in Amsterdam for a few days.
  • (5) If everybody had the same lifestyle as Europeans and Americans, it wouldn’t be so much of an issue, but most of the food that is generated and grown in south-east Asia, Latin America and parts of Africa comes from small landholders,” said Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University College London (UCL).
  • (6) On the basis of chemical and spectral evidence, their structures were characterized as methyl asiatate, methyl maslinate, two new sapogenols, methyl 1 beta,2 alpha,3 beta,23-tetrahydroxyolean-12-en 28-oate (mucunagenin a), its urs-12-en isomer (mucunagenin b), 3-O-(6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucuronopyranosyl) methyl asiatate 3-O-[alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl(1----2)]-6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucur onopyranosyl methyl maslinate, 3-O-[alpha-L-arabinopyranosyl(1----2)]-6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucur onopyranosyl methyl asiatate and 3-O-(6-O-methyl-beta-D-glucuronopyranosyl) asiatic acid 28-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside.
  • (7) Egyptian law in the dock as Shaimaa al-Sabbagh witnesses go on trial | Jared Maslin Read more All had offered testimony over the death of the poet Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, who was killed when police fired at a group of unarmed demonstrators marking the fourth anniversary of the uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak.
  • (8) They would have been distraught at the children on the plane, especially the Maslin family from Perth, who lost three children, aged 12, 10 and eight.
  • (9) In 2009, Maslin was involved in a report published by UCL and medical journal The Lancet on how to manage the health effects of climate change.
  • (10) Among the victims were the three children of Perth couple Rin and Anthony Maslin – Mo, Evie and Otis – who were remembered at a separate memorial service on Sunday.
  • (11) Just gentle, beautiful kids,” said Natalia Gemell, aunt to Mo, Evie and Otis Maslin, aged 12, 10 and 8, who died with their grandfather, Nick Norris, 68, after Malaysian flight MH17 was shot down over the Ukraine on Thursday.
  • (12) The whole manufacturing renaissance saga even hit the bestseller lists in recent months, with Factory Man (which, as the subtitle promises, tells the story of How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Help Save an American Town) winning a coveted spot on the New York Times’ list of the year’s most notable books and reviewer Janet Maslin’s personal top 10 list.
  • (13) Roger Maslin, however, defended the decision to host NFL games at the stadium just six days before an England qualifier, saying the cause of the pitch problems was not the American football matches but too much top soil being placed on the surface during the summer.
  • (14) The Maslin family has expressed so powerfully some of how they feel, that in spite of the enormity of their loss and the depth of their despair, their love exceeds and surmounts all the hatred in the world.
  • (15) Gazzard's family – including her father, Nick, mother, Mandy, and elder sister, Chloe – sat in the public gallery to see Maslin enter his plea.
  • (16) "The pitch is at the heart of the stadium and football is our No1 priority," said Roger Maslin, Wembley's managing director, "However, Wembley Stadium is a multi-use venue and developing our event calendar with a range of football, rugby, sports and entertainment events is key to the success of our business plan.
  • (17) Egyptian law in the dock as Shaimaa al-Sabbagh witnesses go on trial | Jared Maslin Read more “I know other people in Egypt are managing things.
  • (18) So the amount of food you can produce is going to decrease and there you have a major crisis,” Maslin said.
  • (19) Peter Blair QC, defending, said the delay in Maslin entering his plea was to see whether there were any psychiatric issues in the case, but the court heard there were not.
  • (20) On the basis of spectral analysis, physico-chemical constants and derivative preparations, they were identified as beta-amyrin, 3-epi-ursolic acid, methyl maslinate, 3 beta-acetoxy-delta 7-cholest-7-ene, protocatechuic acid, ethyl n-hexacosanoate and ethyl n-tetracosanoate respectively.

Muslin


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings suggest that single-point cortisol values can be misleading in many Muslin countries during or shortly after Ramadan.
  • (2) Young healthy albino male mice were subjected to repeated exposure to kerosene by wrapping each of their hind feet with a muslin cloth (1 x 10 cm) wetted with kerosene (0.1 ml).
  • (3) The arachnoiditis is considered to be due to an inflammatory response to muslin gauze placed close to the optic nerves and chiasm.
  • (4) I've started rounding up muslins and moses baskets, and my hospital bag is already packed.
  • (5) It has been suggested that the accompanying loss of vision is due to a muslin-induced optic neuropathy.
  • (6) All that was needed was a scrap of sticky muslin stretched on the roof and a spectrometer - admittedly a highly sophisticated piece of scientific equipment - to analyse the gamma rays given off by the minute particles of dust it collected.
  • (7) It has been famous for its muslin and jute production.
  • (8) I’d be rediscovering the old me, the real one that was somewhere buried beneath the piles of muslin wipes and my failing fortysomething body.
  • (9) And second, muslin gauze wrapping induced a foreign-body granuloma at the site (parasellar region), and resulted in development of oculomotor palsy.
  • (10) Wrap the spices with the herbs and garlic in muslin cloth and tie securely.
  • (11) The specimens were then wrapped with muslin soaked in the conditioner and covered with polythene sheeting for 1 week.
  • (12) They conclude that reinforcement with muscle is of little value, but that muslin gauze and plastic produced satisfactory results.
  • (13) Experimental venous pouch aneurysms in rats were wrapped with muscle, bovine collagen, muslin, cotton, or polyvinyl alcohol.
  • (14) On an informal level, too, members of the Muslin Brotherhood began taking it upon themselves to break up public dance performances – including, last month, this rather bland ballet-styled cabaret show in Cairo .
  • (15) Microorganisms penetrated single-wrap muslin as early as 3 days and double-wrap muslin and single-wrap two-way crepe paper in 21 to 28 days stored in open shelves.
  • (16) Empirical evaluations closely simulating actual use conditions were employed to compare critical property levels of commonly used muslin (140-thread) and nonwoven sterile-wraps.
  • (17) That is not a line from a novel but from one of Austen's 1811 letters to her sister Cassandra, in which she discloses she went shopping for fabric but was "tempted" by a pretty-coloured muslin.
  • (18) Familial occurrence of fistula auris congenita (ear pits) is described in a Muslin kindred of Indian origin.
  • (19) Microbial penetration of sterile packs was studied by using double-wrap (two layers each) muslin, single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-wrap (one layer) two-way crepe paper outer covering, and single-wrap (two layers) muslin inner covering with single-layer BAR-BAC wrappers to wrap 20 gauze sponges (2 by 2 in.).
  • (20) He was intubated with a red rubber tube wrapped with aluminum tape and outermost with muslin strips.

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