What's the difference between meld and mild?

Meld


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Goodman added: "The line between advice on policy (which Crosby doesn't give) and advice on strategy (which he certainly does) isn't the iron wall that Downing Street and CCHQ would like to assert: the one tends to meld into the other.
  • (2) Mixing of membrane components was demonstrated by transfer of fluorescent lipophilic dye, and melding of granule contents was seen with differential interference microscopy.
  • (3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
  • (4) Helping to meld everyone's creativity into an artistic whole is different from handing down dictats from on high, even if they are dressed up as helpful suggestions.
  • (5) This thickens the sauce and melds the flavours together.
  • (6) The doctor's lectures were a linguistic and topical pastiche, melding Indian and Western biologies, psychologies, and sociologies.
  • (7) It all melds together to make one of the finest examples of tight design, and of understanding by the designers of their game’s core.
  • (8) Rather, traditional pharmacy should be melded with the values system fostered by the clinical movement so that pharmacy as a whole will become more fully professionalized.
  • (9) "There is a depth and honesty in his music, in the way his beats meld together," Atwood-Ferguson says.
  • (10) Assuming senators back the bill, the Senate and the House of Representatives versions will then be melded into one and voted on again by both chambers before passing to Obama for his signature.
  • (11) This is why a new sports strategy is being worked on that will further build on the cross-government work on sport and physical activity that happens.” However, that £1bn “public funding” for community sport melds money from the national lottery, of which sport is one of the direct, statutory beneficiaries, with funding Crouch’s government provides.
  • (12) The uniqueness is in the melding of arcane British crafts (lacemakers, embroiderers, feather specialists, leather workers, corset-makers) with modern technology to create extraordinarily dramatic designs.
  • (13) This article reports the progress of 13 students at the end of 1 year of planning and 1 year of implementing the MELD model in one urban elementary school.
  • (14) Such overlapping segments are then melded into one continuous string of nucleotides.
  • (15) FKA Twigs’ LP1 sees 26-year-old solo artist Tahliah Debrett Barnett meld a variety of genres – from trip hop and jazz to ambient and R&B – to conjure up a sensual sound that is both ethereal and unique.
  • (16) The combined intracellular injection of Lucifer Yellow and biocytin provides a simple means of melding the advantages of a fluorescent label (compatible with other fluorescence labels and with immunocytochemistry) with the benefits of a stable, non-fading, electron-dense marker.
  • (17) Melding these various inputs required close attention to detail and diplomatic flexibility.
  • (18) Inorganic capillary electrophoresis (ICE) is a new separations technology which melds the technique of classical electrophoresis with the separations approach of ion chromatography.
  • (19) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
  • (20) Perhaps even more exciting is what the future holds, as the continued march of molecular biology is melded with novel approaches to the definitive treatment of thalassemias.

Mild


Definition:

  • (superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Histological studies showed that the resulting pancreatitis was usually mild to moderate, being severe only in association with sepsis.
  • (2) In this group there was only one case of mild ankle discomfort (3.5%).
  • (3) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
  • (4) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
  • (5) Mild swallowing difficulties occurred in 18 patients (39%), moderate dysfunction in 23 (50%), and severe dysfunction in five (11%).
  • (6) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (7) For the second propositus, a woman presenting with abdominal and psychiatric manifestations, the age of onset was 38 years; the acute attack had no recognizable cause; she had mild skin lesions and initially was incorrectly diagnosed as intermittent acute porphyria; the diagnosis of variegate porphyria was only established at the age of 50 years.
  • (8) The effects of IFN and mild hyperthermia on the responses of human promyelocytic HL-60 cells were investigated.
  • (9) The apparent sensitivity of Escherichia coli K12 to mild heat was increased by recA (def), recB and polA, but not by uvrA, uvrB or recF mutations.
  • (10) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (11) Alterations in mean systolic blood pressure appeared to be modest, consisting of a 10 percent decrease from the control level, related to sedation, and a 10 percent rise from baseline during the procedure, associated with a concomitant mild tachycardia.
  • (12) Mild fibrosis, swollen mitochondria, and hyper-contracted and overdistended sarcomeres were typical ultrastructural alterations.
  • (13) It is assumed that the mild analgesia produced by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) and indomethacin is due to a common mode of action, namely inhibition of the cyclo-oxygenase reaction in the synthesis of prostaglandins.
  • (14) Predominantly observed defects included neural crest cells in ectopic locations, both within and external to the neural tube, and mildly deformed neural tubes containing some dissociating cells.
  • (15) Haematological findings in 9 dogs with splenic or hepatic haemangiosarcoma included a mild to moderate normochromic anaemia, neutrophilia, thrombocytopaenia, poikilocytosis and increased target cells.
  • (16) The perinatal mortality was 21% in the mild group and 36% and 138%, respectively, among moderate and severe cases of hypertension.
  • (17) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
  • (18) The patient had mild solar sensitivity by age 7, dyspigmentation by 10 years, and he still currently has moderate symptoms.
  • (19) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
  • (20) Other toxicity was mild and included nausea and vomiting, diarrhea, mucositis, hepatic dysfunction, and cardiac arrhythmias.