What's the difference between milkiness and silkiness?
Milkiness
Definition:
(n.) State or quality of being milky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Autopsy revealed massive milky ascites and a large mesenteric mass, which showed histologically perivascular concentric deposition of eosinophilic materials with mixture of residual follicles and scattered plasma cells.
(2) Esophageal stenosis was diagnosed in a 7-day-old Thoroughbred foal referred for evaluation of bilateral milky nasal discharge.
(3) During atriotomy of the right atrium, a large sausage-shaped mass of milky-pinkish color was found.
(4) At night, the sky is hung with a million jewels, clouded only by the Milky Way.
(5) Despite the absence of germinative centres, the appearance of a great number of lymphoblasts and plasma cells in the milky spots provides the evidence of the active antibody production aimed at immunological protection of abdominal cavity.
(6) The mediastinal milky spots were generally covered with plump mesothelial cells with hemidesmosome-like structures in small projections of the cytoplasm, and consisted mainly of clusters of lymphocytes, macrophages and fibroblasts.
(7) Perhaps pop stars are simply too arch or self-conscious to write from the heart about their dreams of a white Christmas; with everybody having fun and Santa bringing that sleigh all along the Milky Way.
(8) The enigmatic patience of the sentences, the pedantic syntax, the peculiar antiquity of the diction, the strange recessed distance of the writing, in which everything seems milky and sub-aqueous, just beyond reach – all of this gives Sebald his particular flavour, so that sometimes it seems that we are reading not a particular writer but an emanation of literature.
(9) In addition, chance samples of handled foods, crude milk and milky fermented derivates (MFD) were studied.
(10) Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the milky spots using a panel of monoclonal antibodies, especially antibodies (ER-MP) that recognize macrophage precursor antigens.
(11) Thoracocentesis yielded a milky fluid with a high triglyceride level.
(12) Moreover, milky spots can firstly be a local source of potent immune effector cells i.e.
(13) In two cases, postmortem findings showed milky white, shiny, clotted lumps in the heart, with a fatty acid composition resembling that of fat emulsions.
(14) injection the labeled macrophages were found deeper in the milky spots.
(15) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
(16) The milky spots contained also large lymphocytes and plasma cells.
(17) Photograph: Joel van Houdt for The Guardian "I wanted to make it as luxurious as possible," said Barakzai in a tiny office at the base of the tower, where staff drank sweet, milky coffee he swore was the best in Kabul, and cans of Red Bull.
(18) All of these patients' cases were associated with a concurrent external chylous fistula, as evidenced by the appearance of a milky fluid confirmed to be chyle by chemical determination.
(19) There was no gynecomastia, but a white milky secretion could easily be expressed from each breast.
(20) Check in to your tiled room with its hard-working ceiling fan (aircon is optional), then walk straight again, into the milky-green water of the Gulf of Mexico.
Silkiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.
(n.) Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(2) Attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing this week, Barack Obama wore, along with other participants, a bright purple silky Chinese-style shirt .
(3) For example, coats fastened at the hip with bracelet's length of heavy chain, but engineered so that they moved fluidly; a black and red tweed coat was based on a 1968 vintage coat, but the tweed remade in a rubberised, modern version; tunic-and-trousers offered as a cool cocktail hour look, a highlight being one all black look with a matt crepe top edged with silky black ruffles at the hip, over slouchy trousers.
(4) Thirteen isolates from one golden pheasant and three white silky fowls, three black silky fowls, three Japanese long crowers, and three Japanese bantams produced herpes-like cytopathic effects (CPE) in the CEF cultures.
(5) Basque specials include grilled kokotxas (gelatinous, subtly flavoured hake glands, an acquired taste) in green sauce, silky red piquillo pepper stuffed with oxtail, grilled scallop and spherical steak croquetas .
(6) We sail through the checkpoints without trouble – Rashid has no English but he’s proud of his ability to negotiate these checkpoints with silky smooth ease.
(7) Shorts are not exactly news but it was this summer that they really went mainstream, with every high-street shop in town doing silky summer shorts, Chloe-esque scalloped shorts and Rihanna-style sporty shorts, and these were simply the norm.
(8) Built by IBM , Watson, as the computer is known, can answer questions in a silky digital voice and knows a hell of a lot of trivia on everything from children's fiction to archaeology and the musical oeuvre of Maurice Chevalier.
(9) Interview with Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times 2009 In other words "An international reputation for his silky intermingling of hybrid movement forms an emotionally intense theatre."
(10) Popular with journalists and staff from Editora Abril – the offices of Brazil's magazine leviathan are just down the road – Ella offers silky, exquisite homemade pasta, springy gnocchi and tender milanesas (breaded steak in a superbly crunchy coating).
(11) Tonight, dressed in a thick tweedy, collared waistcoat, his hair tied back with a silky ribbon, he is an unmissable presence; the ruddy-cheeked pig farmer up to the city for the night.
(12) Iberian lynx: back from the brink of extinction ... and run down by cars Read more The silky sea mammal, native to the west coast of California and off the Guadalupe islands of Mexico, has now moved from the “near threatened” to the “least concern” category, largely thanks to the enforcement of laws such as the USA Marine Mammal Protections Act, it said.
(13) The Spurs outscored the Heat 36-17 in the final quarter, putting a silky gloss on the scoreline that belied just how close this contest was.
(14) Long’s ethereally light, yielding chips, which deliver a proper potato flavour, live up to the hype – as does the impeccably fresh haddock, which falls apart in firm, silky flakes.
(15) 6 Uncover and boil off almost all the liquid to give a silky sauce.
(16) It's sort of My Little Pony gone wrong … There was nothing wrong with Frank Lampard's goal during practice for last week's Ireland friendly and Robin van Persie showed off his silky skills during a childrens' tournament in the Netherlands.
(17) The hair became longer, lighter, softer, and silky, and it was occasionally discolored.
(18) The alkyl moieties in wax esters and alkyl diacyl glycerols from the liver of the dogfish, soupfin shark, and silky shark are almost exclusively saturated and monounsaturated, the main alkyl moieties being the C(16) and C(18) chains in both lipid classes.
(19) There was his silky style, his daunting courage and his principled stance – but what made them tangible was his transporting charisma, the gift of being able to touch people, amuse them, make them feel just a little bit more alive.
(20) Thus the colonization or noncolonization of the organs of the Silkie fowl embryo by melanoblasts seems to depend on environmental cues.