What's the difference between moldy and molly?

Moldy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Alt. of Mouldy

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During a research project on the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes 194 strains were isolated in southern West Germany during the years 1972 to 1974:154 from soil and plant samples (20.3%), 16 from feces of deer and stag (15.7%), 9 from old moldy fodder and wildlife feeding grounds (27.2%), and 8 from birds (17.3%).
  • (2) These data suggest that the role of fusariotoxin T-2 in field cases of moldy corn toxicosis should be reinvestigated since oral lesions were not mentioned in the original descriptions of the disease.
  • (3) A 13-year-old Quarterhorse that died 2 days after eating moldy hay had hemorrhagic enteritis, fatty degeneration of the myocardium and renal tubules, and extensive total midzonal necrosis of the liver.
  • (4) The factors which influenced farmer's lung were the moldy state of the hay and the dust concentration.
  • (5) It was found that the presence of mycotoxins in dairy products is more related to the environmental factors causing mold growth on dairy products than to the ingestion of moldy feed by the cow.
  • (6) Clostridium botulinum spores in these moldy tomato juices germinated, grew out, and produced toxin.
  • (7) Any Moldy Peach diehards balking at the idea of Green duetting with someone other than Dawson are missing out, though: this record sounds as though he and Shapiro have known each other for ever.
  • (8) Forty-seven addicts had precipitins against extracts from moldy hay, and 34 against extracts from bagasse.
  • (9) Symptomatology, skin testing, immunologic testing, and specific bronchoprovocation testing indicate exposure to moldy sugar beet pulp was the cause of the patient's occupational asthma.
  • (10) It is postulated that although precipitins may play a role in artificial disease initiated by soluble antigens, nonspecific complement activation may be more important in understanding the etiology of spontaneous disease in humans brought about by inhalation of moldy particulate matter.
  • (11) This concentration of T-2 toxin in the moldy feed and the nature of the toxic effects observed strongly suggest a major causal relationship.
  • (12) Initially, single doses of aqueous and chloroform extracts of the moldy rice were assayed against the TA100 tester strain by incorporating extracts into the growth medium and by applying small quantities on disks placed on the agar surface.
  • (13) It was believed that the disease resulted from ingestion of moldy field corn, infected with Fusarium moniliforme.
  • (14) This article reports on an epidemiological survey of the presence of farmer's lung among 1054 farmers who grind moldy hay.
  • (15) Cyclopiazonic acid (CPA), a secondary metabolite produced by several species of Aspergillus and Penicillium, was detected in moldy sunflower seed screenings fed to sows who experienced conception problems and feed refusal.
  • (16) The signs, treatment, and prevention of several conditions, such as leukoencephalomalacia, aflatoxicosis, ergotism, fescue toxicity, slobbering disease, ryegrass staggers, and moldy sweet clover disease, are discussed.
  • (17) The moldy material most commonly associated with the disease was straw, followed by hay, grain, and wood chips.
  • (18) The immunological response of cattle exposed to moldy hay was examined by agar gel diffusion with standard farmer's lung hay antigens.
  • (19) Air sampling for organic dusts and microorganisms was carried out in silos when moldy silage was discarded through the discharge chute.
  • (20) Fusarium solani M-1-1 isolated from moldy bean hulls produces T-2 toxin, diacetoxyscirpenol, and a new toxic trichothecene, solaniol, in Czapek-Dox-peptone medium.

Molly


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Mollemoke.
  • (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (5) In the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna, seven morphological endocrine cell-types could be distinguished with the electron microscope.
  • (6) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (7) Heart-warming and heart-breaking, Tales takes us from 1976 to 2012, from shared landlines to Facebook, from Quaaludes to Molly (MDMA), from the fringe to the mainstream.
  • (8) Chromosomes of the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, a unisexual species of hybrid origin, were investigated by C-banding, silver staining, and fluorescent staining with DAPI, quinacrine dihydrochloride, and chromomycin A3.
  • (9) Look after everyone for me, especially Adam and Molly.
  • (10) Molly Mattingly, head of learning disability projects at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities : "We have a range of support mechanisms at our disposal such as personal budgets, Circles of Support and personalised living arrangements.
  • (11) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
  • (12) Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours.
  • (13) She's a bichon frise called Molly and when we took her to the vet he did his routine checks and said, "You've got yourself a girl… no, a boy… no, it's a girl… no, it's both".
  • (14) An extensive system of galanin-like immunoreactive (GAL-LI) fibers has been described in the brainstem and spinal cord of the male molly, which is absent in the female (Cornbrooks and Parsons, companion paper).
  • (15) The show was pipped in the lead acting awards however, with Jim Parsons winning for his portrayal of Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory and Melissa McCarthy winning for Molly in Mike & Molly.
  • (16) He was diagnosed as having chorea mollis, a rare variant of Sydenham's chorea.
  • (17) Gabrielle and Nick with their parents, Molly and Rodney.
  • (18) November 4, 2012 Molly Ball (@mollyesque) Starting to think the greatest thing Obama has done for this country is making Republicans sneer at golf.
  • (19) After a brief first marriage to a banker, she is married to a photographer, Adrian Clarke, by whom she has two daughters, Albertine, 10 and Jessye, nine, as well as a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, from his first marriage.
  • (20) I’ll call you a cab, tell them to send someone who doesn’t mind dogs, and I’ll pay,” I offered – but even as I said it, I was thinking of other possible scenarios: Molly could leave her dog overnight with me and grab any old cab home.

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