What's the difference between murk and musk?

Murk


Definition:

  • (a.) Dark; murky.
  • (n.) Darkness; mirk.
  • (n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children and the elderly were urged to stay indoors and some residents who ventured out wore face masks as the acrid murk entered its third day.
  • (2) But far from clearing the murk that always surrounds News Corporation's dealings with elected power, he has greatly thickened the fog.
  • (3) Still, even today you can't poke your head out into an old New York building's rear light well without smelling the greed that forced so many to live in ill-ventilated murk.
  • (4) Every time you close your eyes, an imaginary gay man's imaginary penis rises from the murk, bowing ominously in your direction, sensing your discomfort.
  • (5) You have to admire the way the Indie keeps going through so much murk.
  • (6) Then, back in the murk, it may be easier to decide whether the deliberations of 115 world leaders have made the slightest bit of difference.
  • (7) Labor has been extremely concerned about the impact of this murk on marginal seat campaigns in NSW.
  • (8) However, at least in some quarters, there is a great will to encourage innovation and avoid the murk that accompanied gene patenting.
  • (9) But you have to be a pretty implacable Murdoch foe (or career politician) to try to turn misty murk into freezing fog.
  • (10) Only forecasters talk about “winteriness”, “spits and spots” or “mist and murk”.
  • (11) That’s the new media, that’s why things go viral.” Social media has deepened the murk.
  • (12) The words are hard to make out in the reverb-drenched murk.
  • (13) This may be wrong, of course, but the sudden haste with which Mr Osborne has acted, and the murk that surrounds this decision, is puzzling.
  • (14) There was, however, an exception, a shaft of clarity and brilliance in the prevailing murk.
  • (15) Never escaping the murk becomes a moral and spiritual failure.
  • (16) The fourteenth reported patient with Murk Jansen's metaphyseal chondrodysplasia is presented, with a remarkable followup from birth to the age of 15 years.
  • (17) In the opaque world of Chinese censorship, a few red lines shine through the murk.
  • (18) Upcoming debut album Spiritual Songs For Lovers To Sing was overseen by recent Björk collaborator Bobby Krlic AKA The Haxan Cloak, setting up an interesting tension between his trademark digital murk (exemplified by his 2013 album Excavation) and the heart-on-sleeve crusading of two of Roberts’s biggest musical heroes, Joe Strummer and Bruce Springsteen.

Musk


Definition:

  • (n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.
  • (n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).
  • (n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.
  • (n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.
  • (n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
  • (v. t.) To perfume with musk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (2) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
  • (3) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
  • (4) Musk shrews (Suncus murinus) were maintained for 8 weeks in long (16 h light:8 h darkness) or short (8 h light:16 h darkness) daylengths.
  • (5) Mating experiments indicated that the kinky-coat character is controlled by a single autosomal recessive gene designated kc (kinky coat), which is not allelic to the gene ch (curly hair) previously reported in the Tr strain derived from wild musk shrews on Taramajima Island, Japan.
  • (6) Successful photosensitization was achieved only when the nuchal skin was stripped with scotch tape before application of musk ambrette and ultraviolet radiation.
  • (7) The company’s exuberant chief operating officer, Bibop Gresta (who also takes the title “chief bibop officer”) listed all the ways his plan built on Musk’s.
  • (8) Chaffin’s sources say that, even as Elon Musk’s electronic car firm Tesla Motors is stealing away record numbers of employees from Apple , the house the Steves built is hiring Tesla employees right back – and specifically, “the kind of people from Tesla with expertise that is most suited to cars”.
  • (9) Musk said the software was progressing, but that he had run into difficulties on the road in California.
  • (10) The histochemical study of the Ear of female Suncus murinus (Indian musk shrew) was studied by the use of the cholinesterase technique.
  • (11) A substantial improvement in the rate of detection of organic lesions affecting the olfactory pathway can be achieved by substituting odours such as musk ketone, exaltolide, linalyl acetate and coumarin for those in current use.
  • (12) Speaking in at an event in San Francisco , Musk, who is expected to unveil the new Tesla D car later on Thursday, rejected the idea.
  • (13) 1, the time course for the photoperiodic response in juvenile male musk shrews was examined by exposing animals to short (10L:14D) or long (14L:10D or 18L:6D) daylengths for 10, 20, 40 or 56 days.
  • (14) Trump may have missed Dimon’s buried critique, but he won’t have missed Dimon’s signature alongside fellow councilmembers Musk and Iger, who joined a total of 30 other business leaders in sending a letter to the president that begins: “We are writing to express our strong support for the United States remaining in the Paris climate agreement.” “Based on our vast experience doing business all over the world, we believe there is strong potential for negative trade implications if the United States exits from the Paris agreement,” they wrote.
  • (15) The most frequent positive reactions were to chlorpromazine (13 patients), musk ambrette (nine patients), and promethazine (eight patients).
  • (16) Musk said last month that the Model 3 would be unveiled next spring, with production to begin in 2017.
  • (17) Only ACB produced classical musk-like UAO (UAO + ve) in an in vitro odour-producing system with 29% being UAO -ve.
  • (18) Genetically conditioned polymorphism of alpha-amylases in musk ducks, domestic ones and their hybrids has been described.
  • (19) Tesla Model-S launch: an electric car to answer even Clarkson's objections Read more Elon Musk’s Tesla has shown that electric vehicles are viable for a business with its Roadster and then Model S , which recently gained a faster dual-motor version with an “insane mode” which reaches 60 miles per hour in under 3.2 seconds.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk introduces the Model X.