What's the difference between mushy and semiliquid?
Mushy
Definition:
(a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Jellied eels were always considered a regional dish, much like haggis is to Scotland, mushy peas are to northern England and laver bread is to Wales."
(2) Fatbergs build up on sewer roofs like mushy stalactites.
(3) Thirty-three patients (97%) had diarrhea, and properties of the stools were watery in twenty-four and mushy in nine.
(4) Terrified by the potential for offence, terrified also of giving the impression that any one line of thought was preferable to any other, the default position on every subject became a mushy relativism where every conceivable matter of opinion was deemed to be as valuable as any other.
(5) The remaining Covent Garden branch will continue to offer a range of "proud British flavours", including fish and chips with mushy peas at £14.95; pork belly, banger and mash for £14.50, and sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream at £6.
(6) The world leaders invited to dine by Queen Margrethe supped on turkey and mushy peas, and were serenaded by the Danish Royal Life Guards bands playing George Harrison's Here Comes the Sun.
(7) Last week he unveiled a house in Southwark made of 10 tonnes of wax bricks, which will be heated each morning over the coming month, until is is no more than a mushy puddle on the pavement.
(8) It is proposed that egg counts from 1- to 3-year-olds be multiplied by 0.3, those from 4- to 6-year-olds by 0.5, those from 7- to 9-year-olds by 0.6, and those from 10 to 12-year-olds by 0.7; differences in mean egg density among various fecal consistencies produced factors of 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 3.5 by which the egg counts in formed, mushy-formed, mushy, mushy-diarrheic, and diarrheic feces should be increased.
(9) This report reviews the authors' experience with these injuries, focusing on the recognition and management of what the authors call "complex" DRUJ dislocations: dislocations characterized by obvious irreducibility, recurrent subluxation, or "mushy" reduction caused by soft tissue or bone interposition.
(10) Most of them kept records of three consecutive defecations, including stool form on a validated six point scale ranging from hard, round lumps to mushy.
(11) Mistaking the northern staple of mushy peas for a more metropolitan avocado dip, the urbane Mr Mandelson asked for "some of that guacamole" to accompany his haddock and chips.
(12) 'Share a meal of fish and chips with your family every day for around 10 weeks, with a couple of portions of mushy peas thrown in' "If the government just communicated with people in dry multi-page documents people would be saying they should do things in a fresh and modern way."
(13) He recently emerged from a serious heart attack and, deciding that he was by nature resilient, indulged exactly the same appetites, sinking quantities of the bourbon supplied by a son who worked in the US; eating deep fried cod, chips and mushy peas on Brighton seafront, washed down with dry white wine rather than mugs of tea; resuming a full and fascinating love life that had included two marriages along the way, with two much-loved sons from each.
(14) The nuts bring clagginess and the fruit is too wet, so the result is soggy and mushy with a mouth-coating trace of clay, a sort of repulsive pabulum whose problem is not its flavour but its mouthfeel.
(15) The stage was thus set for Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper to emerge as Labour’s moderate healers – Cooper with a defiant defence of the spending record, and Burnham with a mushy appeal to the “heart of Labour”.
(16) Careful attention to these injuries during initial reduction attempts will reveal "mushy" or unobtainable reductions, an important indication for exploration for entrapped tendon, bone, or soft tissue.
(17) "It looks like there's going to be another mushy minestrone of a coalition.
(18) Trypanosome prevalence in cattle where G.tabaniformis appeared to be the main vector was 9.5% and 5.4% at the Mushie and OGAPROV ranches, respectively.
(19) Experiments performed on dogs to determine their stomach contents after death indicated that, in high-temperature conditions, for example, the ingested chunks of meat are reduced to a mushy-sloppy consistency after three days, suggesting that digestion will proceed to some extent after death as putrefaction continues.
(20) Maria Ellis's stuffed tofu Ginger beer-battered stuffed tofu with Asian mushy peas.
Semiliquid
Definition:
(a.) Half liquid; semifluid.
Example Sentences:
(1) (It is presumed that these will enhance linear flow of semiliquid intestinal contents.)
(2) The junction between lens and LPC's has critical structural value in that (1) this is the sole anchorage to the lens by the lengthy remainder of the ommatidium, and (2) LPC's enclose the semiliquid pseudocone in the most distal portion of the pseudocone.
(3) Hooks of all worms from rats were invested with a semiliquid lipid coat, apparently derived from tegumental excretions at the base of the hooks.
(4) A special semiliquid medium was designed and tried, containing agar-agar, peptone, sodium chloride, mannose, gelatin, indicator, Progress agent.
(5) A bacterial suspension prepared from a nodule from a patient with lepromatous leprosy was inoculated into the cell-free, semisynthetic, semiliquid agar medium M-Y 11d-modified from the authors' medium M-Y 1c by omitting glycerol and adding pyruvate-and incubated at 37 degrees C. The growth of the organism was stimulated so markedly that after about 50 weeks' incubation of the primary culture microcolonies could be seen floating in the agar layer as tiny white particles, while the medium fluid assumed a yellow tinge.
(6) If stored at 4 degrees C in semiliquid agar, S. flexneri cultures have been found to retain their capacity for producing the above-mentioned enzymes as long as 10-13 years.
(7) The quality of swallowing was very good in 51.5% of the cases, while 36.7% of the patients suffered from dysphagia for semisolids and 10.1% for semiliquids.
(8) Self-reproduction of spheroplasts is most active in a semiliquid potato-meat-peptone medium containing 0.2--0.3 per cent of agar.
(9) A semiliquid hematoma was evacuated and a vascular nodule was removed from the posterior wall of the hematoma cavity.
(10) The cells of the adapted substrain of P-388 grew also in the semiliquid agarized medium forming compact colonies by the 4th-5th day of cultivation.
(11) Preliminary tests had shown a mass of a big orange, size of cystic appearance on the scan, clearly defined by TAC, as an oval shape, of cystic appearance, with semiliquid contents, strictly connected with the left-hand side of the thyroid gland and the big vessels of the neck and the fossa over the collar bone plane which pressed on the trachea and put it out of its original position.
(12) Taste stimuli were 20 semiliquid mixtures of soft-white cheese (0, 3 or 7 grams of fat per 100 grams) or heavy cream (30% fat), and sweetened with 1, 5, 10, 20 or 40% sucrose.
(13) Basal activity of the interposed colon was limited to occasional monophasic waves of the segmenting type; the acid solution and the semiliquid bolus constantly elicited a peristaltic motor response transporting the contents to the gastric fundus or, in antiperistaltic colon, from the distal to the proximal part.
(14) Three nutrition systems were employed: 1) total parenteral feeding (7 patients), 2) feeding by naso-gastric tube or gastric fistula (15 patients), 3) feeding per os with semiliquid foods (9 patients).
(15) Better results produced the strain K vaccine against swine fever in combination with semiliquid agar.
(16) An animal model was then created in twenty immature dogs, venous drainage was obstructed, and intraosseous pressure of the femoral head and neck was elevated by injection of four milliliters of semiliquid silicone into the femoral neck.
(17) Necropsy of dead and sick 5-day-old poults from a flock of 12,500 Broad-Breasted White turkeys having high early mortality (685 the first week) revealed rather large inflamed retained yolk sacs with semiliquid contents, ascites, and swollen greenish-colored livers.
(18) To achieve the growth of L-forms, sputum inoculation was done on Shkolnikova's semiliquid culture medium.
(19) Rotavirus was detected more frequently in semiliquid, loose stools than in normal or watery stools, and an association between virus detection and diarrhoea could not be demonstrated.
(20) All were treated with an individualized disaccharide dose to achieve and maintain two semiliquid bowel movements per day.