What's the difference between must and musty?

Must


Definition:

  • (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
  • (v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
  • (n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
  • (n.) Mustiness.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make musty; to become musty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
  • (2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
  • (3) The significance of minor increases in the serum creatinine level must be recognized, so that modifications of drug therapy can be made and correction of possibly life-threatening electrolyte imbalances can be undertaken.
  • (4) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
  • (5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (6) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (7) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
  • (8) Careful attention must be given to antibiotic choice as well as the dose and duration of therapy.
  • (9) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
  • (10) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
  • (11) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
  • (12) Although esmolol may be used as a primary hypotensive agent, the potential for marked myocardial depression must be recognized.
  • (13) After the diagnosis of a soft-tissue injury (sprain, strain, or contusion) has been made, treatment must include an initial 24- to 48-hour period of RICE.
  • (14) Since the plasmid-cured strains did not contain DNA sequences homologous to plasmid DNA, the gene for the free-inclusion protein must be encoded in the chromosome.
  • (15) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (16) Research must continue to determine the optimal regimen that suppresses testosterone activity with the least amount of toxicity.
  • (17) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (18) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
  • (19) It is commonly assumed that the visual resolution limit must be equal to or less than the Nyquist frequency of the cone mosaic.
  • (20) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.

Musty


Definition:

  • (n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.
  • (n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.
  • (n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some 26 years later Laake can still recall every detail of the trial: his aching wrists cuffed behind his back; the musty smell of the courtroom; the steely voice of the young female judge.
  • (2) Ingestion by hens and broilers of specific chloroanisols present in some wood shavings used in poultry cages can result in a musty taste in poultry products.
  • (3) The commercial product may have a light-yellow to cream color with a musty odor (Hartley and Kidd, 1983).
  • (4) But going by the musty books lining the walls, it does look like this new incarnation might have more of an intellectual, introspective bent.
  • (5) The symbolism was not hard to fathom: here, cooed the pages showing candidates at home, was a bright, straightforward, modern party; an explosion of youthful colour along the musty, dark-wood corridors of traditional Spanish politics.
  • (6) Shattered skylights allow rain to fall inside and douse the musty hallways.
  • (7) Stay away from the courtyard rooms, which are darker and can get musty in the tropical heat.
  • (8) Stored in a musty room upstairs are thousands of historical posters and documents that he hopes one day to store in a national archive.
  • (9) Untreated PKU causes severe mental retardation, musty odor, hyperactivity, seizures, eczema and hypopigmentation.
  • (10) In common with most Arab countries, public access to official information in Egypt is almost nonexistent, with state archives buried beneath a musty web of security restrictions and a deeply entrenched government culture of destroying or hiding any records that could prove awkward.
  • (11) No one contracted the disease who had not something to do with this musty straw.
  • (12) Cultures of Penicillium expansum produce a musty, earthy odor.
  • (13) The women, who are here to promote their Girls Matter campaign, insist they can’t talk politics because they represent a charity and have to be neutral, but they can’t disguise their enthusiasm for this strange, musty old world.
  • (14) Moulds or fungi that grow in grains and seeds during storage and transport cause germination decrease, visible mouldiness, discoloration, musty or sour odours, caking, chemical and nutritional changes, reduction in processing quality, and form of mycotoxins.
  • (15) Both oct-1-en-3-ol and cis-2-octen-1-ol are thought to be responsible for the characteristic musty-fungal odor of certain fungi; the latter compound may be a useful chemical index of fungal growth.
  • (16) The characteristic non-specific uptake of dye from media into the colonies and their musty or earthy odour rendered them easily distinguishable from other organisms.
  • (17) Regal and robed, the justices of the US supreme court often cite musty edicts of centuries past and sheaves of legal reasoning accumulated over the decades.
  • (18) The saving grace is that he can present himself as a new broom, albeit with Augean stables rather than musty warehouses to be cleaned out.
  • (19) F. A. LINNIK (1938) noted that immediately before falling sick patients had been in close contact with musty straw.
  • (20) Updike typically gives us every beautifully rendered detail: the fall of morning light, the "musty cidery smell" of pine needles, the texture of the blanket they lie on.