What's the difference between mutilate and rutilate?

Mutilate


Definition:

  • (a.) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
  • (a.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
  • (n.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.
  • (v. t.) To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.
  • (v. t.) To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Following mass disasters and individual deaths, dentists with special training and experience in forensic odontology are frequently called upon to assist in the identification of badly mutilated or decomposed bodies.
  • (2) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
  • (3) The central nervous system proximity poses a difficult problem and speaks for an early mutilating surgery.
  • (4) To avoid mutilating surgery in advanced disease, four courses of VBC chemotherapy were administered prior to resection.
  • (5) UK Border Force officers have warned of an emerging trend of "cutters" flying into Britain to practise female genital mutilation (FGM).
  • (6) But she did back moves advocated by the Solicitor-General, Oliver Heald, to place a duty on parents to protect their children and make it illegal to permit their daughters to be mutilated.
  • (7) With the first prosecutions under way in the UK and Guinea-Bissau , an increased focus on strengthening the law in Kenya , and a rare conviction in Uganda , positive moves are being made in several countries to implement laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM).
  • (8) It has been suggested that in some self-mutilating Tourette patients, HGPRT shows a time-related loss of activity at 4 degrees C, and an unusual isoelectrofocusing pattern.
  • (9) Its most prominent but by no means exclusive feature is self-mutilation.
  • (10) She explained that, as a baby, she had been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM): her clitoris cut off and her vagina sealed, with only a small hole remaining for urine and menstruation.
  • (11) One described the mutilated bodies of three acquaintances – two women and a 14-year-old boy – found in their homes.
  • (12) Younger children may worry about genital mutilation, and should be reassured.
  • (13) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
  • (14) That has left patients with unsatisfactorily functioning vaginas and a mutilated appearance.
  • (15) As illustrated by a case of dye impression, early extensive surgical exploration and radical removal of the injected agent are mandatory to minimize sequelae and to avoid mutilating complications.
  • (16) Hence unwilling finger mutilations can scarcely be the result of a "reflex action" of this kind.
  • (17) The future James I resorted to them on several occasions in Scotland: in 1600, for instance, he had two alleged assassins pickled in whisky, vinegar and allspice, put on trial, and then mutilated.
  • (18) But Mossad’s toughest opponent was her mother, who started demanding her grand-daughter’s mutilation from when she was just 11 months old.
  • (19) In one case a laceration over the median nerve was followed by self-induced trauma to the fingers distal to the cut, while the other patient developed self-mutilation in all the extremities following insecticide poisoning and presented with signs of diffuse peripheral neuropathy.
  • (20) Muslims suspected of collaborating with Djotodia's rebellion have been stoned to death in the streets and their bodies mutilated.

Rutilate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To shine; to emit rays of light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anatase and rutile are titanium dioxides (TiO2) with different crystal lattices.
  • (2) The hydrogen bonding ability of the surfaces of these rutiles were compared with inert rutile and quartz.
  • (3) Only two, both synthetic rutiles, were found to be active.
  • (4) These results suggested that perovskite and rutile existed at the interface between hydroxyapatite and titanium after plasma-spraying and made hydroxyapatite to bond tightly to the titanium.
  • (5) Biological studies of two titanium dioxide polymorphs, rutile and anatase, have produced conflicting results.
  • (6) The binding properties of the active rutile have been found to be consistent with those properties associated with biologically active quartz.
  • (7) Rutile samples containing trace amounts of nickel or chromium had an activity similar to that of pure rutile.
  • (8) An average of 613 million particles, of exogenous origin, per gram of dry lung tissue were found, the major classes of particles being silica, talc, aluminum silicates, and rutile.
  • (9) We exposed rats to an aerosol of either anatase or rutile and determined the TiO2 retention in the lung up to 132 days post exposure.
  • (10) The surface properties of rutile are the determinants of its activity.
  • (11) The other more boxlike crystals (coesite, anatase, and rutile) displayed little change in these parameters.
  • (12) The crystals studied were quartz, tridymite, cristobalite, coesite, anatase, and rutile.
  • (13) The evidence suggests that both anatase and rutile are "nuisance" dusts.
  • (14) Rutile and anatase induced similar effects, and both had a very low biological activity in comparison to alpha-quartz.
  • (15) The biological reactivity of two crystalline forms of titanium dioxide, rutile and anatase, has been compared in in vitro and in vivo assays.
  • (16) Titanium dioxide-polymethacrylate composites were prepared with triethyleneglycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), 1,6-bis(methacryloxy-2-ethoxycarbonylamino)-2,4,4-trimeth ylexane (UDMA) and rutile structure titanium dioxide.
  • (17) It has been reported that rutile can be considered "inert".
  • (18) Here we describe an XAS study of divalent cobalt (Co(II)) complexes sorbed on three different solids, gamma-Al2O3, rutile (TiO2) and kaolinite (Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
  • (19) Because natural and synthetic rutiles possess different surface properties, they display different activities.
  • (20) Pure rutile or anatase preparations show only a weak chemiluminescent response.

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