What's the difference between oenology and onology?

Oenology


Definition:

  • (n.) Knowledge of wine, scientific or practical.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The ethanol dosage automation, very important in oenology, is very difficult to carry out.
  • (2) On the other side, it has been tested that if one abolished the use of asbestos for filtering wines, they would not be altered from the oenological point of view.
  • (3) In oenology the methods are essentially used for research.
  • (4) Automatic dosages took place a short time ago in oenology laboratories.
  • (5) Montenegrin enthusiasm for oenology can be dangerous, as they haven't really grasped the concept of a wine tasting yet.
  • (6) Hybrid strains, with desirable oenological properties, were obtained by mass spore-cell mating between a heterothallic killer yeast and two homothallic sensitive strains and all were shown to have unique DNA fingerprints and electrophoretic karyotypes.
  • (7) Recently, oenological prejudices were challenged by the use of a points scoring system (from 50 to 100) to evaluate wine in a book now widely regarded as one of the most authoritative.
  • (8) Casting his powerfully subversive, silent gaze round the table as a wine master held forth, Baker seemed determined to get his fellow members to "corpse": he had no time whatever for oenological waffle.
  • (9) This is why they are only used in analytic oenology when chemical analysis is most specific enough or too laborious.

Onology


Definition:

  • (n.) Foolish discourse.

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