What's the difference between pastel and wastel?

Pastel


Definition:

  • (n.) A crayon made of a paste composed of a color ground with gum water.
  • (n.) A plant affording a blue dye; the woad (Isatis tinctoria); also, the dye itself.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (2) Pastel mink inoculated with parallel doses of ADV also produced antibody but did not develop AD.
  • (3) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
  • (4) I go, I have no wish to make a scene, but disloyalty, much, Govey will never forgive you, you do know we have replaced your neon with one of Nancy's pastels?
  • (5) Try the tartelette de chocolate e avelã (hazelnut and chocolate tart, £2), or the classic Portuguese pastel de nata (custard tart, same price).
  • (6) In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky.
  • (7) Impaired semantic processing may result even when odors are simply rendered desaturated, or pastel because of the weakening of olfactory sensitivity with aging.
  • (8) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (9) There are mothers in pastel hijabs, men in T-shirts and longyis, and naked children clutching on to grandparents, jostling for space among puddles and dust, held back by guards with rifles.
  • (10) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
  • (11) For a treat, two minutes’ walk from Nine Flowers is Cape Town’s palace hotel, the pastel pink Mount Nelson, famous for its afternoon tea .
  • (12) Go there today and you will walk from a room of 18th-century pastels to an empty gallery with Martin Creed's Turner prize-winning light being turned on and off.
  • (13) Seventy-two 3-mo-old pastel mink were fed diets that contained 0, 33, 60, 108, 194 or 350 ppm supplemental fluorine (F), as NaF, for 382 d to assess its effects on growth, fur quality, reproduction and survivability.
  • (14) Lady Edith still has an older man in her life, although her wardrobe seems to be getting crazier, with ever-larger headscarves and splashier pastels.
  • (15) "Everything is in shades and tones of pastel colours - cream, grey, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink - and only in the stark bright light at the height of the polar summer, when the sun is high in the sky, do you begin to see true whites among the other colours."
  • (16) When I asked a Swedish friend what the tent, pastel kitchen units, and perky crockery displays in All of Sweden is Baking brought to mind, she replied, immediately: “Ikea and summer weekend cabins.” Phillips has not even lost hope of selling the format to China, which has no tradition of covered ovens, let alone baking – despite the fact that one broadcaster has turned her down on the grounds that Chinese audiences won’t watch a television programme “that makes you fat”.
  • (17) About 39% of pastel mink infected naturally with Aleutin disease virus (ADV) exhibited an inapparent or nonprogressive infection.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Artist Judy Watson, Bloom 2009 pigment, ink, pastel and acrylic on canvas 217.5 x 148 cm Oil and gas – but also coal.
  • (19) I agree with her because I always agree with people as they’re talking, and then I see the dodgems in question: squarish, pastel coloured, built for the slenderer figures of the past, so beautiful and evocative and Brighton Rock that they look poignant, almost vulnerable.
  • (20) But it is not only us; it is happening to people all around here and it is sad that our community is being broken up like this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gympie Street has mostly been renovated and is now painted in pastel colours.

Wastel


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this report we examine Wastell's criticisms and find them to be unfounded.
  • (2) Wastell (1979) questioned the validity of the data analysis procedures and of the experimental design used by Donchin et al.

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