What's the difference between perishable and shortlived?
Perishable
Definition:
(a.) Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
(2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
(3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
(4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
(5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
(6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
(7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
(8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
(9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
(10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
(11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
(12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
(13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
(14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
(15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
(16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
(17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
(18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
(19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
(20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.
Shortlived
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) cAMP-dependent modification of proteins appears to be very shortlived in mitochondria.
(2) These symptoms, while shortlived, are similar in nature to symptoms which other authors have shown to be correlated with later increased rate of neurological deviance.
(3) But Professor Li Xiguang, of Tsinghua University's journalism school, predicted CNC World would be shortlived.
(4) Its occurrence in 2.49% of the patients was preceded by colic-like pain and shortlived elevation of axillary temperature up to 38oC.
(5) DNA-synthesis was low and extremely shortlived and the induction phase to maximal proliferation for different HBV immune donors varied between 5-8 days in culture.
(6) I feel pleased to have crossed out 10 things today, then realise I’ve added 15 items to my list so my elation is shortlived!
(7) The victory of legality proved shortlived and imperfect.
(8) Results are presented of the influence of the particle concentration on the activity concentrations of the attached and unattached shortlived radon daughters.
(9) Military and civilian authorities in Pakistan have repeatedly reached agreements with militants, most of which were shortlived.
(10) Fungal ribonucleotide reductases are little known; the partially characterized enzyme from yeast cells proved exceptionally shortlived, and a free radical could not as yet be demonstrated.
(11) The radioactivity from the "mRNA" peak can be chased, and these counts may represent a class of shortlived messenger RNA molecules with an average half-life of 10 to 15 minutes.
(12) Transfusions of white blood cell concentrates had only shortlived effects on the neutropenia.
(13) A review of the literature suggests that, although various anaesthetic agents themselves depress immune responses, the effects are shortlived and of minor importance when compared with the effects of the hormonal aspects of the stress response.
(14) Even so, economists warned that the powers of central bankers can be very shortlived when it comes to currencies Ireland Ireland is in the depths of the worst recession in its history, but there are signs it may have turned the corner.
(15) The official welcome was shortlived, however, amid a heavy army presence and pro-government protesters bearing placards calling for an inquiry into Britain's colonial crimes.
(16) This study concerns itself with the neurological functioning of 11-year-old children who neonatally presented a variety of shortlived or transient symptoms.
(17) In simple absence improvement was also evident, although more shortlived than in myoclonic seizures.
(18) Two adjectives he is unlikely to choose are "unhealthy" and "shortlived" – but, as delegates at Scotland's annual public health conference will hear this week, the poor health of Scotland's citizens remains a matter of profound concern.
(19) Tory MP John Whittingdale, chairman of the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee, said: "It could be a shortlived appointment if the governance structure does not survive, but in the next two years there is going to be a major debate about the future of the BBC.
(20) An early boost from better than expected industrial production and retail sales figures from China over the weekend proved shortlived.