What's the difference between potpourri and scent?

Potpourri


Definition:

  • (n.) A medley or mixture.
  • (n.) A ragout composed of different sorts of meats, vegetables, etc., cooked together.
  • (n.) A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.
  • (n.) A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.
  • (n.) A literary production composed of parts brought together without order or bond of connection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The major topics include the assessment and treatment of occlusal wear, the controversies surrounding treatment position of the mandibular condyles, occlusal considerations in osseointegrated prostheses, the two-way relationship between occlusal factors and temporomandibular disorders, design criteria and longevity studies in resin-bonded, fixed-partial dentures, and a potpourri of articles on other topics of interest.
  • (2) The 18th century minted the magazine, an elegant potpourri of stories and news, instruction and amusement.
  • (3) Perhaps a lovely bowl of potpourri under the nose of the framed Adolf smiling benignly down from the wall.
  • (4) Alongside it is the charming City Bird , a potpourri of a retail store, and its sister store Nest , which together serve as studio, gallery and retail outlet for Detroit-themed goods.
  • (5) In contrast, T-cell ALLs introduce a potpourri of genes into their T cell receptor loci.
  • (6) A potpourri of surgical and prosthodontic complications using the Branemark implant are presented and evaluated.
  • (7) It is labeled as potpourri and marketed as synthetic marijuana, although it has nothing to do with either.
  • (8) "I have to wash before I speak to you because I stink," he continues, his voice a weird transatlantic potpourri of vowels and dropped consonants.
  • (9) The programme, which he presents with Amy Lamé and Baylen Leonard , is a wonderful potpourri of nonsense.
  • (10) In this chapter, I have presented a potpourri of examples of proper clothing to wear during various exercise demands in different environments.
  • (11) Since tracheobronchial secretions are commonly contaminated by microorganisms colonizing the upper airways, routine culture of expectorated sputum, with the inevitable recovery of a potpourri of potential pathogens, can hardly be regarded as a meaningful exercise for the physician.
  • (12) The potpourri of names applied to those specializing in emergency medicine creates an aura of amorphism.
  • (13) This potpourri of fantasy and reality, celebration and satire, is a blast, and a very contemporary one.
  • (14) Despite this recognition, relatively little is known regarding the potpourri of physiological, environmental, structural and mechanical factors potentially associated with a lower aerobic demand of running.
  • (15) The book is a classic Brand potpourri: brilliant and infuriating, part travelogue, memoir, rant, riff, a call to arms and, ultimately, to love.
  • (16) We have reviewed a potpourri of high-tech advances of interest to the hand surgeon: electronically controlled prostheses, functional neuromuscular stimulation, computer graphics, data base computer programs, 3-D imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and lasers--fields that point toward new directions in medicine, in general, and in our specialty, in particular, as we enter the twenty-first century.
  • (17) The origin of the myth is a green, potpourri-like mixture of herbs and uncured tobacco leaves called ipdambae (잎담배), translated literally as "leaf tobacco".

Scent


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
  • (v. t.) To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
  • (v. i.) To have a smell.
  • (v. i.) To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
  • (n.) That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
  • (n.) Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
  • (n.) The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rupert Murdoch has a battle on his hands to win over leading shareholders in BSkyB, who scent the opportunity for a high-stakes game of brinkmanship and are pushing for a premium price of well over £10bn for full control of the pay-television company.
  • (2) It is commonly believed that the scent-marking activity of female mammals is elevated when they are sexually receptive, yet urine-marking by female mice does not vary in relation to their estrous cycles.
  • (3) Previous studies have demonstrated gonadal control of mammalian scent glands; castration leads to reduced scent-marking rates and smaller gland sizes.
  • (4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (5) Male and female scents did not elicit significantly different amounts of scent marking.
  • (6) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
  • (7) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
  • (8) As I type I can smell the nauseating scent of death that clings to me still.
  • (9) Primary afferent electrical activity can be recorded from the chemoreceptors on the mantle margin that are responsive to starfish scent and also from other physiologically distinct receptors that are responsive to contact with starfish tube feet.
  • (10) We meet at the headquarters of the Independent and the Evening Standard in Kensington, in an office scented by a Jo Malone orange blossom candle, and groaning with contemporary art.
  • (11) The scent gland secretions of Dumeril's ground boa (Acrantophis dumerili), pooled from two adult males and a female, were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
  • (12) Four B6 mice, two males and two females, were successfully trained, by water deprivation and reward, to enter the arm scented by B6 or B6-H-2k males.
  • (13) At 120 days of age, field-exposed male offspring exhibited significantly less scent marking behavior than controls.
  • (14) It is shown that the X and Y chromosomes each confer individually of scent related to genotype.
  • (15) Pasting, a stereotypic form of anal gland scent marking, was studied in 2 cohorts (N = 20) of captive spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta).
  • (16) Here lies Baby Addie,” he told us, gesturing to a lumpy patch of earth carpeted in the dry pine needles which scented the air.
  • (17) Deer models baited with CO2 and with CO2 plus 1-octen-3-ol and Deer Trail Scent attracted and induced female Cephenemyia apicata Bennett & Sabrosky and C. jellisoni Townsend to larviposit on them.
  • (18) The urine of these chimeras was tested by the Y maze method, and shown to have acquired a scent indicative of the reconstituting donors' H-2 type.
  • (19) The results suggest that the scents originating from the preputial gland of the juvenile serve as the recognition cue in the social memory paradigm of rats.
  • (20) The GM wheat at Rothamsted is modified to produce a scent undetectable to the human nose, which the main wheat pests, such as greenfly and blackfly aphids, release when under attack from predators.