What's the difference between quintessential and virginal?

Quintessential


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (2) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
  • (3) Hussain’s concerns and desires are of course quintessentially British – as Swiss Miss hot cocoa may be American and good galettes Belgian.
  • (4) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
  • (5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
  • (6) But like other American exports, the chain would soon become a quintessentially British institution, with a presence on almost every high street and a unique place in the hearts of the nation's shoppers.
  • (7) We will be bringing a quintessentially British department store with western brands,” said Oddy.
  • (8) The Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore , has insisted it remains "quintessentially English" despite an influx of foreign players, managers and owners over the past two decades.
  • (9) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
  • (10) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
  • (11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
  • (12) They know that his prominence would screw a tight lid on the pot of potential leave support because Farage is the quintessential Marmite politician: repellent to those that do not find him delectable.
  • (13) Waitrose is pledging to expand the current range of 200 "quintessentially British products" to around 500, and will pay a fixed percentage royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail purchases.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
  • (15) It will be a scene as quintessentially Big Apple as Broadway, yellow cabs and the Statue of Liberty.
  • (16) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
  • (17) This song, for me, is quintessential Lou Reed, and is up there with the very best rock 'n' roll songs ever recorded."
  • (18) Scudamore recently asserted that the overseas billionaires who have bought the top clubs are attracted to a game that is still "quintessentially English".
  • (19) He seemed so quintessentially New Labour – a Catholic comprehensive schoolboy from Merseyside who read English at Cambridge, worked as a parliamentary adviser and was elected in 2010.
  • (20) Whether its trajectory follows theirs, or that of nearby Frisco, the quintessential Dallas exurb, hangs in the balance.

Virginal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.
  • (n.) An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
  • (v. i.) To play with the fingers, as if on a virginal; to tap or pat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight-week-old virgin untreated female mice were induced to ovulate using equine chorionic gonadotropin (eCG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG), and were then caged with males overnight.
  • (2) Tritium-labeled ribonucleic acid precursors, including cytidine, uridine, and orotic acid, were injected into rats with dated pregnancies (14 to 21 days) and virgin rats.
  • (3) The Duke of Gloucester will go to the British Virgin Islands and Malta, while the Falkland Islands – where Prince William will be serving briefly as a helicopter pilot in the spring – will receive an official visit from the Duke of Kent, who will also go to Uganda.
  • (4) The hepatic balance for valine, leucine and isoleucine has been measured in anaesthetized virgin controls and 9 and 12-day pregnant rats.
  • (5) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (6) In the early, middle and late periods of pregnancy, axonal swelling, agglutination of axonal cytoplasm and mitochondrial breakdown were observed, but no marked degeneration appeared in virgin rat uteri.
  • (7) The Virgin train service from London Euston to Glasgow Central derailed on the west coast mainline near Grayrigg on 23 February 2007, with 109 people on board.
  • (8) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
  • (9) There is an ongoing duel over whether Sky should offer its channels to BT's YouView service, while BT has yet to agree a deal with the cable operator Virgin Media to broadcast its channels.
  • (10) These results suggest that HTB-9.3 clone represents virgin T cells and CB-11.4 clone-primed T cells at least in alloreactivity.
  • (11) Previous studies using anti-CD45R monoclonal antibodies (mAb) have shown that normal CD4+ T cells can be separated into virgin and memory cells based on their level of expression of CD45R.
  • (12) Overall, only 26% of respondents considered virginity at the time of marriage to be important.
  • (13) Last month Neil Berkett, Virgin Media's chief executive, said he was "not surprised" YouView had run into trouble, given the number of partners involved, adding that the cable company intended to "take advantage" of the delay.
  • (14) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (15) Second, female preintervention Comparison program virgins used effective contraceptive methods more consistently than those who attended the HBM-SLT program (p less than 0.01); among males, the intervention programs were equally effective.
  • (16) Germfree colostrum-deprived piglets are immunologically "virgin" and extremely susceptible to microbial infection due to lack of passive maternal immunity.
  • (17) In contrast to their inability to stimulate virgin, alloreactive CD4+ T cells, astrocytes were able to specifically stimulate an alloreactive CD4+ T cell line.
  • (18) I’ve had run-ins with Virgin train lavatories too.
  • (19) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
  • (20) The occurrence was highest, the degree most severe, and the location exclusively myocardial in C3H and C3Hf mated females, irrespective of parity, whereas virginal females of these strains were entirely free of disease even after administration of exogenous progesterone.

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