What's the difference between quintine and tercine?
Quintine
Definition:
(n.) The embryonic sac of an ovule, sometimes regarded as an innermost fifth integument. Cf. Quartine, and Tercine.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1963, when Tony Benn won his fight to renounce his inherited peerage, he was rapidly followed by Quintin Hogg and Alec Douglas-Home, who were prominent in the Lords but understood they needed to face the people to get to the very top, as Douglas-Home went on to do.
(2) Here's Quintin Berry, and if the Tigers can't score here...well... 1.53am GMT Giants 2 - Tigers 0, Bottom 5th A little flare by Infante finds a little bit of room out on right field, and that really is all you need.
(3) Quintin Price, a former manager at investment management firm BlackRock, will join the management board to lead Deutsche’s assetmanagement business, while the current head Michele Faissola will leave the bank.
(4) Meanwhile Quintin Mikell is questionable with a foot injury and his return is questionable.
(5) But the director general of the European commission, Odile Quintin, yesterday acknowledged that the EU was divided on the issue, and that the position, for now at least, was that the word "apology" would not be used.
(6) Both Hogg’s parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership following the resignation of Harold Macmillan.
(7) She did not disclose her brother Quintin’s role at Barclays – regulated by the Bank – until 22 February when she filled in a questionnaire from the Treasury select committee before her evidence about her promotion to deputy governor.
(8) Now Quintin Berry will hit for the pitcher, and he chops to Scutaro at second and just gets the out at first, side retired!
(9) 12.28am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Bottom 1st Quintin Berry is up next and he works a full count off of Cain, fouls a few balls off, gets Cain to throw eight pitches and then lines a ball... *JUST* foul into the corner.
(10) 1.12am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 0, Bottom 3rd Quintin Berry bunts, and Cain and Sandoval nearly collide in trying to field it, and Sandoval gets the ball and manages to just throw out Berry at first.
(11) So we have two runners on and just one out for Quintin Berry.
(12) Emwazi was educated at another school in the area, Quintin Kynaston (QK), where his contemporaries included the singer-songwriter Tulisa.
(13) Her parents had leading roles in Sir John Major’s government and her grandfather, Quintin Hogg, better known as Lord Hailsham, was a prominent Tory who almost won the Conservative party leadership after the resignation of Harold Macmillan in 1963.
(14) Bank of England deputy's slip-up was astonishing – but its reaction was predictable | Nils Pratley Read more Hogg’s troubles began when it emerged that she had not declared a potential conflict of interest , which is that her brother, Quintin Hogg, is a director of group strategy at Barclays, which the Bank of England regulates.
(15) A scion of one of Britain’s most high-profile political families, Hogg had initially told MPs last month that the Bank was aware of Quintin Hogg’s role at the high street lender.
(16) 7.32pm GMT 49ers 6-10 Panthers, :42, 2nd quarter Carolina's Quintin Mikell was injured on the last play, looks like the ankle.
(17) The lengthy beer menu lists 170 brews, including hard-to-find local specialities such as Quintine beers from the witches’ town of Ellezelles (which claims to be birthplace of Hercule Poirot, solely on the basis of a fake birth certificate) and lovely spicy, unfiltered La Chouffe on tap.
(18) 2.56am GMT Giants 3 - Tigers 3, Bottom 8th Pinch-hitting for the Tigers for Quintin Berry is Avisail Garcia.
(19) Then we have trouble, a one-out walk to Quintin Berry, which means the meat is coming up with a man on.
(20) 1.51am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Bottom 5th Quintin Berry hits a grounder that Cain can't get a handle on but, it gets to Crawford who throws to Belt just in time to get the out and end the inning.
Tercine
Definition:
(n.) A cellular layer derived from the nucleus of an ovule and surrounding the embryo sac. Cf. Quintine.