What's the difference between silken and texture?

Silken


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to silk; made of, or resembling, silk; as, silken cloth; a silken veil.
  • (a.) Fig.: Soft; delicate; tender; smooth; as, silken language.
  • (a.) Dressed in silk.
  • (v. t.) To render silken or silklike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The alterations of haematological parameters in albino rats were studied after oral administration of an aqueous extract of silken styles of corn (Zea maize Linn.)
  • (2) And when Cameron goes home to sleep in Number 10, and President Xi tucks himself under the silken bedspread of the Belgian Suite, one can only hope that, for a moment at least, they might be painfully aware that just a mile or so away, in an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Art, a replica of a Chinese political prisoner is lying in a mock-up prison cell for all the world to see.
  • (3) Ingham, whose gruffness camouflages an intellect of silken agility, was addressing the specific question of his boss’s public image, and asking, by implication, if the Iron Lady could – well – melt, just a little.
  • (4) From the luxuriant hair to the defiant pose to the silken red dress, there is nothing not regal about this photograph.
  • (5) From the first scene, following the flight of a rudimentary hot air balloon, we're whisked away by silken camera moves and stark compositions to a time and place where we're no less confused, amazed or terrified than Rublev himself.
  • (6) A silken thread was inserted in the extracorporeal shunt between the carotid artery and the jugular vein.
  • (7) Chunn, however, also senses the silken whisper of celebrity endorsement at work.
  • (8) "I am a Christian, I believe in the social market and I think we do tend to forget the difference between value and price, not just in the Conservative party but across the spectrum in this country," is his silken summary of where he stands.
  • (9) The results emphasize that the biochemical changes caused through aqueous extract of silken styles of corn (Zea maize Linn.)
  • (10) Essentials Vanessa stayed at the Hotel Silken Amara, double rooms from €119, and travelled with Brittany Ferries, which sails into Bilbao or Santander from Portsmouth or Plymouth.
  • (11) When compared with a soy-flour meal containing an equal amount of protein, iron absorption was found to be significantly improved with silken tofu, natto, tempeh, rice miso, barley miso, and soybean miso.
  • (12) "I was just beginning to feel cocky, when he turned on me with a silken question about how the Telegraph acquired the expenses files.
  • (13) David had escaped on a silken ladder from this world of bored luxury.
  • (14) Photograph: Alamy Caterpillars have orange brown backs with blueish-grey bands and build nests that form white silken clumps near the tops of pine trees.

Texture


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of weaving.
  • (n.) That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
  • (n.) The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
  • (n.) The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
  • (n.) A tissue. See Tissue.
  • (v. t.) To form a texture of or with; to interweave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Models incorporating linear spatial-frequency- and orientation-selective channels explain many aspects of visual texture segregation.
  • (2) The texture of a food item can be distinguished in hardness, toughness, stickiness, juiciness and chewability.
  • (3) The prognostic significance of nuclear texture features has to be proved by further studies in which clinical data of the course of the tumor disease must be included.
  • (4) Two long-term tillage studies on fine-textured, clay loam soils were sampled in July and November 1977 following 2 years of limited rainfall.
  • (5) Soybean proteins are widely used in human foods in a variety of forms, including infant formulas, flour, protein concentrates, protein isolates, soy sauces, textured soy fibers, and tofu.
  • (6) Our results force a reexamination of the process of human texture segregation and of some recent models that were introduced to explain it.
  • (7) If young children know this association, they should attend to texture as well as shape in classifying objects with eyes.
  • (8) The torque was dependent on the physical distribution of the texture of the sole and slightly dependent on the frictional force.
  • (9) A split-skin graft is used to reconstruct both (not one) areolae; this provides almost complete symmetry in terms of size, texture, and color.
  • (10) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
  • (11) Pressing was regulated in order to get maximum pressing force effect for 0.1 s, 30 s and 60 s. Textures of side of compressed forms as well as edge and middle of surface of compressed forms were investigated by scanning electron microscope.
  • (12) An increased number of femora showed hypertrophy with normal bone texture.
  • (13) The general scheme of mapping spatial distribution of cytoplasm texture parameters, realized using computed microscope LEITZ-T.A.S., allowed the imaging of geometrical relationship between yolk granules in the Rana Temporaria fertilized egg.
  • (14) Textures observed include spherulites with Maltese crosses, striated and highly colored ribbons, whorls of periodic interference fringes, and colored flakes.
  • (15) I want to make use of its virtual texture capability to create vast procedurally generated worlds, stuff I can't currently do with the hardware available to me now.
  • (16) The surface texture was also dependent upon the temperature of the preparation and polymer used.
  • (17) A textured figure moving across a stationary textured background ("texture bar" stimulus) often elicited vigorous neural responses, but, on average, the responses to texture bars were significantly smaller than to solid (uniform luminance) bars.
  • (18) Using a 3-MHz transducer, no discrete alterations in the echo texture of the livers were seen to correspond to the regenerating nodules.
  • (19) The sector scanner through the supraclavicular approach adequately visualized the external profile and the internal texture of the lesions in all 11 patients, which is a significant improvement (p less than 0.05) over what can be accomplished with linear-array scanner through the intercostal approach.
  • (20) Neuronal texture discrimination in the cat striate cortex was investigated by measuring the responses of single cells to different pattern structures.