What's the difference between sublimate and subtilize?

Sublimate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring by heat into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.
  • (v. t.) To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate.
  • (n.) A product obtained by sublimation; hence, also, a purified product so obtained.
  • (a.) Brought into a state of vapor by heat, and again condensed as a solid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just about.” That one went over like a sublime Chris Rock riff.
  • (2) But we can add that there is no competition, from the economical viewpoint, between the post-oedipal sublimation, type political involvement, and the preoedipal sublimation, type literary creation.
  • (3) To order your main course (from £7.50), squeeze through the tightly packed tables to the kitchen and select whatever catches your eye from an array of dishes that includes roast lamb, salmon with seafood risotto, stuffed cabbage, and sublime stuffed squid (£14), which comes with tomato rice studded with succulent octopus.
  • (4) The capacity to sublimate and to foster sublimation in children is a prerequisite for normal motherhood.
  • (5) Described herein is a simple, efficient, inexpensive, reproducible, and safe procedure using Peldri II, a proprietary fluorocarbon compound that is solid at room temperature and a liquid above 25 degrees C, as a sublimation dehydrant for processing specimens for SEM.
  • (6) Sublicons are threadlike structures appearing during sublimation of frozen solutions of small concentrations, containing racemate mixture of amino acids and nucleotides.
  • (7) It is possible that the sublimation may have potentiated the toxicity of the usually mildly toxic, relatively unsoluble As2O3.
  • (8) Purification of dithiothreitol from possible endotoxin contamination by vacuum sublimation or chromatography does not abolish the reaction with lysate.
  • (9) Swansea, for whom Jefferson Montero was outstanding, levelled when Gylfi Sigurdsson curled a sublime 25-yard free-kick into the top corner, after Kieran Gibbs had cynically brought down Modou Barrow, the Swansea substitute.
  • (10) Both solution and sublimation techniques were satisfactory for producing coatings of stearic acid.
  • (11) A truly terrible game hit almost ridiculous lows before being rescued by Jermain Defoe’s sublimely brilliant volleyed winner.
  • (12) It is shown that sublimation at -100 degrees of erythrocyte membrane suspensions (that had been incubated at pH 5.5 to cause aggregation of the membrane particles) results in progressive and selective sinking of the membrane regions comprised of aggregates of intercalated particles, i.e., that sublimation of water molecules occurs preferentially across these membrane regions.
  • (13) As ever, the former Liverpool forward’s touch and awareness was sublime, killing the ball dead before looping the ball over Courtois.
  • (14) The distribution of the perikarya of astrocytes and other glial cells in the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus has been studied in gold chloride-sublimate preparations of rats and of normal and reeler mice, and in plastic embedded material from young adult rats.
  • (15) Mickelson's play was sublime – he drove the ball straight, he hit his iron shots with a scientist's accuracy and holed putts from all over the place.
  • (16) It was established that high temperatures of oil sublimation increased the benzopyrene contents and the oil products' blastomogenic activity.
  • (17) Top Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava was commissioned to design a sublime new station, like the one in nearby Liège, but this costly project won’t be finished until late 2015 at the earliest, so many of the expected two million visitors will have to pick their way around a muddy construction site.
  • (18) However Murray is playing sublime tennis and he was always in control, never once looking back after he broke for a 2-1 lead in the first set when Dimitrov flashed a forehand wide and then dumped another into the net.
  • (19) The moral worldview of the devoted actor is dominated by what Edmund Burke referred to as “the sublime”: a need for the “delightful terror” of a sense of power, destiny, a giving over to the ineffable and unknown.
  • (20) The response of the astroglial population of the dentate gyrus molecular layer to removal of that region's primary afferent was investigated using Cajal's gold sublimate method.

Subtilize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make thin or fine; to make less gross or coarse.
  • (v. t.) To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments.
  • (v. i.) To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After operative methods have been subtilized and radicalized only preventive medical examinations and early public instruction may improve the prognosis of the patients concerned.
  • (2) Accurate preoperative evaluation and subtile operative technique are imperative, however.
  • (3) More subtile effects of milk processing on milk digestibility and stomach emptying are mentioned.
  • (4) It was possible histologically to follow the most subtile alterations on the membranes from the very beginning of the chronic bronchitis.
  • (5) The present paper suggests the autometallographic demonstration of intralysosomal silver as a sensitive tool for the detection of subtile toxic effects in cell cultures, the method is suggested to primarily detect lysosomal damage.
  • (6) Fatty acids damage the membrane integrity in such a way that the subtile equilibrium between the factors is disturbed.
  • (7) The removal of the angioma requires the most subtile preparation.
  • (8) A microscopical examination of the Leptothrix-filaments revealed a subtile segmentation and sporulation.
  • (9) In the individual case, it is necessary to identify the major causes by employing subtile investigative measures, in order to be able to plan rational treatment.
  • (10) Inhibited subtilisin (Subtilism Carlsberg; Subtilopeptidase A) is unfolded in the presence of 7 M guanidine hydrochloride.
  • (11) There was concluded firstly that the possibility of metastases in the pelvic lymph nodes is dependent from the size of the primary tumor and secondly that before treatment a subtile diagnostic procedure secures that only good cases of cervical cancer FIGO stage I b are operated on by radical vaginal hysterectomy (Schauta-Amreich).
  • (12) The stereological investigations revealed a subtile reaction of the medial stapled tibial plate in a total of 37 domestic pigs (10 weeks old) during the postoperative follow-up (up to 17 weeks).
  • (13) Despite subtile changes of glucose, glucagon and to a lesser degree insulin levels which would be suggestive of insulin resistance, the data obtained from skeletal muscle argue against peripheral insulin resistance in spontaneously hypertensive rats.
  • (14) For the clarification of pathogenesis and clinical relevance of decreases of the triiodothyronine (T3) level in patients with chronic inflammatory rheumatism in a group of 63 patients with clinically, paraclinically and roentgenologically diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (59 times) and with SLE (4 times), respectively, parallel were determined parameters of the thyroid gland function and of the rheumatic activity as well as a subtile drug anamnesis for the medication of antirheumatic drugs was established.
  • (15) -- It has been refered to the importance of the exact conisation technique and subtile histotechnical obtaining of slides in step sections.
  • (16) A stable implantation of this biocompatible material is possible, if the primary attachment by means of special construction features and subtile operation technique is ensured.
  • (17) The measurement procedure was found to be very sensitive with respect to all fractions in evaluating the subtile differences between different lot numbers of the aerosol.
  • (18) The other highly vascular neoplasms show unspecific signs of vascular malignant tumors; subtile angiographic signs may, however, be present and help in the differential diagnosis.
  • (19) Subtile investigations in protein diagnostics are required for avoiding incomplete monoclonal immunoglobulins which may greatly enter the kidneys to be overlooked.
  • (20) When photographs taken at diastolic and systolic culminations were compared, with the haploscope, when stereoscopically seen, they clearly showed the subtile deformation of the vessels under a stereoscopic effect.

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