What's the difference between sulphurous and sultry?

Sulphurous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to sulphur.
  • (a.) Derived from, or containing, sulphur; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the sulphuric compounds.
  • (a.) Having the characteristic odor of sulphur dioxide, or of hydrogen sulphide, or of other sulphur compounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That suggests they are being replenished by sulphur dioxide, most probably from volcanoes.
  • (2) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
  • (3) Liver scintigraphy with 67-Ga citrate and alphafetoprotein (afp) determinations in the serum were carried out in 84 patients with liver mass lesions in the preceding sulphur colloid scans.
  • (4) The use of sulphur-containing amino acids and 2-deoxyglucose in growth media led to impaired cell wall synthesis and rendered cells very susceptible to treatment with mercapto-ethanol and various lytic enzymes.
  • (5) The molecular mass (5988 Da) of the native rubredoxin has been measured by electrospray-ionization m.s., thus establishing the applicability of the technique to this type of iron-sulphur protein.
  • (6) Attention is drawn to the shortcomings in our current knowledge of the scale of turnover of the sulphur cycle and of our understanding of the microorganisms involved in specialized environments.
  • (7) N-Methylformamide extracts of acid-treated precipitated VFe protein of the V-nitrogenase of Azotobacter chroococcum are yellow-brown in colour and contain vanadium, iron and acid-labile sulphur in the approximate proportions 1:6:5.
  • (8) Here we show that a farnesyl moiety is attached to a sulphur atom of the C-terminal cysteine of T gamma-2 (active form), a part of which is additionally methyl-esterified at the alpha-carboxyl group.
  • (9) Erabutoxin a was partially hydrolysed with enzymes and sulphuric acid and the resulting peptides were separated from each other by column chromatography and paper electrophoresis.
  • (10) NADH:ubiquinone reductase, the respiratory chain complex I of mitochondria, consists of some 25 nuclear-encoded and seven mitochondrially encoded subunits, and contains as redox groups one FMN, probably one internal ubiquinone and at least four iron-sulphur clusters.
  • (11) Bacteria of the genus Thiobacillus can obtain energy from the chemolithotrophic oxidation of inorganic sulphur and its compounds (sulphide, thiosulphate and polythionates) and use this energy to support autotrophic growth on carbon dioxide.
  • (12) Bacteriophage mu2 is inactivated by both mono- and di-functional sulphur mustards at relatively low extents of alkylation.
  • (13) The study of amino acid pattern shows that sulphur containing amino acids are limiting to almost the same degree in meat and meat soy blend.
  • (14) In a case in which ovarian biopsy at laparotomy revealed typical actinomycotic "sulphur granules" and Actinomyces israelii was diagnosed, standard Actinomyces israelii cytoplasmic antigens and circulating C1-binding immune complexes were found in the patient's serum when it was tested by counterimmunoelectrophoresis.
  • (15) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
  • (16) The results obtained indicated that both the sulphydration and trans-sulphuration pathways were operating.
  • (17) This effect may add to other factors decreasing sulphur availability in critically ill patients, and simultaneous administration of thiosulphate is therefore recommended to ensure a safe SNP treatment during and after coronary bypass operations.
  • (18) (4) There is no specific therapy for poisoning by sulphur mustard.
  • (19) Among various acetylated proteins, proteins insoluble in 0.1m-sulphuric acid have the highest radioactivity.
  • (20) Desulfovibrio africanus ferredoxin III is a monomeric protein (Mr 6585) containing seven cysteine residues and 7-8 iron atoms and 6-8 atoms of acid-labile sulphur.

Sultry


Definition:

  • (superl.) Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts.
  • (superl.) Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From here the contest meandered for a while on a Shanghai night becoming ever more sultry.
  • (2) The values of the body temperature and breathing frequency were taken from young pigs and sows at a tropical location in order to study the relations between measured climatic values and their complex derivations (the amount of cooling down, enthalpy, sultriness factor, and water vapour pressure).
  • (3) "Let's try a sultry one," the photographer says and she turns up the oomph.
  • (4) More than a century later, a similar spectacle is being prepared, but this time the sultry capital of Amazonas will not be staging La Gioconda; it will be hosting the World Cup .
  • (5) There's already a blog called Grindr Remembers , featuring sultry hook-up shots in front of Holocaust memorials … because nothing says "I'm great in bed" like evoking the memory of mass murder and state-sponsored persecution.
  • (6) The Dutchman had elected to field a 5-2-3 that encouraged Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia, its wingbacks, to push forward to support a central duo of Fletcher and Ander Herrera, who proved United’s most impressive performer on a sultry night at this picturesque ground in the hills of Pasadena.
  • (7) 'I t was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they killed people on the streets, and I didn't know what I was doing in Istanbul …" There was something about Turkey's Taksim Square protests that often made me think of the opening line in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar .
  • (8) Sarah Churchwell is the author of The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (Granta) Lavinia Greenlaw Photograph: Karen robinson If I opened a novel now and it began with the line: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs …" I'd close it again fast.
  • (9) Though Henry James deeply admired the psychological intensity of Hawthorne's work, his own writing travelled on from it with the haste of a man fleeing sultry discomforts for cooler climes.
  • (10) The prose still seems remarkably fresh: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York."
  • (11) The finest exponent of this sultry vocal style over sinister production is, of course, Aaliyah , the late R&B star so name-dropped at the moment.
  • (12) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
  • (13) Most of the criticism of the duet was reserved for Cyrusʼ not so sultry moves, however, even though nothing that she did – from the twerking to the crotch grabs to the simulated masturbation – is new to the genre.
  • (14) Her grown-up brand of pop music – understated, fatalistic, with that sultry voice and her astonishing almond-shaped eye – gave her a sophisticated appeal.
  • (15) (I went back with friends a few days later, when the sun was out, and Rio was at its sultry best.
  • (16) At the back of the palace is a veranda where, in a screenwipe of imagination, one can picture dapper-suited diplomats sitting on sultry evenings, making smalltalk over a gin and tonic and watching the setting sun amid a chorus of crickets.
  • (17) A vigilante group of Surrey housewives, ostensibly the last people on any Che Guevaran recruitment list, forced their local club to turn off its sprinklers by sit-ins, harassing greenkeepers and night-time vigils, which were easy to organise on those sultry evenings.
  • (18) A marriage of south-western generosity and almost eastern sensibilities, with dishes such as hamachi crudo (raw fish) sharpened with onions and capers and bathed in sultry brown butter.
  • (19) Scottish newspaper the Daily Record also today uncovered a sultry version of Cry Me a River Boyle sang for a 1999 charity CD , part-funded by her local Whitburn Community Council, which has led to massive traffic on its site.
  • (20) Rewind a year before the Britney takeover, Beyoncé Knowles was 16 when Destiny's Child's sultry single No, No, No went platinum, and I'm pretty sure there were suggestive dance moves and belly buttons all over that thing.

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