What's the difference between wort and worth?

Wort


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant of any kind.
  • (n.) Cabbages.
  • (n.) An infusion of malt which is unfermented, or is in the act of fermentation; the sweet infusion of malt, which ferments and forms beer; hence, any similar liquid in a state of incipient fermentation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most active were oak bark, sage and St. John's wort grass WAG extracts, horse radish root and leaf AG extracts, celandine grass WA extract; bur marigold and yarrow grass WA extracts were active towards S. aureus.
  • (2) It is interesting to speculate on how different our thinking on ethanol tolerance would be today if sake fermentations had not evolved with successive mashing and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of rice carbohydrate, if distillers' worts were clarified prior to fermentation but brewers' wort were not, and if grape skins with their associated unsaturated lipids had not been an integral part of red wine musts.
  • (3) Attracting particular controversy was a comment article in the Luxemburger Wort , a paper traditionally supportive of Juncker.
  • (4) Muscarine has been iso lared in a yield of 0.013 percent from mycelia of Clitocybe rivulosa grown in the laboratory on a medium supple mented with beer wort.
  • (5) The influence of extracts from oak bark, St. John's-wort leaves and pine buds on natural immunity characteristics of mice has been studied.
  • (6) Tom Wort, a linebacker from Crawley, West Sussex , above, saw his stock slip in a frustrating final season with the University of Oklahoma, but should still be selected in the latter rounds.
  • (7) No cyclopiazonic acid was produced in vitro by Penicillium nalgoviensis strains from the Czechoslovak collection on sweet wort agar containing peptone from soybean.
  • (8) This structure is an insert relative to the liver-wort.
  • (9) The content of sterols in the yeast Candida boidinii is low: 0.35--0.40% in a mineral medium with methanol as a sole carbon source; 0.55--0.60% in a medium with ethanol; 0.50--0.60% in a medium with glucose; 0.50--0.55% on wort--agar.
  • (10) If echinacea is the Lemsip of the herbal pharmacopia and St John's Wort the Prozac, kava kava is the valium.
  • (11) Analytical methods for the determination of polyphenols of malt, barley, hop, wort, and beer are described.
  • (12) These experiments revealed that the diacetyl concentration in wort fermented by the plasmid-containing yeast strain was significantly lower than that in wort fermented by the parental strain.
  • (13) The effects of the flow rates of the wort on the period of the primary fermentation and the diacetyl levels in green beer were studied under the conditions of the volume fraction of gel beads at phi = 0.40, the fermentation temperature at 10 degrees C, and the ratio of circulation at n = 5.
  • (14) As a result of long continuous fermentation of brewing wort by fixed yeast cells, the number of cells in the fermenter increased as well as their wet weight.
  • (15) St. John's wort (Hypercum perforatum) contains hypericin and hypericin-like substances as well as flavonoids, of which particularly Quercetin has generated a wide-spread controversial discussion with respect to mutagenic action.
  • (16) The thermotolerant yeast Candida tropicalis, strain T-20, was cultivated on a chemically defined medium with glucose or malt wort in flasks with shaking at three temperatures: optimal (36degreesC), supraoptimal (38degreesC) and submaximal (41degreesC).
  • (17) Thus, first and finished wort caused only a minor acid response which was 48% and 46% of maximal acid output.
  • (18) Extracts of Hypericum perforatum (Psychotonin M) (St. John's wort) with known concentrations of hypericin were tested in several models generally accepted as screening methods in experimental animal studies for the recognition of psychotropic, and in particular of antidepressant activity.
  • (19) Extract from oak cork, St. John's wort leaves and flowers and pine buds possess more pronounced bactericidal properties with respect to staphylococci, shigellae, Escherichia coli than decoctions from these medicinal plants.
  • (20) The effect of ammonium ions on the activity of alcohol:NAD-, L-malate:NAD-, L-glutamate:NADP-oxidoreductases was studied in wine yeast during fermentation of wine wort containing 18% of sugar, and also after the biomass cultivated in the conditions of nitrogen deficiency had been transferred to media with various amounts of nitrogen and carbohydrates.

Worth


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases.
  • (a.) Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while.
  • (a.) Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for.
  • (a.) Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense.
  • (a.) Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of.
  • (a.) That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price.
  • (a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can see you use humour as a defence mechanism, so in return I could just tell you that if he's massively rich or famous and you've decided you'll put up with it to please him, you'll eventually discover it's not worth it.
  • (2) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (3) I hope they fight for the money to make their jobs worth doing, because it's only with the money (a drop in the ocean though it may be) that they'll be able to do anything.
  • (4) Worth an estimated $17.5bn each, they can afford it.
  • (5) Unions have complained about the process for Chinese-backed companies to bring overseas workers to Australia for projects worth at least $150m, because the memorandum of understanding says “there will be no requirement for labour market testing” to enter into an investment facilitation arrangements (IFA).
  • (6) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (7) Britain has been the Gates foundation’s second largest recipient, receiving 25 grants worth $156m since 2003.
  • (8) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
  • (9) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
  • (10) Mark Latham's insights, insults and feuds are why he's worth reading | Gay Alcorn Read more BuzzFeed political editor Mark Di Stefano, the reporter who broke the story linking Latham to the less-than-savoury @RealMarkLatham Twitter account , had been chasing Stutchbury for days.
  • (11) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
  • (12) If this is the only issue, flight would be fine, but need to make sure that it isn’t symptomatic of a more significant upstream root cause.” Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Btw, 99% likely to be fine (closed loop TVC wd overcome error), but that 1% chance isn't worth rolling the dice.
  • (13) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
  • (14) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (15) This suggests his wealth exceeds the total worth of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, who was attacked for his wealth throughout the campaign.
  • (16) The service has proved its worth in Queensland, and provides a model for the development of similar services in other large States of Australia.
  • (17) About 250 flights were taken off the Friday morning board at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Dallas Love Field.
  • (18) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
  • (19) Nobody knows how often it happens but judging just from my inbox, it’s certainly not a rare occurrence and what struck me as I started to learn about the issue of health privacy is that employees are defenseless against things like this happening to them.” Fei said that she also received her fair share of emails saying: “What makes you think your baby was entitled to million dollars worth of care?
  • (20) Prices nationwide are increasing at an annual rate of 10%, and the average property in the capital is now worth almost eight times the average income.

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