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- #Vocabulary
Could you tell me the difference between Greek yogurt and regular yogurt?
Could you tell me the different between Greek yogurt and regular yogurt?
'Difference' is a noun meaning 'the way in which things are not the same', while different' is an adjective.
When asking about yogurt types at the supermarket, use 'difference' for clarity.
Sliver
n.
a very small, thin piece of something, usually broken off something larger:
a sliver of glass
Just a sliver of cake for me, please - I shouldn't really be having any.
This section explains how point weights can be used to remove slivers.
We later exploit this observation and change weights to increase orthospheres of slivers.
Weakly oriented phacoid-shaped tectonic slivers of country rock within the fault zone are in the centimetre to decimetre scale.
The sliver is the only type of small volume tetrahedron whose circumradius over shortest edge length ratio does not grow with decreasing volume.
Earthquakes reflect the means whereby continents are assembled and broken apart, sometimes involving slivers migrating vast distances, and colossal rejigging of surface environments.
Besides the sliver exudation method described in this section, there are two other methods that provably remove slivers.
A flat triangle that is not a sliver has either a short edge or a large circumradius and thus a large ratio.
And that leaves just a sliver of space in which to work.
Although such nonharmful research represents a tiny sliver of the animal research enterprise, it exists.
The same is not true for volumes of tetrahedra, which is why eliminating slivers is difficult.
For slivers, the value of is small which implies that the displacement is large.
Here was a sliver of time saved, protected, plucked from the endless void of forgetting.
Like a known voice in a crowded room it will come, follow the sliver thread of attention to reach your ear.
Voracious
adj.
(UK) very eager for something, especially a lot of food:
He has a voracious appetite (= he eats a lot).
He's a voracious reader of historical novels (= he reads a lot of them eagerly and quickly).
(US) needing a lot of something to be satisfied:
Wolves are voracious eaters.
As a child, I had a voracious appetite for books.
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This last species is a most voracious feeder.
This revolution is voracious in its appetite for information on the effectiveness of health technology.
For the first time in her life, she finds herself holding the reins and avows voracious hunger for power and possession of herself.
The crayfish is a voracious predator of snails and other aquatic organisms.
The failure of monsoons could halt the growth of warehouse surpluses while the voracious appetite of an expanding field army increased demands upon them.
This aggressive species is a voracious flesheater, feeding on small vertebrates and arthropods.
How, for instance, might an environmental history of suburbanization assess the impact of mass commuting or the voracious appetite of suburbia for rural landscapes.
