Difference between applied and pure
Definitions
adjective
- concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles
Examples
In order to prevent the pipe buckling at the sagbend a horizontal tension was applied to the pipe by tensioners situated on the deck of the vessel.
This not only prevents the paint from being absorbed once the background's applied, it's also vital for craquelure to be successful.
IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
Definitions
adjective
- free of extraneous elements of any kind
- (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
- concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied
- free from discordant qualities
- (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless
Examples
Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange!
Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment.
We may look like lobsters, or tuna fish, but that is purely coincidental.
