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Caliche vs Stereotype - What's the difference?

caliche | stereotype |

As a noun caliche

is (mineral) a crude form of sodium nitrate from south america; used as a fertilizer.

As a verb stereotype is

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caliche

English

(wikipedia caliche)

Noun

  • (mineral) A crude form of sodium nitrate from South America; used as a fertilizer.
  • A layer of hard clay subsoil or sedimentary rock; hardpan.
  • * 1929 , US Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Soil Survey of Potter County, Texas , page 44,
    • According to local well drillers, in wells drilled on the high plains a few hundred feet back from the caliche' escarpment or in other locations on the high plains in this area no hard '''caliche''' or white layer, such as would characterize a soft layer of high lime-carbonate content, is generally reached at a depth corresponding to the elevation of the ' caliche escarpment.
  • * 1985 , Julie Behrend Weinberg, Growing Food In the High Desert Country , page 17,
    • Having a layer of caliche' at depths of 16 inches and less really puts a damper on the garden site. The ' caliche does not allow roots to penetrate it (tree roots often take 10 years to break through a caliche layer) nor does this mineral allow water to drain.
  • * 2011 , Hüseyin Yalçin, Ömer Bozkaya, Chapter 7: Sepiolite-Palygorskite Occurrences in Turkey'', Arieh Singer, Emilio Galan (editors), ''Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research , page 186,
    • Caliche in various forms, namely powdery, nodule, tube, fracture-infill, laminar crust, hard laminated crust (hardpan) and pisolitic crust, is widespread in the Mersin area in southern Turkey (Eren et al., 2008; Kadir and Eren, 2008).

    Anagrams

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    stereotype

    English

    (wikipedia stereotype)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
  • (printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
  • (psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
  • (UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language

    • Verb

    (stereotyp)
  • To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
  • To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
    • to stereotype the Bible
  • To print from a stereotype.
  • (figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
  • * Duke of Argyll (1887)
    • Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.

    See also

    * stereotypic * stereotypical ----