Stainless vs Pristine - What's the difference?
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Describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration.
Unmarked, spotless.
Short for stainless steel.
Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied
Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something
Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
* 2008, J.M. Whitty, N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn & S.C. Peverell, Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia [http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/publications/pubs/freshwater-sawfish-northern-river-shark.pdf]
As adjectives the difference between stainless and pristine
is that stainless is describing an alloy that is resistant to corrosion and discoloration while pristine is unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.As a noun stainless
is short for stainless steel.stainless
English
Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (resistant to corrosion) rustproofNoun
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* * *pristine
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pristin.Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
From (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)- This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).