What's the difference between acme and acre?

Acme


Definition:

  • (n.) The top or highest point; the culmination.
  • (n.) The crisis or height of a disease.
  • (n.) Mature age; full bloom of life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Astrocyte conditioned medium (ACM) enhanced the survival of neurons and the proliferation of astrocytes in embryonic cortical cultures grown in serum-free defined medium.
  • (2) Race 4 transconjugants containing avrB0 induced a dark brown necrotic HR within 24 h on the soybean cultivars Harosoy and Norchief, whereas race 4 transconjugants containing avrC induced a light brown necrotic HR within 48 h on the soybean cultivars Acme, Peking, Norchief, and Flambeau.
  • (3) Posterior fossa decompression with obex plugging (the Gardner operation) was the procedure of choice for SM-ACM and for idiopathic holocord syringomyelia.
  • (4) A variety of protected peptides up to tetradecapeptides have been chromatographed at pressures of 50 to 150 psi and obtained in analytically pure from within 2 to 4 h. With such commonly used protecting groups as N-benzyloxycarbonyl (Z), N-2-(p-biphenylyl)-2-propyloxycarbonyl (Bpoc), N-t-butyloxycarbonyl (Boc), O- and S-t-butyl (But), and S-acetamidomethyl (Acm), compounds were sufficiently soluble in chloroform, alcohols, acetic acid, or mixtures of these solvents for column loading.
  • (5) Material was fixed in buffered-formalin solution and embedded in metacrylate or Durcupan ACM.
  • (6) In a phase I-II study, 19 patients with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) and 8 patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) were given ACM alone according to the regimen designated treatment 1 described above.
  • (7) The lack of significant abnormalities in post-ictal polysomnograms corresponds to a functional integrity of the brainstem structures involved in the global organization of sleep and may represent a useful laboratory feature in the diagnosis of ACM.
  • (8) Proliferation of CFU-acm can be controlled by humoral factors and this allows us to conclude that they are not identical to CFUs and probably belong to the compartment of early hemopoietic cells of the granulocyte series.
  • (9) Sequential studies of the self-limited HgCl2 GN showed that glomerular PCA, proteinuria and glomerular fibrin deposits peaked concomitantly at the acme of the disease, suggesting that immunologically mediated glomerular damage had triggered the extrinsic coagulation pathway.
  • (10) The ACMS said the mining industry ads ignored the impacts of industrialisation, which it called “the fastest growing threat to the reef”.
  • (11) Conversely, the exposure of cells to the anthracycline compounds at 0 degree C resulted in almost complete disappearance of cell kill effects except with ACM; ACM retained substantial cell kill effects even at the given low temperature.
  • (12) With the MM cells, hyperthermia potentiated the cytotoxic effects of doxorubicin (ADM), daunorubicin, mitoxantrone (DHAD), and quelamycin but did not enhance that of aclacinomycin (ACM).
  • (13) These data lead us to conclude that ACM-DOX association partly reverses the DOX resistance at clinically achievable concentrations.
  • (14) The significance of these observations was discussed in terms of possible interactions at the level of ACM and CAF biotransformation and the potential for interactions of CAF with other xenobiotics.
  • (15) That triumphal speech was his apex, the acme, the zenith of his career.
  • (16) The therapeutic value of these compounds for established ACME remains uncertain.
  • (17) The structural basis of this bleeding disorder has been further assessed by studying the interaction of the following Val(12)-substituted human fibrinogen-like peptides with bovine thrombin in aqueous solution by use of two-dimensional NMR spectroscopy (including TRNOE): Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Gly-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala- Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val-Arg(16)-Gly(17)-Pro-Arg-Val-NH2 (F16), Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Gly-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val- Arg(16) (tF16), Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Cys(Acm)-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly-Val- Arg(16)-Gly(17)-Pro-Arg-Val-Cys(Acm)-NH2 (F17), and Ala-Asp-Ser-Gly-Glu-Cys(Acm)-Asp(7)-Phe-Leu-Ala-Glu-Val(12)-Gly-Gly- Val-Arg(16) (tF17).
  • (18) A sensitive enzyme immunoassay method (EIA) for an anticancer drug, aclacinomycin A (ACM), has been developed.
  • (19) A comparison of the ACM aa sequence with the aa sequences of other proteins in the NBRF data base reveals that ACM has strong similarity to the N-O-diacetylmuramidase secreted by the fungus Chalaropsis.
  • (20) None of the 8 patients suffering from ovarial cancer benefitted from ACM therapy.

Acre


Definition:

  • (n.) Any field of arable or pasture land.
  • (n.) A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of the United States is the same. The Scotch acre was about 1.26 of the English, and the Irish 1.62 of the English.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roadford Lake with over 730 acres for watersports, fishing and birdwatching plus paths and bridleways.
  • (2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (3) The report warned that 24m acres of unprotected forest lands across the southeastern US are at risk, largely from European biomass operations.
  • (4) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (5) The staff pooled ranking had a Spearman rank correlation, r = .70, with resident overall performance upon the ACR Inservice Examination.
  • (6) We searched for a functional marker with which T cells mediating acquired cellular resistance (ACR) can be discriminated from those mediating delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) in mice immunized with Mycobacterium bovis BCG.
  • (7) The SF were derived from normal appearing subepidermoid biopsies of ACR individuals, their progeny and ocntrols.
  • (8) Mr Mutsa, typical of several million subsistence farmers who farm on average just 0.4 hectares (one acre) yet make up 85% of Malawi's agricultural production, cycled 30 miles to bring his daughter to the hospital in Nsanje, in the far south of Malawi, where four nurses work in its nutrition rehabilitation unit.
  • (9) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
  • (10) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
  • (11) Despite spanning more than 1,300 acres it will not, apparently, be a contender for the title of world's largest: that appears still to reside with the 47-stage Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, as certified by Guinness World Records .
  • (12) In addition, another 25 million acres of state and federal lands in the U.S. Arctic — onshore and off — are open to oil and gas leasing; of that,13.5 million acres have already been leased.
  • (13) Although fluorescein leakage had the strongest parametric correlation with the presence of coma relative to both ACR and TER in the full patient series (r = 0.58, P less than .01), multiple linear regression analysis indicated that concentrations of plasma lactate (t = 2.998, P = .006) and serum creatinine (t = 2.200, P = .036) were the factors responsible for this association.
  • (14) Faster than ever we could deal with them these shattered men were coming in, and yet across the few acres of snow before me the busy guns were making more.
  • (15) Lionel Messi collected the ball on the right in acres of space, with one opponent between him and a clear run on Júlio César's goal.
  • (16) Blueberry barrens stretch over several acres in Wesley, Maine.
  • (17) Ekyae says the government provides only two of the 120 bottles of fertiliser he needs to cover his 1 hectare (2.52 acre) plot.
  • (18) The star couple paid £3.3 million for the 20-acre estate, £500,000 over the asking price.
  • (19) The village of Point Hope, Alaska, joined by numerous native and environmental groups, is now challenging offshore development on the 2.9 million acres in the Chukchi Sea, contending that MMS violated federal environmental laws when it conducted the lease sales.
  • (20) Calculating 400 trees for each acre, the trust said the money would, theoretically, be sufficient to save 28 billion trees.