What's the difference between adit and alit?

Adit


Definition:

  • (n.) An entrance or passage. Specifically: The nearly horizontal opening by which a mine is entered, or by which water and ores are carried away; -- called also drift and tunnel.
  • (n.) Admission; approach; access.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From the whole of our findings it can be concluded that in the first group of strains sorbose adaption starts with segregation of adaptive sorbose permease positive mutants, followed by the - salicin-sensitive - induction of this permease, the appearance of mutants aditionally metabolizing sorbose constitutively, and, finally, the substrate-promoted particular growth of adapted cells.
  • (2) In adition to them, remnants of the "external epithelium" are found in Varanus griseus and A-cells disposed outside of the pancreatic islands in Testudo horsfieldi and Clemmys caspica.
  • (3) Irradiation at 300 K produces radicals resulting from H-adition at three different positions of the cytosine molecule.
  • (4) Dexamethasone may counteract the lethal arrhythmia by causing the release of aditional adenosine triphosphate into the cytoplasm from the mitochondria.
  • (5) Aditional problems are encountered in clinical trials especially in early phases while determining the tolerable therapeutic dose.
  • (6) The poliamide is treated with different aditives giving rise to the nylon fiber, which is used to manufacture the definitive tissue.
  • (7) The stools and lampshades, known as Terra, were the creation of Tel Aviv-based designer Adital Ela .

Alit


Definition:

  • () of Alight

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar analyses conducted between subjects who were abstinent versus relapsed 3-6 months following treatment revealed no significant differences in smoking behavior, although both groups exhibited similar across-treatment decreases in CO (p less than .001) and time spent smoking a cigarette (i.e., time alite) (p less than .05).
  • (2) The star witness against him is expected to be John Alite, a former childhood friend and Gambino mobster, who is ready to talk and implicate his old friend in three murders.
  • (3) ALIT (helium-neon laser) was used in 35 ENT-cancer patients to irradiate immunocompetent leukocytes isolated from blood in an Amino cell separator.
  • (4) The use of ALIT in the combined treatment of our patients improved their health condition.
  • (5) Present-day developments in oncological applications of laser therapy are adaptive laser immunotherapy (ALIT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT).

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