What's the difference between backwash and spit?

Backwash


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data indicate that the selectivity of removal of anti-AChR Ab from albumin is higher at 4 degrees C than that at 37 degrees C. The volume treated at 4 degrees C was significantly lower than that treated at 37 degrees C, and it was less than that required for a clinical treatment; however, it was shown that filter backwashing is possible without loss of solute removal selectivity.
  • (2) The study says the inability to forecast the double-dip recession from the fourth quarter of 2011 to the second quarter of 2012 had been due to poor trading performance as the UK felt the backwash from the eurozone crisis.
  • (3) In a patient with long-staning ulcerative colitis and "backwash" ileitis, multiple carcinomas developed in the colon and ileum.
  • (4) In cases of inadequate filter backwashing, such aggregates may penetrate into clean water.
  • (5) The government in Nicosia admitted that it had been caught in the backwash from the crisis in neighbouring Greece as it formally applied to Brussels for assistance.
  • (6) Backwashing with saline, serum, 6% NaCl, dextran solutions, or phosphate buffers of varying molality and pH removed only a fraction of adherent particles.
  • (7) Samples included water collected immediately after conventional treatment, during the backwash cycle, at various points in the distribution system, and 1 week after the break and subsequent repair of a distribution main.
  • (8) Although the frequency of such premalignant and malignant changes in "backwash" ileitis is unknown, their concurrence in this case suggests that ulcerative colitis involving the terminal ileum increases the risk of small bowel carcinoma.
  • (9) France, a long-term sufferer from the austerity backwash, could already be said to have made its own contribution after a year of private-sector contraction.
  • (10) A particular advantage of the solvent system is that only a single partitioning step is needed, without backwashes, and the enzyme product appears in the upper phase, making transfer to a counting vial more reliable.
  • (11) To assess whether the presence of backwash ileitis predisposed to the subsequent development of ileal pouchitis after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis, 131 patients who had the operation were studied.
  • (12) During membrane plasma fractionation therapy there are reported incidences of membrane plugging requiring the corrective actions of either filter replacement or backwashing (BW) in order to continue the treatment.
  • (13) Though the exact pathogenesis is uncertain, several possibilities, particularly with regard to antecedent dysplasia and backwash ileitis, are discussed.
  • (14) Backwashing, by reversing the direction of the permeate, was found necessary to prolong the life of the filter.
  • (15) Trocar resection is superior to Iglesias' backwash resection.
  • (16) Results showed statistically significant decreases of TMP from 300 mm Hg to 70 mm Hg between just before and after both backwashing procedures, and that there were no significant changes in the TMP increase during the cryofiltration procedure between pre- and post-BW.
  • (17) Tim Yeo, the Tory MP who chairs the environmental audit select ­committee, said the shift had come about because of scientific mistakes, and a "backwash" from Copenhagen.
  • (18) Use of standard angioplasty balloon inflation prevents "backwash" of distally infused ethanol and more generalized cell death.
  • (19) Stifling any urge to delight in McKillop's predicament, the chancellor said the government would shortly announce details of a rescue plan for UK banks caught up in the backwash from the collapse of Lehman, little more than three weeks earlier.
  • (20) Recent research has shown that these aims can be achieved by altering the mode of running and backwashing filters of all process combinations including those using ozone and introducing an additional absorption on powdered activated carbon, and the process combination of flocculation-filtration-chlorination.

Spit


Definition:

  • (n.) A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.
  • (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand.
  • (n.) The depth to which a spade goes in digging; a spade; a spadeful.
  • (n.) To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal.
  • (n.) To spade; to dig.
  • (v. i.) To attend to a spit; to use a spit.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Spit
  • (n.) To eject from the mouth; to throw out, as saliva or other matter, from the mouth.
  • (n.) To eject; to throw out; to belch.
  • (n.) The secretion formed by the glands of the mouth; spitle; saliva; sputum.
  • (v. i.) To throw out saliva from the mouth.
  • (v. i.) To rain or snow slightly, or with sprinkles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) There was nothing accidental about Saffiyah Khan’s easy nonchalance, grinning through the spitting rage of Ian Crossland at the EDL rally in Birmingham city centre at the weekend; Ieshia Evans knew there was more power in calm when she approached the police in Baton Rouge last summer.
  • (3) Venom entered the eyes of 9 patients spat at by the spitting cobra, Naja nigricollis.
  • (4) For every “coterie” of Audens, Spenders and Isherwoods, there is a chorus of George Orwells, Roy Campbells and Dylan Thomases, spitting vitriol.
  • (5) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
  • (6) Raised in Manchester, Coogan began his comedy career in Ipswich in the 1980s, supplementing stand-up with voiceover work and impressions for Spitting Image, before moving to Radio 4 to work with Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci on On the Hour.
  • (7) Unlike my little brother, who used to store his peas in his cheeks like a hamster – he would then ask to be allowed to go to the loo where he would spit and flush – I always liked vegetables as a child (and yes, I know that, technically, avocado is a fruit; but its savoury qualities are such that I am going to count it, in this instance, as a vegetable).
  • (8) She might as well spit "Don't tell me I can't let my personal life affect my professional judgment" through a mouthful of Jaffa Cakes.
  • (9) In addition, SPIT does not require sophisticated equipment or expensive reagents.
  • (10) For starters, any Swiss finishing school would definitely have an issue with the volume and velocity of spit that gets produced on the pitch.
  • (11) Both aneurysm were successfully clipped but Mark remained hemiplegic with severe physical and behavioural problems, including incontinence, sexual disinhibition, aggression and uninhibited spitting.
  • (12) Trying to outspit a spitting cobra This was another mad challenge for my series Michaela's Wild Challenge!
  • (13) However, a considerable proportion of the respondents harbored incorrect beliefs regarding mosquito transmission and dangers to blood donors, and many showed uncertainty or incorrect knowledge regarding possible HIV transmission by biting, spitting, or use of public toilets.
  • (14) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
  • (15) They would then spit on batons and rape us with them.
  • (16) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
  • (17) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
  • (18) There, with pleasing historical symmetry, it was placed within spitting distance of the statue of another famous French Jew, three times prime minister Leon Blum.
  • (19) The letter did not directly mention Muslims, and began instead by attacking people who drop litter or spit on buses.
  • (20) In June, the owner, Oliver Poiss, threw a huge summer solstice party with six wild boar roasting on spits and a $10,000 equipment giveaway.