What's the difference between bag and rag?

Bag


Definition:

  • (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  • (n.) A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
  • (n.) A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  • (n.) The quantity of game bagged.
  • (n.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
  • (v. t.) To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  • (v. t.) To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  • (v. t.) To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
  • (v. i.) To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  • (v. i.) To swell with arrogance.
  • (v. i.) To become pregnant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a paired study 12 platelet concentrates (PC) of Fresenius AS-104 cell separator were stored in new polyolefin bags of Fresenius (LE2) and Fenwal PL-732 bags.
  • (2) The agency, which works to reduce food waste and plastic bag use, has already been gutted , with its budget reduced to £17.9m in 2014, down from £37.7m in 2011.
  • (3) It won't be worth putting away his travel bags after returning from Perth as the G20 summit in Cannes, France, beckons.
  • (4) After clinical examination and semen analysis, we studied 4100 patients by scrotal US with sector mechanical (7.5 MHz) probe with water bag and by transrectal US for prostatic vesicular region evaluation with 5-6.5 MHz linear probe (lately we used biplanar probe).
  • (5) Placing the collection bag at the base of the machine provided excellent plasma removal rates with only minimal blood flows.
  • (6) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
  • (7) Six leukocyte-rich platelet concentrates (mean, 0.6 X 10(9) white cells per bag; range, 0.3 to 1.0 X 10(9) per container) were prepared by removing as much of the platelet-rich plasma from blood as possible.
  • (8) Eventually I was given a bag with my name on it, containing my jacket, wallet, and camera equipment.
  • (9) It is possible that in a similar future case, discontinuance of dextran infusion and administration of a single bolus of 12 bags of cryoprecipitate may be adequate treatment.
  • (10) The accuracy and reliability of the new system were checked by comparison with the traditional (Douglas bag) method.
  • (11) Presentation of a new case of polyorchism, its first clinical evidence being a picture o acute scrotal bag requiring surgical examination.
  • (12) "And secondly, there will also be help with sand bags, which could help prevent further flooding."
  • (13) Dynamic and static nuclear bag fibres are shown to correspond with 'bag1 fibres' and 'bag2 fibres', respectively (Ovalle & Smith, 1972).
  • (14) In contrast, bilateral lesions of all cerebral ganglion peripheral nerves did not abolish spontaneous egg laying, suggesting that sensory input to the cerebral ganglion is not necessary for activating the bag cells.
  • (15) But volcanic liberation has never really been his bag.
  • (16) "I suddenly became aware of my own colour and the way I was looked at, carrying a bag on a train.
  • (17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (18) An average of 241,273 viewers gathered round the television (hospital bed) clutching the remote (bag of grapes) staring at the small screen (out of the window).
  • (19) In addition, the bag does not abrade or desiccate the bowel, potentially reducing serosal injury and adhesion formation.
  • (20) Burst augmentation of R15 induced by bag-cell afterdischarge did not cause detectable changes in the phosphorylation of the major proteins we examined.

Rag


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter.
  • (n.) A piece of cloth torn off; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment.
  • (n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress.
  • (n.) A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin.
  • (n.) A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture.
  • (n.) A ragged edge.
  • (n.) A sail, or any piece of canvas.
  • (v. i.) To become tattered.
  • (v. t.) To break (ore) into lumps for sorting.
  • (v. t.) To cut or dress roughly, as a grindstone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Over the past 20 years the rag-and-bone trade has had a makeover.
  • (2) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
  • (3) Confluent monolayers of capillary endothelial cells derived from Mongolian gerbil brain were irradiated with a single exposure of x-rays, and their radiosensitivity and sequential changes in morphology, staining intensity for factor VIII-related antigen (F VIII RAg), and capacity to produce prostacyclin (PGI2) were examined.
  • (4) Skeletal muscle mtDNA of three patients with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy, characterized clinically by myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber (MERRF) syndrome, has been sequenced to determine the underlying molecular defect(s).
  • (5) A distinctive pattern of subsarcolemmal mitochondrial aggregates, referred to as "ragged red fibers" in human mitochondrial myopathies, was observed in muscle biopsy samples from 1 dog.
  • (6) Endothelial cells of capillary vessels showed positive binding by UEA-1 lectin and the presence of factor VIII RAG.
  • (7) Four of the mutants had no effect on chylous ascites, but two mutants linked with ragged, and one unlinked, showed a complex situation involving enhancement, inhibition, epistacy and other interactions.
  • (8) There was a slight shortening in the thrombin time and a smaller increase in post-operative FVIII RAg and FVIII RCof levels in the HES group.
  • (9) There was no correlation between FVIII:RAg levels and radiation pneumonitis, radiation dose, volume of irradiated lung, tumor burden, or time-interval between exposure and sampling.
  • (10) In one of these, a probe designed specifically to detect deleted mtDNA identified abundant deleted mtDNA and its fusion transcript in RRF and lesser accumulations in non-ragged red cytochrome oxidase (COX) deficient fibres.
  • (11) Only in fragments of the biceps brachii muscle histological and histochemical investigations showed mitochondrial changes of the type of "ragged-red fibres".
  • (12) In situ hybridization to intact thymus and RNA blot analysis of isolated thymic subpopulations separated on the basis of T cell receptor (TCR) expression demonstrated that both TCR- and TCR+ cortical thymocytes express RAG-1 and RAG-2 messenger RNA's.
  • (13) Nuclear run-on assays showed that TPA completely repressed the transcription of RAG-1 within 30 min.
  • (14) A former Socialist party leader, he is a jovial, wise-cracking believer in consensus politics, who aides say never loses his rag and who so hates fights that he was once nicknamed "the marshmallow" within his own party, or "Flanby", after a wobbly caramel pudding.
  • (15) The Farage adviser said he looked back on many people within Ukip as “a bunch of rag-tag, unprofessional, embarrassing people who let Nigel down at every juncture.” He told the Guardian: “Someone needs to go in there with a big stick.
  • (16) Furthermore, we show that RAG can be expressed not only by CD3-TCR negative but also by CD3-TCRab or gd positive T-ALL cells.
  • (17) After fusion of HPRT- RAG cells with E. lutescens fibroblasts we demonstrated that the enzymes HPRT and G6PD are localized on the presumptive X chromosome.
  • (18) We analyzed the mitochondrial DNA of blood cells of 5 patients from a Chinese family with myoclonic epilepsy and ragged-red fiber disease.
  • (19) A small percentage of peripheral B cells also contained RAG-1 mRNA, raising the possibility that this protein may also be involved in immunoglobulin class switching.
  • (20) Exposure of isolated thymocytes to 12-O-tetra-decanoylphorbol 13-acetate (TPA)+ionomycin rapidly abolishes the expression of recombination-activating gene-1 (RAG-1) mRNA (3 h), down-regulates CD4 surface antigen expression (3 h), and enhances apoptosis (24 h).

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