What's the difference between band and streak?

Band


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter.
  • (v. t.) A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of color, or of brickwork, etc.
  • (v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
  • (v. t.) That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
  • (v. t.) A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • (v. t.) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
  • (v. t.) A narrow strip of cloth or other material on any article of dress, to bind, strengthen, ornament, or complete it.
  • (v. t.) A company of persons united in any common design, especially a body of armed men.
  • (v. t.) A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.
  • (v. t.) A space between elevated lines or ribs, as of the fruits of umbelliferous plants.
  • (v. t.) A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.
  • (v. t.) A belt or strap.
  • (v. t.) A bond
  • (v. t.) Pledge; security.
  • (v. t.) To bind or tie with a band.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a band.
  • (v. t.) To unite in a troop, company, or confederacy.
  • (v. i.) To confederate for some common purpose; to unite; to conspire together.
  • (v. t.) To bandy; to drive away.
  • () imp. of Bind.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Oligoclonal bands were not detected in any of the sera or CSF.
  • (3) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
  • (4) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (5) The intensity of the type III specific peptide bands correlates with the type III content of the samples.
  • (6) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
  • (7) One major band with a molecular weight of 12,000 was detected by autofluorography and coincided with the Coomassie staining band of apocytochrome c from S. cerevisiae.
  • (8) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
  • (9) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
  • (10) A standard protocol is reported for the highly efficient demonstration of replication patterns corresponding to R-type and G-type banding.
  • (11) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
  • (12) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
  • (13) One of the HEF bands can be separated from two others with beta-alanine as discrete spacer.
  • (14) In all these subjects, fluorescent staining and G-banding on chromosomes from cultured leukocytes confirmed their karyotype.
  • (15) Thus, whereas CD3-associated molecules isolated from polyclonal CD3+WT31+ populations (expanded in IL 2 under the same culture conditions) appeared as diffuse bands, CD3-associated molecules isolated from CD3+WT31- populations displayed a homogeneous molecular mass.
  • (16) Inclusion-forming and non-inclusion-forming elementary bodies focused in one band at pI 4.64.
  • (17) Two Raman bands at 880 and 1360 cm-1 of tryptophan (Trp) side chains have been found useful in structural studies of the side chains in proteins.
  • (18) Results of this sort are reminiscent of several related findings that have been attributed to auditory adaptation or enhancement, or to a temporally developing critical-band filter.
  • (19) The results showed that twenty-eight bands were significantly rearranged (P less than 0.05).
  • (20) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.

Streak


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
  • (n.) A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
  • (n.) A strake.
  • (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character.
  • (n.) The rung or round of a ladder.
  • (v. t.) To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
  • (v. t.) With it as an object: To run swiftly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
  • (2) Data from cases with myocardial bridges show that both fatty streaks and raised lesions are seldom observed in the region distal to myocardial bridge.
  • (3) Evx-1 RNA is first detected shortly before the onset of gastrulation in a region of ectoderm containing cells that will soon be found in the primitive streak.
  • (4) Gonadoblastoma is an unusual tumor that typically arises in a streak gonad or an abnormal testis of an individual having a Y chromosome.
  • (5) This study focuses on the expansion and maturation of the fatty streak in the aorta of Watanabe Heritable Hyperlipemic rabbits and comparably hypercholesterolemic fat-fed rabbits between 2 and 6 months duration of hypercholesterolemia.
  • (6) Fatty streaks were observed in 2nd decade involving only 7.5% of the total intimal surface and reaching to a maximum of 22.2% in the 3rd decade, followed by a gradual rise to 9.2% in 7th decade.
  • (7) Immunoreactivity in fatty streaks was located around collections of foam cells.
  • (8) The streaking phenomenon, as well as the tendency toward randomness, was discussed in terms of attentional anomalies.
  • (9) The high frequency of angioid streaks observed in patients with beta thalassemia and the severe complications observed in one patient render a thorough ophthalmoscopic examination and follow-up of such patients necessary for both early diagnosis and possible therapeutic intervention.
  • (10) On the back of some appalling results, including a six-game losing streak, the atmosphere at the game against Cardiff was toxic and the abuse intensely personal.
  • (11) As development proceeded during primitive streak stages, the visceral and parietal endoderm became positively stained.
  • (12) The mean survival period after angiography was 3.8 months, and the prognosis was not favorable in patients having "thread-and-streak" sign on angiography.
  • (13) A diet containing 0.3% cholesterol was given to male New Zealand rabbits for 16 weeks; this produced atherosclerotic lesions (fatty streaks) on 80% of the intimal surface of the thoracic aorta and on 45% of the intimal surface of the abdominal aorta.
  • (14) The area of highest density formed a nasal-temporal band suggestive of a visual streak.
  • (15) The horizontal streak of high rhodopsin levels is preferentially reduced in this retinopathy.
  • (16) Density distribution maps for neurons in the ganglion cell layer and the photoreceptor layer reveal the presence of a putative area centralis and a horizontal visual streak.
  • (17) Atherosclerotic lesions (mostly fatty streaks but some fibrous plaques) were present only in groups C and CL and were absent in groups L and N. The percentage of atherosclerotic intimal involvement was significantly greater in group CL than C (P less than 0.001).
  • (18) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
  • (19) Grossly visible fatty streaks and fibrous plaques were not found in any of the swine aorta.
  • (20) The cluster lies just posterior to the definitive primitive streak in the extraembryonic mesoderm, separated from the embryo by the amniotic fold.