What's the difference between bathing and batting?

Bathing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bathe
  • (n.) Act of taking a bath or baths.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With NaCl as the major constituent of the bathing solution (potassium-free pipette and external solutions) the reversal potential (Er) of the noradrenaline-evoked current was about 0 mV.
  • (2) 'The only way that child would have drowned in the bath is if you were holding her under the water.'
  • (3) Circular muscle strips from the opossum esophageal body obtained 3-5 cm above the esophagogastric junction were suspended in organ baths for measurement of isometric tension.
  • (4) The design of a small, inexpensive temperature controlled bath (0.25 ml volume) for electrophysiological studies of isolated cells is described.
  • (5) A much less romantic example, but one that exists across the country, is being given a bath by a careworker.
  • (6) The tissue and an aliquot of bathing medium were counted for 3H and 14C content and the values entered into the Wadell and Butler equation.
  • (7) The effects of drugs applied in the bathing medium on the peristaltic responses were examined.
  • (8) The brief (3 ms) afterhyperpolarizations that followed such spikes were blocked by intracellular injections of Cs+ or by bath applications of tetraethylammonium.
  • (9) Replacement of bath Na+ by choline decreased the PD of tracheas by 85% but did not change alveolar PD in the presence or absence of bumetanide.
  • (10) Antibiotics, X-537A and A23187, were added in micromolar concentrations to selected bathing solutions of skinned frog muscle fibers, and they were shown to affect the production of tension in the skinned fibers.
  • (11) Similar organisms were found in the water at the site of the accident in Boston, and at ocean bathing beaches on nearby Martha's Vineyard.
  • (12) We therefore investigated the influence of different carbon dioxide tensions and bicarbonate concentrations on directly measured pH of organ baths aerated with mass-spectrometric analyzed O2-CO2 gases.
  • (13) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
  • (14) However, when Na+ in the bath was returned to the control level, pHi recovered completely Amiloride (1 mM) in the bath completely inhibited the Na(-)-dependent pHi recovery.
  • (15) Bath-applied N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA), glutamate or quisqualate elicited transient enhancement in these field potentials, followed by a sustained depression reversible on washout.
  • (16) Fibres bathing in 60 mm-MgCl(2) sea water, free of Ca, did not develop tension with sudden displacements of the membrane potential towards more positive values.
  • (17) The preparation was mounted in an organ bath and superfused with Tyrode solution containing hemicholinium-3 and eserine.
  • (18) Cells were then placed in a bath on a microscope stage, superfused and electrically stimulated.
  • (19) With magnesium-Ringer as external bathing solutions, amiloride and ouabain failed to stimulate oxygen consumption.
  • (20) Elevation of bath [K] reduced Vm and Vs by 30.3 and 44.5 mV, respectively.

Batting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bat
  • (n.) The act of one who bats; the management of a bat in playing games of ball.
  • (n.) Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (2) Rhesus monkey BAT mitochondria (BATM) possess an uncoupling protein that is characteristic of BAT as evidenced by the binding of [3H]GDP, the inhibition by GDP of the high Cl- permeability or rapid alpha-glycerol-3-phosphate oxidation.
  • (3) Echo delay discrimination by the bat Eptesicus fuscus had been investigated in an experiment with simulated targets jittering in range (Simmons 1979).
  • (4) Additionally, in a group of bats, HRP was injected into various functionally (i.e., BF) identified regions of the central nucleus of the inferior coliculus (IC) to clarify the type and location of CN projecting neurons.
  • (5) Monaural plugging was performed on different juvenile bats at 7, 14, and 35 days of age.
  • (6) Bats infected with the high dose had viable H. capsulatum in the lungs, liver, spleen and gut as early as 2 weeks post-infection.
  • (7) Sympathetic activation of lipogenesis in BAT is not solely attributable to the action of noradrenaline but involves some non-adrenergic mechanism.
  • (8) I think it will be done right.” Jeter was cheered when he took batting practice and when he ran into his dugout when it was over.
  • (9) The relationship between the meal-induced increase in brown adipose tissue (BAT) thermogenesis, determined by the level of GDP binding to BAT mitochondria, and thyroid hormone metabolism have been examined.
  • (10) Plasma steroid binding was examined in samples obtained from seven species of bats representing four different families.
  • (11) Several haematological and biochemical parameters were measured in the erythrocytes of the grey-headed fruit bat.
  • (12) Rates of fatty acid synthesis in liver and BAT were several times greater than that in WAT.
  • (13) We also identified UCP in eight cases in group B, in five cases in group C and six cases in group D. The human H-UCP-0.5 genomic probe detected a typical BAT mRNA in the periadrenal adipose tissue of all subjects of groups B, C and D showing a positive Western blot.
  • (14) The 1,400 victims are those who had actually experienced sexual exploitation.” Determined that no one could bat away her findings, she had produced a 153-page report that spelled out in plain language the appalling abuse suffered by children aged 10-16 in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.
  • (15) Excision of BAT, but not white adipose tissue increased RGE susceptibility of 21w rats.
  • (16) When the reference target to which the bats were trained was presented, targets differing in internal delay by about 1 microseconds were discriminated.
  • (17) The results suggest that BAT contains two different pathways for regulation of lipoprotein lipase activity, both involving mRNA synthesis.
  • (18) Bats have maximum life spans a minimum of 3 times those of nonflying eutherians--a trend resulting from neither low basal metabolic rate, the ability to enter torpor, nor large relative brain size.
  • (19) From January 1989 through December 1990, 74 patients were admitted to our urban level I trauma center with injuries inflicted by baseball bats.
  • (20) However, in both LSO and MSO there is an expanded representation of the frequencies around 60 kHz, the main frequency component of the bat's echolocation call; there is another expanded representation of the range around 90 kHz, the third harmonic of the call.