What's the difference between blanking and clanking?

Blanking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blank

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, the most frequent haplotype of HLA-DR2 in normal Japanese, A24-C blank-Bw52-C4A*2 B*Q0-BF *S-C2*C-DR2-DQw1, had a decreased frequency to one-third of the normal controls.
  • (2) In case of extractions from blank plasma samples interfering peaks are not observed.
  • (3) Some of the patients with a blank audiogram are better off with exploratory tympanotomy and stapedotomy.
  • (4) Gibson has held the role of chairman since 4 May 2006, when he took over from Sir Victor Blank, who vacated the role to become chairman at Lloyds TSB.
  • (5) Its better sensitivity allowed a lower reagent consumption and a larger sample dilution (contrary to the conventional immunonephelometry, sample pretreatment and sample blank measurement were unnecessary).
  • (6) This blank effect owes its regressive nature to the consumption of the active reagent ingredient by the protein reactive species, variably and sometimes, with certain reactants, nonlinearly in the presence of increasing protein concentrations.
  • (7) Goren, Sarty, and Wu (1975) claimed that newborn infants will follow a slowly moving schematic face stimulus with their head and eyes further than they will follow scrambled faces or blank stimuli.
  • (8) The signals were digitized and subjected to three methods of heart sound cancellation: 75-Hz high-pass filtering (75 HF), ECG-triggered blanking (BL) and adaptive filtering (AF).
  • (9) We aggressively push new uranium deals to countries like India , whose nuclear industry has been called unsafe by its own auditor general , and which point blank refuses to sign the global nuclear non-proliferation treaty .
  • (10) A column chromatographic purification of milk prior to radioimmunoassay decreased the blank and improved sensitivity.
  • (11) Would their parents point-blank refuse to take home yet another Barbie, or would they really be able to stand back and let free choice ensue?
  • (12) Performance was at chance on blank trials, and cats with complete cord transection failed to discriminate.
  • (13) Significant increases were noted in the frequencies of HLA-A 26, B 39 and DR blank antigens.
  • (14) Marked reduction of exogenous cyt c was observed only in sample S: the small reduction of cyt c by sample R was independent of the light wavelength and was equal to the blank level.
  • (15) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
  • (16) Each matrix was prepared at 3 sulfite levels--the regulatory level, half the regulatory level, twice the regulatory level--and as a blank.
  • (17) Extraterrestrials Decades of searching for signs of alien life have so far turned up a blank, yet the question of whether life on Earth is a one-off is among the most compelling in science.
  • (18) Asked point blank if Mueller should recuse himself from the Russia investigation, Trump said: “Well, he’s very, very good friends with Comey, which is very bothersome.
  • (19) Black cases had significantly higher gene frequencies than black controls for Bw65, Cw2, and DRw14, while white cases had higher gene frequencies than white controls for A3 and Cw2 and blanks at the DR and DQ loci.
  • (20) Hydrogen peroxide was formed when cysteine was exposed to oxygen in the dilution blank solution, and the reaction was inhibited by metal ion-chelating agents.

Clanking


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clank

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lee Young-pyo executes an elaborate series of stepovers down the left - Cristiano Ronaldo eat your heart out - but just as he looks to have Maxi Pereira beaten, he lets the ball clank off his shin and out of play.
  • (2) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
  • (3) Muller then slides a ball into the area for Muller, who breaks clear with only Romero to beat, but lets the ball clank off his shin and towards Romero.
  • (4) In Houston, on any given day, entomologists can be found clanking open manhole covers, wading into ditches or walking through backyards of obliging residents.
  • (5) 78 min: That could have made things at least a little bit interesting: A clever reverse ball by Benzema releases Grosso down the left-hand side of the Rangers box, but the World Cup winning left-back lets the ball clank hopelessly off his shins and out of play.
  • (6) The ball clanks off the middle of the left-hand post, in super slow-motion technicolor, Rene Houseman hacks clear, and 51 seconds later, the referee blows the final whistle.
  • (7) The fourth season of Game of Thrones is looming like an armour-clanking phalanx, ready to maraud into your social life from 7 April onwards.
  • (8) 8.05pm BST 4 min: ... clank an idiotic effort straight into the wall.
  • (9) Giroud meets the set piece, but clanks a header well wide.
  • (10) It's not a great effort, but it clanks into the legs of Giroud, and the striker - just onside when the shot was taken - is suddenly one on one with Stockdale!
  • (11) The sound of their clanking on the metal floor of the blocks in Camp Delta is still fresh in my mind.
  • (12) The home team won 8-2 in an eerie atmosphere where foul balls clanked around empty grandstands and mammoth home runs were received in silence.
  • (13) Cameron and Clegg were more brutal and direct – in keeping with the clanking sounds emanating from the factory floor.
  • (14) Inside, however, the tiny store smells like smoke and echoes with the electronic clank of four video slot machines that occupy about a third of the floor space.
  • (15) Then, the wealthiest citizens clanked champagne flutes to their own good fortunes, while the majority of the population struggled in the proverbial alleyways.
  • (16) A deeper conundrum is that while crowdfunding is happy-clappy on the outside, inside beats the libertarian free-market clank of the Silicon Valley culture in which it was forged.
  • (17) Juan Mata's delivery is poor and enables Yayya Toure to go on one of his clanking runs down the pitch.
  • (18) Out of the corner of my eye I saw the motorbike clank over and skid a long way.
  • (19) They would be increasingly propelled into a world system already clanking away at full speed.
  • (20) The rain was pattering against the old windows, the steam heat was clanking in the old radiator, and I felt at peace.

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