What's the difference between bobbing and nutation?

Bobbing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bob

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (2) Bobbing in warming waters, this ancient ice fossil will be gone in a couple of weeks.
  • (3) Bob Farnsworth, president of Nashville, Tennessee-based Hummingbird Productions, told trade publication Variety that the film was set for release in 2015 and would star Karolyn Grimes, who played George Bailey's daughter in the original film.
  • (4) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.
  • (5) We studied bobbed loci at different magnification steps, analysing their behaviour through the reversion process and the way they carry out a second round of magnification.
  • (6) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (7) I will destroy you.” Khan, a former WBA and IBF light world welterweight champion, also turned on Manny Pacquiao, accusing him and his team, led by Bob Arum, of providing conflicting reasons for choosing to fight Timothy Bradley in April, instead of the Bolton born boxer.
  • (8) The remaining four crossbench senators – Jacqui Lambie, Bob Day, Dio Wang and Glenn Lazarus – are still in negotiations and have not yet reached a position on the bill.
  • (9) Having women in top jobs doesn't make any difference anyway If this were the case, why would some of the best brains, both male and female, in the government, including Sir Bob Kerslake , head of the civil service, be concerned about it?
  • (10) Bobbed mutants also have the same molar ratios as wild-type flies.
  • (11) It would have been known as the Office of Congressional Complaint Review, and the rule change would have required that “any matter that may involve a violation of criminal law must be referred to the Committee on Ethics for potential referral to law enforcement agencies after an affirmative vote by the members”, according to the office of Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Republican from Virginia who pushed for the change.
  • (12) After more than a year together, Jenny felt that Bob had given her the right signals that he was interested in having children with her.
  • (13) Hardy headlines as an ex-con named Bob Saginowski who is trying to live out a quiet life away from crime as a bartender.
  • (14) And in Colorado the fiercely anti-immigration conservative and former presidential candidate Ted Tancredo was comfortably overcome by a more moderate former congressman, Bob Beauprez, in the primary to choose the Republican candidate for the state's governor.
  • (15) Analysis of the rates and amounts of rRNA and 5s RNA synthesized in Drosophila melanogaster bobbed mutants was done by using acrylamide-gel electrophoresis.
  • (16) Following the last model’s disappearance backstage, Galliano appeared briefly in front of the audience and bobbed a blink-and-you-missed-it bow, dressed in the white lab coat that is the uniform of the Maison Margiela label for whom he now designs.
  • (17) Bob Cannell, member of Suma Wholefoods workers co-operative "Suma had its best ever business results in 2013 and there have been similar results for other worker co-ops such as Unicorn Grocery in Manchester.
  • (18) "Ghana are a talented team and their coach has them well organised," the USA coach, Bob Bradley, said.
  • (19) With her blond bob, convertible car, cigarette in hand and cropped top emblazoned with the letters YOLO ("You Only Live Once"), this is an Alice in Wonderland the world has not seen before.
  • (20) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that the bobbed locus contains multiple cistrons, some threshold number of which are needed to produce ribosomal RNA and the normal phenotype.

Nutation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of nodding.
  • (n.) A very small libratory motion of the earth's axis, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.
  • (n.) The motion of a flower in following the apparent movement of the sun, from the east in the morning to the west in the evening.
  • (n.) Circumnutation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect on the signal intensities of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and iophendylate (Pantopaque) and on CSF-iophendylate contrast was studied in vitro with a small-nutation-angle (alpha) gradient refocused magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique (GRASS) as alpha, repetition time (TR), and echo time (TE) were varied.
  • (2) 2D 27Al nutation MAS NMR was used to corroborate the line assignment for the as-synthesized and the rehydrated AlPO4-17.
  • (3) The families that do not show consistent differences are not necessarily harbouring nutations at the same locus, or the same mutation at any particular locus.
  • (4) The mutation which makes T7 DNA sensitive to the endonuclease is separable from the amber nutation and located between am28 and am233 (gene 6).
  • (5) Solid-state 27Al NMR spectra of several aluminophosphate molecular sieves have been recorded with conventional magic-angle spinning (MAS), double-rotation (DOR) and quadrupole nutation with fast MAS.
  • (6) Enhanced resolution was obtained in the quadrupole nutation experiment at certain radiofrequency pulse strengths.
  • (7) There was a high correlation between measurements obtained with the variable nutation and partial saturation techniques.
  • (8) The one phase is the intermediate phase where dilatation of the cervix is almost complete and where there is an instinctive reflex that delivery is going to take place and this is very strong, and this is what starts off the oscillation (contra-nutation) of the sacrum and full engagement.
  • (9) The apparent T2 is influenced by the magnitude of the nutation angle inhomogeneity across the slice and paradoxically is not always more accurate with larger numbers of echoes.
  • (10) The accuracy of measurement of the spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) in biological systems using the variable nutation angle method is discussed using computer simulations.
  • (11) The spin nutation properties of frequency selective (space selective in combination with a magnetic field gradient) trains of radiofrequency micropulses were studied in a numeric model.
  • (12) Cross-polarization magic-angle spinning 13C and 15N NMR, rotational-echo double resonance 13C NMR, and delays alternating with nutation for tailored excitation-difference 13C NMR spectra have been obtained from lyophilized cell walls of Bacillus subtilis grown on a synthetic medium containing D,L-[2-13C, 15N]aspartate and D-[1-13C]alanine.
  • (13) Transparent pulses are defined by the property of having no net effect on stationary spins, while selectively nutating and dephasing flowing spins.
  • (14) This "variable nutation" techniques was investigated using a T1 phantom.
  • (15) We conclude that the variable nutation method may allow measurement of T1 relaxation times with a significant reduction in acquisition time compared to partial saturation techniques.