What's the difference between bridge and circuit?

Bridge


Definition:

  • (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
  • (n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
  • (n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
  • (n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
  • (n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
  • (v. t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
  • (v. t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
  • (v. t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
  • (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) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
  • (4) Terry Waite Chair, Benedict Birnberg Deputy chair, Antonio Ferrara CEO The Prisons Video Trust • If I want to build a bridge, I call in a firm of civil engineers who specialise in bridge-building.
  • (5) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
  • (6) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
  • (7) These force-generators are identified with projections (cross-bridges) on the thick filament, each consisting of part of a myosin molecule.
  • (8) Segmental function was diminished an average of 67.8% in "noses" and 46.6% in "bridges".
  • (9) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (10) Close van der Waals' contacts between the Cys22-Cys63 and Cys51-Cys75 disulfide bridges and the central hydrophobic core composed of the Trp25, Leu46, His48a and Trp62 side-chains are among the distinguishing features of the kringle 2 fold.
  • (11) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
  • (12) The cartilage of the concha is a valuable substitute of the bridge and the posterior wall of the external auditory conduct.
  • (13) It is shown from an analysis of the transient force responses observed after sudden changes in muscle length applied both at full and reduced overlap and during the rising phase of short tetani that these responses can be explained on the basis of varying numbers of cross bridges attached at the time of the length step.
  • (14) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.
  • (15) The dynamic properties of cross-bridge movement were investigated in glycerol-treated muscle fibers under various conditions by analyzing tension responses to two types of length change.
  • (16) The first problem facing Calderdale is sheep-rustling Happy Valley – filmed around Hebden Bridge, with its beautiful stone houses straight off the pages of the Guardian’s Lets Move To – may be filled with rolling hills and verdant pastures, but the reality of rural issues are harsh.
  • (17) It is suggested that a general manner of folding may be a common feature of the heterogeneous population of kappa-chains: one bridge which folds an invariable stretch of the chain, another bridge which folds a stretch that varies from protein to protein, and a bridge at the C-terminus which is the interchain link.
  • (18) 1-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-3-(2-chloroethyl)-3- nitrosourea hydrochloride (ACNU) causes chloroethylation of DNA strand followed by cross linking through an ethylene bridge.
  • (19) Optimal staining of antigen rich tissue, such as frozen sections, with the peroxidase antiperoxidase method required low antiserum concentrations apparently to minimize the binding of both antigen-binding fragments of the bridging antibody to the tissue bound antiserum.
  • (20) The results provided information on the energetics of actin-myosin-ligand states that occur in the portion of the cross-bridge cycle where MgATP binds to myosin.

Circuit


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.
  • (n.) The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
  • (n.) That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
  • (n.) The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
  • (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  • (n.) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
  • (n.) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
  • (n.) Circumlocution.
  • (v. i.) To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
  • (v. t.) To travel around.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) Hypertrophy is restricted to subdivisions of the inferior olive included in recurrent cerebello-mesencephalic-olivary circuits.
  • (3) The ability of autoregulate blood flow in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit is critical to prevent cavitation and air embolism.
  • (4) To explain some of these results a theoretical model is presented to demonstrate that while short circuiting can block the passive ionic movement, it will cause an increase in the energy consumption of the system and introduce certain important changes in the ionic barriers and e.m.fs.
  • (5) DNase I microspheres were then introduced into the extracorporeal circuit which resulted in an acceleration of degradation of acid precipitable 125I-nDNA.
  • (6) A wide range of development possibilities for the printed circuit microelectrode are discussed.
  • (7) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
  • (8) One hour after terminating the extacorporeal circuit, the C.O.P.
  • (9) These effects are not accompanied by significant changes in the transmural electrical potential difference or short-circuit current.
  • (10) Evidence is reviewed suggesting that this latter system may involve a corticostriatal circuit.
  • (11) Several attempts at circuit interruption of type 1 atrial flutter by means of surgical or catheter techniques have been published.
  • (12) To eliminate pacing stimulus afterpotential and detect an evoked response, a hardware feedback circuit and a software template matching algorithm were used to produce a triphasic charge-balanced pacing pulse.
  • (13) Four blood filters included in the extracorporeal circuit were removed one by one at 30-minute intervals.
  • (14) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
  • (15) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
  • (16) The type 3 pattern occurred when the antidromic wavefront of early premature beats captured the original circuit exit.
  • (17) Polymethacrylate coated charcoal was inserted in the dialysis circuit before the dialyzer.
  • (18) Since our system is adjusted with square waveforms and composed of a simple analog circuit, it can be compensated easily in real time.
  • (19) The circuit training exercise program, therefore, appears to be an effective method for improving the fitness level of alcoholic patients.
  • (20) Thus, neurons of the habenula and interpeduncular nucleus are under the direct and indirect influence of septal neurons within the limbic forebrain circuit.