What's the difference between bristle and react?

Bristle


Definition:

  • (n.) A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
  • (n.) A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
  • (v. t.) To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
  • (v. t.) To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
  • (v. i.) To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
  • (v. i.) To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
  • (v. i.) To show defiance or indignation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
  • (2) Selection limits for scutellar bristles in lines M and M2 were equal to or greater than the most extreme reported in the literature.-The probit span of the canalised 4 bristle class decreased in each selection line as the mean scutellar bristle number increased, and increased again in the relaxed lines as the mean bristle number decreased.
  • (3) "Corncob" configurations consisting of filamentous bacteria surrounded by Gram-positive cocci, and "bristle brush" formations comprising corncobs surrounded by long rods were observed in the superficial layer of the plaque.
  • (4) However, identification of the methionine bristle domain suggests that chloroplast HSPs also have unique functions or substrates within the special environment of the chloroplast or other plastids.
  • (5) A homozygous mutant escaper had weak, completely unpigmented cuticle and unpigmented bristles.
  • (6) Test variables were time in use, brush design (e.g., geometry and size of the brush head), and bristle composition.
  • (7) The diameter of the bristles vary between 0.7 mm at the base of the bristle to 0.25 mm in the near end of the bristle.
  • (8) According to random selection, subjects' teeth were brushed by trained personnel with either the curved bristle or the conventional toothbrush.
  • (9) Some people, however, still bristle at the idea of sexuality on a spectrum.
  • (10) The S character of Drosophila simulans, the absence or malformation or both of bristles and other cuticular structures, was described by Comendador (Drosophila Inf.
  • (11) Results are presented of 135 generations of selection for high scutellar bristle number in two lines M and M3 derived from the same original mating of one female with 5 bristles by one male with 4 bristles, the latter being the wild-type canalised phenotype.
  • (12) The lateral walls of these subunits form regularly spaced bristles or pegs which extend inwards from the trilaminar membrane for a distance of 13-15 nm.
  • (13) Afterwards, while the phagocytic ability decreases, the phagocytic cups disappear, and all the cells become bristled with many thin filopods.
  • (14) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
  • (15) In each generation, offspring of the two groups were retained in their group or transferred to the other group, depending on the number of their bristles.
  • (16) The homozygous and heterozygous effects of the inserts on viability and abdominal and sternopleural bristle number were ascertained by comparing the chromosome lines with inserts to insert-free control lines of the inbred host strain.
  • (17) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
  • (18) Our results indicate that emc plays an essential early role in defining territories of bristle-forming potential.
  • (19) Fortunately for his detractors, who bristle at his brash TV persona and penchant for bullying guests, Shimada conceded his TV career was at an end: "From tomorrow I will become just another regular person.
  • (20) When Grayson remarks to the men he meets that his transvestism allows him enough distance from maleness to view it as an observer, rather than bristle they nod, quietly ponder for a moment and then step back themselves, apparently accepting that maleness is such a weird contrivance that to look at it with critical eyes is Not Even A Thing.

React


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
  • (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
  • (v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) MRK20 reacted with monocytes, but MRK16 did not with any WBC type.
  • (2) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-BarrĂ© [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (3) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (6) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
  • (7) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
  • (8) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
  • (9) The 4G1 antibody reacted with only the proteins of the two Y. enterocolitica strains.
  • (10) 18 children with B. a. and 1 patient with c. B. reacted significantly with sRaw.
  • (11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (12) Differential absorption experiments showed that LG-1 contained a mixture of specific and cross-reacting antibodies.
  • (13) Horizontal sections of the left cortex were reacted for the demonstration of HRP.
  • (14) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
  • (15) The bacterial-binding activity and mammalian receptor-binding activities in each of two samples co-chromatographed on a Remazol yellow GGL-Sepharose affinity column strongly indicated that the same immunoglobulin species reacts with both antigens.
  • (16) The antibodies were used for identifying cross-reacting proteins in individual C. s. scutulatus and other Crotalus venoms and to isolate Mojave toxin.
  • (17) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
  • (18) 27% of the neurons revealed high sensitivity to the temperature stimulus with coefficient Q10 from 2.4 to 30; 6% of the neurons reacted by the on-response type; 5% of the neurons changed their activity and preserved the new level.
  • (19) Lastly, size analysis of the circulating IgG4 aFABA complexes indicated that these autoantibodies were not complexed with intact IgG, but rather with a molecule of 40-60 kDa, further suggesting the potential for these autoantibodies to react with multiple antigens.
  • (20) Chelators and sulfhydryl group reacting substances reduced the enzyme activity.