What's the difference between byte and runt?

Byte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Authors describe the classification of the malocclusion by Angle, and considerate one open byte case, may be caused by extrusion of first lower right molar, describing orthodontic treatment for his correction.
  • (2) The images are stored on the hard disk: each image requires 3M bytes, but it can be compressed down to 25:1 with no detail loss.
  • (3) Images were acquired in dynamic-byte mode, 128 X 128 matrix size, every one minute up to 40 minutes.
  • (4) The host computer sends a stream of bytes to the parallel port that specifies the configuration of the desired output pulses.
  • (5) For some, this visibility is empowering, but all it offers me is an unspoken pressure to give money, wear pink, have something specific and meaningful to say and a cause to champion, when I have no money, prefer neutrals and don’t have many thoughts I’m inclined to boil down to sound bytes.
  • (6) The word he repeatedly emphasized was “heart”, at times placing his hand over his chest while vowing to be the candidate who would go to bat for conservative causes even if he wasn’t able to sum it up in the ideal debate sound byte.
  • (7) A new computer memory using a laser beam to impress dimples on a standard credit card has been devised which contains about 2 million bytes (700 typed pages) and which has been formatted with software to permit access to a complete medical record which can be carried by the patient and updated at each encounter with the health care system.
  • (8) The encrypted text file is very small - just 211 bytes in size - but is large enough to contain, say, a couple of sentences.
  • (9) In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file.
  • (10) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
  • (11) He plans to look at streetlights in upcoming research: “Most of the products we take a look at are insecure; they have vulnerabilities and allow hackers to compromise them.” Many of the weaknesses are basic, he says: devices often don’t do adequate validation of the data being sent to them, failing to check whether malicious streams of information are being sent rather than legitimate bits and bytes determining their functions.
  • (12) Four hundred fifteen finger joints from 30 patients were evaluated for the presence of joint-space erosion, narrowing, and degenerative spurring on plain films, low-resolution digitized images (1024 x 840 bytes x 12 bit matrix), and high-resolution digitized images (2048 x 1680 bytes x 12 bit matrix).
  • (13) Data from 200 measurements is stored in a 2K byte RAM CMOS system.
  • (14) The file is written as a continuous byte stream, with no line or page formating.
  • (15) The large number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that detailed picture.
  • (16) Thousands of images have been transmitted to a site more than 15 miles away, with data rates exceeding 56,000 bits or 7,000 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) per second with nearly perfect accuracy.
  • (17) TMG's other brands include Deltapoint, RAZSOR, 2nd Byte and Autotrade-mail.
  • (18) The data are transferred via RS-232C, and the each byte of data is received by MS-DOS BIOS call.
  • (19) In order to extend this method to images whose pixel values may vary from 8 bits per pixel to 16 bits per pixel, single byte coding is suggested.
  • (20) Lyme's disease (LD) is a multisystemic infection due to Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted through the byte of a vector arthropod of the Ixodes genre.

Runt


Definition:

  • (a.) Any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals.
  • (a.) A variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier.
  • (a.) A dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously.
  • (a.) The dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover, the presence of a loss-of-function runt mutation masculinizes triploid intersexes.
  • (2) In rabbits starved for 24 hours, and in runt rabbits body temperature did not rise, but a decline started 60 min after endotoxin administration, corresponding to the transient fall observed in well-fed animals and continuing until about the 100-120th min; thereafter body temperature tended to stabilize at the low level.
  • (3) Reduced function of runt results in female-specific lethality and sexual transformation of XX animals that are heterozygous for Sxl or sis loss-of-function mutations.
  • (4) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.
  • (5) Under specific pathogen-free conditions, NZB nude mice survive less than 3 weeks, dying of a runting-like disease with infection by local normally noninvasive organisms.
  • (6) Ever since the abnormalities of runt disease were first described they have repeatedly been compared to those observed in patients with certain lymphomas (17).
  • (7) Some runts failed to increase their metabolic rate in the cold and these had the lowest deep body temperature.
  • (8) This results in "multisuckling", with its large number of runts.
  • (9) Possible candidates include the primary pair-rule genes, hairy and runt.
  • (10) The role of selenium deficiency in the etiology of the runting-stunting syndrome (RSS) of broiler chickens in Australia was investigated.
  • (11) The runt gene is required in a developing Drosophila embryo for proper segmentation.
  • (12) Attempts to cause lethal runting of F1 hybrid mice injected at birth with spleen cells from unresponsive mice gave variable results.
  • (13) Immunization of females prior to mating altered the size of their litters and the incidence of postnatal death and runting, and the effect varied with the antigen used.
  • (14) In the absence of defectives all animals died, but in their presence 17 of 23 animals survived and 15 of 23 became runted and chronically infected.
  • (15) Newborn mice, runting-like disease; bacterial inoculation; immunological response in.
  • (16) Alternatively maternal HLA homozygosity may predispose to fetal changes comparable to runting.
  • (17) Long-term effects of tolerant infection included mild runting, decreased survival time, and almost total sterility among females, largely caused by fatal virus infection of embryos.
  • (18) The affected mice were moderately runted and had deformities in all four limbs.
  • (19) The influence of prenatal growth retardation on epidermal growth and keratinization was studied in small-for-dates human babies, runt piglets and in rat fetuses subject to maternal protein deprivation.
  • (20) The heat productions of newborn runt and normal piglets were estimated over a range of ambient temperatures.