What's the difference between caliber and mortar?

Caliber


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Calibre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Metabolism-mediated vasodilatation, with adenosine as principal mediator, essentially concerns the small-caliber intramyocardial arterioles and is the predominant regulatory system in normal subjects.
  • (2) In the 5-day-old rats, the caliber spectra of myelinated and nonmedullated axons overlapped in the 0.49-0.83 micron2 range and their microtubular densities were similar.
  • (3) We report three patients who had small caliber feeding tubes passed through the tracheobronchial tree perforating into the pleural space.
  • (4) It demonstrated that calibers of renal parenchymal vasculature were narrowed.
  • (5) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
  • (6) In our patients, 48% had stones in the gallbladder smaller than the caliber of the cystic duct.
  • (7) The advantages of this technique are: the abdominal aorta of rats proximally to renal arteries is characterized by a well developed adventitia and its caliber is double of that of infrarenal aorta; b) the left renal vein is more easily access of caval vein with similar caliber; c) the use of left renal vein and the widening of pulmonary artery permits a wide anastomosis; d) the so obtained heart position is better than the transversal one; e) the calibers of all anastomosis is so wide to permit the realization of this technique without extreme optical magnification.
  • (8) Two cases involving deadly bullet shots to the head are reported (entry wounds at the right temple, shots fired at absolutely close range, 7.65 or 9 mm caliber).
  • (9) In 55 patients, there was greater than 75 percent restoration of the luminal caliber ("successful"), and this group was compared to 14 patients in whom the lumen was not restored ("unsuccessful").
  • (10) Simultaneously the great arteries lengthen at a faster rate than the rest of the heart; and there is also an increase in the caliber and wall thickness of the great arteries.
  • (11) To establish the conditions for achieving immediate and complete endothelial cell coverage of the luminal surfaces of small-caliber (internal diameter:4 mm) vascular grafts in vitro, the attachment and spread of endothelial cells cultured from human umbilical veins to expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) and knitted Dacron grafts was studied.
  • (12) Intra-epithelial beaded nerve fibers, subepithelial fibers, and large-caliber nerves in the hilus region and tracheal wall were also CGRP-IR, and immunoreactive nerves were occasionally found in close association with NEB at the basal pole.
  • (13) Although the common bile ducts were generally quite uniform in caliber, there were instances where each portion was the largest diameter in an individual case.
  • (14) The ability to visualize small-caliber needles within the fluid space further enhances the effectiveness of this technique.
  • (15) Percutaneous hepatobiliary interventional procedures that have received considerable attention in the past year include technical refinements of the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt procedure used in patients with portal hypertension and esophageal varices, transshunt embolotherapy of persistent varices in patients with small-caliber mesocaval shunts, percutaneous and transcatheter embolotherapy of hepatic malignancies in patients with primary or metastatic lesions, and MR angiography in the preoperative evaluation of patients awaiting liver transplantation.
  • (16) If there's one thing this current Lakers squad, mostly assembled by Jerry Buss's son Jim while his father was ailing, has proven, it's that simply acquiring the best available players isn't enough to create a winning team, let alone a championship-caliber one.
  • (17) Changes in physical forces, like sudden increase of transmural pressure or flow velocity (shear stress), trigger changes in blood vessel diameter; the former reduces it while the latter increases vessel caliber.
  • (18) These constrictions may be drastic, narrowing down the caliber of the vessel up to 50%.
  • (19) These studies were carried out in ureters of normal caliber and animals otherwise free of disease.
  • (20) In the clot group, the mean vessel caliber of the cerebral arteries on the right side (clot side) of the circle of Willis showed significant (P less than 0.01) reduction (more than 40%) as compared with the values on the contralateral, non-clot side.

Mortar


Definition:

  • (n.) A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
  • (n.) A short piece of ordnance, used for throwing bombs, carcasses, shells, etc., at high angles of elevation, as 45¡, and even higher; -- so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described.
  • (n.) A building material made by mixing lime, cement, or plaster of Paris, with sand, water, and sometimes other materials; -- used in masonry for joining stones, bricks, etc., also for plastering, and in other ways.
  • (v. t.) To plaster or make fast with mortar.
  • (n.) A chamber lamp or light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Women on the beat: how to get more female police officers around the world Read more Mortars were, for instance, used on 5 June when Afghan national army soldiers accidentally hit a wedding party on the outskirts of Ghazni, killing eight children.
  • (2) Apple held an unprecedented online sale on Friday and retail giants like WalMart have combined their online and bricks and mortar sales.
  • (3) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
  • (4) Growing up in Walters Way – and knowing that my parents built our house – taught me that there is an alternative to buying on the open market, and that houses don’t need to be made from bricks and mortar.
  • (5) But, in contrast to mammals, the highly attenuated corneocytes of avians, which results from a paucity of keratin filaments, produce a 'straws-and-mortar' tissue, rather than the 'bricks-and-mortar' tissue of mammals.
  • (6) The median incubation period calculated from day of arrival at the mortar firing site was 17 days (range 2-78) for the 15 confirmed cases.
  • (7) "Yesterday Palestinian terrorists fired 11 mortars from the vicinity of an UNRWA school in Zeitoun, Gaza," the IDF said on Twitter about four hours after the strike on the school in Rafah.
  • (8) I don't mean the year communism collapsed and democracy-loving Berliners tore through bricks and mortar with their bare hands.
  • (9) Crush the pistachios with a mortar and pestle, and set aside, then finely crush the cardamom seeds.
  • (10) Today, retailers offer their customers multiple touch points, whether that is a bricks and mortar store, online or mobile.
  • (11) Associated Press said 44 Sunni detainees were executed by pro-government Shia militiamen after Sunni insurgents reportedly tried to storm the jail near Baquba, but the Iraqi military put the death toll at 52 and said the Sunni prisoners were killed by mortar shells.
  • (12) As a result, the conflict has moved closer to residential areas, where the warring parties are fighting with indiscriminate weapons such as mortars, rockets and grenades.
  • (13) Even when they mortar us, it is hard to know where they come from.
  • (14) No matter how much you enjoy cooking, you definitely won't need a mortar or a pestle.
  • (15) He added: "It may also fail to reduce the violence or shift the momentum because the regime relies overwhelmingly on surface fires – mortars, artillery, and missiles."
  • (16) The Israeli military said gunmen had fired mortar bombs from near the school and it shot back in response.
  • (17) For many traders, street food is a means to a more conventional end: you start out selling from the back of a van and, if you amass a big enough following, you might end up with a bricks-and-mortar restaurant.
  • (18) They show the interrogation in April 2007 of a suspected insurgent, "Hanif", detained and questioned about a mortar attack on a British base.
  • (19) Syrian rebels groups briefly seized control of the Quneitra border crossing after hours of sustained and intense fighting with tanks and artillery, during which several shells exploded inside Camp Ziouni, a UN compound inside the demilitarised zone, and three mortars reportedly exploded inside Israeli-occupied territory.
  • (20) In the case of Airbnb, it’s facilitating the buy-to-let marketplace, and lets people like me – who have the assets to sweat – make a profit to cover the cost of more assets, which can then be priced accordingly to cover their own bricks and mortar (or, in my case, fuel and waterproof blacking).