What's the difference between carrier and tranter?
Carrier
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.
(n.) One who is employed, or makes it his business, to carry goods for others for hire; a porter; a teamster.
(n.) That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece which communicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; a lathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine. (c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge to a position from which it can be thrust into the barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(2) These results show that lipo-PGI2 at a very low dose would be beneficial as a treatment for relieving the clinical symptoms of chronic cerebral infarction and that lipid microspheres are a useful drug carrier for PGI2 analogue therapy.
(3) Before carrier vaccines are applied, these risks must be thoroughly evaluated case-by-case.
(4) In lactate medium the capacity of each AIB carrier is unchanged but its affinity is reduced to one-third.
(5) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
(6) To get a better understanding of the different cell interactions during the immune response to a hapten-carrier complex, the effects of immunogenic or tolerogenic injections of various hapten-containing compounds on the responses induced by immunization with the same hapten coupled to protein carriers were studied.
(7) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
(8) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
(9) The latter phase of depletion was associated with a decrease in synaptosomal [3H]serotonin uptake due to a loss in the number of uptake sites with no change in the affinity of the carrier for serotonin.
(10) Direct detection of the mutation enables the identification of fragile X negative normal transmitting males and fragile X negative carrier females.
(11) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.
(12) It is thus important to know whether carriers of the AT gene have a risk of cancer or diabetes greater than comparable noncarriers.
(13) The fractional rate constants for the accumulation or disappearance of the metabolites could be determined after pharmacological blockade of catabolic enzymes or the acid metabolite carrier.
(14) The initial observation of Tn551 transition involved UV inactivation of the carrier plasmid; this would appear to be a general means of detecting transposable elements.
(15) This also implies that both tubular secretion and tubular reabsorption are susceptible to competition between similar substrates for a common carrier site.
(16) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
(17) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
(18) The amount of formazan obtained after incubating vital cells with Meldola Blue as electron carrier was greater than that obtained with Methylene Blue, menadione, 2,6-dichloroindophenol, 1-methoxyphenazine methosulphate or phenazine methosulphate.
(19) Women who were the mothers of individuals with isolated cases of hemophilia appeared to be carriers in at least 85% of cases, suggesting that the frequency of cases due to fresh mutations is low.
(20) Three mouse models of male-limited, hybrid-type sterility are available: the sterility controlled by the T-t genetic complex, the hybrid sterility system including the Hst-1 gene, and the sterility of carriers of various chromosomal anomalies.
Tranter
Definition:
(n.) One who trants; a peddler; a carrier.
Example Sentences:
(1) Tranter also talked about the difference between a "BBC hour" without ads and a "network hour" on commercial channels such as ITV or Channel 4, or the US broadcasters that are the corporation's co-production partners, which is typically closer to 45 minutes.
(2) The BBC has confirmed that its controller of fiction, Jane Tranter , is to leave her post for a new job in the US.
(3) The BBC's head of drama, Jane Tranter, said it was "early days" for the project, which will not hit the screen until next year and is part of a wider single-drama rethink across all BBC channels.
(4) Tranter could also set up some form of drama production joint venture with BBC Worldwide herself.
(5) Sources within the BBC and externally have said that US broadcaster HBO has also been in talks with Tranter.
(6) Tranter will take joint responsibility for BBC Worldwide's North American production business in LA and New York with Paul Telegdy, the executive vice-president of content and production USA.
(7) Tranter said criticism of her department had tended to focus on the process of making drama rather than the end results.
(8) He joined the BBC as BBC Vision's head of development, independent drama, in 2005 going on to become head of drama commissioning in spring 2007, where he worked closely with Tranter.
(9) The change in thinking at the BBC follows the appointment of Stephenson to replace the long-serving Jane Tranter at the end of last year, when she moved to Los Angeles.
(10) At the time of Tranter's departure, the BBC said it would replace her with a new fiction controller - but today it conceeded that this was not going to happen.
(11) Particular attention is given to a mechanism recently proposed by Mason and Tranter whereby the weak neutral current interaction in chiral molecules leads to the differential absorption of unpolarized light by D vs. L enantiomers.
(12) Her exit, with the BBC under pressure to cut executive costs, may coincide with the dismantling of the Vision empire, echoing the demise of another shortlived corporation invention, the all-powerful "head of fiction" role, which came to an end when its former incumbent Jane Tranter left for the US at the end of 2008.
(13) One of the options said to be on offer to Tranter is to oversee the BBC Worldwide production operation in Los Angeles.
(14) After extending the usual theory of optical activity to include weak neutral currents, it is found that for spin-allowed transitions in typical organic molecules the weak photoabsorption asymmetry is much smaller than the value obtained using the reasoning of Mason and Tranter.
(15) Former BBC head of fiction, Jane Tranter, who is now executive vice president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide, based in Los Angeles, received the Bafta special award.
(16) Garvie said: "Jane Tranter is one of the most gifted television executives of her generation.
(17) Tranter will join the BBC's commercial arm BBC Worldwide as executive vice-president of programming and production, overseeing its US scripted and reality business from Los Angeles.
(18) The BBC has confirmed that it will not appoint a new controller of its fiction output - encompassing drama, film, comedy and acquisitions - following the departure of Jane Tranter at the end of last year.
(19) Stephenson, still only 33, succeeded Jane Tranter as BBC drama chief two years ago, without inheriting the wide-ranging powers she had in her now-dismantled "head of fiction" role .
(20) However, following the resurgence of BBC popular returning drama series such as Doctor Who, Spooks and Life on Mars under Tranter in the UK, BBC Worldwide is believed to be considering setting up a US drama production outfit.