What's the difference between chopper and knob?

Chopper


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, chops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are characterized by primary-like and chopper discharge patterns.
  • (2) Inbred strain ACI rats of both sexes were divided into 4 groups; Group 1 received a diet containing the unprocessed bracken dried at a room temperature of below 30 degrees, Group 2 received a diet containing bracken dried at 70 approximately 90 degrees with a hot, forced draft, and Group 3 received the diet containing processed bracken that had been minced to a paste-like consistency using a mechanical chopper.
  • (3) Outside, there’s no sign of life except one bearded oaf on a chopper and a kid at the back door, holding a picture of Hot Fuss-era Brandon Flowers , praying for a brief encounter.
  • (4) In INLL and VNLLm, response patterns are about equally distributed between tonic, chopping, and phasic; there are no single-spike constant-latency responses of the type seen in VNLLc, although some choppers and pausers do respond with constant first-spike latency.
  • (5) Compared to available filter wheel and chopper devices, the rapid scan monochromator has advantages of rapid and software-selectable wavelength control, excellent optical alignment, small size, and low cost.
  • (6) For 'chopper' units, however, it was possible to record sustained depolarizations accompaneid by spikes that lasted as long as the tone burst.
  • (7) Outside of the body are the main battery, the chopper and the primary of the energy transmission.
  • (8) Five major PST response type classes are used: chopper, primary-like, onset, onset-C, and unusual.
  • (9) Most lateral superior olivary (LSO) units were inhibited by contralateral stimulation, were narrowly tuned, produced low to high levels of maximum output, had short latencies, and produced regular discharge patterns characterized by chopper PST histograms with narrow initial peaks.
  • (10) Earlier reports said opposition fighters shot dead two pilots after they ejected themselves after their chopper was hit.
  • (11) The technique employs two phase-locked mechanical choppers and a slow-scan scientific CCD camera attached to a normal fluorescence microscope.
  • (12) The observations suggest that PVCN choppers can encode pure-tone frequency in a spatial profile more accurately than HSR or LMSR AN fibers.
  • (13) The effects of OFF-BF input (either alone or presented simultaneously with a BF tone in a two-tone stimulus) on the response patterns of choppers may include not only rate inhibition but changes in the discharge regularity and the temporal adaptation properties of the spike trains.
  • (14) Unit discharges were classified as laryngeal motoneuron activity according to their correlation with the time course (onset and end) of echolocation calls and their discharge rate as: Pre-off-tonic, pre-off-phasic, off-pauser, off-tonic, on-chopper, on-tonic, prior-tonic and inhibitory (Fig.
  • (15) Either way, seconds later the chopper is gone, skimming over the water towards the next village-island.
  • (16) I remember building a Chopper-style bike out of a smaller racer with a tiny wheel on the front.
  • (17) "Transiently adapting" choppers undergo a very rapid (less than 10 ms) decrease in instantaneous rate accompanied by a sharp increase in discharge irregularity.
  • (18) The most ancient evidence of toolmaking by early humans and their relatives dates to 2.6m years ago and includes simple pebble-choppers for hacking and crushing.
  • (19) To minimize electronic noise and drift for detection of very small SPR signals, a mechanical light chopper was used for gated-signal detection, and a pulse height analyzer for noise rejection.
  • (20) We present a specific point process model that describes the scaling process and successfully replicates the observed responses to monaural and binaural stimulation of the three types of LSO units: slow choppers, fast choppers, and bimodal units.

Knob


Definition:

  • (n.) A hard protuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.
  • (n.) A knoblike ornament or handle; as, the knob of a lock, door, or drawer.
  • (n.) A rounded hill or mountain; as, the Pilot Knob.
  • (n.) See Knop.
  • (v. i.) To grow into knobs or bunches; to become knobbed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The narrow intercellular ridge is smooth, whereas the epithelial cells have small cytoplasmic knobs between the cilia.
  • (2) The histochemical study of the LDH in the Trout embryo during the early organogenesis shows a specific localization in notochord cells, in mesodermic cells of the terminal knob and in some prosencephalic neuroblasts.
  • (3) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
  • (4) Men might not have frills and furbelows as women traditionally do, but they’ve got spurious function: knobs on their watches or extra pockets on their jackets that are just as decorative as anything women wear.” 6.
  • (5) As with established cell lines, formation of zeiotic knobs at the isolated Type 1 cell surface appeared closely related to microfilamentous nets located beneath the plasmalemma.
  • (6) The isolated cells have an ovoid soma, a dendrite of variable length which terminates in a cilia-bearing knob and an axon, also of variable length.
  • (7) In addition, some reacted with either knob protrusions or caveolae of the host erythrocyte membrane; one reacted with a parasite-derived antigen present in the erythrocyte cytoplasm.
  • (8) "It might be that you think it's just a knob on the front panel, but maybe installing it requires you disassemble the front panel, and actually you need a mechanic to come and fit it," argues Rowley.
  • (9) wt from 80 to 95 kd in different knob-producing isolates of P. falciparum and is absent in knobless variants.
  • (10) To investigate environmental influences on the development of the olfactory epithelium, semi-thin sections were taken from the nasal septum of newborn and 30-day-old rabbits; the epithelial thickness and the number of olfactory knobs, supporting cells, dark basal cells, and receptor cells were compared.
  • (11) The spores of Rif-18 are pleomorphic and frequently exhibit terminal knobs.
  • (12) To investigate the involvement of actin filaments in concanavalin A (Con A)-induced cap formation and cytochalasin B (CB)-induced zeiotic knob migration, the distribution of F-actin was studied in Con A-treated and CB-treated Ehrlich ascites tumor cells (EATC) by fluorescence microscopy using heavy meromyosin conjugated with a fluorescent dye, N-(7-dimethylamino-4-methylcoumarinyl) maleimide, (DACM-HMM).
  • (13) 205 subjects each chose a "most pleasant" sound delivered through an earphone by turning the control knob on a continuously variable audio oscillator.
  • (14) Knobs which appear on the membrane of the infected erythrocytes adhere to the endothelium, causing the obstruction of cerebral microvessels.
  • (15) Cytoadherence of infected erythrocytes in vivo is associated with the presence of knobs on the erythrocyte surface, but we and others have shown recently that cytoadherence to C32 melanoma cells may occur in vitro in the absence of knobs.
  • (16) Systemic administration of the anti-inflammatory agent indomethacin blocked vascular leakage due to endothelial gap formation but had little or no effect on trophoblast knob penetration of vessels.
  • (17) After crossectomy which remains the most important stage, a short stripping is performed in an upward direction, substituting a packing for the olive shaped knob normally used.
  • (18) Under scanning electron microscopy, O. viverrini eggs looked like musk-melon skin; they had prominent shoulders and long knobs.
  • (19) Six culture-adapted knob-positive Plasmodium falciparum parasites, four of which were nonbinding in an in vitro cytoadherence assay, were tested for the presence of the knob-associated histidine-rich protein PfHRP1.
  • (20) Instead, there were free and spiral nerve terminals in the interstitium, and epilemmal knob-like or bouton-like endings surrounding non-encapsulated muscle fibers.