What's the difference between clamp and holder?

Clamp


Definition:

  • (n.) Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.
  • (n.) An instrument with a screw or screws by which work is held in its place or two parts are temporarily held together.
  • (n.) A piece of wood placed across another, or inserted into another, to bind or strengthen.
  • (n.) One of a pair of movable pieces of lead, or other soft material, to cover the jaws of a vise and enable it to grasp without bruising.
  • (n.) A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used to sustain the ends of beams.
  • (n.) A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal for coking.
  • (n.) A mollusk. See Clam.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to place in a clamp.
  • (v. t.) To cover, as vegetables, with earth.
  • (n.) A heavy footstep; a tramp.
  • (v. i.) To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
  • (2) In voltage-clamp experiments the ion current flowing through the channels was homogeneous indicating a defined conformation and a uniform size.
  • (3) Further analysis of these changes according to smoking history, age, preoperative weight, dissection of IMA, and aortic cross-clamp time showed that only IMA dissection affected the postextubation changes in peak expiratory flow rate (p less than 0.0001), whereas the decreases in functional residual capacity and expiratory reserve volume at discharge were affected by IMA dissection (p less than 0.05) and age (p = 0.01).
  • (4) With a series of 117 aortic valve replacements, the authors have examined the results in relation to the method of protecting the myocardium while the aorta is clamped off.
  • (5) We have previously shown that, with moderate hydration (2.5 L) of the recipient, together with rapid infusion of 250 ml of mannitol 20% just before clamp removal, the incidence of ARF decreased to below 10%.
  • (6) Detailed voltage-clamp measurements revealed that ABA-activated ion currents could be reversed by depolarizations more positive than -10 mV.
  • (7) Multiple blood samples were obtained over one dosing interval following oral CyA administration in eight liver transplant patients before and after T-tube clamping.
  • (8) Furthermore, blood pressure, free fatty acid concentration, liver enzymes, and urate concentrations were significantly correlated with glucose infusion rate at the clamp test.
  • (9) Using the rate coefficient values found by SCoPfit, we simulated a voltage-clamp experiment with both models running under their Na(+)-Na+ exchange mode, and we computed the transient currents generated following voltage steps in both depolarizing and hyperpolarizing directions from a basic potential of -40 mV.
  • (10) The effects of alanine, glucose and tolbutamide on insulin-secreting cells (RINm5F) have been investigated using patch-clamp and single cell intracellular Ca2+ measurements.
  • (11) In the whole-cell current-clamp method, the cell membrane was depolarized by endothelin and then repolarized by nicorandil.
  • (12) The effect of physiologic elevations of plasma hydroxybutyrate induced by the infusion of sodium D,L-beta-hydroxybutyrate (15 mumol X kg-1 X min-1) on carbohydrate metabolism was examined with the euglycemic insulin clamp technique in nine healthy volunteers.
  • (13) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
  • (14) We have investigated insulin responsiveness in relation to insulin sensitivity during sequential hyperglycemic clamping in low insulin responders (LIR), high insulin responders (HIR) and in women with a history of gestational diabetes (GD).
  • (15) In anesthetized cats, the enhancement of sympathetic activity and increase of the blood pressure in exclusion of afferents (section of vagosympathetic trunks and clamping of common carotid arteries) as well as the disappearance of the activity in enhanced afferentation, were shown to be transient and to disappear within a few minutes-scores of minutes in spite of the going on deafferentation or enhancement of afferentation.
  • (16) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
  • (17) In a direct test of the hypothesis that the M2 coat protein of influenza A can function as a proton translocator, we incorporated a synthetic peptide containing its putative transmembrane domain into voltage-clamped planar lipid bilayers.
  • (18) The aortic cross-clamp time ranged from 51 minutes to 94 minutes (mean 71 minutes).
  • (19) The main objective of these experiments was to develop and characterize a new experimental model of venous thrombosis, and determine whether a combination of vascular wall damage (crushing with hemostat clamps) and prolonged stasis produced more reproducible clots than prolonged stasis per se.
  • (20) After properly fixing the vas deferens with a ring clamp, the surgeon pierces the scrotal skin, vas sheath, and vas deferens in the midline with a curved dissecting clamp held at a 45 degree angle from horizontal.

Holder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is employed in the hold of a vessel.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, holds.
  • (n.) One who holds land, etc., under another; a tenant.
  • (n.) The payee of a bill of exchange or a promissory note, or the one who owns or holds it.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rise of malaria despite of control measures involves several factors: the house spraying is no more accepted by a large percentage of house holders and the alternative larviciding has only a limited efficacy; the houses of American Indians have no walls to be sprayed; there is a continuous introduction of parasites by migrants.
  • (2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
  • (3) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (4) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
  • (5) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
  • (6) The US media reported Holder was sickened by what he read in Helgerson's report.
  • (7) Rawlins bought a stake in Stoke City in 2000, where he'd been a season ticket-holder from the age of five, after selling off his IT consultancy company and joined the board.
  • (8) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
  • (9) The contribution of the holder to the continuum spectrum is consistent with theoretical predictions.
  • (10) Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, wrote to the chairman of the Commons education select committee, Graham Stuart, the Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness, on Friday, to demand a parliamentary inquiry to restore confidence in the exam system.
  • (11) The unexpected announcement by Eric Holder, the attorney general, contradicts Utah’s refusal to recognise some 1,300 same-sex marriages that were licensed during a brief window in December when a federal judge ruled the state’s ban was unconstitutional .
  • (12) The assembly consists of an electrode holder and a fixed support (implanted stereotaxically) which is cemented to the rat skull.
  • (13) This relationship identifies the surgical needle holder that can be used with surgical needles without deformation.
  • (14) It can’t be worse than what’s on there already,” says Holder.
  • (15) I tell you very frankly, no Iraqi power can take action on this.” Over the past four months, some of Iraq’s top office holders, led by prime minister Haider al-Abadi, have tried to do just that.
  • (16) The bacteriological quality of pooled human milk donated to the Oxford milk bank was analysed and the effects on bacteriology of sterilisation of the milk-collecting vessels in the home with hypochlorite solution and of Holder pasteurisation in a purpose-built human-milk pasteuriser were studied.
  • (17) Royal Bank of Scotland Group has promised that its account holders whose transactions were frozen by a computer glitch will be compensated, but thousands of customers of other banks may find themselves out of pocket because of the six-day disruption.
  • (18) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
  • (19) News that gave me a teeny bit of hope for 21st century politics: attorney general Eric Holder and the Department of Justice filed suit against a North Carolina voting law.
  • (20) "They've got to put some morale back into the company," William Smith, founder of SAM Advisers who is a long-term holder of Citigroup shares, told Bloomberg News in an interview advocating a three-way split.