What's the difference between clip and pin?

Clip


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To embrace, hence; to encompass.
  • (v. t.) To cut off; as with shears or scissors; as, to clip the hair; to clip coin.
  • (v. t.) To curtail; to cut short.
  • (v. i.) To move swiftly; -- usually with indefinite it.
  • (n.) An embrace.
  • (n.) A cutting; a shearing.
  • (n.) The product of a single shearing of sheep; a season's crop of wool.
  • (n.) A clasp or holder for letters, papers, etc.
  • (n.) An embracing strap for holding parts together; the iron strap, with loop, at the ends of a whiffletree.
  • (n.) A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; -- called also toe clip and beak.
  • (n.) A blow or stroke with the hand; as, he hit him a clip.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A neck clipping of the aneurysm and an aneurysmectomy were performed on September 27.
  • (2) Case 1 and 2 were operated on through the ipsilateral pterional approach and the aneurysm was successfully clipped.
  • (3) Baroreflex function was studied in conscious early phase (less than 6 weeks) two-kidney, one-clip hypertensive rats before and 24 hours after surgical reversal of hypertension by removal of the constricting renal artery clip or after pharmacological reduction of blood pressure by an infusion of hydralazine or captopril.
  • (4) In order to study the vascular and adrenal renin angiotensin system in the chronic phase (4 months after clipping) of 'two-kidney, one-clip' hypertension in rats, systolic blood pressure, plasma renin activity, and tissue renin-like activity in both aorta and adrenal have been measured.
  • (5) We have studied the effect of chronic ACE inhibition with enalapril on renal structure and function in rats with the two-kidney one-clip model of renovascular hypertension.
  • (6) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
  • (8) In 12 anaesthetized mongrel dogs, a canine stroke model was produced by occluding the left internal carotid and middle cerebral arteries with aneurysm clips.
  • (9) With these stringent criteria the rejection rate was 71.0% for group A records, 58.5% for group B and 44.5% for group C. The proportions of records with peak quality (no missing leads or clipping, and grade 1 noise, lead drift or beat-to-beat drift) were 4.5% for group A, 5.5% for group B and 23.0% for group C. Suggested revisions in the grading of technical quality of ECGs are presented.
  • (10) An overgrowth of bacteria was observed over the entire surface of the clips.
  • (11) The Lactomer clips showed very little sign of degradation in vitro even after 10 weeks of incubation.
  • (12) In terms of physiology and favourable maternal and foetal outcomes, the best age for childbearing is 20-35, but in my 20s I ran from any man who might clip my wings.
  • (13) In the clip – believed to be the first footage of a Briton fighting for the militants in Iraq rather than Syria – he urges others to take up arms and join the growing ranks of foreign fighters.
  • (14) In this study, Y-27152 was compared with a K+ channel opener lemakalim and a Ca++ channel blocker nifedipine for antihypertensive activity in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and two-kidney, one-clip renal hypertensive dogs (RHD).
  • (15) 6 weeks after clipping, hemodynamic profiles of these molecules [Heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), filling parameters, peripheral vascular resistances (PR) and cardiac output (CO)] during 90 minutes, were determined in the anesthetized animals.
  • (16) Patients were sterilized by electrocautery, by applying Silastic bands (Falope rings), and by means of Hulka-Clemens clips.
  • (17) The increase in peripheral resistance of the renal area including the clipped and removed arteries was greater than that in peripheral resistance of the superior mesenteric area or hindquarter area.
  • (18) One bleeding of 200 ml from a wounded intercostal vessel ligated with a clip was the sole operative hitch.
  • (19) All patients had at least one laparotomy, at which time a biopsy was obtained, radio-opaque clips were placed to define the extent of the gross tumor, and usually some form of bypass procedure was performed.
  • (20) He cut in and provided a pass for Sneijder, whose shot squirmed wide off Rodríguez; he then clipped a ball in that just evaded Sneijder; and soon after that he appealed for another penalty.

Pin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To peen.
  • (v. t.) To inclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  • (n.) A piece of wood, metal, etc., generally cylindrical, used for fastening separate articles together, or as a support by which one article may be suspended from another; a peg; a bolt.
  • (n.) Especially, a small, pointed and headed piece of brass or other wire (commonly tinned), largely used for fastening clothes, attaching papers, etc.
  • (n.) Hence, a thing of small value; a trifle.
  • (n.) That which resembles a pin in its form or use
  • (n.) A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  • (n.) A linchpin.
  • (n.) A rolling-pin.
  • (n.) A clothespin.
  • (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  • (n.) The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  • (n.) One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each man should drink.
  • (n.) The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center.
  • (n.) Mood; humor.
  • (n.) Caligo. See Caligo.
  • (n.) An ornament, as a brooch or badge, fastened to the clothing by a pin; as, a Masonic pin.
  • (n.) The leg; as, to knock one off his pins.
  • (n.) To fasten with, or as with, a pin; to join; as, to pin a garment; to pin boards together.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, while the precise nature of the city’s dietary problems is hard to pin down, the picture regarding physical activity is much clearer.
  • (2) In difficult fractures we feel that change from external to internal fixation should be performed earlier; it makes early removal of the fixator pins possible and prevents the problems associated with prolonged use of fixator frames.
  • (3) The changes in nuclear morphology (karyometry) and DNA content in prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) were analyzed on tissue sections.
  • (4) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
  • (5) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (6) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
  • (7) Small threaded pins do not cause femoral head rotation.
  • (8) A Charnley apparatus or turnbuckles placed between the pins on each side of the fracture provided the mechanical advantage for repositioning the fracture fragments and achieving rigid fixation during healing.
  • (9) Ankle arthrodesis treated by external fixation frequently results in complications from pin tract infections, loss of position, nonunion, and malunion.
  • (10) There were no cases of pin-track osteomyelitis, fractures through pintracks, or neurovascular damage from pin insertion.
  • (11) We discuss the indications for operative treatment and the technique of internal fixation with 3 resorbable pins.
  • (12) Major pin-tract infections are a potentially dangerous complication associated with the use of skeletal transfixation pins.
  • (13) The OECD pinned the blame for the disadvantage for girls in maths and science on low expectations among parents and teachers, as well as lack of self-confidence and what it called the ability to “think like a scientist” in answering problems.
  • (14) Retrograde intramedullary pinning was accomplished in all calves, using 2 (n = 4 calves) or 3 (n = 8 calves) pins.
  • (15) The defective pinF gene is suggested to hae the same origin as P-pin on e14 by the restriction map of the fragment cloned from a Pin+ transductant that was obtained in transduction from S. flexneri to E. coli delta pin.
  • (16) The document says that Sienna Miller suspected her mobile phone was not secure and changed it twice, but Mulcaire's handwritten notes show that he succeeded in obtaining the new number, account number, pin code and password for all three phones.
  • (17) The probe tip was a gold-plated pin, insulated from the saliva by soft wax.
  • (18) One hundred patients were treated with the Rydell four-flanged nail and 100 with the Gouffon pins.
  • (19) In AP and lateral radiographs of the hip, measurements are made of the cervicofemoral angles, the diameter of the femoral head and neck, and the distances from the central femoral neck axis to each pin.
  • (20) Subjective pain ratings of mucosal pin-prick decreased a surprisingly small degree after application of both solutions.

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