What's the difference between clip and shearing?

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.

Shearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shear
  • (n.) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
  • (n.) The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
  • (n.) Same as Shearling.
  • (n.) The act or operation of reaping.
  • (n.) The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
  • (n.) The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
  • (n.) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
  • (2) Gonococcal outer membranes were purified by differential ultracentrifugation of sheared organisms treated with EDTA.
  • (3) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (4) This model characterized the abnormal flow by a weak fluctuation of wall shear stress at the site adjacent to the vessel wall.
  • (5) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
  • (6) Since the antithrombin action of heparin fails to interrupt arterial thrombosis, a mediating role for thrombin (EC 3.4.21.5) in the formation of high-shear platelet-dependent thrombus has been unproven.
  • (7) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
  • (8) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
  • (9) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (10) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
  • (11) At the divider side walls, wall shear stresses are relatively high and approximately follow the flow rate distribution in time.
  • (12) Platelet adhesion onto subendothelium of a damaged blood vessel depends upon the presence of von Willebrand factor (vWf) only at high flow shear rate.
  • (13) Shear stress and first normal stress difference are measured as a function of shear gradient to calculate the apparent shear viscosity eta 1 and the apparent normal viscosity psi 7 as well as an apparent shear modulus G'.
  • (14) The accepted cause of this shear rate-dependent and time-dependent behavior is the progressive breakdown of rouleaux into individual red cells.
  • (15) The mean length of a population of microtubules containing GMPPCP increased only by 37% over a 150 min time period after shearing.
  • (16) By studying the kinetics of urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis during application of hydrodynamic shear under varying chemical environments, we demonstrate that micromolar quantities of metal ions, in this case adventitious Fe, can accelerate the oxidation of thiol groups on urease and thus inactivate it when the protein is subjected to a shearing stress of order 1.0 Pa.
  • (17) The viscosity of these materials were measured by using the Ishida-Giken cone and plate high shear rheometer.
  • (18) The primate skull physical model data and the critical shear strain associated with the threshold for severe diffuse axonal injury were used to scale data obtained from previous studies to man, and thus derive a diffuse axonal injury tolerance for rotational acceleration for humans.
  • (19) Flagellar filaments were isolated from either culture fluid or concentrated cell suspensions that were subjected to shearing.
  • (20) Hemodilution seems particularly promising under hemodynamic condition of low shear stresses in vivo.