What's the difference between cutting and nibbler?
Cutting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
(n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
(n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
(a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
(a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
(a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
Example Sentences:
(1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
(3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
(5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
(6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
(8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
(10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
(11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
(12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
(13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
(14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
(17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
(18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
(19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
(20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.
Nibbler
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, nibbles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meal-eaters again, retained as much nitrogen as nibblers, and contained less body fat than the nibblers.
(2) Meal-eaters gained essentially the same amount of body weight as the nibblers.
(3) When an automated control unit is not available, the vitreous nibbler may be used with manual suction, gravity-controlled infusion, and a simplified control unit.
(4) Meal-feeders eating the low-fat diet became no fatter than nibblers of this diet, possibly because they were eating less than their daily ad lib.
(5) The former group seemed to be a "nibbler type" rather than a "meal feeder type".
(6) Rats were allowed to eat only 2 hr per day (meal-fed) or were fed ad libitum (nibbler) for 12 wk; another group of animals was meal-fed for 3 wk and then fed ad libitum (converted I) while the fourth group of rats (converted II) was meal-fed for 3 wk, allowed to nibble for the next 3 wk, meal-fed from the 6th to 9th wk and then returned to ad libitum feeding for the last 3 wk.
(7) No significant differences between nibblers and gorgers were found.
(8) The present techniques of vitrectomy employ the open sky method (anterior approach) which is usually performed using cellulose sponges and blunt scissors, or the pars plana approach (transcleral approach) which uses a vitreous nibbler.
(9) Glycogen levels in the adipose tissue of meal-fed rats were greater than the levels in the nibblers.
(10) Description of Grieshaber nibbler for closed vitreous surgery: tip diameter is 1.6 mm, cutting is by four exquisitely cutting blades mounted on axis supported at both ends.
(11) In addition, mechanical vitreous nibblers used for the open sky approach are reviewed.
(12) For both diets meal-feeders had greater stomach plus small intestine weights than nibblers and had higher plasma free fatty acid levels, when they were killed 15 h after their last meal.
(13) Rats were either fed 2 hours per 24 or 48 hours (meal-eaters), or pair-fed to meal-eaters with an automated feeding machine (nibblers).
(14) Two methods in which [U-14C]glucose was injected intraperitoneally before or after different test-meals confirmed an apparent 100- to 200-fold increase in lipogenesis (14C incorporation into fatty acids) in epididymal fat pads of gorgers; however, incorporation of 14C into total fatty acids in the whole body of gorgers was only five times greater than in nibblers.
(15) The other weight-cycled group (nibblers) was fed by automated feeders in several small meals during each 24-h period (i.e., prevented from gorging).
(16) The muscular carcass in both nibblers an gorgers contained more than 75% of the total radioactivity in the fatty acids derived from glucose; liver and epididymal fat pad accounted for only a small percentage.