What's the difference between cylinder and tubbing?

Cylinder


Definition:

  • (n.) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular.
  • (n.) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.
  • (n.) Any hollow body of cylindrical form
  • (n.) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam.
  • (n.) The barrel of an air or other pump.
  • (n.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press.
  • (n.) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver.
  • (n.) The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sonographic images of the gallbladder enable satisfactory approximation of gallbladder volume using the sum-of-cylinders method.
  • (2) This apparent lack of centrosomal staining was not due to problems associated with penetration of the antibody probes, since staining adjacent to and within the centriolar cylinder was observed when phosphoprotein antigens recognized by the MPM-2 antibody were localized.
  • (3) A rubber cuff was fixed on the metal cylinder and let an opening of 8 cm, simulating the cervix uteri.
  • (4) Different techniques for attaching the gold cylinders to the frameworks were used.
  • (5) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
  • (6) The nylon group had the second highest amount of induced WTR cylinder at one day, which had decayed to ATR cylinder by five months.
  • (7) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
  • (8) Values obtained for thebuoyant density, isoelectric point, and extinction coefficient differed minimally; major differences were observed in the molecular weight and the characterisitc width of cylinders formed by in vitro-assembled T-layer of the wild-type and variant.
  • (9) The phantom combines an inhalation system which allows for the simulation of xenon buildup or washout in the arterial blood as well as a multisection translatable cylinder in which several sections can be scanned during a preselected protocol to simulate the CT enhancement in brain tissue during a study.
  • (10) The regeneration of myofibers across the scar follows a pattern different from that within BL cylinders.
  • (11) The change in refractive astigmatism was as high as 1.50DC (diopter cylinder).
  • (12) Furthermore, it is demonstrated that a thin perforated membrane fitted on the inside of the wall of a glass cylinder filled with water, will detach, with rotatory movements.
  • (13) Experiments were performed in a cylinder full of beads open at one end and closed at the other in which a mixture of oxygen with helium or argon or sulphur hexafluoride could diffuse with ambient air through the open end.
  • (14) The air pressure in the skin cup was continually adjusted (using an electromechanical servo-control system) to pull the skin upward and to hold it perfectly flat across the upper ridge of the Teflon cylinder.
  • (15) The smaller spheres and some of the cylinders exploded and fragments and even whole cylinders weighing around 30 tons, were scattered over distances ranging from a few to up to 1200 m.
  • (16) In the first, a rotating cylinder is seen, though no variation in optical flow exists across the apparent cylinder.
  • (17) After curing of the cement in a environment of 37 degrees C the resulting cement rod was released from the cylinder and the diameter of the rod was measured at 37 degrees C. The influence of the "foaming effect" on the transverse dimensions of the rods was studied by curing the cement at 37 degrees C and 2 atm air pressure in a high-pressure-vessel.
  • (18) A procedure is described to construct a varifocal lens, after that described by Wood in 1905, to produce lenses known as 'non-homogeneous cylinders' or 'pseudo-lenses'.
  • (19) The free ends of the microtubules appear unraveled; they are seen first as single elements, then as doublets, and finally are arranged into a cylinder.
  • (20) A mathematical model of ozone absorption, or for any soluble gas that has similar transport properties, is developed for a branching network of liquid-lined cylinders.

Tubbing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tub
  • (n.) The forming of a tub; also, collectively, materials for tubs.
  • (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As the bath filled up, his siblings were also forced into the tub and Kristy became submerged in the water.
  • (2) To cap it all, the shadow foreign secretary and Unionist tub-thumper Douglas Alexander hijacked the row to berate the independence camp for lowering the debate's tone.
  • (3) The day before he died, he spent the whole day in the hot tub with his family.
  • (4) As the sachets of powder, tubs of lotion, jars of jam, and bottles of juices and liqueurs that line his shelves testify, his hopes – and his money – are on a rather more niche fruit: baobab.
  • (5) Tub-Ag activity associated with a protein of the same molecular size was demonstrated in the serum, as well as in Pronase extracts of all the organs tested, including kidney, liver, lung, spleen, intestine, stomach, and heart.
  • (6) The excessive heat and sweating was related to the use of a hot tub, a hot water bottle, a steam bath, an electric blanket, the prolonged wearing of a polyester suit, and postoperative bed confinement.
  • (7) By Monday lunchtime, we had a hot tub ready to give to Skye.
  • (8) After that, he retrieved a coin from a tub of fermented milk with his teeth.
  • (9) Swimming pools produce 6-20 immersion accidents per year per 100,000 children at risk, and the domestic family bath tub produces 1-78.
  • (10) These plants can grow very large and are often planted in tubs.
  • (11) The pathology of the kidney of the rats with proteinuria was that of a typical membranous glomerulonephritis; thickening of glomerular capillary walls with granular deposits of gamma-globulin and Tub-Ag was observed.
  • (12) Persistent, massive proteinuria appeared still later, more than 30 days after injection, when anti-Tub-Ag disappeared and Tub-Ag reappeared in the serum of some of those rats.
  • (13) According to own examinations of the following things are often contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms: appliances for sucking off, handbrushes, instruments, beds, clinical clothing, washing basins, bath tubs and floor sinks.
  • (14) We report on 108 patients of the literature: 8 (7%) patients were wearing hard contact lenses; 19 (17%) remembered a trauma; 4 (3.7%) had visited a hot tub; 61 (56%) needed penetrating keratoplasty, 11 (10%) rekeratoplasty; 5 (4.6%) eyes were enucleated; in 21 (19%) patients the diagnosis was made on histological grounds.
  • (15) Portland meanwhile had been giving themselves very little margin in some of their victories over rivals (including Seattle) of late, but opened up a tub of I Can't Believe it's Not Goals™ in a 5-0 final day win against Chivas USA, to get their own last nagging doubts out of the way before the playoffs start.
  • (16) *** I sometimes wonder when precisely I stopped thinking of myself as a socialist – as with so much else, I’d like to blame Blair for it; I’d like to tub-thumpingly decry his emasculation of the Labour party; his resistance to true industrial democracy; his personal greed and public duplicity – and, most of all, his enthusiastic participation in the Bush administration’s self-deluding “military interventions”.
  • (17) 18, 6409-6412], unsatisfactory results were obtained with AmpliTaq and native Taq polymerase (poor reproducibility, low product yield, nonspecific products), whereas Tub polymerase completely failed to amplify this fragment.
  • (18) The ratio of the count rate per unit activity for source locations within a 30 x 23-cm water-filled tub phantom to the count rate per unit activity for Tc-99m point sources of known activity imaged in air was used to judge the accuracy of activity determination.
  • (19) Since herpesvirus has been shown to survive in the hot tub environment, herpes simplex should be considered as another potential cause of disease in the spa setting.
  • (20) As an electoral reform campaigner, I'd been invited to speak at a big fringe meeting, and I'd prepared a tub-thumping rabble-rousing speech, guaranteed to instil in the faintest of hearts the passion I felt about the injustices of the current electoral system.

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