What's the difference between diameter and mud?

Diameter


Definition:

  • (n.) Any right line passing through the center of a figure or body, as a circle, conic section, sphere, cube, etc., and terminated by the opposite boundaries; a straight line which bisects a system of parallel chords drawn in a curve.
  • (n.) A diametral plane.
  • (n.) The length of a straight line through the center of an object from side to side; width; thickness; as, the diameter of a tree or rock.
  • (n.) The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column, used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electronmicroscopical investigations have revealed that, under normal conditions, a minor vesicular transfer of intravenously injected peroxidase occurs across the endothelium in segments of arterioles, capillaries and venules, especially in arterioles with a diameter about 15-30 mu.
  • (2) Two kinds of silicafiberscopes with outer diameters 0.80 and 0.45 mm were used in the present study.
  • (3) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
  • (4) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
  • (5) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (6) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (7) In the medium-size intermediate fibers, the number and diameter of the mitochondrial columns are intermediate between those of the red and white fibers.
  • (8) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
  • (9) The inner diameters increased with age in the same way in both obese and control persons, indicating the the former are not protected against osteoporosis in the form of endosteal resorption.
  • (10) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
  • (11) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
  • (12) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (13) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (14) The internal carotid diameters increased 20% to 30% for both the vein and synthetic patched arteries.
  • (15) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
  • (16) Light microscopic analyses revealed an age-dependent decrease in axon diameter.
  • (17) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
  • (18) Blood flow was measured from gastric serosal vessels (average diameter, 1.6 mm) severed immediately after, 24 hours after, and 48 hours after ethanol injection.
  • (19) Viral particles in the cultures and the brain were of various sizes and shapes; particles ranged from 70 to over 160 nm in diameter, with a variable position of dense nucleoids and less dense core shells.
  • (20) Electromagnetic flow probes with an inner diameter of 2, 1.5 and 1 nm were used for studies on zero-line drifting and for calibration procedures in a series of rats and rabbits.

Mud


Definition:

  • (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
  • (v. t.) To bury in mud.
  • (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Dan Chung Around 220,000 live in this mud-brick labyrinth; some homes date back five centuries.
  • (2) The possible occupational cause of the disease, as more solvents in the mud have the structure of aromatic hydrocarbons is discussed.
  • (3) The streets of Jiegu are now littered with concrete remnants of modern structures and the flattened mud and painted wood of traditional Tibetan buildings.
  • (4) This anterior-like cell preparation contained approximately 80% neutral red-stained cells, none of which carried a surface antigen specific to prespore cells (MUD-1 antigen).
  • (5) vittatus eggs laid on damp mud were placed in dry rockpools for 10 weeks and kept dry for a further 6 weeks in the laboratory.
  • (6) Hyflosupercel, Kaolin, and marine mud increased the stability of the enzyme.
  • (7) Evidence is presented that there is an association between tropical ulcer and exposure to mud or slow moving fresh water.
  • (8) A Mud(Ap, lac) prophage has been shown to be inserted into the ptsH gene of E. coli.
  • (9) As BHP’s share price in Australia pushed near 10-year lows on Thursday, the government in Brasilia has become increasingly concerned over the rising death toll and contaminated mud flowing through two states as a result of the disaster.
  • (10) Many of Long’s pieces are fragile and fleeting: a stripe of un-mown grass in an otherwise close cropped lawn at the Henry Moore foundation , a misty circle in Scotland that lasted only until the day warmed up, a stripe of green grass left by plucking daisies, or paintings in wet mud that dry out and crumble.
  • (11) However, the inhabitants of Babaji showed little interest in meeting the British, with compound after mud-walled compound abandoned.
  • (12) Spending time with the baby elephants was very special; the best bit was watching them have a mud bath and occasionally joining in!
  • (13) Diluted elements of his style were all over the pop charts: Sweet, Mud, Alvin Stardust.
  • (14) Here's more details and reaction: Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi more than 50 trials.. blabla... etc, judges have drawn my name in the mud, took up my time, my patience, huge economic resources September 18, 2013 Marco Incerti (@MarcoInBxl) #Berlusconi , ridicolous sentence to 4 years, for tax evasion that I didn't commit, and even if I did would be minor.
  • (15) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (16) He wrote: “The NHS in Wales will not be the victim of any Conservative party ploy to drag its reputation through the mud for entirely partisan political purposes.
  • (17) Finally, induced Mud-P22 insertions package more than 100 kb of genomic DNA adjacent to one side of the insertion.
  • (18) It was a successful breeding season for avocets - black and white wading birds - at Orford Ness in Suffolk, despite a lack of mud for feeding.
  • (19) Join a guided mud walk from the mainland to one of the islands off the coast.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Sisters play in the mud after rare rain at a town camp on the outskirts of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory.