What's the difference between dimmer and switch?

Dimmer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 16, 1419 (1976)] has been thought to imply neural mechanisms with unlimited constancy, but these researchers permitted differential adaptation to the brighter and dimmer targets, which were seen haploscopically (by different eyes).
  • (2) Ceramics can withstand natural light, unlike painting and other art works that have to be preserved in dimmer rooms.
  • (3) Within a certain range of ambient illumination b-waves elicited by red (695 nm) test flashes against dimmer background lights were smaller in size than against brighter ones.
  • (4) Stock traders shrugged off the Fed's dimmer outlook and focused on the prospect of continued stimulus.
  • (5) Four operations were repetitively applied to this positive pattern so that it moved fractionally to the right, grew dimmer, moved back to the left, and grew brighter again.
  • (6) Responses to dimmer stimuli are determined entirely by the rods.3.
  • (7) A steady light which hyperpolarizes the cone membrane by the same amount as high Ca2+ has an equal effect on the amplitude of responses to bright flashes but has an entirely different action on response kinetics and on the amplitude of responses to dimmer flashes.
  • (8) Animals raised in 800-lx cyclic light have a significant increase in the retinal activities of the three glutathione enzymes over activities measured in animals raised in the two dimmer regimes.
  • (9) Subjects exposed to 1000 lux ambient light maintained significantly higher levels of alertness across the 8-hour shift than did subjects exposed to the dimmer lighting conditions.
  • (10) When Macmillan and her colleagues at the Institute of Education compared IQs, they found today's younger cohort of professionals was, on average, slightly dimmer than the previous, poorer generation.
  • (11) In Experiment 1, which involved a discriminative reaction time (RT) task, chromatic and white stimuli of the same luminance were presented on a dimmer achromatic background.
  • (12) Also, titration with DTNB indicates that the enzyme is a much more asymmetric dimmer in the pyridoxamine-P conformation than in the pyridoxal-P conformation.
  • (13) Sending love to her family, friends, and community as we all struggle to make sense of the senseless in a world that is dimmer without her light.” Others praised her activist work and her creativity, saying they could hardly believe Louisiana had lost “ such a bright light ”.
  • (14) Nearly everywhere in the visual field, the visibility threshold with the Dicon instrument seems equivalent to that obtained with projection perimeters, but in the most sensitive retinal areas we found the threshold stimulus (Is) to be sometimes dimmer than the "background" (Ib), which surrounds the stimulus, making a negative differential threshold (delta L = Is - Ib).
  • (15) The prospects appear even dimmer in light of the Commonwealth bank ending its advisory role over financing the Carmichael project.
  • (16) "Sea walls have the potential to save lives wherever they are built, provided the tsunami does not exceed the simulated height and runup pressures," said Dimmer.
  • (17) They might not work properly with dimmers yet, but they are generally smaller, brighter and softer on the eye than they used to be.
  • (18) During rivalry, the same steep branch of the RT-luminance function appeared, but shifted as though the probe was about 0.25 log units dimmer.
  • (19) Steady or noise current injection during sinusoidal light stimulation showed that (a) the decrease in the spike threshold at a dimmer mean illuminance was due to the increase in the noise variance: the noise had facilitatory effects on the spike initiation; and (b) the change in the mean potential level had little effect on the spike threshold.
  • (20) Lucia’s retreats allow you to take more drastic action to calm the body and mind: a full-scale withdrawal from real life, or as one book I picked up put it: “turn on your dimmer switch.” It worked for me.

Switch


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, flexible twig or rod.
  • (n.) A movable part of a rail; or of opposite rails, for transferring cars from one track to another.
  • (n.) A separate mass or trees of hair, or of some substance (at jute) made to resemble hair, worn on the head by women.
  • (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.
  • (v. t.) To strike with a switch or small flexible rod; to whip.
  • (v. t.) To swing or whisk; as, to switch a cane.
  • (v. t.) To trim, as, a hedge.
  • (v. t.) To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; -- generally with off, from, etc.; as, to switch off a train; to switch a car from one track to another.
  • (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.
  • (v. i.) To walk with a jerk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We also demonstrated a significant difference in the Hb switching process between male and female newborns.
  • (2) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (3) Nine years of clinical experience of the application of the Q-switched ruby laser to the removal of tattoos is presented.
  • (4) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (5) It is hypothesized, furthermore, that the kinetics of emergence and loss of these various populations may reflect switching in the mode of immunity being expressed, particularly during the chronic phase of the infection, from that of a state of active immunity to one of immunologic memory.
  • (6) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
  • (7) The drug I started taking caused an irritating, chronic cough, which disappeared when I switched to an inexpensive diuretic.
  • (8) Our aim is to obtain evidence for trans-acting factors that regulate developmental hemoglobin (Hb) switching.
  • (9) Should such symptoms occur, the doctor has the choice of either switching to another first-step compound or reducing the dose of the first agent and combining it with one of other available drugs.
  • (10) I’ve warned Dave before to mind his ps and qs when the cameras are rolling, but the problem is you can never tell when the microphones are switched on.
  • (11) This modification improves the convergence properties of the network and is used to control a switch which activates the learning or template formation process when the input is "unknown".
  • (12) Usage of analyzing cardiac monitors with a signalling system switched on by the preset values of ST-segment depression prevented the evolution of myocardial ischemia and the development of exercise-induced anginal episodes.
  • (13) "It's very clear now that the administration agrees with us," said Wyden, hailing a switch from both the Bush and Obama administration stance that "collecting these records is vital to western civilisation".
  • (14) A programmable controller manages the olfactometer dilution stage selection, the odor stimulus switch and starts the peripheral devices required by the experiment.
  • (15) In hybrids before the switch, the gamma-genes are unmethylated.
  • (16) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
  • (17) A transistor radio activated by a mercury switch was used to reinforce head posture in two retarded children with severe cerebral palsy.
  • (18) The swi1+ gene is necessary for effective mating-type (MT) switching in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.
  • (19) Consequently mother cells can switch their mating type whereas bud cells cannot.
  • (20) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.