What's the difference between dimmer and trimmer?

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.

Trimmer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who trims, arranges, fits, or ornaments.
  • (n.) One who does not adopt extreme opinions in politics, or the like; one who fluctuates between parties, so as to appear to favor each; a timeserver.
  • (n.) An instrument with which trimming is done.
  • (n.) A beam, into which are framed the ends of headers in floor framing, as when a hole is to be left for stairs, or to avoid bringing joists near chimneys, and the like. See Illust. of Header.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
  • (2) The other method was the use of an axial margin trimmer.
  • (3) Antibody levels in the newly employed wood trimmers were similar to antibody levels in wood trimmers who had already worked in the trimming department before the start of the study.
  • (4) Pulmonary function was studied in 66 wood trimmers exposed to organic dust (moulds) after a month of no exposure (summer vacation) and then three and 27 months later, and also during a working week.
  • (5) Antibody levels were significantly elevated after periods with high exposure compared to antibody levels in the same wood trimmers after periods with low exposure.
  • (6) The margins of the axial box as well as of the proximo-cervical curvature were significantly better finished with the EVA-System and the highly flexible file compared to the axial margin trimmer (p < 0.001).
  • (7) In a second treatment (Experiments 1 and 2), one-third to one-half of the beak was removed at 11 days of age with a hot blade beak trimmer.
  • (8) Since the trimmers do not have to be removed while this system is in use, there is no need to bypass the associated interlock system.
  • (9) The finishing time for the box margin was not significantly different using the EVA instrument or the axial margin trimmer.
  • (10) We have studied electron beam profiles with and without trimmers at the nominal source-skin distance of 1 m versus extended distances of 3-5 m. We find that the trimmers limit the field size and add little to the beam uniformity at extended distances.
  • (11) The study groups consisted of randomly selected 78 stevedores-trimmers and 84 mechanic equipment operators.
  • (12) The efficiency of the new device was compared with the axial margin trimmer by means of scanning electron microscopy and a score system.
  • (13) There were, however, large differences between the individual antibody levels of similarly exposed wood trimmers.
  • (14) Sera from 67 wood trimmers were analyzed by both methods.
  • (15) Fungal keratitis should be strongly considered as the cause of any corneal ulcer related to trauma from a nylon line lawn trimmer.
  • (16) Nylon line lawn trimmers represent a source of potentially devastating ocular trauma.
  • (17) The field size dependent photon output is known to be influenced by the existence of backscattered radiation (BSR) generated in the collimator or trimmer jaws of a linear accelerator.
  • (18) Darius is the head trimmer at Legend's, a smart London barber that specialises in traditional wet shaves.
  • (19) We managed three cases of fungal keratitis caused by injuries from nylon line trimmers.
  • (20) Playing the drag queen Albert in La Cage Aux Folles presented another difficulty: I had to ask my beloved to help me shave my entire body once a week with a beard trimmer.