What's the difference between din and dun?

Din


Definition:

  • (n.) Loud, confused, harsh noise; a loud, continuous, rattling or clanging sound; clamor; roar.
  • (n.) To strike with confused or clanging sound; to stun with loud and continued noise; to harass with clamor; as, to din the ears with cries.
  • (n.) To utter with a din; to repeat noisily; to ding.
  • (v. i.) To sound with a din; a ding.
  • (imp.) of Do

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fibroblasts from areas adjacent to DIN are different from normal fibroblasts.
  • (2) There was a certain amount of atmosphere too, thanks mostly to the West Ham fans keeping up a persistent din and celebrating the 15th anniversary of Roy Keane’s prawn sandwich remarks by noting the reserve of the home support.
  • (3) These directions are legally binding as some type of DIN standard for hospital hygiene.
  • (4) The potential interaction of CM 57493 [4-(3-trifluoromethyl-phenyl)-1-(2-cyanoethyl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyri din e] with central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptors was assessed using biochemical and electrophysiological tests in the rat and in the cat.
  • (5) Four words lists of a German Speech Intelligibility Test (DIN 45621) were recorded at 60 and 75 dB SPL.
  • (6) The test presented here complies well with the criteria of DIN 58220.
  • (7) 320 recently isolated pathogens, 20 strains from each of 16 species, were investigated using Mueller-Hinton agar and DIN as well as NCCLS standards.
  • (8) In year-long cooperation with industrial anthropologists the German Institute of Industrial Standards has established standards for body-measurements, measurement methods, and definitions in DIN 33 402.
  • (9) This paper highlights the necessity of standardizing the test methods (the influence of toxic substances depends on test duration and temperature) and describes the standardized procedure established by the DIN-Arbeitskreis "Leuchtbakterientest" (Working Group of the German Institute for Standardization for the luminescent bacteria test) using freeze-dried, liquid-dried, and fresh bacteria (DIN 38,412, part 34).
  • (10) The speed index was at 95.8%, the contrast index at 96.1% within the limits recommended by the Federal German DIN standard.
  • (11) This was measured in terms of acquired resistance towards UV lethality in a wild-type strain and in terms of appearance of beta-galactosidase activity in a din::Mu d(Ap lac) fusion strain.
  • (12) Above the din of the engines, talk turns to how injury and sometimes death has become part of life on Qatar’s building sites.
  • (13) Otherwise, I won’t achieve my goal.” To Ronen, he explained that the Talmudic doctrine din rodef amounted to a death sentence for Rabin – an explication that only people familiar with the internal discourse in the Orthodox community over the preceding year would have understood.
  • (14) DNA damage-inducible (din) operon fusions were generated in Bacillus subtilis by transpositional mutagenesis.
  • (15) Claudio Ranieri, hands in pockets and outwardly unconcerned, was unaware the final whistle had sounded at the end here while the delirious din of victory reverberated around this arena.
  • (16) Many of these din fusions were efficiently repressed by cloned Escherichia coli LexA, while others were not; all required RecA for induction.
  • (17) These findings echo results reported previously for DIN operating in its normal mode.
  • (18) In addition, there are numerous factors determining success or failure of therapy which cannot be established in vitro so that it is advisable to fix laboratory parameters in a stringent manner like that applied in the annexes (evaluation steps) to parts 3 and 4 of DIN 58940.
  • (19) Methods deviating from the DIN-method are of limited (Bayerische method) or no value (Stuttgart method).
  • (20) Investigated Ni-alloys, which showed extensive solubility of Ni particles in corrosion bathes due to DIN 13927, also revealed pronounced lost of bond strength to ceramic veneers when immersed into corrosion bathes of equal constitution.

Dun


Definition:

  • (n.) A mound or small hill.
  • (v. t.) To cure, as codfish, in a particular manner, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with salt grass or some like substance.
  • (v. t. & i.) To ask or beset, as a debtor, for payment; to urge importunately.
  • (n.) One who duns; a dunner.
  • (n.) An urgent request or demand of payment; as, he sent his debtor a dun.
  • (a.) Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data indicate that the muscarinic receptor in Dunning H tumors is of M3 type.
  • (2) In order to assess prostatic tissue as a target for receptor-mediated estrogen action, we have examined the regulation of estrogen (ER) and progestin receptors (PgR) by estrogen, antiestrogen, and progesterone in cytosolic and nuclear fractions of the R3327H (Dunning) prostatic adenocarcinoma of the rat.
  • (3) Transferrin-mRNA, expressed in the male urogenital tract and also in the liver and other tissues, was detected in the mammary gland and Dunning tumor, but not in the dorsolateral prostate.
  • (4) The Dunning R3327 prostate adenocarcinoma of the Copenhagen rat was developed as a suitable model of human prostate cancer.
  • (5) A number of chemotherapeutic agents, including L-asparaginase, actinomycin D, chloroethylcyclohexy-nitrosourea, 5-flourouracil, cyclophosphamide, hydroxyurea, cis-platinum, adriamycin and methotrexate, alone and in combination and at variable dose levels, were applied against the Dunning R3327 rat prostatic adenocarcinoma-subline G. We found a continuing parallel between responses of the human and rat tumors and conclude that the usefulness of this animal model as a screening system for agents against the human tumor is further supported.
  • (6) The R3327H-G8-A1 cell line derived from the Dunning rat prostate adenocarcinoma contains both androgen and glucocorticoid receptors.
  • (7) Rats bearing Dunning mammary tumors (DMBA 5A) of more than 2 g absorbed 70-100% more of an intragastric copper dose than controls, and a much larger percentage was found in the plasma, with less in liver and kidney.
  • (8) The Dunning R-3327-H is a well-differentiated transplantable rat prostatic adenocarcinoma that contains both hormone-sensitive and -insensitive cells.
  • (9) The complete DNA sequence of human papovavirus BKV(Dun), consisting of 5153 nucleotide pairs, is presented.
  • (10) The proliferation of primary and serially-cultured epithelial cells from androgen-responsive Dunning R3327 rat prostate tumors was also androgen-independent, but exhibited dramatic alterations in response to hormones that stimulated normal cell proliferation.
  • (11) In our experimental systems, in vivo, pentosan inhibits the growth of the highly metastatic MAT-LyLu (MLL) Dunning R3327 prostate cancer cell line only at toxic doses and has no apparent effect on growth in vitro.
  • (12) These results indicate that most actin exists in a depolymerized form as a cytosol protein of 41,000 daltons in the Dunning tumor and is composed of at least four isomers.
  • (13) Dunning hepatoma ribosomes were resistant to 4 mM EDTA.
  • (14) The growth of a transplantable rat prostatic carcinoma (Dunning R3327H) was studied after castration, testosterone substitution or testosterone substitution in combination with oestradiol treatment.
  • (15) Table: Countrywide Nick Dunning, group commercial director at Countrywide, said: "2013 saw the focus of demand shift sharply northwards after several years of more stable levels of supply and demand.
  • (16) The effects of two inhibitors of ornithine decarboxylase activity, alpha-difluoromethylornithine (DMFO) and (2R,5R) 6-heptyne-2,5 diamine (HDA), and an inhibitor of S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase, methylglyoxal bis-guanylhydrazone (MGBG), were tested on casein kinase activity and endogenous phosphorylation in the cytosol fractions of mouse thyroid and a rat prostate tumor model, Dunning R 3327 MAT LyLu subline.
  • (17) Using the Dunning R-3327 rat prostate animal tumor model we have previously shown that an increase in cell surface charge, as measured by individual cell electrophoresis, is associated with an increase in metastatic ability.
  • (18) She had learned by then not to back off from unpleasant facts - such as that, in her view, she was fat and ugly, something that her not very clever family had dunned into her.
  • (19) Cytogenetic analysis of the two least progressionally advanced Dunning cancers (i.e., histologically well-differentiated, slow-growing, nonmetastatic variants) demonstrated no structural or numerical chromosomal aberration, suggesting that the initial development of prostatic cancer may not require detectable cytogenetic changes.
  • (20) In a preliminary study, the effect of transfer factor (TF), one form of passive immunotherapy, on tumor-associated immunity (TAI) and tumour growth and histology of the G subline (a poorly differentiated, fast-growing, androgen sensitive, and poorly metastatic tumour of the Dunning R-3327 rat PCa) has been evaluated.

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