What's the difference between dolt and molt?

Dolt


Definition:

  • (n.) A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
  • (v. i.) To behave foolishly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George is unreliable... untrustworthy... to coin a phrase, a dolt."
  • (2) 28 mins: Look at the pedantic dolts I have to deal with: "So which bit of '4 mins ... 7mins ... 10 mins' is 'minute-by-minute' commentary, exactly?"
  • (3) His predecessor, Richard Daley, was embraced as an authentic Chicagoan with no ambitions beyond the city, even if he came across in public as a monosyllabic dolt.
  • (4) Analyses were conducted on three reference standard materials certified for their methyl mercury content, DOLT-1, DORM-1, and TORT-1, provided by the National Research Council of Canada.
  • (5) The cull might help to destroy the industry these bloody-minded dolts claim to defend.
  • (6) Some dolt in a car coat jogs around for a while, before being shoved to the ground by several police officers waving sticks.
  • (7) Of course, if you have £9bn to spend on a party, surely only a dolt could fail.
  • (8) Another critique of the great war is that the troops were commanded by dolts, a fact it must be said that is contested by many eminent historians.
  • (9) That's the point of the episode, you catastrophic dolt.

Molt


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Moult
  • () imp. of Melt.
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Moult
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Moult

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
  • (2) After molting, resulting nymphs (n = 74) were fed on susceptible mice.
  • (3) The MT-2, derived from an adult T-cell leukaemia (ATL) cell, the Molt-4F, a human T-cell line, and the Isk, an EB virus-transformed B-cell line, were found to have high-affinity receptors for somatostatin, a cyclic tetradecapeptide that inhibits the release of substances such as growth hormone, TSH, glucagon, insulin, secretin, gastrin and cholecystokinin.
  • (4) The demonstration of cAMP-dependent protein kinase and of VIP- and PHI-mediated protein phosphorylation in Molt 4b lymphoblasts provides evidence on a molecular level for neuropeptide modulation of human lymphocyte function.
  • (5) The ability of various gangliosides to inhibit the cytotoxic activity of natural killers (NK-cells) from Syrian hamsters towards human lymphoma MOLT-4 cells was studied.
  • (6) Measurements were made at the imaginal molt and on fed and crowded imagos at 10, 20 and 30 post-imaginal days.
  • (7) A comparison between primary cells and resulting cell lines showed that the cell lines established from patients with T-ALL (MOLT 12, 13, 14 and MOLT 16, 17) expressed similar phenotypes and isoenzyme patterns, but were different in a few specific aspects.
  • (8) At the culmination of each molt, the larval tobacco hornworm exhibits a pre-ecdysis behavior prior to shedding its old cuticle at ecdysis.
  • (9) 2'-Deoxycytidine (10 microM) also blocked dGTP accumulation in MOLT-4 cells.
  • (10) Cytotoxicity resulting from dUMP misincorporation was consistent with the enhanced toxicity of piritrexim which was observed when HL-60 cells or MOLT-4 cells were exposed concurrently to exogenous deoxyuridine.
  • (11) Molting occurred in almost all kinds of organs examined.
  • (12) Syncytium formation between HUT-78 cells persistently infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and uninfected CD4-bearing MOLT-4 or CEM cells results in a rapid destruction of the MOLT-4 or CEM cells.
  • (13) Furthermore these cells exhibited cytotoxic activity against several tumour cell lines including the syngeneic L1210, the TNF-insensitive P815 mastocytoma, the human MOLT-4 lymphoblastic leukaemia, as well as the murine TNF-sensitive L929 fibroblast cell line.
  • (14) Second instar larvae which survive the molt exhibit a marked reduction in growth and eventually die as small second instar larvae.
  • (15) These lines of evidence were in accord with previous accounts of the so-called "molt inhibiting hormone" (MIH) effect.
  • (16) The objective of this study was to determine the molting process of Dirofilaria immitis third-stage larvae (L-3) to fourth-stage larvae (L-4), as it occurred in vitro.
  • (17) Injections of ovine prolactin during the pause-inducing procedure significantly reduced the subsequent rate of loss of primary wing feathers, suggesting that in certain physiological states, PRL may function to suppress molting.
  • (18) 1-beta-D-Arabinofuranosyl-E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil (BV-araU) and E-5-(2-bromovinyl)uracil, a metabolite of BV-araU, did not affect either the anti-human immunodeficiency virus activity or the cytotoxicity of azidothymidine in MT-4 and MOLT-4 cells.
  • (19) After the L1 molt, energy metabolism in animals destined to become dauer larvae diverges from that of animals committed to growth.
  • (20) Thus, one may deduce that stopped larvae could have low levels of ecdysone, and perhaps these are the ultimate physiological cause of their arrested development before the critical larva-pupa molt.

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