What's the difference between downstream and stream?

Downstream


Definition:

  • (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (2) Protein kinase C (PKC) is activated rapidly and transiently following ionizing radiation exposure and is postulated to activate downstream nuclear signal transducers.
  • (3) In contrast, cholesterol precursors downstream from lanosterol, i.e., desmosterol and 7-dehydrocholesterol, completely replaced cholesterol in supporting NS-1 cell growth.
  • (4) By allelic exchange using cloned PI genes from FA19 (PIA) and MS11 (PIB) and a selectable marker introduced closely downstream of these genes, we constructed sets of isogenic gonococcal strains that differ only in their PI gene.
  • (5) By using our DNA probe, we could disclose, in addition to the StyI site at amino acid position 420, two further StyI site downstream: one was specific for the GC*1S allele and another for the GC*1F allele.
  • (6) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
  • (7) By placing the thigh in external flexion-rotation the deep femoral artery can readily be approached downstream the first perforating artery.
  • (8) It also suggests that the -10 and its downstream regions are more important than the -35 region for the formation of the E sigma A-P2 promoter open complex.
  • (9) By using primer 1 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGGAATCCAGGATCTG-3', upstream nucleotides 157 to 2877), primer 2 (5'-AAAGAATTCATGAACGTGAAGGAATCG-3', upstream nucleotides 1846 to 2877), and primer 4(5'-ATAAAGCTTAATCAGACGTTCTCTTCTTC-3', downstream nucleotides 157 to 2877 and 1846 to 2877), the HCMV B gene code region sequence and its glycoprotein 52 kd antigenic domain sequence were amplified from the recombinant plasmid pBH1 DNA containing the HCMV B gene.
  • (10) The sequence analysis showed a single nucleotide substitution (G----A) at position 69 nts (delta +69) downstream to the polyA addition site.
  • (11) The insertion at codon 24 ends protein translation and has a polar effect on the expression of the downstream umuC gene.
  • (12) Repair within the gene was shown to be much more efficient than that in silent downstream sequences or in the genome overall.
  • (13) We identified a 700-codon open reading frame, downstream from the flbF promoter region, that was predicted to be the flbF structural gene.
  • (14) The differential component force Fm - Fa provides the ventricular impulse needed to overcome the inertia of the system due to (1) the mass of the blood, (2) the geometrical constriction of the outflow tract as one moves downstream (Bernoulli effect), and (2) the moving ventricular walls.
  • (15) The transposons were altered so that upon insertion into the chromosome, transcription fusions are formed in which the promoter regions of fla genes drive the expression of the downstream promoter-less drug resistance genes.
  • (16) Preliminary evidence is presented showing that the downstream open reading frame is functional in vivo.
  • (17) Regulation of argininosuccinate synthetase (AS) was studied by using minigenes containing 3 kilobases of DNA upstream from the TATAA box and 9 kilobases downstream (including the first four exons of the AS gene) ligated to either the cDNA for AS or to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) gene.
  • (18) When the CRP site was placed far downstream of the promoter, a moderate repression of transcription was observed.
  • (19) A mouse homologue was indeed identified and is located 16 kb downstream of the C alpha 1 exon.
  • (20) We propose that the -10 hexamer sequence and the adjacent downstream region are both important in regulating transcription by ppGpp.

Stream


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pour out, or emit, a stream or streams.
  • (v. i.) To issue in a stream of light; to radiate.
  • (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano.
  • (n.) A beam or ray of light.
  • (n.) Anything issuing or moving with continued succession of parts; as, a stream of words; a stream of sand.
  • (n.) A continued current or course; as, a stream of weather.
  • (n.) Current; drift; tendency; series of tending or moving causes; as, the stream of opinions or manners.
  • (v. i.) To issue or flow in a stream; to flow freely or in a current, as a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes.
  • (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind.
  • (v. t.) To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
  • (v. t.) To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
  • (v. t.) To unfurl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These surveys show that campers exposed to mountain stream water are at risk of acquiring giardiasis.
  • (2) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (3) Streaming is shown to occur in water in the focused beams produced by a number of medical pulse-echo devices.
  • (4) Starting from the hypothesis that a new type of cooperativity, dynamic cooperativity, is present in the elementary cycles of the chemo-mechanical conversion, quantitative and consistent agreement was obtained between the theoretical and experimental data on the temperature dependences of the streaming velocity and the ATPase activity, including the presence of the phase transition.
  • (5) Animal behaviour can be viewed as a stream of elements, which, once accurately described, can be counted and timed.
  • (6) Yesterday streams of worshippers and tourists entered Sir Christopher Wren's building for Sunday services, apparently unconcerned by events outside.
  • (7) Apple could quite possibly afford to promise to pay out 80% of its streaming iTunes income, especially if such a service helped it sell more iPhones and iPads, where the margins are bigger.
  • (8) To induce thrombosis we damaged the vessel wall over a short segment by compression and exposed the damaged media to the blood stream.
  • (9) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (10) Changes to the Mac Pro desktop computer are also expected, as is a new music streaming service .
  • (11) The clash is the latest in a deadly stream of attacks since July, which officials said had already claimed the lives of at least 70 members of the security services and hundreds of PKK militants.
  • (12) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
  • (13) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (14) A high stability of the blood stream in the vascular constructions studied is explained as a possibility of counterstream gas exchange between the arterial and venous blood in the truncal vascular micromodule.
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  • (16) The pulmonary efflux streams by the buccal contents with minimal mixing, and relatively pure air is pumped into the lungs.
  • (17) Jay-Z has won control of a Swedish music streaming company after more than 90% of shareholders accepted the star’s $54m (£36m) offer.
  • (18) The results of the present study focused on differences in types of self-touching by patients and physicians, semantic content of utterances when self-touching was displayed, and temporal location of self-touching within the speech stream.
  • (19) These convective streaming motions combine with molecular diffusion to produce augmented diffusion which transports O2 and CO2 between the trachea and the peripheral alveoli.
  • (20) The correct diagnosis was assisted by marked leucocytosis with the release of a major number of plasmatic cells into the peripheral blood stream.

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