What's the difference between droplet and raindrop?

Droplet


Definition:

  • (n.) A little drop; a tear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new technique, Surface Immune Precipitation (SIP), entails the application of an antigen sample droplet directly onto the surface of a gel containing antibody, the gel being supported by a reflecting substrate.
  • (2) This inclusion, an aggregate 0.3-0.7 mum in size, consists of small membrane-bounded vesicles with a single dense granule associated with other non-membrane bound small dense droplets.
  • (3) These lipid droplets are expected to have diagnostic value in the histological study of ARVD using endomyocardial biopsy.
  • (4) Image analysis of selected P2 segments in treated and control rats revealed a high correlation between subcellular localization of alpha 2uG and protein droplet deposition in the cytoplasm of P2 segment cells of the proximal tubule epithelium.
  • (5) Reversible increases in size and distribution of hyaline droplets within proximal tubular epithelium occurred through 1 year of treatment at a severity that was dose-dependent.
  • (6) Generated droplets were dried in line and led to an inhalation chamber from which the dry aerosol was inhaled using a nose or mouth inhalation unit.
  • (7) J774 and elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages were loaded with cholesteryl ester within lysosomes through phagocytosis of sonicated lipid droplets.
  • (8) Ultrastructures of the tumor cells showed immature lymphoid features with frequent lipid droplets within the cytoplasms.
  • (9) One quarter had many autolysosomes or lipid droplets.
  • (10) vitamin A for three days, remarkable increase in size and number of lipid droplets was observed in slightly hypertrophic fat-storing cells, and the empty cells disappeared simulating an increased number of fat-storing cells.
  • (11) Fixation with buffered glutaraldehyde resulted in higher counts (P less than 0.01) of proximal protoplasmic droplets (2.47, 1.03, 0.67, and 1.43%, respectively, for glutaraldehyde, Hancock's, Blom's, and formol saline procedures).
  • (12) Numerous 70-mmicro diameter vesicles apparently pinch off from the Golgi systems, transport this material through the egg, and probably then fuse to form a crenate, membrane-limited yolk droplet.
  • (13) In the cells of the cardiac region (which occupy 65% of the stomach) at least three types of mucous droplet are present.
  • (14) For this rather large pressures (about 700 hPa) are required to overcome the surface forces counteracting droplet formation.
  • (15) One of the earliest ultrastructural abnormalities in tellurium neuropathy is an increased number of cytoplasmic lipid droplets in myelinating Schwann cells.
  • (16) It is well-established that binding of a chemical to alpha 2u-globulin is the rate-limiting step in the development of male rat-specific hyaline droplet nephropathy.
  • (17) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
  • (18) This equation was used to calculate the mean portal blood flow velocity by this system (V-dopp) in 10 patients with liver disease, and the findings were compared with data simultaneously obtained by cineangiographic mapping of Lipiodol droplets released into the portal vein through a catheter placed in situ at the time of surgery (V-cine).
  • (19) Changes in lipid droplets and some mitochondrial degeneration were observed in the ICM cells of the glycerol-treated embryos.
  • (20) The number of multilamellar vesicles in or adjacent to lipid droplets was independent of the duration of ischemia.

Raindrop


Definition:

  • (n.) A drop of rain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (2) r-i--rop) of a just-studied word (raindrop) is shown to be less readily completed if it is presented bit by bit (r------p, r----r-p, r-i--r-p, r-i--rop) rather than all at once (Experiments 1, 3, 4, and 5).
  • (3) When assailed by terrors ("when the dog bites, when the bee stings"), one has to call to mind one's favourite things, such as raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens, and brown paper packages tied up with string.
  • (4) Having researched modern forensic techniques and poisons for her crime novels, Ashford immediately realised the symptoms could be ascribed to arsenic poisoning , which can cause "raindrop" pigmentation, where patches of skin go brown or black, and other areas go white.
  • (5) And then, back down into the flower she went with Pitbull, leaving the pitch to the Amazonian dancers, the raindrops, trees and footballs, who humbly marched off.
  • (6) We experience life on every scale, from raindrops falling on a river to armies ransacking a town, often within the same, unbroken shot.
  • (7) A reduction of the fall height of the simulated raindrops resulted in a significant reduction of the number of translocated L3.
  • (8) It was like the cartoon cloud that follows the beleaguered man and constantly drips raindrops on him when the sun is shining on everyone else.
  • (9) 1720: 5.22%, Mefar Respi-Neb: 2.80%, Sandoz: 4.57% Vix: 4.28%, Acorn 2.43%, Pari Inhalierboy: 2.16%, Raindrop: 3.00%.
  • (10) The same faint, trapped, accumulating scent, the scent of the margin where the private and public worlds meet: raindrops on contract carpet, wet umbrella, damp shoe-leather, metal tang of keys, the salt of metal in palm.
  • (11) This is the English countryside in all its May-time loveliness – which the viewer actually watches months later, as they contemplate damp September – to be admired through lovingly filmed heads of cow parsley nodding under the weight of spring raindrops, or via long shots of fields of buttercups.
  • (12) Instead, the song provided a jumping-off point for a Twitter poetry snowclone, which consisted of social media users adding a supplementary humorous line to the end of Bad And Boujee’s “raindrop, drop top” couplet.
  • (13) An expert in “wet deposition” (how rain can clean particles from the air), he thinks he’s got the science sorted, and the main challenge is just to “design the specific spray system that can spray a good raindrop size and [ensure] the most scavenging efficiencies for the air pollution.” But his hastily Photoshopped visuals of garden sprinklers stuck on top of skyscrapers don’t do much to inspire confidence.
  • (14) The common thread is that the days are hotter, some trees now flower twice a year and the raindrops are getting bigger.
  • (15) Per cent variation between the products giving Hudson 100%: Mefar Respi-Neb: +18.77, Sandoz +46.19, Vix: -6.14, Acorn: +20.27, Pari Inhalierboy: +61.68, Raindrop: -9.56.
  • (16) These corn-like punctate keratoses mainly on the palms and soles, multiple Bowen's disease and diffuse bronze pigmentation with raindrop areas of hypopigmentation on the trunk and extremities were manifest almost in the same individuals, and it was concluded that they were characteristic cutaneous symptoms of chronic arsenical poisoning.
  • (17) Seen through the filter of Instagram, the world is a beautiful place: high-contrast blue skies; sepia-tinted sunsets; exquisite plates of food and raindrops sliding down windows in perfect formation.
  • (18) Characteristic bronze pigmentation on the trunk and extremities was seen in 6 workers, and 5 of these 6 workers showed tiny normal or depigmented skin (raindrops) throughout the involved areas.
  • (19) When cow pats were hit by drops of diameters between 2 and 5 mm, it was found that small raindrops were just as effective as large drops in splash dispersal of L3, provided the amount of rain was the same; but individual small drops were less effective in this respect than individual large drops.
  • (20) Yes, Big Time Timmy Jim danced through the raindrops (Dodgers were 1-9 with runners in scoring position), but he leaves LA with a 0.00 ERA, and that's got to give him some confidence heading into his next start, at home against the Colorado Rockies next week.

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