What's the difference between elater and horsetail?
Elater
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, elates.
(n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts.
(n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle.
(n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
(n.) The active principle of elaterium, being found in the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly Motordica Elaterium) and other related species. It is extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance, which is a violent purgative.
Example Sentences:
(1) Temporary mood states (depression, elation, neutral) were produced by means of Velten's auto-suggestion technique.
(2) When I left the room, along with elation, there was relief.
(3) Using an experimental procedure which minimised covert experimenter bias, subjects performed under both elation and depression mood inductions in one of four conditions: music present or absent by mood change instructions present or absent, using a crossover design.
(4) When prompted with the question, “That’s not a no though?”, Prince replied, “No.” Later that night, Prince turned up at the one-time roller disco in north London to play a set to a few dozen elated journalists and, towards the end of the show, a swarm of even more elated fans.
(5) Moreover ELAT-CSG is significantly more sensitive than ELAT-LAV (P = 0.03).
(6) 2 ml of fetal RBC in a 1,600-ml red cell mass can be quantified using the modified ELAT.
(7) I feel pleased to have crossed out 10 things today, then realise I’ve added 15 items to my list so my elation is shortlived!
(8) Yesterday afternoon, Straw described the mood among Ed Miliband's team – who had by now got used to being front- runners – as "elated" – and those among David's as "nervous".
(9) Following the initial immersion, subjects participated in the Velten mood induction procedure by reading either depressive, neutral or elative statements.
(10) Elated and depressed subjects performed best under positive and negative feedback, respectively.
(11) Nicotine fuses with nicotinic receptors, which trigger the release of several neurotransmitters – including serotonin and dopamine – which are both associated with positive side-effects, including elation and excitability.
(12) The effect of negative, positive, or neutral feedback on a rotary pursuit task as a function of the subject's depressed or elated mood was ascertained.
(13) I wrote about the wide-eyed optimism that rookie comedians come north with; the joy of spending time necking lager in the same drinking holes as your heroes; the elation of hearing the first laugh of the summer; the sadness of leaving your venue for the last time; the friends you make; the haunts you start to call your own; the feeling of finding your place in this mystical world; and the certainty that this is where you must be in August – that you must not go on a nice holiday or find paid work or attend a wedding or do up your chaotic flat instead.
(14) The 48-hour postinjection titer was compared with the size of bleed as measured by Du testing and the enzyme-linked antiglobulin test (ELAT).
(15) "You know I sort of feel elated, exhausted and thrilled.
(16) Although 51Cr is the accepted method for red cell survival, the ELAT method can be used to estimate transfused red cell survival.
(17) Self-rated anxiety was not found to be associated with the number of people present, whereas self-rated elation was positively correlated with the presence of others.
(18) For example, alcohol increased elation and vigor scores in the consistent choosers of alcohol, whereas it decreased scores on these measures in the consistent placebo choosers.
(19) Of the various psychiatric symptoms elation was significantly correlated with the presence of widespread MRI abnormalities, while flattening of affect, delusions and thought disorder correlated with the degree of pathology in the temporo-parietal region.
(20) Prior to treatment, patients rated hyperactive-elated, angry, and agitated had more motor activity, and patients rated anergic and retarded had less motor activity.
Horsetail
Definition:
(n.) A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.
(n.) A Turkish standard, denoting rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) These facts suggested that duplication of the ferredoxin gene in one organism occurred at an early evolutionary stage long before the divergence of the two horsetail species.
(2) Isozymes of CuZn-superoxide dismutase (SOD) were purified from angiosperms (spinach and rice), fern (horsetail) and green alga (Spirogyra).
(3) The number of differences in amino acids between horsetail ferredoxins and other chloroplast-type ferredoxins indicated that the duplication occurred after divergence of horsetails from other plants.
(4) Two ferredoxins were isolated from horsetail (Equisetum telmateia) and their amino acid sequences were determined by use of a sequence analyzer in combination with carboxypeptidase digestion and manual Edman degradation of tryptic peptides of carboxymethyl-ferredoxins.
(5) Motile sperm of four ferns (Marsilea, Pteridium, Lygodium and Aneimia), a horsetail (Equisetum) and a liverwort (Marchantia) were fixed in the presence of tannic acid to visualise the dynein arms.
(6) A passenger resembling Ian, with a flat cap and a John Lennon moustache, snaps mobile phone photos of terraces lining the quarry walls, veritable hanging gardens with horsetail and eyebright.
(7) The visual inspection of the hay revealed a massive contamination (about 12% by mass) by horsetail.
(8) Axons of the basket cell type and "horsetail" axons associated with double bouquet cells of Cajal's original type were not impregnated.
(9) Some comments on the unique amino acid substitutions in horsetail ferredoxins are also presented.
(10) The mtDNA of Onoclea sensibilis (sensitive fern) is approximately 300 kb in size, while that of Equisetum arvense (common horsetail) is at least 200 kb.
(11) Amino acid sequences of amino-terminal regions of CuZn-SOD isozymes from spinach, rice and horsetail were determined and compared with those of CuZn-SODs from other plants.