What's the difference between fib and fin?

Fib


Definition:

  • (n.) A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
  • (v. i.) To speak falsely.
  • (v. t.) To tell a fib to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trans-, long- and short-axial images were interpreted quantitatively by circumferential profile analysis, and the extent of fibrotic tissue (%FIB) was estimated by integrating hypoperfused areas in six to eight consecutive short-axial slices.
  • (2) Glutamic acid residues were found in FIB amino acids.
  • (3) After the applied treatment changes were recorded in the count of lymphocytes T and B, the shiftings in the group of patients, having been treated with FIBS, were marked more distinctly, particularly in the count of lymphocytes T.
  • (4) Unlabelled fibronectin inhibited the following binding of labelled fibronectin to beads pretreated in HS-FIB.
  • (5) Simultaneous high, mid, and low right atrial endocardial bipolar electrograms were analyzed during acute A Fib induced by a rapid train of stimuli (20-40 Hz) for 1-3 seconds in anesthetized closed-chest dogs (N = 7, total of 72 episodes).
  • (6) Even my mum has tales to tell of her time on the dole, and of welfare inspectors busting in at 7am to check that none of the members of her sharehouse were sleeping in the same bed, and thus fibbing about their relationship status on their claim forms.
  • (7) We studied 102 children with newly diagnosed acute leukemia (50 retrospective: Group A; and 52 prospective: Group B) with prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT), thrombin time (TT), fibrinogen (FIB), and fibrin degradation products (FDP).
  • (8) After optimal preculture with IFN-gamma, class II positive FIB were fully competent to restimulate proliferative responses of two DR specific T cell clones and one DP specific T cell line.
  • (9) The transplanted tumor showed both papillo-tubular and solid growth patterns, in which positive reactions for AFP, CEA, ferritin (FER), carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9), albumin (ALB) and fibrinogen (FIB) were confirmed by the avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex method.
  • (10) Only mAbs BRhD2 and FIB 1 (which recognizes an epitope in the sequence 174-186) can inhibit IL-1 beta-induced thymocyte proliferation, whereas all four can inhibit the adjuvant capacity of IL-1 beta in vivo.
  • (11) The 22-year-old Londoner is not able to sustain the fib for long.
  • (12) This failure was not due to a direct suppressive effect of FIB and could not be corrected by exogenous IL1 or by factors contained in conventional mixed leukocyte culture supernatants.
  • (13) This displacement was not evident at lens positions simulating low plasma concentrations where large amounts of a-fib adsorbed.
  • (14) Transection of the common fibular (FIB) nerve caused an immediate reduction in the total amount of soleus (SOL) motor unit activity, which declined further during the following 10 days and then remained stable at less than half of normal values.
  • (15) The genotypic symbol fib is proposed for the spiroplasma fibril protein gene.
  • (16) The finding of increased FIB in DPVDs could have important implications for drug and surgical therapy in this group of patients.
  • (17) There were no correlations between EM-score and %fib.
  • (18) The presence of one or two additional FIB sites in the downstream region had no effect.
  • (19) The experience gained on a very treat number ofpatients shows that it is evident that the best method is the transposition of the tendons M. fib.
  • (20) Among the laboratory findings, WBC was 8, 100 (B 1, St 6, S 77, L 14, Mon 2), RBC 375 x 10(4), Hb 12.5, Ht 37, PLT 3.5 x 10(4), PT 15.6, PTT 68, Fib 158, FDP 10 and AT-III 75.

Fin


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
  • (n.) End; conclusion; object.
  • (n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
  • (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
  • (n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
  • (n.) The hand.
  • (n.) A blade of whalebone.
  • (n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
  • (n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
  • (n.) A feather; a spline.
  • (n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The participation of neural crest cells in development of the dermal skeleton is discussed by way of the repartition of the odontods within the pectoral fin.
  • (2) Since there is a body of literature indicating that preexposure to low levels of metals may increase tolerance during subsequent exposure, these experiments were designed to investigate the effects of preexposure to cadmium, using fin regeneration as the parameter of effect.
  • (3) Next year they will target 50 fin whales, 50 endangered humpbacks, and another 925 minkes.
  • (4) Electron microscopy discloses axons in the mesodermal mesenchyme and in the epidermis of the bud as early as stage I of the development of the pelvic fins.
  • (5) The fins are formed by a longitudinal tegument fold containing the same components as the remaining part of the tail tegument.
  • (6) The dorsal fin mesenchyme expresses vimentin at stage 26.
  • (7) In this situation one could fins concentrated not only the various stands of protolife necessary for the final act of biopoesis, but also perbiologically formed nutrients necessary as for the first eobionts.
  • (8) These data and independent scanning electron microscopy indicated that a resident population of predominantly Blastobacter bacteria was present as a biofilm on the supply-side cooling coil fins.
  • (9) The development of the vasculature of the pectoral fin in the Australian lungfish, Neoceratodus forsteri, was studied by the dye-injection method.
  • (10) Behavioral arousal evoked by lightly touching the fish on the snout or over the eye resembled spontaneous arousal observed in the field and consisted of eye withdrawal, fin erection, and attempted swimming.
  • (11) This communication briefly reviews knowledge of the systemic disease caused by Crassicauda boopis in blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus), fin whales (B. physalus) and humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).
  • (12) This year the whalers plan to kill more than 900 minke whales and about 50 fin whales, reports said.
  • (13) The fish of these groups completed translocation of the right eye to the left side and resorption of elongated dorsal fin rays.
  • (14) Glycosaminoglycans (GAG) are found primarily in the dorsal fin and in the ECM surrounding the notochord.
  • (15) By noon, the small fish market on shore is packed with black crows nibbling on hundreds of butchered fish heads, shark fins and long red swordfish tongues.
  • (16) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
  • (17) In light of previous descriptions of Crassicauda infections in balaenopterids, this implied that C. boopis should at present be considered a renal parasite of fin whales, and perhaps other rorquals, throughout the world's oceans.
  • (18) The US-based group said it encountered an illegal shark finning operation run by a Costa Rican ship, the Varadero, and told the crew to stop and head to port to be prosecuted.
  • (19) We have used 14 restriction endonucleases to investigate the restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of fin whales, 13 enzymes for sei whales, and 8 enzymes for the minke whale.
  • (20) The researchers estimated that global reported catches, unreported landings, discards and sharks caught and thrown back after their fins were cut off – a process known as finning – added up to 97 million fish caught in 2010.

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