What's the difference between flare and taper?

Flare


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
  • (v. i.) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.
  • (v. i.) To shine out with gaudy colors; to flaunt; to be offensively bright or showy.
  • (v. i.) To be exposed to too much light.
  • (v. i.) To open or spread outwards; to project beyond the perpendicular; as, the sides of a bowl flare; the bows of a ship flare.
  • (n.) An unsteady, broad, offensive light.
  • (n.) A spreading outward; as, the flare of a fireplace.
  • (n.) Leaf of lard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Regarding psoriasis, emotional factors have a strong correlation with onset and flare-ups.
  • (2) A definite dose-response relationship was demonstrated between the weal and flare areas and the three active treatments.
  • (3) Pretreatment with terfenadine 60 mg orally significantly inhibited the flare response to both the lower dose of antigen and to saline (P less than 0.05).
  • (4) Although the area of flare increased with each increase in dose from 0.1 to 10 micrograms, the areas of flare produced by 10 and 100 micrograms of histamine did not differ.
  • (5) New observations include: (1) In 15 nm cross sections that show single 14.5 nm levels: (a) The flared X structure characteristic of rigor is replaced by a straight-X figure in which the crossbridge density is aligned along the myosin-actin plane, rather than skewed across it as in rigor.
  • (6) There was no clinically relevant difference between the effects of the two routes of administration on flare area.
  • (7) Cimetidine, an H2-receptor antagonist slightly reduced the effect of clonidine on the wheal and flare reaction.
  • (8) Violence also flared before the game when 300 Torino fans tried to block the Juventus team bus from entering the stadium compound and threw stones at the vehicle, breaking one of its windows.
  • (9) Pretreatment of skin with capsaicin dramatically inhibited the histamine-induced flare response but had no effect on nicotine-induced axon reflex sweating.
  • (10) An additional category, SAP "flare", was also identified (SAP increment greater than 15% at 1 month, with subsequent fall at 2 months).
  • (11) Aqueous cells and flare of both eyes were measured by a laser flare-cell meter (KOWA FC 100).
  • (12) He explains that the violence began after the demo overran its official cut-off time: Violence flared on Tuesday in the centre of Madrid as baton-wielding police charged crowds and fired rubber bullets at demonstrators who had tried to surround the country's parliament building.
  • (13) Both patients with previous infection of the bone had flare up of the infection which was controlled medically.
  • (14) After prednisone was started the total serum IgE sharply declined to a plateau and remained at this level until a flare of allergic aspergillosis occurred.
  • (15) The test result correlated with the activity of the disease when repeated during a flare in the 1st case, and during remission in both.
  • (16) Formation of both weals and flares was significantly inhibited by cetirizine administered by either route; weals were inhibited as early as 20 min after oral intake but not clearly inhibited until 90 min after sublingual intake.
  • (17) Hydroxychloroquine has now clearly been shown to prevent flares, and ancrod has been shown to improve renal disease in patients with glomerular thrombosis.
  • (18) The flare response to SP following capsaicin- or bradykinin-induced desensitization gradually returned to normal after 5-8 weeks.
  • (19) Vladimir Putin claims Ebola virus vaccine has been developed by Russia Read more The tests reinforce concerns about flare-ups of the virus that has killed more than 11,300 people since 2013, almost all of which were in Sierra Leone , Guinea and Liberia.
  • (20) His subcorneal pustular dermatosis subsequently flared and was troublesome for 2 years until he was commenced on PUVA, with excellent response.

Taper


Definition:

  • (n.) A small wax candle; a small lighted wax candle; hence, a small light.
  • (n.) A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an elongated object; as, the taper of a spire.
  • (a.) Regularly narrowed toward the point; becoming small toward one end; conical; pyramidical; as, taper fingers.
  • (v. i.) To become gradually smaller toward one end; as, a sugar loaf tapers toward one end.
  • (v. t.) To make or cause to taper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
  • (3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
  • (4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
  • (5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
  • (6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
  • (7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
  • (8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
  • (9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
  • (10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
  • (11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
  • (12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
  • (13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
  • (14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
  • (15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
  • (16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
  • (17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
  • (18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
  • (19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
  • (20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.