What's the difference between flighter and slighter?
Flighter
Definition:
(n.) A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor.
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Slighter
Definition:
(n.) One who slights.
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(1) Brain MRI changes that were similar but much slighter in number and intensity were seen in 5 of 12 neuroborreliosis patients without clinical signs of CNS involvement (lymphocytic meningoradiculitis; Bannwarth's syndrome).
(2) Estradiol implant in ovariectomised female has some, but slighter, influence only on retinol.
(3) On the basis of former observations that erythrocytes of patients with hereditary spherocytosis (HS) exhibit a slighter K+ efflux under the influence of valinomycin and a diminished shrinking, the attempt was made to use this phenomenon in routine diagnostics.
(4) 3) The favorable factors related to the effect of ACTH for Lennox syndrome are: a) age at ACTH treatment: up to 4 years old, b) time lag between onset of Lennox syndrome and initiation of ACTH treatment: the shorter the better; at least within 1 year, preferably within 3 months, c) presumptive causes and underlying diseases: idiopathic cases are best, d) mental defects before treatment: the slighter the better, e) seizure patterns: without tonic seizures, and f) EEG findings: disorganized diffuse slow spike-waves without asymmetry.
(5) Peritubular myoid cells and undifferentiated interstitial cells showed a higher frequency of cilia in estrogenized animals than in control ones, from 15 to 45 days of age, the differences being slighter at 90 days of age.
(6) The hazard of complications is slight and certainly slighter than in other methods; our experience has shown that it is slighter than in other methods of biopsying the lung.
(7) The anti-mitochondrial selectivity indicated by these growth tests was much slighter for the non-carcinogens.
(8) In the lymph node biopsies, the immuno-histological studies reveal an infiltration of OKT8 positive cells in the germinal centers, a depletion of OKT4 positive lymphocytes slighter than in the blood and an explosive follicular hyperplasia with a striking destruction of the dendritic reticulum cell framework.
(9) Later, though the country's tight controls prevented her from learning what outsiders knew – that the supreme leader, Kim Jong-il , had been seriously ill – she worried when she saw his slighter, tired looking figure on TV.
(10) The hyperplasia in lungs of rats exposed to 4 ppm of NO2 without BHPN treatment was slighter than that in lung of rat exposed to 4 ppm of NO2 with BHPN treatment.
(11) This increase was disproportionate to the much slighter stimulation of the percentage of S-phase cells, which was measured by flow cytometry.
(12) Both compound inhibit the release of platelet precoagulation factor, but the effect of Pentoxifylline was slighter.
(13) Renal cell damage in the PGE1 group was slighter than in the trimethaphan group.
(14) The occurrences of otitis media in groups A and B were significantly suppressed, and histologic changes of the middle ear mucosa of groups A and B were slighter than those of group C. Antigen-specific IgA-forming cells were detected in the inflamed middle ear mucosa from group A and B animals, while these cells could not be found in group C animals.
(15) In these patients the binding to protein zone IV was slighter than normal.
(16) A somewhat slighter decrease of the blood pressure values was seen in an additional group of 31 hypertensive patients receiving 6 mg bromazepam per day and in a group of 30 normotensive patients receiving 9 mg bromazepam daily.
(17) In person, David Josué Jiménez Silva seems even slighter than he does at a distance on the pitch.
(18) In the in vitro direct Coombs test, the positive reactions noted with CPR were stronger than those with latamoxef sodium, equal to those with CEZ and slighter than those with CTX, CET and benzylpenicillin potassium.
(19) Maybe that extraordinary film will be cordoned off into that one big prize while slighter pieces of work will be garlanded elsewhere?
(20) In the 20% CET group, thrombogenesis was slighter than that in the 10% CPR group, while perivascular changes were severer.