What's the difference between flow and icefall?

Flow


Definition:

  • () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
  • (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
  • (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
  • (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
  • (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
  • (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
  • (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
  • (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
  • (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
  • (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
  • (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
  • (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
  • (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (3) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
  • (6) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (7) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (8) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
  • (9) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (10) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
  • (11) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
  • (12) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (14) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (15) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
  • (16) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (17) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
  • (18) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (19) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
  • (20) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.

Icefall


Definition:

  • (n.) A frozen waterfall, or mass of ice resembling a frozen waterfall.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We should … adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe.” All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary’s team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.
  • (2) Climbs in 2014 were cancelled after 16 sherpas died in an icefall avalanche.
  • (3) Around 100 climbers and guides had already passed beyond the Khumbu Icefall to prepare for an assault on the summit.
  • (4) The route that is laid anew each year through the icefall, one of the most dangerous passages though low down the peak, has been largely destroyed and local Sherpa guides who specialise in preparing a path through the jumble of ice blocks and crevasses are reported to have refused to repair it.
  • (5) She couldn’t have known that she would film as the Sherpas’ bodies were airlifted off the icefall, and watch as the locals channelled their shock and anger into something unheard of: a strike .
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A rescue helicopter returns to Everest base camp after the 2014 avalanche 2014: In April an avalanche hit the Khumbu Icefall (a treacherous stretch that Sherpas often pass through 30 to 40 times per expedition, compared to a tourist climber’s two to four times) killing 16 people, 13 of them Sherpas.
  • (7) The route through the Khumbu Icefall – which is fixed annually with ropes and ladders and gives access to the higher slopes – appeared to have been badly damaged.
  • (8) Photograph: Nima Dorchi The most experienced of the icefall doctors is the team leader, Ang Kami Sherpa, a 64-year-old veteran of dozens of ascents of Nepal’s highest peaks.
  • (9) When I finally stood up, I couldn’t believe it passed me over and I was almost untouched.” Like Fredinburg and the majority of the rest of the team, he had also been in camp a year ago when a cliff on the Khumbu icefall collapsed, killing 16 Sherpas .
  • (10) While a paying climber might travel through the treacherous icefall – a constantly moving, creaking, crevasse-riddled outflow of the Khumbu glacier – as few as four times, Sherpa climbers might make 30 or 40 journeys, carrying loads of oxygen, tents, food, water and fuel to the higher camps, a system that has evolved in the commercial era to give people who might not be the strongest, or the most experienced, the best chance of making it to the top.
  • (11) As they descended the peak, the reporter James (now Jan) Morris rushed 4,000 feet down the mountain, braving the treacherous Khumbu icefall, to break the news to the world in time for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • (12) Nepal quake: Everest base camp 'looked like it had been flattened by bomb' Read more These are the icefall doctors, a team of elite local guides charged with securing a route to allow largely foreign climbers to pass safely through the maze of deep crevasses and frozen cliffs formed as the Khumbu glacier moves down from Mount Everest towards the valleys below in Nepal.
  • (13) V BAD: icefall Sherpas bc gone; ran away to Namche!
  • (14) Thanks to mediation by Arnot and the other western climbers, Griffith, Steck and Moro escaped Camp 2 but avoided the established route through the dangerous Khumbu icefall, preferring to descend the glacier where there was no trail.
  • (15) Eric Simonson with International Mountain Guides said their team came down with others on the Nepal side who had been trapped above the Khumbu Icefall, which was impassable after the avalanche swept away a fixed route through that section.
  • (16) A friend in the Sherpa village of Namche Bazaar called to say there had been an accident in the Icefall and many Sherpas were dead.
  • (17) The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and piled with serac – huge chunks of ice – that can break free without warning.
  • (18) On 18 April last year, a massive block of ice broke free and crashed down into the Khumbu icefall just above base camp, killing 16 Sherpas.
  • (19) The toll from the quake surpassed 2014, which had previously been the deadliest year on record after icefall killed 16 Nepalese guides and cut the climbing season short.
  • (20) Their first goal was to deal with the devastation at base camp, he said, and they would then try to create new routes to help climbers stuck above the Khumbu Icefall.

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