What's the difference between flow and slide?

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.

Slide


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.
  • (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.
  • (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.
  • (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.
  • (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
  • (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
  • (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
  • (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
  • (n.) The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
  • (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress.
  • (n.) That on which anything moves by sliding.
  • (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down.
  • (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.
  • (n.) That which operates by sliding.
  • (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.
  • (n.) A moving piece which is guided by a part or parts along which it slides.
  • (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like.
  • (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
  • (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
  • (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
  • (n.) A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
  • (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.
  • (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
  • (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
  • (n.) A slide valve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
  • (2) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (3) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (4) That piece was placed on the slide and embedded with a mixture of agar and antiserum.
  • (5) Slides and short films were used in primary and secondary schools.
  • (6) One cytotechnologist screened the slides for all occurrences of a standard set of classic cytopathologic signs.
  • (7) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (8) Slide smears revealed the rosette-shaped pattern characteristic of malignant neuroblastoma, many of which were fitted with dendritic plasmatic processes.
  • (9) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (10) Perfused or immersion-fixed epithalamic tissues, sectioned, and mounted on glass slides were processed through the avidin-biotin immunofluorescence method.
  • (11) The staining method consisted of sequential treatment of slides with crest serum, fluorosceinated goat-antihuman and swine-antigoat antibodies, and propidium iodide.
  • (12) These additional cues involved different sensations in effort of the perfomed movement – sliding heavy object vs. sliding light object (sS test), as well as different sensations in pattern of movement and joints - sliding vs. lifting of an object (SL test).
  • (13) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
  • (14) Children as young as 18 months start by sliding on tiny skis in soft supple boots, while over-threes have more formal lessons in the snow playground.
  • (15) In addition to the cytologic characteristics, the possibility of detecting muscle antigens as markers for these embryonal small cells, even in previously stained slides, provides a successful method for defining the specific type of sarcoma.
  • (16) Tissue slides obtained at autopsy from 80 cases with AIDS were studied immunhistochemically for infection with Toxoplasma gondii.
  • (17) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (18) The proportion of persons with P. malariae in this sample population, as determined by slide examination, appears to be the greatest ever reported for any area before the introduction of control measures.
  • (19) The new slide latex particle agglutination test gave better results, with 100% specificity, 80% sensitivity, high predictive values (greater than or equal to 91%), and an overall diagnostic efficiency of 93%.
  • (20) No, Did they invent sliding fingers across substances?