What's the difference between funnel and separatory?
Funnel
Definition:
(v. t.) A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
(v. t.) A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
(2) The ear canal molds were analyzed in terms of tortuosity, caliber, and degree of funneling.
(3) The sliding splint-staples, generally two, are placed in staggered positions behind the sternum (11 cases--funnel chest) or in front of the sternum (2 cases--pigeon chest).
(4) The completness of the lipids removal from the fish muscles and fish products was investigated by making extraction in a filtering separating funnel (FSF) formerly proposed for determining lipids in oil-bearing seeds and cereals.
(5) The availability of selective drugs (such as dihydropyridines) and natural toxins (such as omega-Conotoxin, omega-agatoxin, and funnel-web spider toxins), which bind to specific channel subtypes, has greatly helped in channel classification.
(6) The substrate binding pocket is a large funnel-shaped cleft extending some 25A into the interior of each subunit and surrounded by 28 amino acids, 26 from one subunit and 2 from the other.
(7) The inquiry has heard that NSW Liberal figures used Eightbyfive to secretly funnel more than $400,000 in donations to prospective MPs and associates in exchange for favours.
(8) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
(9) The incidence of funnel chest is about 0.05% of the population, with the emphasis on boys.
(10) Officials say Mistral may never have existed in the first place — one of 100-120 phantom firms organised to funnel money from legitimate businesses to corrupt officials.
(11) Extensive stricture formation requires reconstruction to create a functional funnel system that empties below the cricoid.
(12) This paper demonstrates the presence of areas where endocardial cells are aligned with the blood flow in three distinct regions of the embryonic chick heart: on the inferior border of the growing septum primum, on the upper wall of the primitive ventricle above the developing interventricular septum, and on the part of the atrial floor that funnels into the atrioventricular canal.
(13) A new transtympanic aerator for medium duration of use and made of flexible silicone is presented, its funnel shape preventing stagnation of plugs or allowing their simple removal.
(14) Since previous studies have demonstrated that various expressions of dopaminergic CN activity are funnelled through the deeper layers of the superior colliculus (dl-SC), it was hypothesized that switching induced by CN application of apomorphine may also be channelled through the dl-SC.
(15) Funnel chest symptoms are the expression of anxiety in a majority of cases.
(16) The surplus heat produced by electricity generating stations, factories, server farms and public transport networks is funnelled into the network, eliminating waste, lowering carbon emissions, lowering fuel consumption and saving everybody money.
(17) Huge numbers have funnelled through Libya, where the state has all but collapsed and people traffickers operate with relative impunity.
(18) A questionnaire survey of 66 patients with funnel chest who underwent corrective surgical procedures by the sternal elevation method, with or without the application of metal strut, demonstrated that the operative result was good in 60.6% and fair in 39.4%.
(19) The ideal shape of the access cavity should be a funnel with the larger diameter towards the occlusal surface.
(20) It sends "excess" military equipment to local police departments, and combined with the Homeland Security operation that provides grants to purchase such equipment, we've got a veritable firearms sale funnelling from Washington on down to the local station house.
Separatory
Definition:
(a.) Separative.
(n.) An apparatus used in separating, as a separating funnel.
(n.) A surgical instrument for separating the pericranium from the cranium.
Example Sentences:
(1) The possibility of separating lipid materials on the basis of the number, type, and position of the unsaturated centers they contain, by virtue of the complexing of these unsaturated bonds with silver ions, provides a relatively recent but now very important addition to the range of separatory methods available to lipid chemists and biochemists.
(2) Samples were assayed in the absence and presence of excess GH using 2 separatory procedures.
(3) With this combined polyethylene glycol-second-antibody separatory method, the incubation time is shorter than the usual double-antibody separation procedure, but avoids the problem of high nonspecific precipitation, which occurs with polyethylene glycol alone.
(4) Neither sulfate columns nor separatory funnels are required, and no emulsions are formed.
(5) From these analyses, we conclude that precise quantitation of cholesterol "carriers" in bile awaits methods to accurately determine the intermicellar-intervesicular concentration of bile salts in any individual bile, as well as advances in nonperturbing separatory procedures, and methods to control the thermal and temporal history of native bile samples.
(6) A new technique in which polyethylene glycol is added to double-antibody assays of lutropin and follitropin eliminates the need for an incubation period during the separatory phase.
(7) Organochlorine compounds were extracted by using separatory funnels and 15% diethyl ether in hexane as extractant.
(8) Two experiments were conducted to determine efficacy of a discontinuous bovine serum albumin (BSA) gradient for isolating viable porcine spermatozoa more tolerant to 5-d liquid storage in Beltsville Thawing Solution (BTS) at 15 degrees C. The gradient, contained in a 500-ml separatory funnel, consisted of 4% BSA (60 ml) over 10% BSA (60 ml).
(9) The sample is first shaken with 0.1N H2SO4 solution; then and aliquot containing about 0.1 mg alkaloid is transferred to a separatory funnel, made basic with NaOH solution, and extracted with CHCL3.
(10) The methodology described permits the measurement of the specific radioactivity of diverse proteins resolvable by separatory techniques using cylindrical polyacrylamide gels.
(11) The residue is transferred to a separatory funnel with ethyl ether and 1N HCl.
(12) A partitioning cleanup method performed in test tubes with small solvent volumes, and using syringes instead of separatory funnels for phase separations, has been tested for potential as a general cleanup method for a variety of pesticidal compounds.
(13) We suggest a mechanism that might account for the resolution observed and also suggest that the resolution achieved by existing OFAGE-type systems may be the result of the superimposition of PHOGE and FIGE separatory mechanisms.
(14) The broad utility of this novel set of protein separatory reagents is illustrated on the complex mixture of proteins in a yeast lysate.
(15) We employed an Altex ultrasphere ODS column in the preparative steps and a Waters mu-Bondapak C18 column in the separatory and analytical procedures.
(16) This column has proven to be a direct replacement for the time consuming and labor intensive separatory funnel partition of the Luke procedure.
(17) Ciliates of T. thng type IV) were mixed with Ficoll and added as underlayers to separatory funnels containing growth medium.
(18) The column is reusable and convenient and results in a 35-45% savings in time over separatory funnel partition.
(19) Studies were conducted to determine the extent of rapidly evolving effects of glucocorticoids on the transcriptional activity of individual hepatocyte genes through comparisons of the relative rates of synthesis of the more than 3000 protein gene products that are resolved in giant two-dimensional separatory gels.
(20) Cell separatory techniques could mask, or select out, clinically important functional lesions.