What's the difference between gassing and grassing?
Gassing
Definition:
(n.) The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing.
(n.) Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, a Defra report in 2005 concluded that gassing "cannot be reliably expected to kill all the animals in a complex burrow system".
(2) Membranes were sandwiched between two gas-permeable, plastic foils, placed in a sealed cuvette, and gassed with H2 as reductant or O2 as oxidant.
(3) We also examined the effects of the infusion of two litres of dialysate on airways resistance (Raw) using total body plethysmography and on arterial blood gasses.
(4) Isolated pulmonary arterial rings from Sprague-Dawley rats were placed in tissue baths containing Earle's balanced salt solution (gassed with 95% O2 - 5% CO2, 37 degrees C, pH 7.4).
(5) They said that would present problems because there were bylaws around compressed gasses it might be infringing.
(6) Phototrophic cultures of Rhodomicrobium vanielii do not excrete glycollate when gassed anaerobically with nitrogen plus carbon dioxide, although the addition of alpha-hydroxy-2-pyridine methanesulphonate (HPMS) results in the excretion of a trace amount of glycollate.
(7) Moreover, the gass bloat syndrome seen with the Nissen fundoplication has not been encountered.
(8) The system includes a pressure chamber capable of holding eight isolated toad bladder short-circuit current apparatuses and unique experimental gassing, diluent addition, and sampling systems which are monitored by a control panel mounted on the side of the pressure chamber.
(9) Rat isolated caudal arteries were perfused with Krebs-Henseleit solution at 37 degrees C, pH 7.4, and gassed with 95% O2-5% CO2.
(10) Since the protective effect of the OH scavengers varies with the gassing conditions, the dose modifying effects of O2 and N2O relative to N2 depend on the identity and concentration of OH scavenger.
(11) The findings most closely resembled a disease described by Dreyer and Gass in 1984 as "multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis".
(12) A mile from where I am staying, Israeli jeeps drive through Aida refugee camp, soldiers through loudhailers informing residents that if they throw stones they will be shot and gassed until they are all dead.
(13) In Experiment 1, continuous CO2 gassing increased rate and decreased lag time prior to NDF digestion compared with purging a non-CO2-saturated buffer at inoculation.
(14) Fragments of normal term placenta were mixed with Biogel P2, packed into minicolumns and superfused with carbogen-gassed Earles buffer at 37 degrees C. The rheology of the superfusion system was determined and the oxygen consumption of the superfused placental fragments indicated viability of the tissue preparation over a 5-hour time span.
(15) The simutaneous study of the arterial, and mixed venous blood gasses and of the alveolar gases, in 20 of these patients showed the constant occurrence of a shunt syndrome, without alveolar hypoventilation or disorders in peripheral circulatory flow.
(16) We see nothing about the men gassed to death in a police transport.
(17) In this series of experiments the cells were maintained at 37 degrees C throughout the gassing and irradiation periods, to simulate normal physiological conditions.
(18) The nucleotide also facilitated the efflux of HCO3- when the cell was switched from a Krebs-bicarbonate buffer gassed with 5% CO2 to an HEPES buffer.
(19) The relation between the increase in galactose efflux with insulin and the insulin concentration conforms to the Michaelis-Menten equation, for perfusates prepared both with and without CO(2) gassing, indicating in the latter case the presence of a competitive inhibitor of insulin.5.
(20) Incubation in the Ringer solution gassed with N2 instead of O2 also resulted in loss of the Pi absorption.
Grassing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Grass
Example Sentences:
(1) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(2) Using a large clinic population with adequate controls, significant correlation between ragweed, grass or tree pollen sensitivity and the dates of birth was not obtained.
(3) A grassed roof, solar panels to provide hot water, a small lake to catch rainwater which is then recycled, timber cladding for insulation ... even the pitch and floodlights are "deliberately positioned below the level of the surrounding terrain in order to reduce noise and light pollution for the neighbouring population".
(4) Key to this has been the employment of Erin McCallum, a highly-respected political strategist and grass roots organiser, as our new national campaign director.
(5) The clinical findings in six natural and two experimental cases of Kikuyu grass poisoning in Natal, South Africa, are described and compared with findings in cases of toxicity reported elsewhere.
(6) Six of the WAD goats carried natural infections of H. contortus and T. colubriformis and eight other (tracer) goats acquired their infections from a grass paddock artificially contaminated with H. placei, C. pectinata and C. punctata, during May to October.
(7) Six atopic subjects with grass pollen allergy and six nonallergic healthy volunteers were enrolled into this study.
(8) The survival of infective larvae of Ancylostoma caninum on outdoor grass plots was studied in 40 experiments over 1 year.
(9) But pipeline opponents say that by moving beetles from the Nebraska sandhills and mowing miles of grass where the insects once lived, TransCanada has illegally begun construction on the project.
(10) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(11) For all its posing and grooming, there are no nightclubs - the only flashing lights along this coast are the glowworms strobing across the grass at dusk.
(12) Highest concentrations of haptoglobin and orosomucoid were recorded in subacute grass sickness.
(13) The principle’s not so different now.” Fifteen years ago, when he was 27, Baker found himself with an ailing father and 250 cows, farmed traditionally – grass in summer, silage and concentrates in winter – around the village.
(14) Consumption of alfalfa hay resulted in the highest total viable counts of rumen bacteria but a lower proportion of fibrolytic counts than seen on the grass diets.
(15) The year 2000 process, a national grass-roots initiative, may be a useful model for individual states to adopt.
(16) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(17) Cattle are excellent converters of grass but terrible converters of concentrated feed.
(18) passing through a 1.18 mm sieve during wet sieving) from the reticulo-rumen were negatively related to dimensions of particles, with greater ease of outflow for legume than for grass particles of the same length or diameter.
(19) In allergologic out-patient departments of Dubrovnik, Split, Sibenik, Zadar, Pula and Rijeka, 300 patients with pollinosis have been tested by the application of the prick method of group allergens of grass, tree and weed pollen, particularly of Parietariae (pellitory) pollen.
(20) When the couple looked over their own balcony on the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive in Glasgow's Red Road estate, they saw three bodies on the small square of grass below.