What's the difference between gin and sin?

Gin


Definition:

  • (n.) Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
  • (conj.) If.
  • (v. i.) To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
  • (n.) A strong alcoholic liquor, distilled from rye and barley, and flavored with juniper berries; -- also called Hollands and Holland gin, because originally, and still very extensively, manufactured in Holland. Common gin is usually flavored with turpentine.
  • (n.) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
  • (n.) A machine for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
  • (n.) A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
  • (n.) A machine for separating the seeds from cotton; a cotton gin.
  • (v. t.) To catch in a trap.
  • (v. t.) To clear of seeds by a machine; as, to gin cotton.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Macassans traded iron, tobacco, cloth and gin for access to Yolngu waters.
  • (2) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (3) Gin was popularised in the UK via British troops who were given the spirit as “Dutch courage” during the 30 years’ war.
  • (4) The Gin DNA invertase of bacteriophage Mu carries out processive recombination in which multiple rounds of exchange follow synaptic complex formation.
  • (5) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (6) They don’t have to wait three or four years for what may or may not be the marginal difference they make to the whisky product.” Miller’s gin now sells more than all his whisky products put together, making up 80% of total sales.
  • (7) I still have a few pints of gin and tonic before I go onstage but nothing stupid."
  • (8) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
  • (9) To prepare the data base of the occlusal surface of tooth crown, the data of tooth crown above the gingival line of 7 molar were also output by the "GIN-M" program.
  • (10) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
  • (11) In the presence of purified Gin FIS is the only additional protein required for efficient inversion.
  • (12) The intriguing finding that the DNA invertase Gin has the same catalytic center as the DNA resolvases that promote deletions without recombinational enhancer and host factor FIS is discussed.
  • (13) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
  • (14) Both of the alcohol-containing drinks caused mild-to-moderate inebriation, but gin and slimline tonic had no significant effect on either blood-glucose or plasma-insulin levels.
  • (15) Cameron took his jacket off and sipped from the half pint glasses of water – gin?
  • (16) By 1849 gin was respectable enough to be included in the Fortnum and Mason catalogue for the first time.
  • (17) Drinks that are mostly ethanol, such as gin and vodka, give fewer hangovers (but not none) than those full of congeners, such as red wine or whisky.
  • (18) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (19) Four types of cultured cell (Gin-1, Chang Liver, HEP-2 and L-929) were used in vitro to determine the cytotoxicity of 12 Chinese-Japanese Dental Casting Alloys from cell recovery ability.
  • (20) It is 19 years since Malton joined Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and had her last gin and tonic.

Sin


Definition:

  • (adv., prep., & conj.) Old form of Since.
  • (n.) Transgression of the law of God; disobedience of the divine command; any violation of God's will, either in purpose or conduct; moral deficiency in the character; iniquity; as, sins of omission and sins of commission.
  • (n.) An offense, in general; a violation of propriety; a misdemeanor; as, a sin against good manners.
  • (n.) A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
  • (n.) An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
  • (n.) To depart voluntarily from the path of duty prescribed by God to man; to violate the divine law in any particular, by actual transgression or by the neglect or nonobservance of its injunctions; to violate any known rule of duty; -- often followed by against.
  • (n.) To violate human rights, law, or propriety; to commit an offense; to trespass; to transgress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Molsidomine and SIN-1 were tested in a thrombosis model in which thrombi are produced in small mesenteric vessels.
  • (2) These results support a hypothesis which proposes that ancestral SIN virus diverged into two distinct groups.
  • (3) Our studies show that SIN-1 and C87-3754 exert beneficial effects in a 6-h model of myocardial ischemia-reperfusion.
  • (4) Antibodies to all viruses were detected, and namely in these frequencies: SIN 0.9%, WN 16.9%, TAH 41.5%, CVO 23.1% and TBE 8.5%.
  • (5) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
  • (6) The direct acting stimulants of soluble guanylate cyclase, sodium nitroprusside and SIN-1 (3-morpholino-sydnonimine), also increased the cGMP content of endothelial cells by 9.4 and 7.2 times, respectively.
  • (7) In superfused precontracted strips of rabbit aorta, methylene blue (MeB) or pyocyanin (Pyo, 1-hydroxy-5-methyl phenazinum betaine) at concentrations of 1-10 microM inhibited relaxations induced by endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine (SNAP) or 3-morpholino-sydnonimine (SIN-1).
  • (8) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
  • (9) These prostanoids were measured in platelets and endothelial cells alone or during their interaction, in the absence or presence of SIN-1.
  • (10) The haemodynamic effects of N-carboxy-3-morpholino-sydronimine-ethylester (molsidomine, SIN 10, Corvaton) were studied in anaesthetized mongrel dogs.
  • (11) The results indicated that both Sin B and Sal have inductive actions on drug metabolizing-phase I and phase II enzymes in mice and rats.
  • (12) Ten women with SIN were bilaterally salpingectomized.
  • (13) Analysis of the relationship between the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of SIN-1 suggests that an active metabolites is involved.
  • (14) The guanidine 3', 5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP) content (an index of EDRF production) was determined by radioimmunoassay under basal conditions and after acetylcholine (10(-5) M), bradykinin (10(-5) M) and SIN-1 (10(-4) M) stimulation.
  • (15) sin- mutants (defining six genes) were identified because they express HO in the absence of particular SWI products.
  • (16) We studied the effects of intracoronary injections of SIN-1 (0.8 mg), the active metabolite of molsidomine, on coronary artery diameters and coronary stenoses.
  • (17) Sessions included "naming the sin, lifting the shame" and "normal sinfulness or a sickness".
  • (18) The nitric oxide donor compound, 3-morpholinosydnonimine (SIN-1), was equipotent at relaxing the central and peripheral airways.
  • (19) Oxyhaemoglobin used for the assay of NO, inhibited the relaxation by SIN-1, but did not reduce vessel relaxations induced by GTN or iloprost, a stable prostacyclin analogue.
  • (20) A degraded SIN-1 solution that did not release NO was unable to block NMDA receptors.

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