What's the difference between grate and gyrate?

Grate


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to gratify; agreeable.
  • (n.) A structure or frame containing parallel or crosed bars, with interstices; a kind of latticework, such as is used ia the windows of prisons and cloisters.
  • (n.) A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars; as, to grate a window.
  • (v. t.) To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by rubbing.
  • (v. t.) To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.
  • (v. t.) To fret; to irritate; to offend.
  • (v. i.) To make a harsh sound by friction.
  • (v. i.) To produce the effect of rubbing with a hard rough material; to cause wearing, tearing, or bruising. Hence; To produce exasperation, soreness, or grief; to offend by oppression or importunity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Vertical gratings are tinged with green and horizontal gratings with pink.
  • (2) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (3) The use of a new ultraviolet laser combined with a holographic grating spectrograph promises to increase the number of fluorescing species that can be detected simultaneously.
  • (4) Experiment 4 measured curvature selectivity as a function of the orientation of a curved adapting grating.
  • (5) The ARCT for the 15.0 c deg-1 grating was significantly higher than for the other two gratings.
  • (6) I personally felt grateful that British TV set itself apart from its international rivals in this way, not afraid to challenge, to stretch the mind and imagination.
  • (7) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
  • (8) We should be grateful the School Food Trust has established this now, before we end up falling down a slippery slope back towards the dreaded Turkey Twizzler that Jamie Oliver campaigned to banish," he added.
  • (9) Dissociated culture of adult mouse dorsal root ganglion cells on glass plates, on which grating-associated microstructures (a repetition of microgrooves [mGRV] and microsteps [mSTP] of 0.1-10 micron) are fabricated by the conventional lithographic techniques, represents a remarkable bi-directional growth of their nerve fibers in the axial direction of the grating.
  • (10) This leads to the prediction that reaction time to grating onset will be linearly related to the square of the grating frequency.
  • (11) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
  • (12) The effect of contrast on the range of temporal frequencies over which direction of movement can be discriminated differs for the three types of pattern: beats resemble neither low nor high spatial frequency gratings.
  • (13) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (14) However, similarly tested Keplerian telescopes exhibited significantly higher MTF's with vertical gratings.
  • (15) Acuity for the direction of drift for these stimuli is of the same order of precision as orientation acuity for static or drifting gratings, and exhibits a meridional anisotropy that favours the principal meridians.
  • (16) AJ Green was waiting just behind him, and the receiver gratefully pulled in the softly fluttering ball.
  • (17) We tentatively suggest that a preferential loss of contrast sensitivity to horizontal gratings might be due to a functional abnormality in the striate cortex that relatively spares the extrastriate cortex.
  • (18) A breathless Sturridge was still trying to digest his part in the game when he paid tribute to Hodgson, saying: “I’m grateful to the gaffer for allowing me to score and it’s a beautiful feeling to represent your country in the rivalry against another great country.
  • (19) A technique for rapid behavioral screening of grating acuity in infants 1 to 4 months of age is described.
  • (20) "We are enormously grateful that the Komen Foundation has clarified its grantmaking criteria, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Komen partners, leaders and volunteers.

Gyrate


Definition:

  • (a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
  • (n.) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gyrate atrophy is a hereditary chorioretinal degenerative disease caused by a deficiency of the mitochondrial enzyme, ornithine aminotransferase (OAT).
  • (2) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (3) A case of localized chorioretinal atrophy resembling gyrate atrophy of the choroid and retina is presented.
  • (4) The shape parameters of the two rRNAs, volume Vc, surface Oc, radius of gyration Rs, maximum dimension of the molecule L, thickness D, and cross section radius of gyration Rsq, agree within the experimental error limits.
  • (5) A Monte Carlo study of the distribution functions for the end-to-end distance and radius of gyration for hard-sphere models of poly(glycine) and poly(L-alanine) random coils has been conducted in the chain-length range n = 3 to 100 monomer units for both unperturbed chains and chains perturbed by long-range interactions (excluded volume effects).
  • (6) The radius of gyration of the unactivated holoenzyme determined from neutron scattering is 94 A, and its maximum dimension is approximately 275-295 A.
  • (7) The radius of gyration of tetrameric phosphorylase b was determined and found to be in excellent agreement with that of phosphorylase a, but different from that of phosphorylase b reported elsewhere (G. Puchwein, O. Kratky, C. F. Golker and E. Helmreich, Biochemistry 9 (1970) 4691).
  • (8) The mood is fantastic: upbeat, from a crowd of older locals reliving their youth to cool young thangs attracted by Margate’s burgeoning reputation as Dalston-sur-Mer; fiftysomething men in braces and Harringtons, candy-floss-chomping teens… People are picnicking on the fake lawn beside the hair and beauty caravan, children gyrating newly bought hula-hoops to the strains of I’ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
  • (9) The results of the synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering measurements showed that radii of gyration which reflect the size and shape of the enzyme were constant at around 38 A irrespective of the presence or absence of the K+ ion.
  • (10) A viscosity study of the PEGs showed them to be randomly coiled polymers, as their radii of gyration were related to the molecular weight by Rg = aM0.55.
  • (11) In the absence of calcium, the calmodulin molecule is shorter, the radius of gyration decreases to 20.6 A, and the maximum vector length decreases to approximately 58 A.
  • (12) The molecular weights of HA and LA pig mucosal heparins were found to be 14,900 and 11,500 and the respective radii of gyration were 40.1 and 33.6 A.
  • (13) Native human Glu-plasminogen (Glu1-Asn791) was previously shown to have a radius of gyration of 39 A and a shape best described by a prolate ellipsoid [Mangel, W. F., Lin, B., & Ramakrishnan, V. (1990) Science 248, 69-73].
  • (14) The radius of gyration and maximum particle dimension of the native enzyme are almost the same as those of the cobalt-enzyme but are shorter and longer, respectively, than those of the apo- and cadmium-enzymes.
  • (15) The hexokinase dimer found in the BI crystal form has a radius of gyration of 42 angstrom calculated from the atomic coordinates.
  • (16) The broadening of the 1H NMR signals is not due to oligomerization of the protein, since small-angle X-ray scattering experiments show that the average radius of gyration of the apo-g32P-(A + B) is 25.0 A and that of the reconstituted Zn(II)-g32P-(A + B) is 31.2 A.
  • (17) Mushroom expansion of the external granular layer occurred at patches producing a gyrating folial pattern rather than parallel ones.
  • (18) A reduction in the radius of gyration by 1-2 A on removal of calcium, previously observed in the native protein, was also found in the wild type and the Des4 mutant; however, no significant size change was observed in the Des2 mutant.
  • (19) According to this extrapolation, the cross-section radii of gyration of such a complex would amount to (R-c)b equals 0.805 plus or minus 0.015 nm and (R-c2)b equals 0.76 plus or minus 0.015 nm for the complex with actinomycin, and to (R-c)b equals 0.77 plus or minus 0.015 nm and (R-c2)b equals 0.75 plus or minus 0.01 nm for the actinomine complex.
  • (20) The ratius of gyration of the hydrocarbon region was 64 A, while that of the polar region was 100 A. consequently, the core of LDL is predominantly occupied by the hydrocarbon chains, while the outer shell is sparsely occupied by protein emerging from the lipid core.

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