What's the difference between hest and host?

Hest


Definition:

  • (n.) Command; precept; injunction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Data from HEST implantation in five patients with normal ACLs are reported.
  • (2) A Hall effect strain transducer (HEST) is inserted arthroscopically into the anterior medial band (AMB) of the ACL.
  • (3) The sandbank was several miles from Hest Bank, where the group were reported missing.
  • (4) The HEST was implanted in the AMB with patients under local anesthesia.
  • (5) For services to the community in Slyne and Hest Bank, Lancashire.
  • (6) These observations are important for applying the hen's fertile screening test (HEST) to the determination of drug activities other than that of embryo toxicity or teratogenic activity.
  • (7) The HEST was implanted into the Anterior Medial Band (AMB) of the ACL.
  • (8) This article describes the use of the Hall Effect strain transducer (HEST) in a new arthroscopic technique to study the normal anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in-vivo.
  • (9) The strain is calculated from HEST displacement data.
  • (10) The enzyme is found to consist of two equal subunits with molecular weight of 40 000 and to have pH optimum 7.0 and temperature optimum 50 degrees C. Bivalent metal ions are required for its catalytical activity, the hest activators being Co2+, Mg2+ and Mn2+.

Host


Definition:

  • (n.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
  • (n.) An army; a number of men gathered for war.
  • (n.) Any great number or multitude; a throng.
  • (n.) One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
  • (v. t.) To give entertainment to.
  • (v. i.) To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The snail host was a tetraploid form of Bulinus (n = 36).
  • (2) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (5) Degradation of both viral and host DNA with micrococcal nuclease and spleen phosphodiesterase indicated that CdG was incorporated primarily into internal positions in both DNAs.
  • (6) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (7) None of the compounds proved active against the replication of retroviruses (human immunodeficiency virus, murine sarcoma virus) at concentrations that were not toxic to the host cells.
  • (8) Plaque size, appearance, and number were influenced by diluent, incubation temperature after nutrient overlay, centrifugation of inoculated tissue cultures, and number of host cells planted initially in each flask.
  • (9) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (10) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (11) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (12) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
  • (13) The marine vibrio alone is a powerful stimulus to mucus secretion but lethal for the host.
  • (14) Tests were chosen to assess various aspects of monocyte function that give some insight into the host defense status and the degree of "activation" of the monocyte.
  • (15) The difference in Brazil will be the huge distances involved, with the crazy decision not to host the group stages in geographical clusters leading to logistical and planning nightmares.
  • (16) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
  • (17) Mu does not grow lytically in or kill him bacteria but can lysogenize such hosts.
  • (18) The organisms were predominantly associated with host deposits of erythrocytes, phagocytes, platelets, and fibrinous-appearing material, which collectively appeared on the valve surface in response to trauma.
  • (19) The governing body said then that Russia’s hosting of the 2018 tournament was not in jeopardy.
  • (20) Histochemical and immunocytochemical staining of the outgrowths with reagents that depict epithelial, myoepithelial, and lactating alveolar cells (peanut lectin alone, monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies to rat caseins) indicate similar cell compositions and arrangements for all outgrowths irrespective of their source; these are also similar to the mammary glands of the perphenazine-stimulated or lactating hosts.

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