What's the difference between hind and hink?

Hind


Definition:

  • (n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag.
  • (n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.
  • (n.) A domestic; a servant.
  • (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant.
  • (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Four hundred mice were innouclated in the hind footpads with 10(8) organisms.
  • (2) These transformants were found to possess discrete Hind III fragments containing human Alu family sequences which were conserved in several independent secondary transformants.
  • (3) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
  • (4) In pentobarbital-anesthetized rats or in perfused hind paw of rats, the potentiation induced by cocaine and tripelennamine was more marked to norepinephrine than to epinephrine, but an inverse relation between norepinephrine and epinephrine was observed in the potentiation by I and II.
  • (5) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
  • (6) The biomechanical strength of femur of adult rats was tested after immobilization for 9 weeks and remobilization for 12 weeks of 1 hind leg.
  • (7) Metabolism of L-isoleucine, L-alloisoleucine and corresponding 2-oxo acids in rat hind limb muscle was comparatively studied under steady-state perfusion conditions.
  • (8) A rearranged Hind III-Bam HI fragment of 9.5 kb was detected in only one patient instead of the rearranged fragment of 8.5 kb described in CLL.
  • (9) Cellularity and intensity of RNA synthesis in the popliteal lymph nodes of mice treated with different types of antigen injected subcutaneously into the hind footpads were followed.
  • (10) The chromosomal DNAs of these strains cleaved with Hind III showed three fragments hybridizing with a DNA probe containing cloned haemolysin (hly) genes of Escherichia coli.
  • (11) Wistar rats were infected by injection of 0.05 ml of a dense oily suspension of Staphylococcus aureus into the posterior thigh muscles of the hind leg.
  • (12) Fifteen feet had a good and two had a poor correction of the deformity of the hind part of the foot, the result being directly related to the intraoperative correction of the equinus deformity.
  • (13) Southern blotting of Hind III-digested DNA from nude T cells with a C beta probe revealed a more restricted pattern of TCR beta chain rearrangements than was seen for normal T cells.
  • (14) Pressure-flow curves obtained in the perfused hind limb vasculature were shifted significantly to the right following SQ-14225 indicating a decrease in the hind limb vascular resistance.
  • (15) In the hind limb bud TGF-beta 1, bFGF, IGF-I, and IGF-II expression was detected 11.5 dpc.
  • (16) It is located within DNA fragment Hind III having 2,500 nucleotide pairs.
  • (17) The kinetics and compartmentalization of this anti-idiotypic responsiveness was studied by vaccinating rats in the hind footpads and monitoring the proliferative reactivity of the draining popliteal lymph node (PLN) and distal cervical lymph node (CLN) cells at various times.
  • (18) One hind limb of each frog was randomly selected to receive continuous 120-Hz HVPC at voltages 10% lower than those needed to evoke muscle contraction.
  • (19) Moreover in the symmetrical gaits spatial phase shifts between unilateral limbs were equal to zero, which means that hind and fore limbs were placed in the same point during successive steps.
  • (20) No evidence for a differential decussation of fore-limb and hind-limb fibers was found.

Hink


Definition:

  • (n.) A reaping hook.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday, the Guangming Daily, a leading party newspaper, said the Hinkely go-ahead had “great significance” for the advance of Chinese nuclear technology into Europe, “and even the world.” But it cautioned that the new rules on foreign investment in critical infrastructure meant it was now likely that the agreement to build Bradwell would be renegotiated.
  • (2) The pH in the bulk phase solution and at the surface of the epithelium was measured with two different types of glass pH-microelectrodes, a pointed tip (Hinke-type) and a flat membrane electrode (Dubuisson-type); both types of electrodes gave the same results.
  • (3) Then in early 2001 his grandmother, who brought Hinkes up, died.
  • (4) After Hinkes broke his arm in 2000 falling into a crevasse while climbing Kangchenjunga, the world's third-highest peak, some climbers speculated that he would call it a day.
  • (5) pH microelectrodes with pointed tip (Hinke-type) were constructed for the continuous measurement of the local pH in the perivascular space of pial arteries in the feline cerebral cortex.
  • (6) Yesterday [Labour] were caught out with dodgy statistics – I  hink they have just done it again."
  • (7) Hinkes is a dogged performer, returning again and again to mountains such as K2, waiting for conditions to be right.
  • (8) Hinkes is feeling optimistic for the first time in a couple of years.
  • (9) Surface pH was recorded on voltage-clamped snail neurons with Hinke-type glass microelectrodes.
  • (10) Sections in this review deal with following subjects: (1) two landmark contributions of Hillyard, Hink, Schwent, & Picton (1973) and Näätänen, Gaillard, & Mäntysalo (1978); (2) the endogenous, attention-related negativity ("Nd" wave), which is considered to consist of three possible components, a modalityspecific Nd, a centrally-maximal, controlled-search negativity, and a frontally-focused Nd; (3) the spatial attention effects on the exogenous components in visual and somatosensory modalities; and (4) the organizations of stimulus selection processes indicated by the latency and interrelations between those ERP components.
  • (11) · Alan Hinkes will be speaking at The Outdoors Show, which is at the Birmingham NEC, 15-17 March.
  • (12) Xinhua said Hinkely C’s approval would mean the creation of 25,000 jobs and would help “provide a vital solution to [Britain’s] electricity needs”.
  • (13) Perivascular H+ and K+ activities were measured using pH microelectrodes (Hinke type) and K+ ion exchanger microelectrodes, respectively.
  • (14) These studies are based on the finding of Hillyard Hink, Schwent and Picton (1973) that this component is selectively enhanced in response to attended stimuli when a very rapid rate of stimulus delivery is used.
  • (15) Alan Hinkes, the only Briton to have climbed all 14 mountains that are more than 8,000m high, said the icefall was probably the most dangerous part of climbing Everest but that the possibility of accidents was part of the risk of climbing any mountain.
  • (16) This may be considered as indirect evidence that the conductivity of the contractile filaments is associated with the protein counter-ions, since Hinke et al.
  • (17) Showing typical Yorkshire grit, Hinkes went back to Nanga Parbat the following year with a sponsorship deal from a chapati manufacturer in his back pocket, and climbed what he regards as the most dangerous of the 14.
  • (18) Some climbers spend time reflecting on the point of climbing, but Hinkes just gets on with the job.
  • (19) Fifteen necropsy specimens of human descending aorta and from eight patients with atheromatous vascular disease were studied by magnetic resonance imaging at 0.5 T. Images were acquired in coronal and transverse planes to localised protruding lesions and then chemical shift imaging was performed by techniques described by Dixon and by Hinks.
  • (20) It is a job we do and that means accepting the risk,” Hinkes, 59, said.

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