What's the difference between hist and whist?

Hist


Definition:

  • (interj.) Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
  • (2) The interaction of histamine (Hist) and acetylcholine (ACh) on human isolated bronchial smooth muscle (HIBSM) contraction, and the influence of the epithelium, was assessed using HIBSM obtained from 15 patients undergoing thoracotomy.
  • (3) The approach is illustrated by several examples of previously unknown correspondences with important biological implications: Drosophila elongation factor Tu is shown to be encoded by two genes that are differently expressed during development; a cluster of three Drosophila genes likely encode maltases; a flesh-fly fat body protein resembles the hypothesized Drosophila alcohol dehydrogenase ancestral protein; an unknown protein encoded at the multifunctional E. coli hisT locus resembles aspartate beta-semialdehyde dehydrogenase; and the E. coli tyrR protein is related to nitrogen regulatory proteins.
  • (4) We investigated the effects of epithelium removal and cooling (32 degrees C, 27 degrees C, 22 degrees C) on isolated tracheal smooth muscle contraction induced by bethanechol (BCh), acetylcholine (ACh), histamine (Hist), and KCl in guinea pigs.
  • (5) A 2.3-kilobase HindIII-ClaI restriction fragment containing the hisT gene was subcloned into plasmid pBR322, and the resulting plasmid (designated psi 300) was mapped with restriction enzymes.
  • (6) Examination of the regulation of the histidine operon in strains carrying the feedback-resistant mutation in an episome and hisT and hisW mutations in the chromosome showed that the hisG regulatory mutation is epistatic to the hisT and hisW mutations.
  • (7) The approach is applied to the trp-cysB-pyrF and aroC-hisT-purF-dhuA regions of the Salmonella typhimurium chromosome.
  • (8) Four phenotypes of strain EB146 (leuK16), leucine excretion, wrinkled colony morphology, and elevated levels of leu and his enzymes, are complemented by a plasmid having a 1.65-kilobase DNA fragment containing the E. coli K-12 hisT locus.
  • (9) The effects of norepinephrine (NE), histamine (HIST), glutamate, and adenosine, singly and in combinations, on the accumulation of adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in slices of rabbit cerebral cortex were examined using tissue from animals 4 days before to 38 days after birth.
  • (10) The present studies were undertaken to obtain histamine (HIST) dose-response curves for tracheal smooth muscle (TSM) from an actively ragweed-sensitized canine model of asthma and to compare these results with 1) HIST dose-response data from littermate control dogs, 2) initially nonsensitized TSM passively sensitized (in vitro) to ragweed and 3) the dose-response curve to an agonist that opens primarily voltage-sensitive calcium channels, i.e., K+.
  • (11) The hemodynamic response to maximal exercise was determined in rats with a chronic myocardial infarction (MI) that were subjected to 6-8 wk of high-intensity sprint training (HIST) or limited exercise activity (sedentary control).
  • (12) The presence of Campylobacter pylori was investigated in duodenal, antral and fundic biopsies of 149 consecutive patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal tract endoscopy by biopsy urease tests (CLOtest; "CLO test") and histologic examination ("HIST") after modified Giemsa staining.
  • (13) On the other hand, pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M Hist for 10 min did not influence the contraction by either MeCh or Hist.
  • (14) After pretreatment of the muscle with 10(-5) M MeCh for 10 min, the contractile effect of 10(-5) M Hist was suppressed intensely for a certain time period, but that of 10(-5) M MeCh was not diminished.
  • (15) Hist and Gast caused an increase of PGE2 contents in gastric mucosa.
  • (16) Subclones containing restriction fragments from plasmid psi 300 inserted downstream from the lac promoter established that the hisT gene is oriented from the HindIII site toward the ClaI site.
  • (17) This mutation is linked to purF, suggesting that it is a new allele of hisT.
  • (18) The hisT gene codes for an enzyme responsible for the conversion of uridine to pseudouridine (Psi) in the anticodon region of many tRNA species in Salmonella typhimurium.
  • (19) Furthermore, this suppression was not surmounted by the elevation of Hist concentration.
  • (20) In general, HIST was found as most sensitive and effective.

Whist


Definition:

  • (interj.) Be silent; be still; hush; silence.
  • (n.) A certain game at cards; -- so called because it requires silence and close attention. It is played by four persons (those who sit opposite each other being partners) with a complete pack of fifty-two cards. Each player has thirteen cards, and when these are played out, he hand is finished, and the cards are again shuffled and distributed.
  • (v. t.) To hush or silence.
  • (v. i.) To be or become silent or still; to be hushed or mute.
  • (a.) Not speaking; not making a noise; silent; mute; still; quiet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We may be sexting, Tindering and OK Cupid-ing until our iPhones burn our palms, but when it comes to physical consummation, for many of us, sex has gone the same way as whist drives and tea dances.
  • (2) I used to go on holiday with my friend Jessica and her family and, in among riotous games of whist and races on the beach, I remember her, after a tearful row over a packet of biscuits that had been unfairly distributed, slamming the bedroom door and hurling herself on to the bottom bunk.
  • (3) How to reproduce the bonding hilarity of a nightmare game of three-handed whist for two players without cards in the dark?

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