What's the difference between incline and plumming?
Incline
Definition:
(v. i.) To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
(v. i.) Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
(v. i.) To bow; to incline the head.
(v. t.) To cause to deviate from a line, position, or direction; to give a leaning, bend, or slope to; as, incline the column or post to the east; incline your head to the right.
(v. t.) To impart a tendency or propensity to, as to the will or affections; to turn; to dispose; to influence.
(v. t.) To bend; to cause to stoop or bow; as, to incline the head or the body in acts of reverence or civility.
(n.) An inclined plane; an ascent o/ descent; a grade or gradient; a slope.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
(2) Such early specialization produced men with orthopedic inclinations.
(3) The conclusion is that the inclined method can be used and interpreted by the clinician in the same way as the classic Westergren method.
(4) The poll – which sets the stage for a tense and dramatic run to referendum day – suggests that, among the undecideds, more are inclined to vote Remain than Leave.
(5) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
(6) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
(7) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
(8) This ranged from heads inclined at a slight angle to the tail through to complete flexure.
(9) A second set of experiments which involved the injection of E2 into senescent male as well as female rats indicated that there were no sex differences in improvements in inclined screen performance, and that once the E2 injections were discontinued, performance returned to preadministration levels.
(10) The base orientations are characterized by a substantial inclination and propellor twist.
(11) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(12) Loss of the righting response was not associated with any gross reduction in skeletal muscle tone (inclined screen and wire grip tests) and it was proposed that the animals were not anaesthetized but instead could be placed on their backs because flurazepam had enhanced the cataleptic effect of THC.
(13) The paper presents a quantitative study of the trajectories of rat granulocytes (PMNs) migrating on a glass surface inclined at various angles, i.e.
(14) The obliquity of the joint line was measured in positive degrees (medial inclination) and negative degrees (lateral inclination).
(15) In a second experiment schizophrenics were significantly different from the depressives in showing less inclination to select a metaphorical meaning to an ambiguous adjective in a sentence.
(16) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(17) For his part, the Russian president will be aware of the economic damage that even limited sanctions are doing and so be inclined to put quiet pressure on the rebels in the Ukraine to co-operate with the international investigation at the crash site.
(18) Why would disaffected Liberals be inclined to give their protest votes to a Labour party that has abused them at every turn since last May?
(19) Over the next five weeks the horses were trained at near maximal speeds (that is, up to 14.5 m s-1) with no incline of the treadmill.
(20) The influence of the parameters' inclination and curving of condylar guidance, intercondylar distance, Bennett angle, distance of the plate, and position of the recording pencil are studied.
Plumming
Definition:
(n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines.
Example Sentences:
(1) The NIa-like protein of plum pox virus is a protease with high sequence specificity that is autocatalytically released from the viral polyprotein.
(2) For some months there has been speculation that he is in line for a plum job at the BBC.
(3) The Normandie Design is plum in the middle of the amiable chaos of South American city life, in Santa Efigênia, where the streets are thronged with tiny electronics stores – great if you fancy a fake Chinese iPhone.
(4) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
(5) Carboxylic acids were present in much higher levels in plum brandy, vinegar, lamb and mutton (heated), whereas alcohols, esters and carbonyls aldehydes are particularly abundant in brandy.
(6) Jane's favourite combos are: rhubarb and strawberry, rhubarb and raspberry, and plum and blackberry.
(7) The Luxembourger had offered him the plum post of vice-president of the commission, Schulz told the Guardian.
(8) Children's author Allan Ahlberg, the mind behind much-loved titles Peepo and Each Peach Pear Plum, has turned down a lifetime achievement award because it is sponsored by Amazon and the idea that his success "should have the Amazon tag attached to it is unacceptable".
(9) Not that Astle has a clue as to what's happening, because he can't shift his feet, plays all around the ball, and watches as it raps his pads plum.
(10) That will be a plum job for someone, and names such as Brad Bird and Andrew Stanton have been mentioned online.
(11) The children were divided into two groups according to the type of coma, using the Plum and Posner coma classification (1966) modified by Pagni et al.
(12) The plum pox potyvirus (PPV) NIa protease expressed from a medium copy number plasmid was able to process an excess of substrate expressed from a high copy number plasmid, in a binary Escherichia coli expression system.
(13) And why have certain Salford refuseniks – I use the example of Simon Mayo , who left 5 Live for Radio 2 – been accommodated with new plum jobs in the capital?
(14) Gailiunas, Peter (Plum Island Animal Disease Laboratory, Greenport, N.
(15) The complete nucleotide sequences of an isolate from plum and an isolate from peach (AF isolate) were shown to be identical, consisting of 297 nucleotides with a 93.6% sequence homology to HSV-hop.
(16) serves 4 cooking times 20 minutes For the tomato sauce: 5-6 tbsp lard or dripping 1 large onion, finely chopped 1-2 red chillies, finely chopped 3 cloves garlic, chopped 2 tins plum tomatoes sea salt and black pepper 1 tsp piloncillo or demerara sugar a generous few splashes of Worcestershire sauce a small handful chopped tarragon 4 corn tortillas, chapatis or other flatbreads 4 eggs 60g Lancashire cheese, grated Heat 2 tablespoons of the lard in a wide saucepan and add the onion and chilli.
(17) Xylella fastidiosa has been known to attack almond, plum and laurel trees among 309 plant species.
(18) Much is at stake, with Brussels and national capitals consumed by manoeuvring for the plum jobs up for grabs under the Lisbon treaty: Europe's first president, a new foreign policy supremo, a host of second-tier positions, and the make-up of a new European commission.
(19) Full English breakfast SERVES 4 sausages 4 vegetable oil smoked streaky bacon 200g plum tomatoes 2 salt Portobello mushrooms 4 butter chicken stock 200ml thyme 1 sprig garlic 2 cloves, crushed black pudding 4 thick (1.5cm) slices free-range eggs 4 bread toasted Start with the sausages For me, it's about finding great ingredients and treating them with respect, as if you were building a wall or making a beautiful piece of furniture.
(20) The nucleotide sequence of the small nuclear inclusion protein (NIa)-like cistron of plum pox potyvirus (PPV) has been determined.