What's the difference between ink and kink?

Ink


Definition:

  • (n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
  • (n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
  • (n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
  • (v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
  • (2) Histologically, the ink was noted within macrophages which aggregated around blood vessels.
  • (3) The root canal anatomy of 149 mandibular second molars was studied using a technique in which the pulp was removed, the canal space filled with black ink and the roots demineralized and made transparent.
  • (4) After visualization with an avidin-biotin alkaline phosphatase procedure, the blot is post-stained with India ink to visualize the protein pattern context.
  • (5) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
  • (6) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
  • (7) The apical 5 to 6 mm of the filling materials were exposed to india ink for 48 hours.
  • (8) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
  • (9) "It is a good idea," she noted in blue ink on the letter, "but not at that price.
  • (10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
  • (11) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
  • (12) The government is expected to borrow £165.7bn this year to balance the books, with further massive borrowing already inked in for future years.
  • (13) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
  • (14) The anatomy of the venous system was determined from observations of vascular casts in adult rats; the development of the vascular system was established by examination of ink-injected embryos.
  • (15) The pad is saturated with gentian violet ink which enables an ideal transfer of inked marks from the marker to the eye or skin.
  • (16) An immune Indian ink micro-agglutination method has been evolved for the detection of an antigen present in the blood associated with infectious hepatitis (called IHxAg).
  • (17) A version of the Stroop colour-word test was used, in which the words 'red' and 'green' were presented in the complementary coloured 'ink'.
  • (18) The transplants survived and at 7 days were able to entrap india ink particles, or particles of radioactive gold, injected in the distal part of the extremity.
  • (19) The staining sensitivity of directly blotted proteins is about 200 ng protein per band as revealed by India ink staining.
  • (20) Phagocytosis of India ink and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction were revealed tend to be increased, but not exceeded significantly to normal range.

Kink


Definition:

  • (n.) A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
  • (n.) An unreasonable notion; a crotchet; a whim; a caprice.
  • (v. i.) To wind into a kink; to knot or twist spontaneously upon itself, as a rope or thread.
  • (n.) A fit of coughing; also, a convulsive fit of laughter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In seven patients surgical correction of kinking with stenosis of the extracranial part of the carotid artery was performed.
  • (2) Occasionally symptomatic kinking of the internal carotid artery will require correction.
  • (3) A simple and effective surgical procedure as a routine method for correction of carotid kinking is described.
  • (4) It was concluded that photodimerization of the dTpdT unit to give the cis-syn product causes little perturbation of the DNA whereas dimerization to give the trans-syn product causes much greater perturbation, possibly in the form of a kink or dislocation at the 5'-side of the dimer.
  • (5) There is little chance of kinking the graft, since its angle of attachment is ideal, and due to the anatomical configuration of the transverse sinus, there is more room for the graft and compression is unlikely.
  • (6) On the aortogram, stenosis of the left common carotid artery, kinking and aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta were revealed.
  • (7) However, no reactivity is observed at the sites of the 40 degrees kinks described in the cocrystal structure (Steitz, 1990).
  • (8) However, there is enough evidence to warrant careful consideration of surgical correction in patients who have features of the carotid artery syndrome and kinking of the ICA as shown on angiography.
  • (9) The spin-echo technique with a short time to echo (TE = 40 msec) and a short time to recover (TR = 1000 msec) provided optimum imaging of tonsillar position, hydromyelia cavities, and cervicomedullary "kinking."
  • (10) Kinking, contractures, transverse splitting and disintegration were seen in muscle fibres from post mortem muscle.
  • (11) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
  • (12) The obstruction failed to resolve; careful longitudinal serotomy allowed the kinking in the bowel to be straightened and, at 1 year follow-up, there were no symptoms of recurrence.
  • (13) The most important contribution of this procedure is the decrease in manipulation of the ureter, resulting in minimal disturbance of the blood supply and in a straight course of the ureter without the risk of kinking or obstruction.
  • (14) Detection of venous backflow or obstruction, arterial stenosis, aneurysm formation, or graft kinking facilitated correction and thus salvage of the grafts.
  • (15) Proton and deuterium order parameters measured for the liquid crystalline phase of unsonicated lipid bilayer membranes are interpreted in terms of two motions: (i) chain reorientation and (ii) chain isomerization via kink diffusion.
  • (16) Twenty-three patients had slight stenosis, and bending and kinking were observed in 17.
  • (17) As we go along all these kinks will be ironed out.” Under Ghanaian law, farmers are only allowed to sell their beans to purchasing clerks who act as intermediaries between them and Cocobod.
  • (18) Failure to release this structure from the proximal ulna caused kinking and tethering of the nerve when transposition was attempted.
  • (19) During neo-pulmonary reconstruction, distal pulmonary orifice was shifted towards right to avoid kinking and compression on the coronary arteries.
  • (20) The large hyperchroism of the complex is consistent with loss of base stacking, as required by a kinked structure.

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