What's the difference between intersperse and scatter?

Intersperse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book.
  • (v. t.) To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Oligospermic status interspersed with azoospermia was maintained by periodic boosting.
  • (2) Evidence is accumulating that the two major families of interspersed repeated human DNA sequences, Alu and L1, are not randomly distributed.
  • (3) The cloned DNA consists of an approximately 21 kb stretch of unique or low copy number sequence that is bounded by repetitive elements interspersed with further unique sequences.
  • (4) In some areas, the tumor shows a striking resemblance to Kaposi's sarcoma; criss-crossing fascicles of spindle cells are interspersed with narrow vascular spaces, but PAS-positive hyaline globules are absent.
  • (5) DNA molecules from cells or nuclei treated with 4'-aminomethyl trioxsalen and ultraviolet light are highly crosslinked and appear as loops interspersed by double stranded regions when analyzed in the electron microscope under denaturing conditions.
  • (6) HRCT scans at the apex of the thorax in all nine patients scanned at this level showed that extrapleural fat with interspersed vessels accounted for most of the plain radiographic opacity.
  • (7) We had no false positive results in greater than 500 negative controls interspersed among the test samples.
  • (8) This peptide contains 34 glycine, 10 DMA, and 6 phenylalanine residues and has clusters of glycine and NG,NG-dimethylarginine interspersed with phenylalanine residues.
  • (9) We describe the organization of the complex, interspersed 724 family of DNA sequences that is distributed in multiple copies about the pericentromeric region of human acrocentric chromosomes.
  • (10) Dogs were subjected to four 5-min episodes of left anterior descending coronary occlusion interspersed with 5 min of reperfusion followed by a final 60-min reperfusion period.
  • (11) Comparison of their respective protein products shows interspersed blocks of conserved and divergent amino-acid sequences.
  • (12) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
  • (13) In the last group, to test the possibility of transfer to the awake state of the hippocampal response acquired in PS, the CS alone were presented interspersed with periods of wakefulness.
  • (14) We find that during hibernation the marrow cavity of the long bones is filled with lipid deposits interspersed with vascular sinusoids containing mononuclear cells and red blood cells.
  • (15) These analyses unmasked unique attributes of spontaneous LH secretory events, which were represented as delimited momentary augmentations in endogenous LH secretory rates interspersed among intervals of relative secretory quiescence.
  • (16) Transposable and interspersed repetitive elements (TIREs) are ubiquitous features of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes.
  • (17) There are one major and at least five minor families, whose members are partly clustered and partly interspersed on the mouse chromosome.
  • (18) Benedict Brogan, who has written about this on his blog, says Cameron has "done it direct to camera (if Mr Clegg can look the voter in the eye, so can Dave), and it is interspersed with greatest hits from the crucial moments when Mr Cameron stood out from the pack as someone who is on the side of an angry electorate (these include his expenses press conference last May, his 'glad I got that off my chest' answer to Joey Jones at the manifesto launch, his defence of marriage tax, etc)."
  • (19) During the interspersal procedure a picture thats name was being trained was alternated with pictures already known; during the concurrent procedure a picture thats name was being trained was alternated with other pictures thats names were unknown.
  • (20) Stabilized 5 and 25% normal serum albumin (human) derived from plasma, placentas and plasma-placental blends was subjected to repeated heating at 56 degrees C for 120 h, interspersed with storage at 4 degrees C for 48 h. Immunoelectrophoretic analyses showed that after the ninth heating, 5% plasma albumin developed a component which migrated in the alpha-globulin region and gave a reaction of nonidentity with albumin.

Scatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
  • (v. t.) To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.
  • (v. i.) To be dispersed or dissipated; to disperse or separate; as, clouds scatter after a storm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (2) 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).
  • (3) Proliferating cells were abundant and scattered throughout the stratified epithelium before the appearance of villi.
  • (4) Furthermore, experiments with the fluorescence-activated cell sorter revealed increased forward light scatter from resting exudate PMN compared to blood PMN.
  • (5) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (6) The angular distribution of the scattered light was obtained as a function of time and compared with the rates at which hydrolysis products were formed.
  • (7) It is found that, whereas the spatial resolution achievable with such a system is only dependent upon its temporal resolution, the scattering characteristics of the tissue being imaged will strongly affect the ultimate imaging performance of such a system.
  • (8) In these cells no autonomous periodic activities were observed by light scattering.
  • (9) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (10) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
  • (11) Modifications in quaternary structure induced by variation of these physicochemical parameters were followed by means of X-ray and quasi-elastic light-scattering and quantified in terms of weight average molecular weight (M), radius of gyration (Rg) and hydrodynamic radius (Rh).
  • (12) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
  • (13) Dome-shaped, fungiform papillae were scattered among these filiform papillae.
  • (14) Visible light activates a large guanosine cyclic 3',5'-phosphate (cGMP)- and phosphodiesterase (PDE)-dependent infrared light-scattering change in suspensions of photoreceptor disk membranes.
  • (15) The angular distribution of the scattered acoustic field from an inosonifying source will directly relate to the distribution of surface fibrillatory changes.
  • (16) The electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) mode of operation of an energy-filtering electron microscope offers the possibility of being able to avoid the background from inelastic scattering in selected-area electron diffraction patterns.
  • (17) Single particles or small clusters were scattered across the cell membrane.
  • (18) Fibrinogen was scattered in the intercellular spaces, and located in the inner layer or edges of the thickened intima of the bifurcation with increasing plaque formation.
  • (19) From the different shapes of the scattering curves of the native phosphofructokinase at pH 7.5 in the presence of 15 mM ATP and of the cross-linked tetramer or octamer, it can be inferred that the shapes of the protomers are different: in the presence of ATP the protomers are elongated, having an axial ratio of 1.8 to 2.0; the cross-linked state reveals a spherical protomer of radius 33.0 A, similar to that of the native enzyme at pH 7.5 in the presence of fructose 6-phosphate or fructose 1,6-bisphosphate.
  • (20) Cells taking up label are found scattered throughout the large cartilaginous epiphyses.