What's the difference between keyhole and lock?

Keyhole


Definition:

  • (n.) A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key.
  • (n.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them.
  • (n.) a mortise for a key or cotter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This effect appeared to be related to dose, and was clearly demonstrable with antibody-forming spleen cells from mice that had been immunized either with sheep red blood cells or with penicillin G conjugated with Keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
  • (2) The control, uninfected rats make vigorous primary and secondary antibody responses when challenged with keyhole limpet haemocyanin (KLH), human immunoglobulin (HuIg) or sheep red blood cells (SRBC).
  • (3) BDF1 mice were immunized with a protein antigen, such as ovalbumin (OA) or keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), absorbed to aluminum hydroxide gel, and their spleen cells were stimulated by homologous antigen for the formation of glycosylation-enhancing factor (GEF).
  • (4) "In an age where people can receive organ transplants, keyhole surgeries and targeted cancer treatments, it's really disappointing that the basic care needs of many young people with physical disabilities and other long-term health needs are not being met," added Field, a GP and ex-chair of the Royal College of GPs .
  • (5) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
  • (6) The antibody responses of animals immunised with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) in Freund's Incomplete Adjuvant (FIA), diethylaminoethyl dextran (DEAE-dextran) and aluminium hydroxide (alum) were compared with the response to antigen administered in the absence of adjuvants.
  • (7) In addition to this HIV-specific B cell activation, the number of lymphocytes reactive with nonviral antigens such as DNA, myosin, actin, trinitrophenylated keyhole limpet hemocyanin, and ovalbumin was increased by a mean of 17.9-fold.
  • (8) Synthetic 131-149 and 140-149 sequences afforded 50 to 80% protection, both in the free state and conjugated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
  • (9) Feeding mice with OA or keyhole limpet haemocyanin in liposomes in a series of priming and boosting regimes failed to elicit any significant increase in serum or intestinal antibody response compared with feeding the free antigen.
  • (10) A tetrodotoxin-formaldehyde-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugate was used to immunize a rabbit for the production of anti-toxin antiserum.
  • (11) A panel of syngeneic monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies was prepared by immunizing A.SW mice with keyhole limpet hemocyanin-coupled A.SW monoclonal anti-myoglobin (HAL 19, IgG1) and screening the cloned hybridomas for production of IgG2 binding to idiotype but not to certain other anti-myoglobin antibodies of the same subclass in an ELISA.
  • (12) In admixture experiments, spleen cells from microfilaremic animals suppressed the proliferative responsiveness of cells from keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-immunized jirds to KLH by 38%, but had no effect on KLH-specific antibody production.
  • (13) B cells from these mice were transferred to irradiated recipients with T cells from keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-primed mice.
  • (14) In the absence of exogenous oleic acid (18:1), splenocytes responded to a T-dependent (TD) Ag (trinitrophenyl-keyhole limpet hemocyanin, TNP-KLH) at 37 degrees C but not at 27 degrees C. The addition of 150 microM 18:1 almost completely restored plaque-forming cell (PFC) responses to TNP-KLH at 27 degrees C but markedly suppressed PFC responses to the TD Ag at 37 degrees C. 3.
  • (15) Two forces are necessary and sufficient to produce the transformation of the newt neural plate from a hemispheric sheet of cells one cell thick to a keyhole shape.
  • (16) Fit metal, disc-shaped covers over keyholes and install a letterbox brush.
  • (17) Studying cellular immunocompetence we investigated the skin reactivity to various recall antigens (Candida, Trichophytin, Mumpsantigen, Streptokinase-Streptodornase, PPD), the primary immune response to Dinitrochlorobenzene (DNCB) and Keyhole Limpet Hemocyanin (KLH), and the lymphocyte transformation induced by mitogens (Phytohemagglutinin, Concanavaline A, Pokeweed Mitogen) and specific antigens.
  • (18) The peptide-keyhole limpet hemocyanin conjugates were used to immunize rabbits.
  • (19) have reported that the keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-specific suppressor factor is coded for by the I-J subregion of the H-2 complex (11).
  • (20) It was found that 2-3% of splenic T cells from arsonate-immune mice specifically bound the hapten using immunofluorescent keyhole limpet hemocyanin as a carrier.

Lock


Definition:

  • (n.) A tuft of hair; a flock or small quantity of wool, hay, or other like substance; a tress or ringlet of hair.
  • (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened.
  • (n.) A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.
  • (n.) A place from which egress is prevented, as by a lock.
  • (n.) The barrier or works which confine the water of a stream or canal.
  • (n.) An inclosure in a canal with gates at each end, used in raising or lowering boats as they pass from one level to another; -- called also lift lock.
  • (n.) That part or apparatus of a firearm by which the charge is exploded; as, a matchlock, flintlock, percussion lock, etc.
  • (n.) A device for keeping a wheel from turning.
  • (n.) A grapple in wrestling.
  • (v. t.) To fasten with a lock, or as with a lock; to make fast; to prevent free movement of; as, to lock a door, a carriage wheel, a river, etc.
  • (v. t.) To prevent ingress or access to, or exit from, by fastening the lock or locks of; -- often with up; as, to lock or lock up, a house, jail, room, trunk. etc.
  • (v. t.) To fasten in or out, or to make secure by means of, or as with, locks; to confine, or to shut in or out -- often with up; as, to lock one's self in a room; to lock up the prisoners; to lock up one's silver; to lock intruders out of the house; to lock money into a vault; to lock a child in one's arms; to lock a secret in one's breast.
  • (v. t.) To link together; to clasp closely; as, to lock arms.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with locks; also, to raise or lower (a boat) in a lock.
  • (v. t.) To seize, as the sword arm of an antagonist, by turning the left arm around it, to disarm him.
  • (v. i.) To become fast, as by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
  • (2) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (3) In contrast, 1:1 phase locking characterized the electrical correlates of the duodenal activity front.
  • (4) When you hear the name Jesus, is the first image that comes to mind a dewy-eyed pretty boy with flowing locks?
  • (5) The commonly used line-to-line reaming technique was compared to an underreaming technique using both four-fifths and one-third porous-coated anatomic medullary locking (AML) implants.
  • (6) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (7) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (8) One top Republican official told the Guardian the party has for months been locked in secret talks with TV networks about how – or whether – it will fit all the candidates onstage for the primary debates.
  • (9) We develop an analogy between the steric hindrance among receptors detecting randomly placed haptens and the temporary locking of a Geiger counter that has detected a radioactive decay.
  • (10) On Wednesday, managing director Mike Devereux also flagged that the company's future in the country was not certain if government funding was not locked in over a long period.
  • (11) The violence led to the temporary suspension of the council's monthly meeting with some staff at one stage locked in rooms to ensure their safety.
  • (12) There have been reports of difficulties with the seating and locking of the vaporisers which can cause a leak and failure of vapour delivery.
  • (13) Such mutations lead to a major reduction in the rate of GTP hydrolysis by the complex of ras p21 and the GTPase activating protein (GAP) and lock the protein in a growth-promoting state.
  • (14) He was a fixture at Trump rallies, where he met chants of “Lock her up” against Hillary Clinton with a smile.
  • (15) No doubt New Labour ministers would regard such moves as protectionism, locked as they are in a discredited free-market mindset.
  • (16) So-called "structured" savings accounts promoted heavily by banks and building societies promise savers extra interest if they lock their money away for at least five years.
  • (17) Palmer sought to clarify his statements on Tuesday, and said they were aimed at the company he is currently locked in a dispute with, and not the broader Chinese population.
  • (18) Foveal exposures that did not produce an immediately visible lesion did not produce measurable changes in VEP response lock-in time.
  • (19) Scream Queens is the kind of show where you discover a secret locked room in the basement in one scene and then we find out exactly what is in the room three scenes later.
  • (20) In a group of the MS-DB units with stable background theta bursts the typical response consisting of entrainment of the phase-locked theta cycles was changed neither by physostigmine, nor by cholinergic-blocking drugs (scopolamine and atropine).

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