What's the difference between kin and tin?

Kin


Definition:

  • (n.) A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
  • (n.) Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
  • (n.) Relatives; persons of the same family or race.
  • (a.) Of the same nature or kind; kinder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
  • (2) To test these competing hypotheses, a series of health, income, life satisfaction, and social participation variables (interaction with family, kin, neighbors, and friends) was examined with data from a large (N = 1269) sample of middle-aged and older blacks, Mexican Americans and whites in Los Angeles County.
  • (3) All deaths under age 80 were classified as being in former nuclear or non-nuclear workers depending on information supplied by next of kin.
  • (4) In addition, it is shown that the evolutionary mechanism which causes increases in the frequency of outsider excluders is a form of kin selection or group selection.
  • (5) The artist bravely offers us a more inclusive idea of who and what constitutes kin.
  • (6) The results suggest that young mothers who reside with their mothers or other adult kin, and those who are in close proximity to them, are no more likely to seek prenatal care during the first trimester, or to avoid smoking or drinking during pregnancy.
  • (7) Data on smoking habits, occupation, and residence were obtained from a next of kin to each study subject.
  • (8) The effects of intracellular pH on an inwardly rectifying K+ channel ("Kin channel") in opossum kidney (OK) cells were examined using the patch-clamp technique.
  • (9) An organ recovery coordinator from the local OPO helps the hospital staff in determining donation potential, seeking consent from the next of kin, and managing the donor after consent has been obtained.
  • (10) The approximate ED50 for the inhibition of collagen synthesis was near the Kin (0.4 nM; apparent dissociation constant of receptor nuclear internalization), while the ED50 for osteocalcin synthesis (0.08 nM) was below the Kin, and the ED50 for 24-hydroxylase induction (20 nM) was greater than the Kin.
  • (11) Although SMS acutely inhibits cAMP accumulation in both kin- mutants, neither mutant exhibited an enhanced forskolin-stimulated cAMP synthetic rate after chronic SMS treatment.
  • (12) A burden that falls initially on the next of kin who may even be elderly and, indeed, be in need of some sort of care themselves.
  • (13) Discussion of the patient's condition, technicalities, and judicial consequences with the next of kin, attendants, a pastor, and another physician is a necessary prelude.
  • (14) Federal regulations require researchers conducting clinical trials to obtain consent to experimentation from their intended subjects or, if the latter are incompetent, from next of kin.
  • (15) In the kin which the author examined, a further apparently familial renal hypoplasia was noted.
  • (16) Due to the overlapping of the statistical distribution curves of the normal and defective kins os isozymes, dependent on the relation of x and s, ranges of activity are shown where the measured enzymic activity is not conclusive for the judgement on the number of acting alleles, on the chosen probability level.
  • (17) We estimate the amount of time the average person spends in nursing homes over his or her lifetime (lifetime nursing home use), using data from the National Mortality Followback Survey of the next of kin of a sample of persons 25 years of age or older who died in 1986.
  • (18) Four generations of a kin with congenital Factor XII deficiency were examined for coagulation and fibrinolysis, with the homozygous female carrier of features with a Factor XII below 1% also revealing certain indications of a disturbed fibrinolysis.
  • (19) Douglas county sheriff John Hanlin said during the press conference that officials were still working to notify victims next-of-kin and said the medical examiner’s office was expected to release their names and brief biographies Friday afternoon.
  • (20) The second permits researchers to initiate experimental therapy under emergency conditions, and then to obtain consent to continue from the subjects' next of kin.

Tin


Definition:

  • (n.) An elementary substance found as an oxide in the mineral cassiterite, and reduced as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.
  • (n.) Thin plates of iron covered with tin; tin plate.
  • (n.) Money.
  • (v. t.) To cover with tin or tinned iron, or to overlay with tin foil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
  • (3) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
  • (4) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (5) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
  • (6) FreeKachin (@FreeKachin) Nov 10, 5pm, attached object fell off of the sky at Tin Aung Kyaing mining lot in Hpakant Jade tract.
  • (7) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
  • (8) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
  • (9) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
  • (10) The calcium binding activity in the soluble fraction of renal cortex increased significantly at any of the time intervals between 6 and 72 hr after administration of tin, and this increase preceded an elevation of the calcium concentration in the renal cortex.
  • (11) Comparison of the data from the tin-fed groups with both the control and the reduced diet groups allowed discrimination between effects of reduced feed intake and Sn2+ effects.
  • (12) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
  • (13) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
  • (14) Lead and tin concentrations in the blood were estimated.
  • (15) Because of the tin effect 99mTc-DTPA or 99mTc-citrate should be used for brain scintigraphy if this has to be performed within the first 5 or 7 days following a bone scintigraphy with a tin-containing radiopharmaceutical.
  • (16) Webb agreed, calling Miliband "irresponsible" for "stirring up cheap headlines", sneering: "Why doesn't the government set a price cap on a tin of beans?"
  • (17) Of the metalloporphyrins examined (Fe, Co, Zn and Sn) all inhibited ferrochelatase at micromolar concentrations, although tin protoporphyrin was the least effective.
  • (18) This procedure gives the silver-tin amalgam the bactericidal characteristics of a copper amalgam but essentially higher marginal strength.
  • (19) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
  • (20) At the beginning of his career, Moreno as Freud, found himself in a transcultural position which allowed him to better observe the "classical occidental individual" captive of his stereotypal "Tinned culture".

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