What's the difference between lam and lap?

Lam


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To beat soundly; to thrash.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Several other factors known to activate neutrophils also caused down-regulation of LAM-1 and up-regulation of CD11b, including TNF, FMLP, and leukotriene B4.
  • (2) The serum levels of aminoterminal type III procollagen peptide (S-PIIINP), immunoreactive prolyl 4-hydroxylase protein (S-IRPH), 7S domain of collagen type IV (S-Col IV, 7S), and fragment P1 of laminin (S-Lam), which are associated with the metabolism of extracellular interstitial collagens and basement membranes, were measured sequentially for two years in 14 rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients undergoing disease modifying antirheumatic drug treatment.
  • (3) C-I was superior to LAM in supporting the attachment of the cells, especially of HuH-6, to plastic surfaces.
  • (4) Although further evaluations are required, this study suggests that the monoclonal antibodies to LAM-B may be useful in detecting mycobacteria from clinical specimens.
  • (5) Astragalus lusitanicus Lam lusitanicus has been reported to be toxic for mammals.
  • (6) As LAM was composed of Kidney-tonifying herbs, all the subjects chosen fell into the pattern of Kidney-deficiency in TCM.
  • (7) MAbs specific to other adherence molecules such as ICAM-1, CD2, CD58, CD4, CD8, CD11b and LAM-1 did not affect leukocyte adherence in this model.
  • (8) et Zucc., Z. armatum DC., Z. simulans Hance, Z. avicennae (Lam.)
  • (9) The authors report a case of lymphangiomatosis (LAM) proven histologically in a 49 year old female.
  • (10) That report said Lam, Lui and Cheung might be allowed to return to Hong Kong this week, citing unspecified sources.
  • (11) Some lambdoid phages and lambda mutants that overcome the interference by the lam mutations have been obtained, and were used as tools for characterizing the host mutations.
  • (12) Only a slight increase of LAM immunoreactivity was observed in rough endoplasmic reticulum after a long weaning period.
  • (13) Interestingly, granulocyte-CSF and IFN-gamma had minimal effects on neutrophil LAM-1 expression.
  • (14) Epstein-Barr-virus- (EBV-) positive lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) spontaneously arising in vitro were obtained from the peripheral blood of six HIV-seropositive patients and from the peripheral blood and the bone marrow of one patient (LAM) with AIDS and lymphoma.
  • (15) The physiologic states of Mycobacterium leprae isolated from patient biopsies were studied using single cell mass spectrometry by laser microprobe mass analysis (LAM-MA) and ATP bioluminescence assay.
  • (16) Pyknotic profiles are present in the ganglion cell layer during the first 2 postnatal weeks, reaching peak numbers during the first 4 postnatal days (corresponding to the time of greatest loss of ganglion cells and their axons: Potts et al., '82; Lam et al., '82; Perry et al., '83).
  • (17) Gui Minhai: the strange disappearance of a publisher who riled China's elite Read more Five Hong Kong booksellers – Gui Minhai, Lee Bo, Lui Bo, Cheung Ji-ping and Lam Wing-kei – who specialised in books criticising China’s Communist party elite have vanished since October.
  • (18) The expression and regulation of LAM-1 on granulocytes, monocytes, and their precursors was investigated using flow cytometry and the anti-LAM-1.1 mAb.
  • (19) We have found that laminin and a pepsin fragment of laminin (P-lam) contain distinct sites for HT-1080 human fibrosarcoma cell attachment and for neurite outgrowth activity of PC12 and NG108-15 cell lines.
  • (20) A sequence was identified that is sufficient for amdR regulation and that shows identity with sequences involved in amdR regulation of the gatA and lam genes.

Lap


Definition:

  • (n.) The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
  • (n.) An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
  • (n.) The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury.
  • (n.) That part of any substance or fixture which extends over, or lies upon, or by the side of, a part of another; as, the lap of a board; also, the measure of such extension over or upon another thing.
  • (n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below).
  • (n.) The state or condition of being in part extended over or by the side of something else; or the extent of the overlapping; as, the second boat got a lap of half its length on the leader.
  • (n.) One circuit around a race track, esp. when the distance is a small fraction of a mile; as, to run twenty laps; to win by three laps. See Lap, to fold, 2.
  • (n.) In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game; -- so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.
  • (n.) A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
  • (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis.
  • (v. t.) To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap.
  • (v. t.) To cut or polish with a lap, as glass, gems, cutlery, etc. See 1st Lap, 10.
  • (n.) To fold; to bend and lay over or on something; as, to lap a piece of cloth.
  • (n.) To wrap or wind around something.
  • (n.) To infold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
  • (n.) To lay or place over anything so as to partly or wholly cover it; as, to lap one shingle over another; to lay together one partly over another; as, to lap weather-boards; also, to be partly over, or by the side of (something); as, the hinder boat lapped the foremost one.
  • (n.) To lay together one over another, as fleeces or slivers for further working.
  • (v. i.) To be turned or folded; to lie partly upon or by the side of something, or of one another; as, the cloth laps back; the boats lap; the edges lap.
  • (v. i.) To take up drink or food with the tongue; to drink or feed by licking up something.
  • (v. i.) To make a sound like that produced by taking up drink with the tongue.
  • (v. t.) To take into the mouth with the tongue; to lick up with a quick motion of the tongue.
  • (n.) The act of lapping with, or as with, the tongue; as, to take anything into the mouth with a lap.
  • (n.) The sound of lapping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
  • (2) We conclude that plasma LAP measurements have little value in monitoring ovulation induction therapy.
  • (3) A light rain pattered the rooftops of Los Mochis in Friday’s pre-dawn darkness, the town silent and still as the Sea of Cortez lapped its shore.
  • (4) Experimentally induced tongue contact with a variety of solid surfaces during lapping (an activity involving accumulation of a liquid bolus in the valleculae) induced neither increased jaw opening nor the additional EMG pattern.
  • (5) Kester said her daughter came and cried in her lap.
  • (6) 1.08pm BST Lap 2: Sergio Perez is out after an incident at Mirabeau, which is what brought out the yellow flags and safety car.
  • (7) By comparing P-LAP activity with cystine aminopeptidase activity, we concluded that both activities were shared by the same molecule.
  • (8) 1.57pm BST Lap 36: Punchy stuff from Jules Bianchi up to 13th, literally bumping his way through Kobayashi on the inside.
  • (9) The new tablet models come with a better built-in kickstand with two positions rather than one, so they can rest more firmly on users' laps.
  • (10) After Manchester United came the long goodbye to Stamford Bridge, a home game against Leeds on 15 May 2004, Abramovich's dismissal notice in Ranieri's pocket, but a lap and guard of honour with the players.
  • (11) Having personally witnessed their live act (Black Flag frantically twanging Bootsy’s Rubber Band) at Dingwalls in late August, I thought I’d made a great discovery until, two breathless days later, and a mere few hours before they left these fair isles, the Peppers deposited their press kit in my lap.
  • (12) Analysis of the activity of each unit was made at intervals from the beginning of the conditioned signal (light or sound) to the beginning of lapping milk which appeared in the feeding trough after the cat pressed the pedal.
  • (13) (2) The alleles at the Est-1, Est-2, Amy loci and the AP-4(1.0) and the LAP-1(.90) alleles show north south clinal change in frequency.
  • (14) On the other hand, grinding the glossy ridge-lap surface, painting the teeth with monomer or a solvent, preparing retention grooves on the ridge-lap portion of the teeth effectively lock the teeth to the denture base.
  • (15) We correlated Doppler variables of pulmonary venous flow and mitral inflow with simultaneously obtained mean LAP and changes in pressure measured by left atrial or pulmonary artery catheters.
  • (16) However, saccharin does not trigger a fixed rate of lapping at any point in the sequence.
  • (17) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
  • (18) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
  • (19) A significant LAP activity decrease was found only after a 30 day postcastration period when naloxone treated intact animals were compared with the castrated rats.
  • (20) These results suggest that P-LAP shows oxytocinase activity and plays an important role in the regulation of the plasma level of these hormones during pregnancy.

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