What's the difference between liman and slime?

Liman


Definition:

  • (n.) The deposit of slime at the mouth of a river; slime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was recently shown that oligolamellar vesicles of 3:1 mixtures of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and the photopolymerizable lipid 1,2-bis[10-(2',4'-hexadienoyloxy)decanoyl]-sn-glycero-3-phosphocho line (SorbPC) are destabilized by polymerization of the SorbPC [Lamparski, H., Liman, U., Frankel, D.A., Barry, J.A., Ramaswami, V., Brown, M.F., & O'Brien, D.F.
  • (2) 7, 2457-2463; Koren, G., Liman, E. R., Logothetis, D. E., Nadal-Ginard, B., and Hess, P. (1990) Neuron 4, 39-51) into Xenopus oocytes resulted in the expression of currents that have tetraethylammonium inhibition curves that differ from the linear combination of inhibition curves of the two types expressed individually.
  • (3) The actor will be seen next on the big screen in sci-fi outings Oblivion , for Tron's Joseph Kosinski, and All You Need Is Kill , for The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman.
  • (4) All You Need Is Kill , directed by The Bourne Identity's Doug Liman, is due out on 7 March 2014.
  • (5) There was only one US movie in this year's competition – Doug Liman's Iraq drama Fair Game – but there was plenty of Hollywood glamour out of competition.
  • (6) Parallel with this physiotherapeutic modality, the patients were administered FiBS (a liman mud biogenic stimulant), vitamins B1 and B6, and andecalin.
  • (7) Multiple-modality treatment making use of therapeutic factors of the Sea of Azov (sea water, liman and sea muds, solar or UV irradiation, mineral water) and (in some cases) drugs was employed.
  • (8) Cruise and Liman reportedly visited Nicholson at his Hollywood Hills home to convince him to take the role.
  • (9) But the former agent – whose cover was blown after her husband wrote a newspaper article critical of the Bush administration – is in town for two reasons: first, as the subject of Doug Liman's biopic, Fair Game (scripted by Jez Butterworth), which screens in competition for the Palme d'Or tomorrow; second, as one of the main interviewees in British documentary maker Lucy Walker's film Countdown to Zero, which aims to raise awareness of a rising nuclear threat.
  • (10) Doug Liman directs a script based on the Japanese young adult novel All You Need is Kill, which sees an extra-terrestrial race known as the Mimics invade earth.
  • (11) Zonguldak’ta yapılması planlanan yeni santralin yer alacağı bölgenin kıyısındaki yeşil dağlık alanın ağaçları liman genişletme inşaatı için kesiliyor.
  • (12) In the film, which The Bourne Identity 's Doug Liman is to direct, Cruise will play a straight-arrow US Secret Service agent assigned to protect the country's worst-ever former commander-in-chief.
  • (13) One excitable Ukrainian news website claimed on Monday that 100 separatists had seized the police HQ in Krasniy Liman, a small rustic town just north of Slavyansk.
  • (14) Some thought that the casting of Naomi Watts in Liman's film was typical Hollywood fancifulness, but this turned out to be quite wrong.
  • (15) Cruise got everyone wound up about the Doug Liman sci-fi Edge Of Tomorrow that is headed to US screens on 6 June 2014.
  • (16) The release states: In an indication that the April 12 operations were planned in advance, the takeovers have occurred simultaneously in multiple locations in eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Slavyansk, Krasnyi Liman, Kramatorsk, Chervonoarmiysk, and Druzhkovka.

Slime


Definition:

  • (n.) Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
  • (n.) Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.
  • (n.) Bitumen.
  • (n.) Mud containing metallic ore, obtained in the preparatory dressing.
  • (n.) A mucuslike substance which exudes from the bodies of certain animals.
  • (v. t.) To smear with slime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a clear water reservoir built in ready construction after a working-period of five months quite a lot of slime could be found on the expansion joint filled with tightening compound on the base of Thiokol.
  • (2) We therefore used two different tRNA genes from the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum which are efficiently transcribed and processed in vivo in yeast.
  • (3) Furthermore, there were differences between anterior and posterior regions of both slime sheaths and stalk tubes.
  • (4) Passive protection towards a heterologous strain, even one with an antigenically similar slime layer, was dependent on the dose of the challenging injection.
  • (5) Electron microscopic evidence demonstrated that dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) induces formation of giant intranuclear microfilament bundles in the interphase nucleus of a cellular slime mold, Dictyostelium.
  • (6) Several lines of experimental evidence suggest that an anterior-posterior gradient of cyclic AMP exists in migrating pseudoplasmodia of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, and that this gradient may be responsible for control of the proportions of stalk and spore cells that form during culmination.
  • (7) An isotope dilution technique has been used to analyze the synthesis of metabolically stable nucleic acids during the mitotic cycle in surface plasmodia of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum.
  • (8) The nucleoproteins resulting from digestion of the nuclei of the true slime mold Pysarum polycephalum with micrococcal nuclease have been resolved according to the size classes in linear sucrose gradients containg 0.5 M NaCl, and analysed for DNA, RNA and protein content.
  • (9) Some responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation were investigated by analyzing two aspects of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) excision repair in the vegetative cells: (i) the fate of thymine-containing dimers and (ii) the production and rejoining of single-strand breaks.
  • (10) A modified ruthenium red staining procedure was used to examine the fine structure of capsule and slime.
  • (11) Slime production by coagulase-negative staphylococci did not relate to the density of organisms recovered from the catheters or influence the presence of gram-negative bacteria.
  • (12) Some of the strains studied showed a greater potential to synthesize excess slime layer material than others.
  • (13) The intranuclear actin bundles appear at any developmental stage in two different species of cellular slime molds after treatment with DMSO.
  • (14) We predict that the Y.Smal protein in the restriction-modification enzyme gene locus of the enterobacterium serratia marcescens is a regulator of endonuclease expression; and, that the vegetative specific gene VSH7 of the slime mold dictyostelium discoideum codes for a regulator of gene expression specific for the slime mold growth phase before the onset of the developmental program.
  • (15) RNA Polymerase III transcription factors from the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum were characterized, based on their stable binding to isolated tRNA genes.
  • (16) The ecmA (pDd63) and ecmB (pDd56) genes encode extracellular matrix proteins of the slime sheath and stalk tube of Dictyostelium discoideum.
  • (17) Thirty carrier and 29 invasive Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates were analysed for production of slime, extracellular enzymes and antibiotic resistance.
  • (18) The chemical analysis of lipopolysaccharide and the minimal concentration for mitogenic response eliminated the possibility that the activity of slime products may be due to the contamination of lipopolysaccharide.
  • (19) A soluble cytochrome was isolated and purified from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and identified as cytochrome c by room-temperature and low-temperature (77 degrees K) difference spectroscopy.
  • (20) Glycoproteins synthesized by the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum have been shown to contain asparagine-linked high-mannose oligosaccharides which have an N-acetylglucosamine group in a novel intersecting position (attached beta 1-4 to the mannose linked alpha 1-6 to the core mannose).

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