What's the difference between line and ling?

Line


Definition:

  • (n.) Flax; linen.
  • (n.) The longer and finer fiber of flax.
  • (v. t.) To cover the inner surface of; as, to line a cloak with silk or fur; to line a box with paper or tin.
  • (v. t.) To put something in the inside of; to fill; to supply, as a purse with money.
  • (v. t.) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding anything; to fortify; as, to line works with soldiers.
  • (v. t.) To impregnate; -- applied to brute animals.
  • (n.) A linen thread or string; a slender, strong cord; also, a cord of any thickness; a rope; a hawser; as, a fishing line; a line for snaring birds; a clothesline; a towline.
  • (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.
  • (n.) The course followed by anything in motion; hence, a road or route; as, the arrow descended in a curved line; the place is remote from lines of travel.
  • (n.) Direction; as, the line of sight or vision.
  • (n.) A row of letters, words, etc., written or printed; esp., a row of words extending across a page or column.
  • (n.) A short letter; a note; as, a line from a friend.
  • (n.) A verse, or the words which form a certain number of feet, according to the measure.
  • (n.) Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity.
  • (n.) That which has length, but not breadth or thickness.
  • (n.) The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline.
  • (n.) A threadlike crease marking the face or the hand; hence, characteristic mark.
  • (n.) Lineament; feature; figure.
  • (n.) A straight row; a continued series or rank; as, a line of houses, or of soldiers; a line of barriers.
  • (n.) A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; as, the ascending or descending line; the line of descent; the male line; a line of kings.
  • (n.) A connected series of public conveyances, and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.; as, a line of stages; an express line.
  • (n.) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
  • (n.) The equator; -- usually called the line, or equinoctial line; as, to cross the line.
  • (n.) A long tape, or a narrow ribbon of steel, etc., marked with subdivisions, as feet and inches, for measuring; a tapeline.
  • (n.) A measuring line or cord.
  • (n.) That which was measured by a line, as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.
  • (n.) Instruction; doctrine.
  • (n.) The proper relative position or adjustment of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working; as, the engine is in line or out of line.
  • (n.) The track and roadbed of a railway; railroad.
  • (n.) A row of men who are abreast of one another, whether side by side or some distance apart; -- opposed to column.
  • (n.) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
  • (n.) A trench or rampart.
  • (n.) Dispositions made to cover extended positions, and presenting a front in but one direction to an enemy.
  • (n.) Form of a vessel as shown by the outlines of vertical, horizontal, and oblique sections.
  • (n.) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
  • (n.) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • (n.) A series of various qualities and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc.
  • (n.) The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, or the whole of a system of telegraph wires under one management and name.
  • (n.) The reins with which a horse is guided by his driver.
  • (n.) A measure of length; one twelfth of an inch.
  • (v. t.) To mark with a line or lines; to cover with lines; as, to line a copy book.
  • (v. t.) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • (v. t.) To read or repeat line by line; as, to line out a hymn.
  • (v. t.) To form into a line; to align; as, to line troops.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar experimental manipulation has yielded in vitro lines established from avian B-cell lymphomas expressing elevated levels of c-myc or v-rel.
  • (2) The effect of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) on growth of small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines was studied.
  • (3) The liver metastasis was produced by intrasplenic injection of the fluid containing of KATOIII in nude mouse and new cell line was established using the cells of metastatic site.
  • (4) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
  • (5) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (6) On the other hand, human IL-9, which is a homologue to murine P40, was cloned from a cDNA library prepared with mRNA isolated from PHA-induced T-cell line (C5MJ2).
  • (7) However, four of ten young adult outer arm (relatively sun-exposed) and one of ten young adult inner arm (relatively sun-protected) fibroblasts lines increased their saturation density in response to retinoic acid.
  • (8) The promoters of the adenovirus 2 major late gene, the mouse beta-globin gene, the mouse immunoglobulin VH gene and the LTR of the human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I were tested for their transcription activities in cell-free extracts of four cell lines; HeLa, CESS (Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B cell line), MT-1 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line without viral protein synthesis), and MT-2 (HTLV-I-infected human T cell line producing viral proteins).
  • (9) In contrast to L2 and L3 in L1 the mid gut runs down in a straight line without any looping.
  • (10) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (11) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
  • (12) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (13) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
  • (14) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
  • (15) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
  • (16) "This was very strategic and it was in line of the ideology of the Bush administration which has been to put in place a free market and conservative agenda."
  • (17) Cell lines specific for class I or class II loci of the MHC produced interferon and colony-stimulating factors.
  • (18) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
  • (19) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
  • (20) N-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive 5'-nucleotide phosphodiesterase and alkaline phosphatase activities from other cell lines were also recovered in the cytosol.

Ling


Definition:

  • (a.) A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called also drizzle.
  • (a.) The burbot of Lake Ontario.
  • (a.) An American hake of the genus Phycis.
  • (a.) A New Zealand food fish of the genus Genypterus. The name is also locally applied to other fishes, as the cultus cod, the mutton fish, and the cobia.
  • (n.) Heather (Calluna vulgaris).

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residues 106-115, which are presumed to bind to the bFGF receptor [Baird, A., Schubert, D., Ling, N. & Guillemin, R. (1988) Proc.
  • (2) Combined therapy influences favorably the prognosis of small cell cancer of the ling, expecially in those patients with limited disease and favorable performance status.
  • (3) The authors' traditional Chinese herbal prescription, Qiang Zhuang Ling, was used to treat childhood anorexia with Spleen deficiency.
  • (4) Speaking the day after the return of Laura Ling and Euna Lee from Pyongyang with the former president Bill Clinton, Ling's sister said the reporter wanted to explain what had happened more fully in an article.
  • (5) To study conversion of 3,5,3'-triiodothyroinine (T3) and 3,3',5'-triiodothyronine (rT3) to 3,3'-diiodothyronine (T2) in vitro, T3 or rT3 was incubated at pH 7.35 with homogenates of several rat tissues (liver, kidney, muscle, heart, ling, spleen, intestines, and brain) for 15 min at 37 C. The T2 generated during incubation was measured in an ethanol extract of the incubation mixture by a specific RIA of T2; T4, T3, and rT3 cross-reacted in the T2 RIA only to an extent of 0.006, 0.2, and 0.04%, respectively.
  • (6) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
  • (7) Northern blot hybridization revealed that pc LINGS encodes the nodule-specific subunit of the GS while pcLIGS1 represents the nonspecific one present in nodule tissue as well as in uninfected roots.
  • (8) At least five linked genes are amplified in the multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell line CHRC5, selected with colchicine (A. M. Van der Bliek, T. Van der Velde-Koerts, V. Ling, and P. Borst, Mol.
  • (9) Endothelial cell growth factor activity purified from bovine kidney by heparin-Sepharose affinity chromatography was previously identified as basic fibroblast growth factor [Baird, A., Esch, F., Böhlen, P., Ling, N., & Gospodarowicz, D. (1985) Regul.
  • (10) In order to regulate proportion and function to immune cell, the 30 patients were given to take immuno-modulating herbs (xin shen ling, XSL) during 6 weeks, while their 7 immunological markers were detected before treatment (BT) and after treatment (AT).
  • (11) We also believe, based on our interactions, that [the PM and his wife] harbour political ambitions for their son, Li Hongyi.” The comments by Lee Wei Ling, a neurosurgeon, and Lee Hsien Yang also took aim at the first lady, chief executive of the state investor Temasek.
  • (12) A polyomavirus middle T-antigen (MTAg) mutant containing a substitution of Leu for Pro at amino acid 248 has previously been described as completely transformation defective (B. J. Druker, L. Ling, B. Cohen, T. M. Roberts, and B. S. Schaffhausen, J. Virol.
  • (13) Standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Shen Ling, 29, a teacher from China, said she and her friends heard the news that the shutdown was over in Chicago airport, just as they were about to board their flight.
  • (14) Of all of us, little Hana had the most confidence that she would be seeing her mom soon," Ling said.
  • (15) In 1974, Fitch and Srolowitz reported 4 new cases, and Fraser, Ling, Ologe and Nogrady a further 7 in 1978.
  • (16) This protein was named ling zhi-8 (LZ-8) and its biochemical and immunological properties are described.
  • (17) Stood nearby on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Shen Ling, 29, a teacher from China, said she and her friends heard the news that the shutdown was over in Chicago airport, just as they were about to board their flight.
  • (18) A closed transcutaneous approach to the muscle was made by needle puncture and the Em was measured utilizing standard Ling electrodes.
  • (19) Xiao Long Ling depresses the increase of vascular permeability induced by a variety of inflammatory media such as histamine, 5-HT and PGE.
  • (20) Monocyte culture medium containing 10% of Fu-Ling extract significantly inhibited secretion of TNF-alpha, IL-beta, IL-6 and GM-CSF from the monocyte monolayer.

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