What's the difference between linking and slinking?
Linking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Link
Example Sentences:
(1) However, when cross-linked to anti-CD4 or anti-CD8 antibodies a markedly enhanced proliferation of the corresponding subpopulation is observed.
(2) Each process has been linked to the regulation of cholesterol accretion in the arterial cell.
(3) The quaternary structure of ribonucleotide reductase of Escherichia coli was investigated, with the use of purified B1 and B2 proteins and bifunctional cross-linking agents.
(4) The mobility on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis is anomalous since the undenatured, cross-linked proteins have the same Stokes radius as the native, uncross-linked alpha beta gamma heterotrimer.
(5) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
(6) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
(7) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(8) For the detection of this antigen, a double antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was employed.
(9) The haplotype of the recombinant X chromosome of each of 241 backcross progeny has been established using the X-linked anchor loci Otc, Hprt, Dmd, Pgk-1, and Amg and the additional probes DXSmh43 and Cbx-rs1.
(10) Bipolar derivations with the maximum PSE always included the locations with the maximum PSE obtained from a linked ears reference.
(11) The antibody was covalently linked to polyacrylamide microbeads with no change in binding characteristics.
(12) A one point dilution enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure suitable for determining immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody levels to Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) in community seroepidemiological surveys is described.
(13) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(14) It is possible that the IgE that linked abnormally with the propofol had specific binding sites for the phenyl nucleus and the isopropyl groups, which are present in propofol and many other drugs.
(15) Peptide:N-glycosidase F removed both the asparagine-linked oligosaccharide chains of ricin B-chain in the absence of lactose.
(16) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
(17) Men who ever farmed were at slightly elevated risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (odds ratio = 1.2, 95% confidence interval = 1.0-1.5) that was not linked to specific crops or particular animals.
(18) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(19) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
(20) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
Slinking
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slink
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical symptoms were slinking between the 50th and 57th day of pregnancy and six-week serosanguinolent discharge or greenish gray mucoid discharge after the abortion and extensive hemorrhages and edemata under the skin of the aborted fetuses.
(2) I think the Australian public give you great credit for actually putting your money where your mouth is and not slinking away from the camp in the middle of the night hoping you won’t have to fight the battle.” Asked whether he was prepared to give ground on the funding cut, Pyne said: “I’m always prepared to talk about negotiation, always prepared to negotiate – whether it’s with Universities Australia, whether it’s with the crossbenchers.
(3) Maybe it’s a lack of confidence or having more doubts than normal, but the players have quality and need to bring more.” Sadio Mané scored a hat-trick in record time in the May victory and the winger created Southampton’s first chance here in the first minute, slinking past Leandro Bacuna before pulling a pass back to Dusan Tadic, who shot over from 12 yards.
(4) Female staff in pencil skirts slink past, clipboards in hand.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Victoria Beckham slinks away to applause from the audience.
(6) The owner’s sons would just slink off to their cabins leaving a few random women dotted around the yacht.
(7) Movie monsters have been steadily slinking back to the B-list depths from whence they came, hence the popularity of CGI splatter such as Sharknado , where we can be sure no real animals were harmed, because it’s clear none were used.
(8) Approaching Istanbul, 435 days after slinking into the sea in Gibraltar, the pair found the city’s tendrils reaching down the Thracian coast.
(9) But unlike the hundreds of coal plants and their noxious smokestacks being built in the country, the only danger linked to the solar panels are the snakes and scorpions that slink and scuttle between the sparse shrubs, posing a minor hazard to those who dust off the panels after dusk.
(10) Though I had heard a fence panel bang the previous evening as an animal vaulted over, I had failed to catch sight of the intruder slinking through the impenetrable shadow of my semi-wild garden.
(11) The first part is always optimistic, but about that second part he's not lying; a hypercharged Teddy Picker, from their second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare, merges seamlessly into the sultry carnival slink of Crying Lightning, with its dark and demonic mood swings, an example of how the band have matured into a sordid Lynchian lounge band with teeth.
(12) Somehow a policy slinked out – £700 for every taxpayer.
(13) Instead I slinked home, had a cup of tea on my own, stared out of the window and wondered – what now?
(14) More than six decades ago, travel writer Norman Lewis described the mutts of Mergui, a coastal city in the south, with unsparing vividness: “There are more dogs than humans; they are a slinking, evil breed, cursed with every conceivable affliction … Many were earless, partially blind and had paralysed or dislocated limbs.” For now, there is no killing – just breeding Ye Naung Thein The situation has not improved – and is arguably most acute in Yangon, the country’s rapidly developing commercial capital with a population of some five million.
(15) If there is anybody in the European Union who thinks that if we don’t do a deal with the European Union, if we don’t continue to work closely together, Britain will simply slink off as a wounded animal, that is not going to happen,” Hammond said.
(16) And it’s worth splashing out at Terra Nostra Garden Hotel at Furnas (doubles from €95) for the chance to slink out after dark for a private splash about in the bath-warm, camelia-bowered lake.
(17) That sense of guardedness is heightened by the constant presence of secret service agents hovering around her, and by the figure of Huma Abedin, her long-time aide, who has been constantly at her side since the White House and who slinks into an adjoining room while we are talking.
(18) Some governments are already slinking backward.” The defence ministers on Thursday are expected to decide on the quick establishment of small headquarters units in six countries – the three Baltic republics, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria.
(19) They trail 5-0 at the break in the World Cup semi-final and their players look absolutely traumatised as they slink back to the dressing room.
(20) On the northern edge of Cornwall , it's more "of the sea" than either of the other two; as the tide begins to move in, it slinks across the low retaining wall like net curtains slide across a hotel window.