What's the difference between lit and rit?

Lit


Definition:

  • () of Light
  • () of Light
  • () a form of the imp. & p. p. of Light.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (3) The compelling television series The Returned , which concludes on Sunday on Channel 4, and several award-winning titles from French authors are earning fresh international plaudits for Gallic storytelling and proving that it is not only Norway, Sweden and Denmark that can offer a bleak outlook and a half-lit landscape.
  • (4) The central lobby is lit by a over-storey whose windows actually open (far rarer than it should be), and protected from the sun by automatic blinds.
  • (5) Trafalgar Square in central London was lit up by flash bulbs as part of the demonstration against photographers being unfairly targeted by police after taking photos.
  • (6) Seven tonnes of thunderous fireworks lit up the night sky at Sydney harbour for the 1.5m revellers who lined the shores to welcome the new year in Australia.
  • (7) I shall never forget a cherry tree in Kyoto lit with braziers at dusk.
  • (8) In a deconsecrated Mayfair church lit with Parisian-style globe lamps, Ronnie Scott's orchestra played jazz standards as waiters in traditional black linen aprons circulated with champagne.
  • (9) As Wayne Rooney placed the ball on the penalty spot, blew out his cheeks and prepared for the moment he had been waiting for all this time, Wembley lit up with a thousand and one flash bulbs.
  • (10) When the bombardment is particularly strong, they sit for hours in the windowless room lit by candles and strewn with mattresses.
  • (11) You have escape holes in the net, lit by LEDs so the fish can swim out.
  • (12) But surely there must be executives in the world of business who would relish the unique and exhilarating challenge of keeping Britons warm and well-lit while building a power system fit for a low-carbon world?
  • (13) The spark for the longest-running protest in modern Tunisian history was lit on 17 December in the town of Sidi Bouzid, in the rural interior of Tunisia, a region of olive groves and agriculture which is racked by vast unemployment, repression and poverty a world away from the riches of the Tunisian tourist coast and the propaganda of Tunisia's "economic miracle".
  • (14) The answer lies in a mix of carrot and stick provision including investing in a more integrated public transport network, encouraging active transport in the form of walking and cycling, and enticing people out of their cars.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Luminous umbrellas lit beneath high wire artist Jade Kindar-Martin.
  • (15) Significant qualitative and quantitative changes in the fatty acid composition occurred during incubation of epimastigotes derived from LIT medium in the triatomine artificial urine (TAU).
  • (16) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
  • (17) Internal UN documents, marked “strictly confidential” and leaked to the Guardian, reveal how the UN’s internal complaints unit uncovered evidence the woman was abused with lit cigarettes and photographed lying on the ground.
  • (18) Two decades from now, the government imagines people will still be able to fly when they want (including from a third Heathrow runway), drive (but efficiently and perhaps electrically), and live in warm, well-lit (but far better insulated) homes.
  • (19) He has the right idea in combining old and new, like Fulgence Bienvenüe, who built the all-electric Paris Metro , yet lit his house by candles because they're beautiful.
  • (20) On the walls of brightly lit meeting rooms – each named after garment manufacturing zones around the city – are posters of laughing, thin, beautiful young Europeans of varying ethnic backgrounds wearing the bright, cheery, fashionable clothes of the company's brands.

Rit


Definition:

  • () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A Monte Carlo simulation was performed to characterize the spatial and energy distribution of bremsstrahlung radiation from beta point sources important to radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
  • (2) The hprt T-lymphocyte cloning assay, which detects mutations occurring in vivo in humans, has been used to examine mutants induced in patients receiving radioimmunoglobulin therapy (RIT) for cancer.
  • (3) Incubation of normal pig lymphocytes in serum samples collected from 10 sows immediately before, and at daily intervals after mating with a vasectomized boar significantly elevated the rosette inhibition titre (RIT) of a standard antilymphocyte serum in 6 animals on the first but not on the 2nd and 3rd day after copulation.
  • (4) Measurement of the basal serum RIT may contribute to the diagnosis of pancreatitis in patients with hypocorticism but provides no information on this pathology in patients with endogenous hypercorticism.
  • (5) The rosette inhibition titers (RIT) for sera from 94 women at various stages of gestation were detected with a standardized rosette inhibition test.
  • (6) The RIT 4237 live attenuated bovine rotavirus vaccine was given orally at three dose levels to 75 breast-fed, 40 formula-fed and 24 fasting infants ages 4 to 6 months.
  • (7) This low value is in accordance with previously reported theoretical calculations for long range, low-LET isotopes and may be one of the reasons why RIT using 131I has severe limitations.
  • (8) The other determinant of the therapeutic ratio of RIT reagents--normal tissue toxicity--is best analyzed in large animals, such as dogs.
  • (9) Growth delay was measured in TK-82 renal cell carcinoma (RCC) xenografts implanted in nude mice receiving single fraction external beam irradiation (SF-XRT), multifraction external beam irradiation (MF-XRT), or radioimmunotherapy (RIT).
  • (10) Vaccinal strains were attenuated by APR-8 recombination and selection of mutants resistant to serum inhibitors (Alice, RIT 4025, RIT 4050 strains).
  • (11) Ethnographic interviews with 23 first-year students at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID at RIT) were used to gather information about communication.
  • (12) For amniotic fluids, the PCR was 100% sensitive when correlated with the RIT but had a lesser sensitivity when applied to sera or cerebrospinal fluids, which typically contain few treponemes.
  • (13) This article concentrates on some of the dosimetric aspects affecting the potential success of RIT, and examines factors which influence the choice of a radiolabel for RIT.
  • (14) The results showed that 73% of seroconversion was obtained when RIT 4237 was administered alone and that the responses to polioviruses types 1 and 3 were good.
  • (15) Although the activity detected is one of a complex biological fluid (pregnancy serum) in a complex biological assay, this ability of pregnancy sera to cause increased rosette inhibition titres (RIT) has generally been ascribed to the presence of an 'early pregnancy factor' (EPF).
  • (16) Genetic analysis of a mutation affecting the thermal response of the 50S ribosomal subunit to in vitro polyphenylalanine synthesis indicates that the gene, rit, is located near metB on the Escherichia coli chromosome and that the probable gene order is metB-rit-arg-rpo.
  • (17) No interference by the RIT 4237 strain on live attenuated polioviruses was observed.
  • (18) A candidate rotavirus vaccine RIT 4256, derived from Nebraska calf diarrhea virus by 21 tissue culture passages, was tested in humans and compared with the RIT 4237 vaccine derived from the same stem virus by 147 tissue culture passages.
  • (19) In 6 month old children the RIT 4256 vaccine elicited a serological response in 12 of the 21 (57%) seronegative recipients; two children had a possible fever reaction from the vaccination.
  • (20) Radioimmunotherapy (RIT) is rapidly attracting interest as a potential new weapon in the arsenal for cancer therapy.

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