What's the difference between longa and quaver?

Longa


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of the accessory middle cerebral artery is discussed with regard to the recurrent artery of Heubner (A. recurrens, A. centralis longa).
  • (2) The weight gain in the A. galanga treated animals was significant as in the control group while the C. longa-treated animals gained no significant weight after chronic treatment.
  • (3) Curcumin, a natural constituent of Curcuma longa (turmeric, CAS 458-37-7), has been studied for its induction of glutathione S-transferase activity in mice.
  • (4) In the Ayurvedha and Sidha system of medicine (Indian system of medicine) Azadirachta indica ADR ('Neem') and Curcuma longa ('Turmeric') has been used for healing chronic ulcers and scabies.
  • (5) Thus, the mitochondrial ribosomes of A. longa differ in some of their properties from both procaryotic and eucaryotic ribosomes and are probably related to a special type of mitochondrial ribosomes.
  • (6) Exposure of Astasia longa to oxygen+carbon dioxide (95:5) at atmospheric pressure leads to an inhibition of growth rate and of respiration.
  • (7) could be M. sachalinicum Schumakowitsch; 2) The genus Belopolskiella and Basantisia are synonymous; the species prolecithum and longa are synonymous.
  • (8) These two chemotypes, CX I type and CX II type, were compared with the two chemotypes of C. longa L., CL I type and CL II type, on their contents by capillary GC and HPLC analysis.
  • (9) Novel biologically active substances were obtained from nonpathogenic for humans and free-living protozoa: Crithidia oncopelti, Trypanosoma lewisi, and Astasia longa.
  • (10) Saddam Longa, the local civil defence officer in the couple’s village, says stillbirths in his area “trouble many women and go unnoticed all the time.
  • (11) It has been established that fibrinolytically active enzyme longolytine isolated from the culture fluid of the saprophyte fungus Arthrobotrys longa at intravenous injection favours the prolonged increase of the plasma fibrinolytic properties as well as activation of endogenic plasminogen.
  • (12) The nucleotide sequence of a 6156 bp segment of the circular 73 kb DNA from Astasia longa resembling the chloroplast DNA of Euglena was determined.
  • (13) The nucleotide sequence of a 6.7 kb segment of the circular 73 kb DNA from Astasia longa has been determined.
  • (14) A neutral polysaccharide, named ukonan D, was isolated from the rhizome of Curcuma longa L. It produced a single band on electrophoresis and a single peak on gel chromatography, and its molecular mass was estimated to be 28,000.
  • (15) Detergent-extracted cell models of the euglenoid flagellate, Astasia longa, were obtained that rounded-up on addition of calcium.
  • (16) Photomicrographic data were collected to measure the kinetics of elongation of "Lineola longa," a large gram-negative rod ranging from 5 to 10 microns long, during the exponential phase of growth.
  • (17) The data reviewed indicate that extracts of Curcuma longa exhibit anti-inflammatory activity after parenteral application in standard animal models used for testing anti-inflammatory activity.
  • (18) A gene encoding the large subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase (Rubisco) was identified on a circular 73 kb DNA from the colourless euglenoid flagellate Astasia longa.
  • (19) The physico-chemical properties of ribosomes and rRNA isolated from the mitochondria of the phytoflagellata Astasia longa were studied.
  • (20) The structure of nuclei of Astasia longa in synchronized cultures was examined at the light- and electron-microscope levels.

Quaver


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To tremble; to vibrate; to shake.
  • (v. i.) Especially, to shake the voice; to utter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument
  • (v. t.) To utter with quavers.
  • (n.) A shake, or rapid and tremulous vibration, of the voice, or of an instrument of music.
  • (n.) An eighth note. See Eighth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Another time I kissed this boy wearing flip-flops, and she said his toenails looked like quavers.
  • (2) Libya is part of freedom's future: it must not be buried by a quavering past.
  • (3) The familiar biblical words, the quavering congregation working its way through Victorian hymns, the priest, who often has never met the deceased: all these deaden and distance.
  • (4) He spoke in a soft, quavering voice while making his apology and describing what he said was his fragile state.
  • (5) My husband and I can’t read or write, and we want our children to go to school.” Before we leave, her husband shows us what the Taliban objected to so violently: a long-necked lute, on which he plays a quavering tune.
  • (6) Certain fans couldn't even look you in the face – you'd have to go over and say, 'Hi, I'm Jason', and they'd go – a quavering voice – 'Oh my God, I know!'"
  • (7) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
  • (8) This wine probably cheered someone up when Mozart died”, he quavered at one point, and it didn’t even sound a tenth as stupid as it looks written down.
  • (9) His face looks as confident as Jadav’s – but the quaver in his voice might just have betrayed some deeply harboured doubts.
  • (10) And the parliamentary Labour party led Europe’s social democrats into quavering irrelevance.
  • (11) It’s easy to say: ‘I’m out here working and he’s just sitting there spending his giro on booze.’ But there isn’t a show about Amazon or these tax-dodging corporations that are fleecing the country much more than a guy who’s pretending to have a sore back so he can eat Quavers and watch Storage Wars all day.” A vote for independence, he says, would have been a step away from all that.
  • (12) 8.03pm BST The plucky strings are basically Mel and Sue made into quavers and crotchets.
  • (13) On Etsy you can buy everything from appliqué and pendants to lanterns made of Quavers.
  • (14) But the timing of her pleas for food, her choice of words, the choice of ham sandwiches and a packet of Quavers – they were little nuggets of comedy gold, genius even.
  • (15) Subjects (Ss) either tapped with their two index fingers in synchrony (quavers against quavers; "2 against 2") or they tapped quavers against triplets ("2 against 3").
  • (16) Parliament suspended its normal sessions today to hear condolence speeches by legislators, many of them speaking in voices that quavered with emotion.
  • (17) A modification of Isshiki's technique has been applied in ten patients exhibiting the breathiness and quavering voice typical of an "elderly" larynx, eight of whom have been followed long enough to be evaluated, and in two younger patients with similarly unexplained vocal fold flaccidity.
  • (18) Either the right or the left finger started tapping the quavers (onset time t1), after about 4 s the other finger joined in (t2) either with quavers as well (easy rhythm) or with triplets (difficult rhythm).
  • (19) Djokovic, though, is nothing if not resilient and the Serb rallied to go 4-2 ahead, pulling himself up to his full champion's height, and drawing the first anxious, quavering clamour around Centre Court's steeply banked gunmetal green bowl.

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