What's the difference between lying and transverse?

Lying


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to tell a falsehood.
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lie, to be supported horizontally.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (2) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (3) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (5) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (6) The bundles may lie parallel to the plasma membrane and to the long axis of the cell.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The value of benefit-risk, benefit-cost, and cost-effectiveness analyses lies not in providing the definitive basis for a decision on vaccine use or evaluation.
  • (9) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
  • (10) The C-terminal sequence contains an amphiphilic alpha-helix of four turns which lies on the surface of the beta-barrel.
  • (11) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (12) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
  • (13) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
  • (14) This contrasts sharply with the reduction in both the frequency and surface area of sensory neuron active zones that accompanies long-term habituation, and suggests that modulation of active zone number and size may be an anatomical correlate that lies in the long-term domain.
  • (15) Police in Rockhampton have ordered residents to leave their homes as electricity is switched off in low-lying areas.
  • (16) The additional value of these methods, especially of the intensive monitoring, lies also in the possibility of compiling new knowledge about semiology and electro-clinical correlation of epileptic seizures, possible trigger mechanisms and long-term therapeutic effects.
  • (17) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (18) Day by day we strive to unmask all the lies told to citizens.
  • (19) When an exercise test is not performed, a resting radionuclide left ventricular ejection fraction is recommended, and coronary angiography is considered if the value lies between 0.20 and 0.44 (12% 1-year mortality).
  • (20) Pre and post infusion blood samples were drawn from a catheter lying at the lower inferior vena cava and analyzed for prostaglandin E and F, and progesterone.

Transverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal.
  • (n.) Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (n.) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
  • (v. t.) To overturn; to change.
  • (v. t.) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At day 7 MD occupy about 14% area of posterior retina in transverse sections in Campbell rats versus 7% in normal animals.
  • (2) The myocardium was assumed to be composed of a nonlinear viscoelastic, inhomogeneous, anisotropic (transversely isotropic) and incompressible material operating under adiabatic and isothermal conditions.
  • (3) The relapse was 80% in the sagittal plane, 70% in the transverse plane, and 12% in the vertical plane.
  • (4) The perinatal development of the levator ani (LA) muscle in male and female rats was investigated by measuring the total number of muscle units (MU) (i.e., mononucleate cells, clustered or independent myotubes, and muscle fibers) in transverse semithin sections of the entire muscle and the MU cross-sectional area in 22-day-old fetuses (F22), 1-day-old (D1 = day of birth), 3-day-old (D3), and 6-day-old (D6) newborns.
  • (5) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
  • (6) In order to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption across the dural sinus wall, the effect of CSF pressure (recorded from the cisterna magna) on dural venous pressure (recorded from the transverse sinus) was investigated in groups of rats at 2, 10, 20, and 31 days after birth and in adulthood.
  • (7) An A-to-T transversion, which substitutes asparagine16 with isoleucine (N16I), was identified.
  • (8) Subsequently, due to the rotation of the original polar axis in one hemisphere, the third cleavage plane through one half of the egg is transverse to the third cleavage plane through the other half.
  • (9) The normal anatomical position of the point of junction of the superficial cerebral veins with the superior sagittal and transverse sinuses of the rat was studied with an analytical mathematical method.
  • (10) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
  • (11) Cytochrome oxidase histochemistry revealed patchy patterns of the enzyme activity in transverse sections through the caudal part of the ventral subnucleus of the principal sensory trigeminal nucleus, interpolar spinal trigeminal nucleus, and layer IV of the caudal spinal trigeminal nucleus in the cat.
  • (12) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
  • (13) Hypertension consequent upon increasing brain edema, and intercerebral pressure gradient which is the cause of transverse dislocation diminish with the use of a method which provides for hydrodynamic equilibrium.
  • (14) The backbone dynamics of Ca(2+)-saturated recombinant Drosophila calmodulin has been studied by 15N longitudinal and transverse relaxation experiments, combined with 15N(1H) NOE measurements.
  • (15) It should also be contemplated, as an alternative to elective cesarean section for a transverse lie or breech presentation of the second fetus.
  • (16) In a third, a GC----TA transversion has created a BstEII (GGTNACC) site.
  • (17) We found that the Na-Ca exchanger is distributed throughout all membranes in contact with the extracellular space, including the sarcolemma, the transverse tubules (T-tubules), and the intercalated disks.
  • (18) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (19) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.
  • (20) Transverse imaging is important when comparison is made with CT.