What's the difference between mast and spar?

Mast


Definition:

  • (n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
  • (n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
  • (n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
  • (2) In later phases, mast cells appeared in the newly formed marrow in the external callus.
  • (3) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (4) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
  • (5) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
  • (6) They clearly demonstrate the phenomenon of mast cells degranulation.
  • (7) The early absolute but transient dependence of these A-MuLV mast cell transformants on a fibroblast feeder suggests a multistep process in their evolution, in which the acquisition of autonomy from factors of mesenchymal cell origin may play an important role.
  • (8) The findings suggest that mast cell prostaglandins are an important factor in the pathogenesis of pruritus and that local vascular responses may trigger mast cell degranulation.
  • (9) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
  • (10) When PMC purified to greater than 99% purity were cultured in methylcellulose with IL-3 and IL-4, approximately 25% of the PMC formed colonies, all of which contained both berberine sulfate-positive and berberine sulfate-negative mast cells.
  • (11) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (12) Mice homozygous for mutations at either locus exhibit several phenotypic abnormalities including a virtual absence of mast cells.
  • (13) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (14) Their presence was established both by staining for mast cells at light microscopic level and by electron microscopy.
  • (15) Pretreatment of rat peritoneal mast cells with either Staurosporine or an analog K-252a, lead to a dose-related inhibition of histamine release when stimulated with Anti-IgE (IC50: Staurosporine = 110 nM; K-252a = 100 nM).
  • (16) The ammoniacal silver method, which identifies basic proteins, gives a positive reaction in cytoplasmic granules of rat peritoneal mast cells.
  • (17) Cytokine secretion by activated lymphocytes or mast cells is preceded by dramatic stabilization of the normally labile GM-CSF mRNA.
  • (18) Forty-seven patients were brought to the Emergency Department with a good blood pressure which probably would not have existed without the use of MAST Trousers.
  • (19) Furthermore, using rat mast cells, the binding assay in conjunction with histamine releasing assay may be utilized to predict the in vivo histamine releasing potential of new LHRH peptides which are of clinical importance.
  • (20) Six dogs had increased numbers of mast cells in peripheral blood or buffy coat smears.

Spar


Definition:

  • (n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
  • (v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
  • (v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
  • (v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
  • (v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
  • (v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
  • (v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • (v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
  • (v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
  • (n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
  • (n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's good to be able to take the opportunity to thank my friends and sparring partners from around the YouView boardroom table.
  • (2) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
  • (3) In vivo spin-lattice relaxation times, T1, of water and lipid protons of normal and atrophic muscles were measured, using the spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) sequence, in a genetic avian model of myopathy.
  • (4) A method of spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS), combined with techniques to suppress water signal, was used to overcome this problem.
  • (5) Amid the sparring over Snowden's asylum claim, his father Lon Snowden told Reuters he was confident Putin would not cave in to pressure to send his son back to the US to face espionage charges.
  • (6) Shoppers will find out whether they are shopping in a free-bag or pay-bag Spar only when they reach the checkout.
  • (7) Many of the president's former sparring partners are now billionaires who occupy senior Kremlin positions.
  • (8) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
  • (9) Down at the Spar store, the manager, Chris Richards, was waiting anxiously for the notices that will explain the charge to customers.
  • (10) Although the data for hearing-impaired subjects fail to support the rationale for the SPAR test, the results for the entire research sample offer substantial support.
  • (11) Business, governments, consumers, activists - all the main actors in the debate over corporate social responsibility were present in the Brent Spar case, and since then nothing has quite been the same.
  • (12) But by this time next year, Obama and others may have cause to miss their old sparring partner Karzai.
  • (13) Although the technical and scientific assessments led to our initial plan to safely sink Brent Spar in deep water in the Atlantic Ocean (a plan supported by the government at the time) we failed to engage sufficiently with others and win public acceptance.
  • (14) As a child, Dinara fell asleep to the sound of her parents talking late into the night, sparring cheerfully over history or discussing Leyla’s work as head of the Institute for Peace and Democracy , a group launched in 1995 to fight corruption, violence against women, and unlawful evictions.
  • (15) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.
  • (16) In a cartoon fashion, I half-believe he'll turn up on the news one day jogging and sparring.
  • (17) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
  • (18) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
  • (19) Obama has often sparred with Netanyahu over strategy on Iran and the Palestinians.
  • (20) Subjects were categorized into groups showing high, medium, and low competitive anxiety to assess whether differences on the variables of sparring and forms were significantly related with scores on competition anxiety, age, or gender after adjusting for the covariate of years of competition.

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