What's the difference between mot and moth?

Mot


Definition:

  • (Sing. pres. ind.) of Mot
  • (pl.) of Mot
  • (v.) May; must; might.
  • (n.) A word; hence, a motto; a device.
  • (n.) A pithy or witty saying; a witticism.
  • (n.) A note or brief strain on a bugle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After administration of 1 mu g of choleragen, lymphocytopenia was mot marked at 24 hr; recovery occurred 6 to 10 days later.
  • (2) The findings of the present investigation suggest that measurement of PRL serum levels in MOT-test could be of value in early diagnosis of Sheehan syndrome.
  • (3) With current immunosuppressive protocols MOTS projects 1-year patient survival rates of 95% after kidney transplantation, 88% after heart transplantation and 81% after liver transplantation.
  • (4) Rats receiving an isogeneic multiorgan transplant (MOT) survived more than 150 days.
  • (5) It is also of interest to note that the tumour was mot able to penetrate those areas where the cellulose acetate filter was present.
  • (6) This was mot marked in the older age groups and the patients with malignant disease.
  • (7) The proteins essential for energizing the motor, the Mot and switch proteins, are thought to exist as multisubunit complexes peripheral to the basal body.
  • (8) The Tn10 insertions in strain LT-2 were mapped to loci in regions II (flh and mot) and III (fli) of the flagellar genes, and the mutations were transduced into the mouse-virulent S. typhimurium strains SR-11 and SL1344.
  • (9) The distribution of Fla, Mot, and Che mutational sites within each gene was examined.
  • (10) Genetic analysis by phiCr30-mediated transduction revealed 27 linkage groups for the fla and stub-forming mutations, and three linkage groups for the mot mutations.
  • (11) Sweden is almost unique in that its government through its foreign office gave financial support to a carefully thought out proposal from Svenska Läkare Mot Kärnvapen (Swedish Physicians against Nuclear Weapons) for a youth education project on the nuclear issue.
  • (12) The nonmotile (mot::Tn10) mutants reacted with H-specific antisera and expressed paralyzed flagella that were indistinguishable from wild-type flagella.
  • (13) He’s seemingly supportive of every Gove policy, and comes up with bone-headed initiatives of his own – teacher MOTs and Hippocratic oaths being the most worrying.
  • (14) Updated at 8.32am BST 7.58am BST Kicking the MOT's tires Mario Draghi's bond-buying scheme is rumoured to be called the “monetary outright transactions” * plan.
  • (15) Fla sites were fairly broadly distributed, whereas Mot and Che sites were more narrowly defined.
  • (16) Some recovery specialists offer membership benefits and special vouchers, such as half price MOTs for new and existing members.
  • (17) An exception to this general pattern is assembly of the Mot proteins into the motor, which appears to be possible at any time during flagellar assembly.
  • (18) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
  • (19) The mucous secretion is not affected, whereas, in correlation with changes in salt secretion, the change in ATPase activity is mot conspicuous.
  • (20) On every page, someone, somehow has replaced every queasy showbiz bon mot with those two common nouns.

Moth


Definition:

  • (n.) A mote.
  • (n.) Any nocturnal lepidopterous insect, or any not included among the butterflies; as, the luna moth; Io moth; hawk moth.
  • (n.) Any lepidopterous insect that feeds upon garments, grain, etc.; as, the clothes moth; grain moth; bee moth. See these terms under Clothes, Grain, etc.
  • (n.) Any one of various other insects that destroy woolen and fur goods, etc., esp. the larvae of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvae of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.
  • (n.) Anything which gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radiologic abnormalities included an unusual "moth-eaten" appearance of the markedly short long bones, bizzare ectopic ossification centers, and marked platyspondyly with unusual ossification centers.
  • (2) The appearance of the corpus allatum, the central endocrine gland of diapause, was examined histologically in the slug moth prepupae, Monema flavescens (Lepidoptera).
  • (3) This paper describes the distribution of histamine-like immunoreactivity in the midbrain and suboesophageal ganglion of the sphinx moth Manduca sexta.
  • (4) There was no difference in LC50 between the two strains to larvae of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana), gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar), eastern hemlock looper (Lambdina fiscellaria fiscellaria), and whitemarked tussock moth (Orgyia leucostigma), whether expressed as total alkaline soluble protein, activated toxin protein, or International Units as determined by bioassay against Trichoplusia ni.
  • (5) The aetiology was established when patch tests with crude moth material produced similar eruptions in 5 out of 7 adult volunteers between 40 min and 12 h. Pharmacological experiments with an aqueous extract of moth hairs in isolated guinea pig ileum elicited a response similar to that induced by histamine.
  • (6) The subjective signs of the syndrome are floating 'moths', photopsias presenting as a 'lateral lightning', sudden appearance of a central macula (central positive scotoma).
  • (7) An unusually heavy infestation of the tussock moth resulted in a high incidence of symptoms affecting the skin and mucous membranes of those exposed to high concentrations of particulate matter of this insect.
  • (8) The mouse antibodies reacted very poorly with fragmented forms of the immunogen or with tobacco hornworm moth cytochrome c, even though both of these antigens had been shown previously to strongly stimulate pigeon cytochrome c-primed T cells.
  • (9) You can’t be preparing 7 million students for the future on one hand, while undermining every chance of a decent future Institutions that keep trying to make these moth-eaten arguments are sounding feebler by the day.
  • (10) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
  • (11) Moth-allergen activity was distributed in particle sizes ranging from 0.8 to greater than 4.1 micron when sized samples were obtained by use of an Andersen cascade impaction head.
  • (12) thuringiensis towards brown-tail moth, as compared to its action on lackey moth, may be due to the bactericidal properties of some intestine microorganisms of brown-tail moth, and also the absence in their intestines of microorganisms stimulating growth of the entomopathogenic bacteria.
  • (13) Magainins and cecropins are families of peptides with broad antimicrobial and antiparasitic activities derived respectively from the skin of frogs or from giant silk moths.
  • (14) The oak processionary moth, a native of southern and central Europe, has become established in south-west London and parts of the home counties since being found in England in 2006.
  • (15) Even if you can't make a whole dress, little jazzy touches will make the blandest of clothing a billion times better: sewing on snazzy buttons, for example, or putting on some piping, or not going around in dresses covered in moth holes and decked with trailing hems, as some of us do because we never learned to bloody sew.
  • (16) Caripito itch, a pruritic dermatosis rarely seen in the United States, is caused by contact with moths of the genus Hylesia--specifically, with urticating abdominal hairs of the adult female moth.
  • (17) The radiographic features of renal coccidioidomycosis parallel those of renal tuberculosis, with feathery, moth-eaten calices, infundibular constriction and caliceal ballooning, and eventual calcification of granulomas.
  • (18) Tobacco hornworm moth cytochrome c, which contains a glutamine at residue 100 but a terminal lysine at residue 103 (one amino acid closer to the glutamine), stimulated pigeon cytochrome c immune T cells better than the immunogen.
  • (19) Starting from a crystal-negative parental strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, we isolated certain bacteriophage-resistant mutants which showed decreased virulence in pupae of the cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia).
  • (20) We have elucidated the complete nucleotide sequence of two tRNA(Ala) species from HeLa cells that are closely related to silkworm moth tRNA(Ala), as well as the partial sequence of a third species.

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