What's the difference between nab and nay?

Nab


Definition:

  • (n.) The summit of an eminence.
  • (n.) The cock of a gunlock.
  • (n.) The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot.
  • (v. t.) To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The illumination of the F1-ATPase complexes with NAB-ADP or NAB-GDP leads to the covalent binding of one nucleotide analogue molecule to the enzyme and to the irreversible inactivation of F1-ATPase.
  • (2) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
  • (3) To answer this, we measured the effect of the differentiation inducer sodium butyrate (NaB, 1 mM) on proliferation, insulin content, secretion and biosynthesis, and the expression of A2B5 and 3G5 gangliosides by the sublines.
  • (4) Spindle pole bodies, arising by duplication of the NAB at the beginning of mitosis, are unstructured foci for spindle microtubules in mitotic cells.
  • (5) Forty-six of 63 aspirates from malignant tumors were correctly diagnosed by NAB, establishing a sensitivity at 73%.
  • (6) 38% of the administered radioactivity represent unchanged NAB 365 in the urine, whereas there are 45% in the plasma.
  • (7) Fifty-nine neonates with herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection were evaluated with use of assays for neutralizing antibody (NAb), lymphocyte transformation (LT), alpha interferon production, and virus-specific antibody (immunoblots).
  • (8) By day 2, AlGh, m5F, A12, A13 and AhGh cells exposed to NaB contained 1.5-, 1.4-, 1.4-, 1.2- and 1.0-fold higher amounts of insulin, respectively, and by day 6, 3.6-, 2.3- and 1.0-fold higher, and 1.2- and 2.4-fold lower, amounts of insulin, respectively, than control cells.
  • (9) Although their frequency was higher, tumors initiated during the period of LPS-induced NR abrogation exhibited greater reductions in NAb binding and sensitivity to NR than tumors from control mice.
  • (10) NaB, in contrast, produced considerable biochemical and morphologic differentiation along the enterocyte maturation pathway.
  • (11) Seven days after lesioning the NAB, sham operated controls and NAB-X lesioned animals were divided into 4 groups and submitted to 4 different stressors, i.e.
  • (12) These data suggest that treatment of some malignancies with combinations of RA with HMBA or NaB may maintain differentiation-inducing effects and decrease the problems associated with the achievement and maintenance of effective plasma concentrations as single agents.
  • (13) The effectiveness of alpha-mercapto-beta-(2-furyl)acrylic acid (MFA) and N-benzyl-N-dithiocarboxy-D-glucamine (NaB), used in combination, in the mobilization and excretion of lead was investigated in rats.
  • (14) The effect of sodium butyrate (NaB) alone and in combination with a glucocorticoid was studied on Y-79 retinoblastoma cells both in vitro and in vivo.
  • (15) In the presence of daunorubicin or N-substituted daunorubicin analogues, 3H-NAB-daunorubicin photolabeling of the 18.3-kDa polypeptide was inhibited.
  • (16) NAB II cells showed morphological alterations characteristic of herpes infection.
  • (17) The capital raising will see NAB issue 194 million new shares, which is around 8% of its issued capital, at $28.50 each.
  • (18) During the 24-month observation period 2 of 80 (3%) HIV-1(+) NAb(+) individuals progressed to AIDS and died, as compared to 5 of 21 (24%) of HIV-1(+) NAb(-) subjects who progressed to AIDS.
  • (19) Sodium butyrate (NaB), a 4-carbon fatty acid, has been reported to activate the metallothionein (MT) gene in certain carcinoma cell lines.
  • (20) Flat revertants of v-ras-transformed (KNRK) rat kidney cells, which express elevated levels of p21ras protein, were generated to high efficiencies with sodium butyrate (NaB).

Nay


Definition:

  • (adv.) No; -- a negative answer to a question asked, or a request made, now superseded by no. See Yes.
  • (adv.) Not this merely, but also; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition or substitution of a more explicit or more emphatic phrase.
  • (n.) Denial; refusal.
  • (n.) a negative vote; one who votes in the negative.
  • (v. t. & i.) To refuse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although NaY and NaG are effective heavy metal chelators and renal function is spared and kidney platinum levels are substantially reduced by the dithiocarbamates, no parallel loss of antineoplastic activity by Cis-Pt on the rat Walker carcinoma was observed.
  • (2) "She was jealous of the past, but she'd have done better being jealous of the future," political commentator Catherine Nay said this week.
  • (3) By contrast, the latter mutants designated mafB were defective in replication of nay of these plasmids at a high temperature.
  • (4) But at other times it's fine – nay, fantastic – to just let the saltiness shine, as in these olive choux buns.
  • (5) In doing so, we must learn to acknowledge- nay embrace- its innate goodness, decency and beauty.
  • (6) The National Review's Robert Costa says it looks good: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Leadership sources: no snags right now on informal whip count, legislation continues to move twd floor, vote coming later October 15, 2013 Except: Robert Costa (@robertcostaNRO) Pressure mounts on conservatives to vote nay RT @Heritage_Action Key Vote: “NO” on House Spending and Debt Deal October 15, 2013 The failure of the latest Boehner initiative could make a strong argument for the terminal paralysis of the House and the return of the legislative initiative to the Senate.
  • (7) What's insulting is that despite decades, nay centuries, of women's political activism, and despite years of hard work aimed at opening politics up to those from less privileged backgrounds, in 2010 we're still being presented with the same old same old.
  • (8) Renal damage, as estimated by blood urea nitrogen (BUN) values and serum creatinine levels, was less at all times up until sacrifice in animals given NaY or NaG than in those given DDTC.
  • (9) The nay-sayers argue that it will waste billions of pounds when a straightforward upgrade of the west coast line would do just as good a job without tearing up idyllic parts of Buckinghamshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire.
  • (10) It's not that they say, yea or nay regarding your right to speech, but can this be handled that it doesn't dramatically and drastically impact the rest of society?"
  • (11) The nay-sayers insist loudly that they're "climate sceptics", but this is a calculated misnomer – scientific scepticism is the method of investigating whether a particular hypothesis is supported by the evidence.
  • (12) Back in 2012, Sunder Katwala of the thinktank British Future (talking of the pre-Olympic opening ceremony whinging), said that for those nay-saying: “their cynicism is a performative act of Britishness.” In a country that prefaces a litany of complaints with “mustn’t grumble”, we don’t need gene science to tell us how much we take pleasure in our role.
  • (13) The results of Study 1 suggested the existence of six MHLC clusters: pure internal; double external; pure chance; yea sayer; nay sayer, and believer in control.
  • (14) Two vaccinations by the conjunctival route, as in group D, would be simpler, more economical and at least as effective as the standard system of vaccination, and would have the advantage that vaccination could be done at nay age without risk of serological response.
  • (15) Wily David Carney chalked one up for the nay-saying ageists by outfoxing youngster Thomas Deng to execute a superb run and finish, one which was harder than it may have seemed.
  • (16) On Thursday, however, one could hardly imagine a more emollient, nay flattering, figure, than Dame Liz.
  • (17) Even contestants no one picks are showered, nay tsunami-ed, with praise.
  • (18) Elizabeth Warren on the presidency: Fifty shades of nay Read more “To be sure, Warren – and grassroots economic populism more broadly – was already a rising force well before our efforts began,” the group’s organizers wrote in preparation to fold last week.
  • (19) In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100-millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can't now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today's nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
  • (20) And if you listen well, you can tell if she is likely to play or nay.

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