What's the difference between nettling and splicing?
Nettling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Nettle
(n.) A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.
(n.) The process of tying together the ends of yarns in pairs, to prevent tangling.
(p. pr. & a.) Stinging; irritating.
Example Sentences:
(1) The news that ITV1 plans to continue Midsomer Murders despite the retirement of John Nettles – through a cousin of the central detective, introduced last night – is not surprising.
(2) A frequent cause of contact urticaria is skin exposure to the common stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
(3) The footpaths I followed became swamped with knapweed, bramble and nettle.
(4) The UCI should have grasped that nettle a long time ago and put credibility back into our sport."
(5) They meticulously slotted together details to give a painstaking picture of the events that led up to the girls' disappearance, and then away from it; the innocent before and the nightmarish after; the last known seconds of the girls' meandering progress through familiar streets, arms linked, and then the frantic, increasingly heart-rending search that came to an end when the naked and decomposing - and, as we now know, partially burned - bodies of the two friends were found lying together, limbs tangled, at the bottom of a deep and muddy ditch, where the nettles grew tall.
(6) Dairy farmer Dave Lawrence took the Guardian to the spot where the beavers are usually seen, close to an island in the river thick with nettles, willow and thistles.
(7) He does not come to this court with clean hands,” Nettle said.
(8) 35% by three pollens responsible for the so-called spring pollinosis, and 50% by weeds (plantain, nettle, mugwort) the cause of late summer pollinosis.
(9) The committee declined to grasp this nettle for no better reason than "the media industry itself is not united on the desirability of privacy legislation" – well, it wouldn't be, would it?
(10) The precise relationship between sea nettle venom and the observed clinical responses is not known.
(11) Very low amounts of pigweed-type and nettle pollen appear in April.
(12) The urticaria is accompanied by a stinging sensation lasting longer than 12 h. Little is known of the cellular and molecular mechanism of stinging-nettle urticaria.
(13) Dudgeon, who appeared alongside Caroline Quentin in the BBC comedy Life of Riley, will play a cousin of Nettles' character Tom Barnaby, John Barnaby, who also works in the police force.
(14) A comparison of methods for preparing a jellyfish nematocyst suspension from sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) fishing tentacles at the beachside was conducted.
(15) After Application of a tourniquet (180 - 200 mm Hg) to test persons no weals were formed after contact with nettles in a period of 10 minutes.
(16) Ninety-eight individuals took part in a double-blind randomized study comparing the effects of a freeze-dried preparation of Urtica dioica (stinging nettles) with placebo on allergic rhinitis.
(17) The cardiotoxicity and polypeptide content of sea nettle (Chrysaora quinquecirrha) polyps and cysts were studied.
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(19) While poor Craig was foraging for nettles and chip scraps in the wilderness (the grass next to the railway viaducts), something strange was happening.
(20) It’s about people taking responsibility and grasping the nettle of their own independence.” “We’re increasingly sceptical about big sweeping changes,” added Mike Adamson, chief executive of British Red Cross.
Splicing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Splice
Example Sentences:
(1) It is argued that this process drove the evolution of present 5' and 3' splice sites from a subset of proto-splice sites and also drove the evolution of a more efficient splicing machinery.
(3) One splicing mutation results in a 3 amino acid in-frame insertion.
(4) Each of the two spliced molecules contains a 5'-terminal leader sequence transcribed from a DNA segment with an estimated length of 60 to 110 nuvleotides.
(5) Previously, we identified a candidate gene, Tcp-10b, whose t allele generates alternatively spliced transcripts.
(6) Analysis of this mutant illustrates that indirect flight muscles and jump muscles utilize different mechanisms for alternative RNA splicing.
(7) A comparison between the primary structures of the rat and human genes reveals that the heterogeneity of the C-terminal peptides can be explained in large part by a frameshift mutation and the utilization of an alternative splice donor site in the third exon of the rat gene.
(8) A new alternative splice site was incidently found 81 nucleotide downstream of motif II in both normal and truncated 4.1 mRNA.
(9) The IGA-65 present in splicing extracts was distinguishable from known U-snRNP and hnRNP proteins on protein gels.
(10) The protein variation potentially includes N-terminal differences coded for by transcript-specific 5' exons and internal differences arising from the optional inclusion of a 39 base-pair exon and from the alternative use of two 3' splice sites separated by six base-pairs.
(11) Certain RNA molecules can mediate their own cleavage or splicing or act as enzymes to promote reactions on substrate RNA molecules.
(12) In order to identify putative protein splicing factors associated with the 200S InRNP particles, a panel of monoclonal antibodies directed against these particles were screened for their ability to inhibit splicing of pre-mRNA in vitro.
(13) Similar results were obtained when hybrid-selected RNA, which had been labeled for 3 h with [3H]uridine, was analyzed on formaldehyde-agarose gels, suggesting that the observed differences were due to splicing rather than RNA stability.
(14) At the restrictive temperature the ratio of unspliced U6 precursor to mature RNA is elevated in the mutants compared to the wild type grown under identical conditions, indicating a defect in U6 pre-RNA splicing.
(15) These two splicing intermediates cosedimented under a variety of conditions, indicating that they are contained in the same RNP complex.
(16) Recombinant retroviruses containing intact or spliced CRPV sequences can now be used to introduce the viral genes efficiently into a variety of cell lines.
(17) The 0.85 kb fragment was cloned and sequenced and the result indicated that the introns from the xylanase gene were accurately spliced by the plant cells.
(18) The RNA-catalysed self-splicing reaction of group II intron RNA is assumed to proceed by two consecutive transesterification steps, accompanied by lariat formation.
(19) U1 snRNA is an essential splicing factor known to base pair with 5' splice sites of premessenger RNAs.
(20) We have used such constructs, assayed by transient expression in chicken embryo fibroblasts, to define the minimal sequences necessary to inhibit splicing.