What's the difference between nip and tang?

Nip


Definition:

  • (n.) A sip or small draught; esp., a draught of intoxicating liquor; a dram.
  • (v. t.) To catch and inclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
  • (v. t.) To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
  • (v. t.) Hence: To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
  • (v. t.) To vex or pain, as by nipping; hence, to taunt.
  • (n.) A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching; as, in the northern seas, the nip of masses of ice.
  • (n.) A pinch with the nails or teeth.
  • (n.) A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
  • (n.) A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
  • (n.) A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
  • (n.) A short turn in a rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (2) The intravenous hypotensive potency of NIP-121 but not cromakalim was similar to that of p.o.
  • (3) It is concluded that NIP and IPPV affect the SV RV and the right heart blood flow.
  • (4) In support of this contention, it was observed that rabbit antiserum to NP-CG, after absorption with CG-Sepharose, augmented the response of mice to standard immunization with NIP(12)-CG.
  • (5) Mouse spleen B lymphocytes, enriched for cells bearing anti-NIP (hapten 4-hydroxy-3-iodo-5-nitrophenylacetic acid) receptors, were pretreated briefly with NIP-POL (polymerized flagellin) antigen, washed, and added in small numbers to microcultures.
  • (6) It was shown that to reticular nucleus stimulation responded predominantly those VP and VL neurons (73.7% and 86.2%, respectively) which responded to stimulation of MI and n. NIP.
  • (7) The arming factor was neutralized by a sufficient concentration of NIP-BSA (twice the concentration causing maximal precipitation) but low concentrations (e.g., 7% of the maximal precipitation concentration) increased the arming capacity.
  • (8) Zone C has been defined as the cortical region projecting to the nucleus interpositus anterior (NIA) and posterior (NIP).
  • (9) The medial two-thirds of the nucleus interpositus posterior (NIP) project only to the medial aspect of the NRm, with no apparent organization.
  • (10) Attention was focussed on B lymphocytes through using hapten human gamma globulin (HGG) preparations as putative tolerogens in tissue culture, the T-cell-independent antigens DNP-POL and NIP-POL as challenge injections in adoptive hosts, and numbers of hapten-specific PFC in host spleens for the quantitation of immune competence.
  • (11) Retrograde transport of 3H-nipecotic acid (NIP) labeled the myelinated fibers and neurons of the medial OC system, including collateral projections to the peripheral VCN, subpeduncular granule cells, and nucleus Y. Medial and lateral OC efferent collaterals thus innervate different regions of the CN.
  • (12) Spleen fragments derived from NIP-CG primed mice produced more IgG anti-NIP antibodies than fragments derived from untreated mice when immunized in vitro with NIP-Ficoll.
  • (13) These activated T cells responded in vitro very well to the NIP-MGG complex but not to the MGG carrier alone demonstrating the requirement of the hapten for T cell stimulation.
  • (14) These phenotypic and genetic data confirmed that unique Nip+ L. lactis subsp.
  • (15) Frank Lampard had moved to nip all talk of farewells in the bud.
  • (16) Lochhead nips in to poke the pass out of the striker's reach.
  • (17) Complete resolution of NIPS occurred in only two patients, one of whom later developed Parkinson's disease.
  • (18) These findings suggest that the inverse association between smoking and IPD may apply to NIP.
  • (19) Jeremy Hunt has it in his secretary of state's power to nip this in the bud and insist that Papworth should realise its move, 10 years in the planning, to the 310-bed hospital in the Cambridge biomedical campus, next door to Addenbrooke's, where Roy Calne pioneered liver transplantation and much more.
  • (20) She was joint chair of a group of nearly 70 Labour MPs who last summer launched a pro-Europe campaign group, Labour Yes , in a bid to put forward a distinctive leftwing pro-European voice, and nip in the bud any suggestion that Labour support for a referendum represented a cooling of the party’s support for Europe .

Tang


Definition:

  • (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).
  • (n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask.
  • (n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang.
  • (n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position.
  • (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.
  • (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock.
  • (n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.
  • (n.) The tongue of a buckle.
  • (n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang.
  • (v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring.
  • (v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has been postulated that mammalian aspartic proteases, which contain two structurally homologous lobes, are derived in evolution from a homodimer enzyme by gene duplication and fusion (Tang, J., James, M. N. G., Hsu, I.-N., Jenkins, J.
  • (2) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
  • (3) The Wu-Tang Clan’s 20th anniversary reunion certainly didn’t always seem like a foregone conclusion.
  • (4) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
  • (5) Wu-Tang Clan have already started taking pre-orders for A Better Tomorrow – which should not be confused with their "single-sale collector's item" Once Upon a Time in Shaolin – and have released a new single, Keep Watch .
  • (6) R u ok kumamon?” “Are Kumamon and his friends safe?” wondered Eric Tang, a college student.
  • (7) Eric Tang, 21, a student at Open University of Hong Kong, said he was turned away this month while trying to shop with his girlfriend in Shenzhen.
  • (8) The Wu-Tang Clan's last album, 8 Diagrams , was released in 2007.
  • (9) Tang is a Shanghai businesswoman in her 30s and began to blog on opera in 2005.
  • (10) A region common to all the active fragments (amino acid residues 97-178) is 70% homologous with the corresponding region from a second member of the lipocortin family which recently was cloned (Huang, K-S., Wallner, B.P., Mattaliano, R.J., Tizard, R., Burne, C., Frey, A., Hession, C., McGray, P., Sinclair, L.K., Chow, E.P., Browning, J.L., Ramachandran, K.L., Tang, J., Smart, J.E., and Pepinsky, R.B.
  • (11) Tang responded that they were not the only African country with a bad reputation.
  • (12) & Fischbach, G. D. (1989) Neuron 3, 209-218; Tang, C.-M., Dichter, M. & Morad, M. (1989) Science 243, 1474-1477] that receptor desensitization governs the strength of fast excitatory synaptic transmission in the brain.
  • (13) These data suggest that Wen-Jing-Tang induces LH release from the pituitary through hypothalamic LH-RH.
  • (14) Relatively high levels of TNF activity were noted in the groups given Angelica radix, Bupleuri radix, Cnidii rhizoma, or Cinnamomum cortex, very low activities in the groups given Xiao-chai-hu-tang, Zhu-ling-tang, or Krestin, and no TNF activities in the groups given Polyporus or Hoelen.
  • (15) In this paper, the long-term effects of the ancient Chinese formula of San-Huang-Hsieh-Hsin-Tang on patients with essential hypertension were reported.
  • (16) Solutions of methadone were prepared in (1) orange-flavored Tang, (2) grape-flavored Kool-Aid, (3) apple juice, (4) grape-flavored Crystal Light, and (5) grape-flavored Crystal Light plus 0.1% sodium benzoate.
  • (17) Raekwon has rejoined the Wu-Tang Clan, performing with his hip-hop compatriots on The Daily Show.
  • (18) Our previous studies on carbohydrate structures of purified porcine spleen cathepsin B indicated that there are two cathepsin B isozymes, each containing a different carbohydrate (Takahashi, T., Schmidt, P.G., and Tang, J.
  • (19) The city's Communist Party chief Tang Jun and mayor Li Wancai attempted to mollify the crowd with a promise to move the polluting project out of the city," according to the Xinhua news agency.
  • (20) If the city wall was largely executed as planned, Tange’s more ambitious “city gate” was a failure from the start.

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