What's the difference between nit and nut?

Nit


Definition:

  • (n.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Okay, that number 8 ranking isn’t incredibly impressive but it’s much better than, say, settling for a NIT bid and then (hilariously) losing in the first round .
  • (2) The extent and duration of the blood pressure (BP) lowering effect of 20 mg nitrendipine (NIT) once daily and 40 mg nicardipine slow release (NIC) twice daily were compared in 12 men (aged 39-55 years) with mild essential hypertension according to a randomized, cross over study.
  • (3) nit-4 is a pathway-specific regulatory gene which controls nitrate assimilation in Neurospora crassa, and appears to mediate nitrate induction of nitrate and nitrite reductase.
  • (4) We have studied the fate of NIT in the immature female rat, the animal model in which most of the biochemical studies of NIT have been carried out.
  • (5) In Neurospora crassa, the expression of nit-3, the structural gene which encodes nitrate reductase, is highly regulated and requires both nitrate induction and nitrogen catabolite derepression.
  • (6) In cells that contain a mutation in the putative regulatory gene nit-2, significantly lower levels of the 3.4-kilobase transcript were found, indicating that the wild-type nit-2 gene is involved in the control of nitrate reductase transcript levels.
  • (7) Approximately 80% of the infested children had nits that were 2-5 cm away from the scalp.
  • (8) His children will get used to a father who wears pants, without a dagger, and who does not pick out their nits in public.
  • (9) The lack of inhibitory effect by Nit-arg in cultured islets may reflect the absence of endothelial or nervous cells in the cultured islets.
  • (10) The synthesis and turnover of the nit-3 mRNA were also examined and found to occur rapidly and efficiently under changing metabolic conditions.
  • (11) Aspergillus extracts contained an inhibitor(s) which was measured by the decrease in NADPH-dependent nitrate reductase formed when extracts of Rhodospirillum rubrum and N. crassa, nit-1 were incubated at room temperature.
  • (12) The presence of molybdenum cofactor in the nitrate reductase was indicated by the formation of molybdopterin form A in the oxidation of the enzyme by iodine and by the complementation of NADPH-nitrate reductase with the heart-treated enzyme in the extract of Neurospora crassa nit-1.
  • (13) The presence of multiple copies of wild-type or mutant nit-4 genes did not generally lead to increased enzyme activity or growth rate, but instead frequently appeared to be detrimental to nit-4 function.
  • (14) Mutants of the nit-2 locus, a regulatory gene which is postulated to mediate nitrogen catabolite repression, are deficient in the ability to utilize several amino acids as well as other nitrogen sources used by wild type.
  • (15) An average of ten nits were taken from each patient both before and after treatment.
  • (16) So there are nits to pick but, by getting specific, Labour puts the coalition on the back foot.
  • (17) Nucleotide sequencing has revealed that the three nit-4 mutants, alleles 15, 1214, and 2994, are the result of a missense mutation, a nonsense mutation and a frameshift mutation, respectively.
  • (18) In addition, Nit may induce anti-anxiety through the modulation of Ca2+ mobilization in the central nervous system.
  • (19) Nit-picking about the detailed mechanisms of governance and accountability.
  • (20) However, transformants obtained with most of these nit-4 mutant genes possess a markedly reduced level of nitrate reductase and grow only slowly on nitrate, emphasizing the need to examine quantitatively the affects of in vitro-manipulated genes.

Nut


Definition:

  • (n.) The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.
  • (n.) A perforated block (usually a small piece of metal), provided with an internal or female screw thread, used on a bolt, or screw, for tightening or holding something, or for transmitting motion. See Illust. of lst Bolt.
  • (n.) The tumbler of a gunlock.
  • (n.) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
  • (v. i.) To gather nuts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prevalence of kola nut chewing and the effects attributed to it are briefly reviewed.
  • (2) It also hydrolyzes (Man)2-GlcNAc from the urine of an alpha-mannosidosis patient, 1,4-D-mannobiose and mannotriose isolated from ivory nut mannan, 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-L-rhamnose, 6-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-D-galactose and 4-O-beta-D-mannopyranosyl-N-acetylglucosamine.
  • (3) But she noticed Mohamed getting smaller and sicker, until she eventually brought him to the centre, where the nuns give him F-75 – an enriched formula adapted for malnourished children, fortified porridge, plumpy nut, and soup with meat and fish.
  • (4) Boric acid, propionic acid and potassium metabisulphite were used for the control of aflatoxin B1 on betel nuts.
  • (5) Increased slippage torques of approximately 100 per cent were noted in all interfaces at low values of tightening torque (6 and 8 N m) of the wing-nut clamp and improvements of not less than 50 per cent were obtained at higher tightening torques (10 and 12 N m) on the wing-nut clamp.
  • (6) The effects of addition of ethanol to diets containing rapeseed or ground nut oil on the metabolic conversions of 14 14C erucic and 9-10 3H oleic acid were studied in the rat liver.
  • (7) Twenty-three fruits, 33 vegetables, 41 grain products, 7 legumes, 4 nuts, and 9 miscellaneous foods were analyzed by an accurate chemical method to determine their dietary fiber content and composition.
  • (8) Woodcock said: “The way [Miliband] was trying to appeal to people … was nuts.
  • (9) Electrophoresis of the piñon nut extract demonstrated 30 bands, three of which (in the 66 to 68,000 dalton range) bound IgE in the patient's serum in an immunoblot.
  • (10) Nuts, tomatoes, milk, eggs and cereals were most frequently involved.
  • (11) Powdered slaked lime applied to the chewed Areca nut with Piper betle inflorescence at the corner of the mouth causes the mean pH to rise to 10, at which reactive oxygen species are generated from betel quid ingredients in vitro.
  • (12) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (13) Peter Spence (@Pete_Spence) Haldane, Goodhart, and more on "Is this nuts?"
  • (14) Because there is no known nut site cis to 'trpA, we suggest that the 'trpA segment itself fortuitously contains a nut sequence that is able to function with excess N of any of the types tested and with either NusAEc or NusASal.
  • (15) Onto one of the harder nuts to crack this season is best foreign film .
  • (16) My mum thought it was a bad idea, because the chefs were nuts, always drunk.
  • (17) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
  • (18) Toxicological study was carried out in rats with chloroform-soluble fraction of the nuts of Semecarpus anacardium to determine its safe non-toxic dose.
  • (19) The specificity and cross-reactivity of IgE antibodies to different nut antigens was investigated by RAST inhibition with serums from 5 patients having high levels of IgE antibody.
  • (20) Fresh fruit and vegetable sales rose by about 5% while fish, poultry and nuts saw similar growth.

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