What's the difference between opie and opine?

Opie


Definition:

  • (n.) Opium.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said: “The BRC has always maintained that the charge should apply to all retailers and all bags.
  • (2) Their structures were characterized as 20(R)-dammaran-3 beta, 6 alpha, 12 beta, 20, 25-pentol and 20(R)-dammaran-3 beta, 6 alpha, 12 beta, 20, 25-pentol-6-O-alpha-L-rhampyranosyl(1----2)-O-beta-D-gluc opy ranoside.
  • (3) Thus the synaptic ChE is partly restored in a few hours after its irreversible inhibition with OPI.
  • (4) Noakes and Opie recently confirmed again (May, 1976) that no cases of "death due to coronary atherosclerosis" have been recorded in marathon finishers.
  • (5) We studied the mechanism underlying acute organophosphate intoxication (OPI) through in-vivo and in-vitro electrophysiologic studies in rats injected with diisopropylfluorophosphate.
  • (6) In this period are any important discoverys detected: The islets have 2 cell types (TSCHASSOW-NIKOW 1900, 1906); the connection between diabetes mellitus and islet-alterations (OPIE 1900); the independence of islets on exocrine parenchyma (SCHULZE 1900); the discovery of internal secretion (BAYLISS, STARLING 1902) and the regeneration of islets in mammals and the man (KYRLE 1908; WEICHSELBAUM 1908 in independent publications.
  • (7) Hydrophobity (coefficient in distribution in the hexane water system) and the content of cholinesterase organophosphorous inhibitors (OPI) of the structure Ro (CH3) P (O) SC2H4 SC2H5 were studied in the rat brain.
  • (8) Even Brian Moore, a former rugby international and BBC commentator revealed recently on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that he is a fully qualified OPI nail technician – he used to run a nail bar in London's Soho with his ex-wife and continues to wear a layer of base coat on his toenails to keep them neat.
  • (9) In 1993 Catherine Opie did a self-portrait photograph of her naked back, with a picture of a lesbian couple in front of a house and garden carved into her flesh with a razor blade.
  • (10) Sequence analysis of the OpMNPV IE-1 gene (OpIE-1) identified an open reading frame that coded for a predicted protein of 560 amino acids with a molecular weight of 64,775.
  • (11) DADs are known to be abolished by hypoxia and by metabolic inhibition (Di Gennaro et al., 1987; Coetzee and Opie, 1987), which could be caused by a number of different mechanisms: (1) The large increase of potassium conductance associated with metabolic inhibition (Vleugels et al., 1980; Isenberg et al., 1983) could prevent iti from causing a marked depolarization, and would thus "mask" the DADS.
  • (12) It has been reported recently that some oximes reactivating acetylcholinesterase (AChE) exhibit concomitant ganglion-blocking effects which presumably could contribute independently to their powerful antidotal action in organophosphate inhibitor (OPI) poisoning, thus mimicking some unrelated substances which are effective antidotes without reactivating AChE.
  • (13) Studies have been made on substrate specificity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE;EC 3-1-1-7) from the electric organ of the ray T. marmorata with respect of choline and thiocholine esters, as well as on the effect of pH, salts and organophosphorus inhibitors (OPI) on the activity of the enzyme.
  • (14) As the examples of OPI antidotes which do not reactivate AChE, the muscarinic antagonist atropine and the ganglion-blocking agent hexamethonium were also tested on possible attenuation of muscle lesions.
  • (15) Central hemodynamics and myocardial contractility have been studied during intermittent peritoneal dialysis (PD) in 46 patients with severe poisoning with organophosphorus insecticides (OPI).
  • (16) The results suggest that plasma NSE level may also serve as a sensitive indicator in monitoring OPI exposure.
  • (17) The expression of p39CAT trans-activated by OpIE-1 was also found to be enhanced by the AcMNPV hr enhancer sequences.
  • (18) Recovery of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) activity was studied using the embryos of sea urchins Strongylocentrotus intermedius and S. nudus, embryos of axolotl Ambystoma mexicanum and in the chick embryo muscle culture treated by "irreversible" organophosphorous inhibitors (OPI).
  • (19) Andrew Opie, the director of food and sustainability policy for the industry trade association the British Retail Consortium, who attended the meeting at the DfID, said: "It was a very positive meeting and a great opportunity to see how we can harness the best of international aid together with investment from retailers around the rights of workers but also on issues of development and job creation in developing countries."
  • (20) This analysis revealed that the OpIE-1 promoter contained regions that were responsive to a transcriptional activator that was specific to Sf9 cells.

Opine


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (2) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
  • (3) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
  • (4) This clone also was found to be incompatible with pAtK84b, a large plasmid encoding opine catabolism present in A. radiobacter strain K84.
  • (5) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
  • (6) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
  • (7) The production of opines is a natural example of genetic engineering of the biosynthetic machinery of plant cells for the benefit of the bacterial pathogen.
  • (8) This is an Islamist who shakes hands with unveiled women and opines that Christians often have more self-respect than Muslims.
  • (9) We constructed cassettes which contained either the putative transport genes only or the complete occ or noc region; all constructs, however, included the elements necessary for opine-induced expression of the genes (the regulatory gene and the inducible promoters).
  • (10) Strains MBA209 and NA513 utilized mannopine and mannopinic acid, but not the other two mannityl opines.
  • (11) They opine that this function is of secondary importance except for the frontal and internal occipital pillars.
  • (12) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
  • (13) Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens are conjugal elements whose transfer is induced by certain opines secreted from crown galls.
  • (14) His elevation as a Conservative folk hero stalled after he opined on whether the "Negro" shouldn't be back in chains.
  • (15) Before you know it anyone who wants to be considered serious is opining that the country is "obviously insolvent".
  • (16) "It was the second time hosting the Academy Awards for Ellen DeGeneres, whose first stint as host in 2007 was one of the decade's best," he opined.
  • (17) In his letter delivering the cut to Sue Campbell , chair of the Youth Sport Trust, Gove opined that, while he recognised schools have "increased participation" of children in PE, the number playing competitive sport "has remained disappointingly low".
  • (18) Opine synthase activities were also observed in homogenates made from these tumors.
  • (19) Other compounds include specific monosaccharides and acidic environments which potentiate vir gene induction, acidic polysaccharides which induce one or more chromosomal genes, and a family of compounds called opines which are released from tumorous plant cells to the bacteria as nutrient sources.
  • (20) The enzyme catalyzed a reversible oxidation-reduction reaction of opine-type secondary amine dicarboxylic acids.

Words possibly related to "opie"