What's the difference between plate and tassel?

Plate


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat, or nearly flat, piece of metal, the thickness of which is small in comparison with the other dimensions; a thick sheet of metal; as, a steel plate.
  • (n.) Metallic armor composed of broad pieces.
  • (n.) Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.
  • (n.) Metallic ware which is plated, in distinction from that which is genuine silver or gold.
  • (n.) A small, shallow, and usually circular, vessel of metal or wood, or of earth glazed and baked, from which food is eaten at table.
  • (n.) A piece of money, usually silver money.
  • (n.) A piece of metal on which anything is engraved for the purpose of being printed; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.
  • (n.) A page of stereotype, electrotype, or the like, for printing from; as, publisher's plates.
  • (n.) That part of an artificial set of teeth which fits to the mouth, and holds the teeth in place. It may be of gold, platinum, silver, rubber, celluloid, etc.
  • (n.) A horizontal timber laid upon a wall, or upon corbels projecting from a wall, and supporting the ends of other timbers; also used specifically of the roof plate which supports the ends of the roof trusses or, in simple work, the feet of the rafters.
  • (n.) A roundel of silver or tinctured argent.
  • (n.) A sheet of glass, porcelain, metal, etc., with a coating that is sensitive to light.
  • (n.) A prize giving to the winner in a contest.
  • (v. t.) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping.
  • (v. t.) To cover or overlay with plates of metal; to arm with metal for defense.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with plated metal; as, a plated harness.
  • (v. t.) To beat into thin, flat pieces, or laminae.
  • (v. t.) To calender; as, to plate paper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Epidermal growth factor reduced plating efficiency by about 50% for A431 cells in different cell cycle phases whereas a slight increase in plating efficiency was seen for SiHa cells.
  • (2) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
  • (3) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
  • (4) A substance with a chromatographic mobility of Rf = 0.8 on TLC plates having an intact phosphorylcholine head group was also formed but has not yet been identified.
  • (5) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (6) It was found to be convenient for routine laboratory use and increased the yield of positive plate cultures in specimens without antibiotics from 53 to 75% (P less than 0.01) and in specimens containing antibiotics from 24 to 38% (P less than 0.05).
  • (7) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (8) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (9) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
  • (10) Using as little as 0.2 ml of human blood per culture plate, we successfully cloned hybridomas and established a hybrid cell line producing anti-peroxidase antibody.
  • (11) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
  • (12) A total of 63 patients (95%) showed varying degrees of hyperostosis involving the cribiform plate, planum sphenoidale, or tuberculum sellae (including the chiasmatic sulcus).
  • (13) In the absence of prostigmine, increasing the concentration of ACh in the synaptic cleft did not change the time constant for decay of end-plate currents.
  • (14) To selectively stain polyanionic macromolecules of growth plate cartilage and to prevent artifacts induced by aqueous fixation, proximal tibial growth plates were excised from rats, slam-frozen, and freeze-substituted in 100% methanol containing the cationic dye Alcian blue.
  • (15) Measurements of acetylcholine-induced single-channel conductance and null potentials at the amphibian motor end-plate in solutions containing Na, K, Li and Cs ions (Gage & Van Helden, 1979; J. Physiol.
  • (16) In this study, a technique is described by which large obturators can be retained with an acrylic resin head plate.
  • (17) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
  • (18) A significant increase in the number of C. albicans CFU in homogenized and plated segments of the GI tract was recognized in mice with murine AIDS versus the control animals.
  • (19) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
  • (20) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.

Tassel


Definition:

  • (n.) A male hawk. See Tercel.
  • (n.) A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
  • (n.) A pendent ornament, attached to the corners of cushions, to curtains, and the like, ending in a tuft of loose threads or cords.
  • (n.) The flower or head of some plants, esp. when pendent.
  • (n.) A narrow silk ribbon, or the like, sewed to a book to be put between the leaves.
  • (n.) A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers; -- rarely used in the United States.
  • (v. i.) To put forth a tassel or flower; as, maize tassels.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with tassels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In order to elucidate the impact of these factors, we have undertaken the analysis of these gene families in the tassel-eared squirrel (Sciurus aberti) which has been separated into discrete subspecies by geographic barriers and whose food resources can be quantitated for estimating environmental quality.
  • (2) Black-and-white tasselled patent-leather pumps, Madras-print sandals and neon-pink stilettos all featured.
  • (3) Series nine of The Apprentice ( Tue & Wed, 9pm, BBC1 ) and the winds of change are howling around Lord Sugar's tasselled loafers.
  • (4) Spray-painted monk-strap shoes, desert boots and tasselled loafers paraded on a catwalk raised to audience eye-level in order to give a an ant's-eye view of the main event.
  • (5) Each packaging unit consists of a thick fasicle, formed by the alignment of smooth chromatin fibers, which frays out into tassels of looped fibers.
  • (6) Indeed, it has come some distance since the Fifa President, Sepp Blatter, suggested the women should play in skimpies and tassels to make the sport more popular (mind you, that was all of eight years ago).
  • (7) One thousand five hundred and seven tasselled maize plants in Lusaka and 96 in a rural village where mosquitoes were plentiful, have been surveyed.
  • (8) 'Is it proper to wear tasselled loafers with a business suit or not?'"
  • (9) The conservation ethos is neatly summarised in the forester Ritchie Tassell’s sarcastic question, “how did nature cope before we came along?” Through rewilding – the mass restoration of ecosystems – I see an opportunity to reverse the destruction of the natural world.
  • (10) The rules say shoes "must be sturdy and plain black, no trainers, heels, patent leather, open toes or slipper type shoes … Kickers must be plain black with no tassel".
  • (11) Using somatic excision as an assay of Mutator activity, we found that activity can change in small sectors of the tassel; however, there are no overall activity changes in the tassel during the period of pollen shedding.
  • (12) His mother says that when she sent Noah back wearing Kickers with the branded label cut off, he was searched while queuing for assembly and given detention because she had failed to spot a tassel on the inside of his shoe.
  • (13) Taken from this set, 3RDEYEGIRL and Prince - who is wearing a small pair of flares and a tasselled waistcoat - tear through an electric version of the 1984 hit.
  • (14) The medical attendance of the congenital imperforation of the tear-nasal tassel continues to be an actual problem because of the great number of cases met in practice.
  • (15) Wearing her gold tasselled collarette over a bright summer dress, she explained: "We're Christian, we embrace Scotland as a nation but we embrace the UK; we're part of the UK.
  • (16) Surrounded by golden mantlepieces, tasselled curtains and a coterie of suits, Mohamed Morsi did not have the air of a man about to be ousted as president.
  • (17) Heterozygosity estimates of Tcrb-C and Tcra-V1 sequences were determined for annually collected samples and compared with the yearly estimates of availability of hypogeous fungi, one of the major diet items of tassel-eared squirrels.
  • (18) At the higher temperature of 45 degrees C these vegetative tissues were blocked in removal of an intron from the HSP70 mRNA precursor, which accumulated to a high level in tassel tissue.
  • (19) S14 transcript levels are highest in mitotically active tissues, such as seedling shoot, developing endosperm, and tassel primordia, and lowest in tissues with little cell division, such as mature leaf and root.
  • (20) The retinula cells 1 and 4 (group I according to Gribakin, 1967) end as svf type 1 with three tassel-like branches in stratum B of the first synaptic region.