What's the difference between plow and shim?

Plow


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Plough
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Plough

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reported rates of protein degradation in a recent paper on the effect of surgical trauma on muscle protein turnover [Hoover-Plow & Clifford (1978) Biochem.
  • (2) The model considers seasonal changes in the biomass of vegetation and animal diets, as well as specific plowing and crop-harvest dates; thus the integrated radionuclide intakes by humans are dependent on the seasonal timing of deposition.
  • (3) 49ers 38 - Packers 24, 14:57 4th quarter Gore plows though, and now Green Bay are in some serious trouble.
  • (4) LG Winter Gardens, Morecambe ( liveatlica.org ), 23-27 September Speed-The-Plow Lindsay Lohan , making her West End debut, follows in the footsteps of Madonna in David Mamet’s caustic Hollywood satire.
  • (5) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
  • (6) For 15 years (1955 to 1970), I was plowing "new ground" pretty much by myself.
  • (7) And I would go out and there would be all these cameras there and that’s when it became difficult.” Lohan, who recently starred in the West End play Speed-the-Plow , decided to turn her back on the west coast while holidaying alone in Greece over the summer.
  • (8) There were 1,700 snow plows and 450 salt spreaders working the streets in New York City, De Blasio said.
  • (9) In Nepal, the traditional way to process rice is to use the same cows that plow the field – they thresh rice by walking over the stalks.
  • (10) Meanwhile, King plowed his own ground preaching love and brotherhood.
  • (11) All plow down dates are chosen before the majority of larvae enter diapause so as to eliminate as many overwintering survivors as possible.
  • (12) In association with blood coagulation, neutrophils undergo a secretory response (Plow, J Clin Invest 69: 564, 1982) and it has been suggested that plasma kallikrein is responsible for inducing this reaction (Wachtfogel et al., J Clin Invest 72: 1672, 1983).
  • (13) The PMI-1 antibody inhibits platelet adhesion and spreading on certain substrata (Shadle, P. J., Ginsberg, M. H., Plow, E. F., and Barondes, S. H. (1984) J.
  • (14) Welfare officer Hayley Plows said: “Colonies of ferals and strays have been at a rough guess 85% black or black and white, I unfortunately do not think this is by pure coincidence.
  • (15) Governor Christie (@GovChristie) There are approximately 3,300 plows and spreaders out on New Jersey highways, including the Turnpike, GSP and ACE.
  • (16) The characteristic eggs of Orientobilharzia turkestanicum were found in the feces of a plowing bull.
  • (17) Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” From the prosecutor and the grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island to the halls of Congress – where reform ideas like the End Racial Profiling Act or the Stop Militarizing Law Enforcement Act have hit a dead end – and a thousand places in between, our government institutions have been largely unresponsive to demands for real structural reform.
  • (18) Alleviation of arsenic phytotoxicity has been attempted by increasing the soil pH, by use of iron or aluminum sulfate, by desorbing arsenate with phosphate and subsequent leaching, and by cultural practices such as deep plowing.
  • (19) It destroyed 150 acres of land and plowed through hills next to subdivisions containing hundreds of homes.
  • (20) Nitrate-N accumulation in the 0 to 3 foot profile in late July was reduced by 75% (no tillage) to 38% (chisel plow) compared with the conventional moldboard tillage system in this 8-year-old study.

Shim


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
  • (n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The model contains 13 parameters that can be varied, 12 shim coil currents, and the receiver mixer frequency.
  • (2) The derivatized bile acids were separated stepwise on a Shim-pack CLC-ODS column using acetonitrilemethanol-water (100:50:30) (A), (100:50:20) (B), and (100:50:0) (C) as mobile phases with changing automatically from A to C using a solvent changer.
  • (3) For this purpose, a method of automatic shimming was developed and tested on phantoms and volunteers.
  • (4) This probe design tunes to 23-Sodium for rapid shimming and then, to 31-Phosphorus for measurements of pH and high energy phosphate metabolites.
  • (5) Voxels may be shimmed using only first-order X, Y, and Z shims to produce three-dimensional shim current maps, thus avoiding shim coupling problems.
  • (6) A novel latent proteinase of which activity was induced by heating in the presence of NaCl was purified to homogeneity from threadfin-bream muscle by a combination of DEAE-cellulose, Con A-Sepharose, Arg-Sepharose, and Shim-pack HAC chromatographies.
  • (7) Our localization strategy also allows us to shim easily on the well-defined volume of interest and leads to high-resolution spectra that exhibit multiplet structure.
  • (8) A complete shimming process generally requires only 80 transients.
  • (9) A data link to the shim power supply allows automatic update of currents.
  • (10) Addition of CO2 to the oxygen and appropriate changes in gas flow and "shim" pressure permit changes to be made in the ventilation of the device during perfusion to achieve desired levels of PaO2 and PaCO2 under widely disparate conditions of temperature and flow.
  • (11) We recently described the identification of BOS1 (Newman, A., J. Shim, and S. Ferro-Novick.
  • (12) However, despite our monitoring of additional variables, including shim and inlet pressure and recirculation flow, gas exchange abnormalities were encountered in 5 patients on whom the membrane oxygenator was used; in 4 of these cases the abnormalities were encountered prior to our recognition of the potential for occasional internal shunting with this device.
  • (13) The thickness of the blood film is decreased by increasing the "shim" pressure, so that increasing the "shim" presure results in higher PaO2.
  • (14) The chromatographic conditions were as follows: column: Shim-pack CLC-ODS; mobile phase: methanol-water (70:30).
  • (15) In addition to the main magnet important additions like gradient and shim coils, aspects of site planning and future problems are discussed.
  • (16) An acid sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been purified from human placenta by means of successive procedures including extraction, Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, activation, p-aminophenyl thio-beta-D-galactoside-CH-Sepharose (PATG-Sepharose) affinity chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
  • (17) The resolution and homogeneity limitations of echo-planar imaging (EPI) are overcome by zoom imaging of an easily shimmed localized volume.
  • (18) This high failure rate has led the authors to reevaluate the use of prosthetic shims or wedges in large fragment defects but to continue to use bone grafting for smaller, circumscribed defects.
  • (19) A sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been partially purified from human placenta by means of procedures comprising Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and high-pressure liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
  • (20) We have developed a pulse sequence which enables fast and accurate measurement of three-dimensional field maps in vivo, and a data analysis package that allows calculation of shim currents to optimally shim arbitrary selected volumes.