What's the difference between prominence and rasp?

Prominence


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Prominency

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (3) In some experiments heart rate and minute ventilation (central vactors) appear to be the dominant cues for rated perceived exertion, while in others, local factors such as blood lactate concentration and muscular discomfort seem to be the prominent cues.
  • (4) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
  • (5) Phospholipid changes occurring at later stages in the lytic cycle of infected bacteria are more prominent than those at earlier time intervals.
  • (6) Although the brain AP50 is prominently phosphorylated by an endogenous protein kinase in isolated coated vesicle preparations, the neuronal AP50 was not detectably phosphorylated in intact cells as assessed by two-dimensional non-equilibrium pH gradient gel electrophoresis of labeled cells dissolved directly in SDS-containing buffers.
  • (7) T-cell lymphopenia with B-cell lymphocytosis was a prominent feature.
  • (8) We treated a 62-year-old man with intermittent polyarthritis whose neck pain was prominent.
  • (9) Evidence is presented which suggests that these plasmid-mediated, temperature-inducible surface fibrillae are responsible for autoagglutination and are related to production of one prominent, Sarkosyl-insoluble polypeptide of ca.
  • (10) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
  • (11) Moreover, a prominent reduction in serum Apo A-1 was found in dialysed diabetic patients.
  • (12) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
  • (13) Urinary urate crystalluria was prominent in each infant in the first few days after the onset of diuresis, during which normal serum urate concentrations and normal renal function were established.
  • (14) Prominent use-dependent depression of Vmax was noted.
  • (15) The gastrocolic response of monkeys to feeding is most prominent in the right and transverse colon in both duration and frequency of contractions.
  • (16) "I know the man, and I know he betrays everyone who gets close to him," said one prominent Lebanese politician.
  • (17) (A later mayor rose to prominence as one of her prosecutors: Rudy Giuliani.)
  • (18) All the iodinated proteins except the very prominently labeled high molecular weight protein (greater than 200,000 daltons) were located in a fraction identified enzymically and compositionally as plasma membrane.
  • (19) The inhibitory effect on the PHA response, however, was less prominent.
  • (20) The terminal web was prominent and the lateral plasma membranes were highly interdigitated.

Rasp


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.
  • (v. t.) Hence, figuratively: To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language; as, some sounds rasp the ear; his insults rasped my temper.
  • (v.) A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
  • (v.) The raspberry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There were two recipient-site complications, with one case of complete bone resorption that occurred in a densely fibrotic nose with preexisting septal perforation and a case of overcorrection that was successfully rasped 1 year later.
  • (2) 8.46pm BST 44 min: Joe Allen tries to double his tally of career goals for Liverpool with a rasping effort from the corner of the penalty area.
  • (3) A cigarette dangled from my lips as I rasped away at the audience.
  • (4) Sunderland were back in it after only 16 minutes, when that dodgy back line went awol as John Mensah headed in Andy Reid's cross, then equality was restored by Henderson's rasping finish.
  • (5) Both laboratory tests on variously prepared specimens of cement and clinical experiences demonstrate that recementing over old cement is a practical alternative if the technique employed includes the removal of blood from the old cement surface, rasping of this surface and the early application of fresh cement.
  • (6) "It was stupid," she says, in her distinctive Mediterranean rasp.
  • (7) In a subsequent series of 68 patients (52 males, 16 females) who had 81 meniscal repairs by means of the rasp for parameniscal synovial abrasion, the failure rate was 9%.
  • (8) Not for Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carle Raspe, who are all dead.
  • (9) Vardy scored one and he might have added a second with a rasping drive after the break.
  • (10) Repeated noise at 1-4 cycles per second evokes an effortless heard rhythmic sensation which is often heard as "clanks" and "rasping."
  • (11) So, Rasping procedure was effective for type I and type II valve degeneration.
  • (12) We identified the presence in the Aleutian skate, Bathyraja aleutica, of two classes of immunoglobulins (Ig), a high molecular weight Ig analogous to mammalian IgM and a low molecular weight Ig, similarly to the spiny rasp skate, Raja kenojei, (Kobayashi, K. et al., Mol.
  • (13) By the latter half of the decade, her body was wasted, her voice weathered down to a hoarse rasp, and Strange Fruit was the only song that seemed to dignify her suffering, wrapping her own decline in a wider American tragedy.
  • (14) He drops a shoulder, cuts inside, and unleashes a rasping, rising drive, the ball only just missing the top-right corner.
  • (15) A new nasal rasp has been developed from tungsten-carbide steel and is available in eight different cutting grits.
  • (16) The rasp appears to be the safest and most effective method to gain vascularity for healing of meniscus repairs.
  • (17) "Cannes has always been a useful idiot for Hollywood," explains Toback, rasping down the line from his apartment in New York.
  • (18) Log survivorship curves of interval data from both intact animals and isolated CNS indicate that the pattern of motor output is controlled by at least two processes, one generating intervals between rasps within a bout, and the other generating intervals between bouts of rasping.
  • (19) SEM shows certain basic features such as spines in the oral sucker and the acetabulum which may facilitate rasping and attachment of the parasite to stay in the bloodstream of the definitive host.
  • (20) Standup Terry Alderton argued aloud with his demonic subconscious; Nick Helm 's rasping fury barely concealed a need to be loved; Cariad Lloyd had great fun seeking a father figure in the front row.