What's the difference between propine and toast?

Propine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pledge; to offer as a toast or a health in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to give in token of friendship.
  • (v. t.) To give, or deliver; to subject.
  • (n.) A pledge.
  • (n.) A gift; esp., drink money.
  • (n.) Same as Allylene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This alcohol oxidase oxidizes not only methanol but also lower primary alcohols (C2-C4), 2-propin-1-ol and formaldehyde.
  • (2) Propine contains the following: dipivefrin, 0.1%; mannitol, 1.89%; sodium metabisulfite, 0.075%; disodium edetate, 0.0127%; and benzalkonium chloride, 0.004%.
  • (3) There was no significant difference between the intraocular lowering effect of the two preparations, and 60% of patients receiving Propine and 66% of those receiving adrenaline noted side effects.
  • (4) Iontophoresis was performed once at 0.5 mAmp for five minutes and 0.1% Propine drops were instilled four times a day beginning three days after iontophoresis and continuing for five consecutive days.
  • (5) Dipivefrin alone reproduced each patient's initial Propine-induced conjunctivitis; symptoms occurred unilaterally in one patient and bilaterally in the other four patients.
  • (6) In 12 ulcer patients in attack and in 6 healthy subjects the secretory test to insulin (Hollender test) was used and repeated after 48 hrs in association with propranolol (Propins test).
  • (7) Herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) ocular shedding and recurrent HSV-1 corneal epithelial lesions were assessed after ocular iontophoresis of 0.1% 6-hydroxydopamine followed by topical ocular instillation of 0.1% Propine in ten rabbits latently infected with HSV-1 strain McKrae.
  • (8) Derivatives of propionic and acetic acids (propinate, dalapon, MCAA, DCAA, and TCAA) did not exhibit any appreciable inhibiting effect under the experimental conditions.
  • (9) Fumarate, 3-phenyl-2-propinate, 2-enoyl-methyl and CoA esters proved not to be substrates for the purified reductase.
  • (10) Dipivefrin (Propine) is an effective ocular hypotensive agent.
  • (11) It therefore results that by using our "Propins" test it is possible to estimate the prevalence of the vagal-cholinergic or the beta-adrenergic (gastrinic) mechanism in the pathogenesis of duodenal ulcer.
  • (12) The facial nerve from the point of view of its arterial supply must be considered as a nerve of the middle fossa and represent the major risk of embolization in the propinal middle meningeal artery.
  • (13) Statistically, both dipivefrin (Propine) and levobunolol (Betagan) were found to be more expensive.
  • (14) We studied five patients with adverse local reactions to dipivefrin (Propine) eye drops.
  • (15) The results of this single-blind randomised trial comparing adrenaline 1% with dipivalyl epinephrine (Propine) 0.1% confirm that both have a significant effect in lowering the intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension, but it is generally insufficient to warrant their use as the first line medical treatment of these two conditions.

Toast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
  • (v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
  • (v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
  • (v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
  • (v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
  • (v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The favorable effects of up to 25% toasted soybean meal and 3% licorice root extract on the levels of the four enzymes, without unfavorable changes in clinical parameters, might account in part for the chemopreventive activities of these additives.
  • (2) As the clock struck and glasses clinked, we toasted the new.
  • (3) Fifty friends and family came here to his wake and toasted his memory with vintage jeroboams of La Tâche, perhaps the most distinguished of all burgundies.
  • (4) However, even if you prefer Marmite to marmalade on your toast, citrus peel is a powerful tool in the kitchen, especially at this time of year, when bright, fresh flavours are at a premium.
  • (5) The company previously attracted heavy criticism with plans to eliminate the morning perk of free tea and toast handed out to staff across 230 stores.
  • (6) Downstairs I had black coffee, kippers, and brown toast in the breakfast room.
  • (7) Eat Natural toasted buckwheat muesli, £3 Breakfast choices can be particularly limited if you're gluten-free – this muesli shows they don't have to be.
  • (8) English wine is to be the toast of the country’s farmers this week, with more than £100m in sales expected this year for sparkling and still varieties combined, the environment secretary will announce on Wednesday.
  • (9) 42 mins: Lovely play by Dindane on the right wing, jinking inside and leaving Coentrao (who has terrible golden-toasted blond highlights from 1986) on his backside.
  • (10) If it was for print, I could have written about the toast.
  • (11) ‘We were simple as doves, wise as serpents’: Portugal toast Euro 2016 win Read more Has any player been through as many contrasting emotions in the space of a major final?
  • (12) Four severely and multiply handicapped students were trained to perform four tasks: (a) making toast, (b) making popcorn, (c) operating a clothes dryer, and (d) operating a washing machine.
  • (13) After the feeding of untoasted soybean oilmeal a significant increase of the secretion volume and of protein outpour could be observed in contrast to toasted soybean oilmeal within 24 h. The heat-labile soybean trypsin inhibitor also caused an activity increase of the pancreatic enzymes.
  • (14) As for Mr Mitchell, in private his cabinet colleagues were saying that he was "toast".
  • (15) But there was also a diversion into why, across the industrialised world, the numbers of diagnosed autistic people have increased, and two sentences that caused me to spit out my toast.
  • (16) But someone should dig up the pictures of David and Mirket as they toasted the launch of their new party.
  • (17) Bidisha : Two sexist remarks and one misogynist one At a major literary festival, before an event about military fiction, a posh famous English author smirked to me, "What's the difference between a woman and a piece of toast?
  • (18) I wish I could be there with you to raise a toast, but I’m in New Orleans, poor me.
  • (19) He is one of life’s natural addicts – not just drugs, but sex, work, success, avocado on toast.
  • (20) On approaching the nursing station, they had found a staff member enjoying tea and toast with her feet up on a chair.