What's the difference between respond and thermostat?

Respond


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To say somethin in return; to answer; to reply; as, to respond to a question or an argument.
  • (v. i.) To show some effect in return to a force; to act in response; to accord; to correspond; to suit.
  • (v. i.) To render satisfaction; to be answerable; as, the defendant is held to respond in damages.
  • (v. t.) To answer; to reply.
  • (v. t.) To suit or accord with; to correspond to.
  • (n.) An answer; a response.
  • (n.) A short anthem sung at intervals during the reading of a chapter.
  • (n.) A half pier or pillar attached to a wall to support an arch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (2) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (3) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (4) We evaluated the circadian pattern of gastric acidity by prolonged intraluminal pHmetry in 15 "responder" and 10 "nonresponder" duodenal ulcer patients after nocturnal administration of placebo, ranitidine, and famotidine.
  • (5) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
  • (6) We have evaluated the life-span of B lymphocytes by measuring the functional reactivity of normal B cells upon transfer into xid mice, which do not respond to anti-mu, fluoresceinated-Ficoll (FL-Ficoll) and 2,4,6-trinitrophenyl aminoethylcarbamylmethyl Ficoll (TNP-Ficoll).
  • (7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (8) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
  • (9) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (10) The percentage of eggs clamped at values more negative than -65 mV, which responded at insemination by developing an If, decreased and dropped to 0 at -80 mV.
  • (11) The data indicate that adult neurons with an intrinsic ability to regenerate axons can respond to substances with neurotrophic or neurite-promoting activities in tissue cultures.
  • (12) Responding to the 8 vignettes, 30 American and 32 Australian nurses took part in the study.
  • (13) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.
  • (14) However, in the 'responder' acromegalics, the infusion of DA, besides lowering baseline plasma GH, was capable of reducing the TRH-induced GH rise.
  • (15) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
  • (16) Seven of 12 who received mannitol responded with a diuresis.
  • (17) The bovine PLC responded differently to E coli, than to the 3 P haemolytica isolates in each of the 3 experimental test systems; however, responses to each of the P haemolytica isolates were not found to be significantly different.
  • (18) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
  • (19) Most respondents (46, 95%) were satisfied with life in general.
  • (20) Mycobacterium kansasii infection responds well to therapy, whereas M avium-intracellulare infection is difficult to treat.

Thermostat


Definition:

  • (n.) A self-acting apparatus for regulating temperature by the unequal expansion of different metals, liquids, or gases by heat, as in opening or closing the damper of a stove, or the like, as the heat becomes greater or less than is desired.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Parenterals, sterile preparations intended to be injected in man or animal, should be free from pyrogenic substances which are able to raise the thermostatic setting in the hypothalamus.
  • (2) Modifications described provide two high temperature thermostats and one low temperature thermostat, which shut the unit down if the temperature limits are exceeded.
  • (3) Sequential elution conditions are fully programmable by virtue of a 32K BBC microcomputer interfaced with an elution buffer selection valve and a thermostatically controlled column.
  • (4) A novel incubation device, a thermostatically controlled ultrasonic bath, is used to produce highly uniform enzyme reaction rates.
  • (5) The requirements of a thermostatic description are introduced; then those of nonequilibrium thermodynamics are added.
  • (6) It's tempting to turn your thermostat up on colder days.
  • (7) Change your approach to energy consumption Turn your heating and hot water thermostats down.
  • (8) The construction facilitates the even distribution of the circulating water, and a thermostatic control allows the temperature to be fixed at any level required.
  • (9) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
  • (10) Evidence of complex responses of the "thermostat" at a reptilian level of organization
  • (11) Since we doubted the accuracy of the measurements made with this device, we compared the values found using this thermometer with values from a conventional mercury thermometer, both in a thermostatic regulated water bath and when used clinically.
  • (12) It will.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Americans are connecting more and more of their devices – their refrigerators, their thermostats, their cars, their door locks – to the internet.
  • (13) Connected to a smartphone app, it also lets users control the thermostat when on the go.
  • (14) The effect of ICV administered TSH on Brobeck's thermostatic hypothesis was evaluated by recording chronological changes in electrical activity of precise loci (POA, VMN and CO) coupled by rectal temperature changes in dogs.
  • (15) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
  • (16) Cells freshly seeded into the closed culture flasks or dishes and placed on the metal tray with holes of the thermostat or incubator are seen to form the layer with uneven density: with high density corresponding to the flask bottom regions above the metal and low density corresponding to the flask bottom region above the holes in the tray.
  • (17) Higher ranges of temperature (38-44 degrees C) were achieved by a thermostatically controlled disc heater.
  • (18) The transfer of the samples from field conditions to a laboratory was imitated by putting the case with the samples into a thermostat at the temperature of 20 degrees C and 37 degrees C. In the first trial, at the temperature of 20 degrees C, statistically significant changes in pH values were recorded in seven hours.
  • (19) He was mocked – three decades before global warming became a fashionable concern – for walking around the White House, turning down the thermostats.
  • (20) The chromatographic system must be stable, and efficient thermostatting is essential.