What's the difference between retting and rutting?

Retting


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and kindred processes; -- also called rotting. See Ret.
  • (n.) A place where flax is retted; a rettery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rearrangement was presumed to be responsible for activation of the ret gene.
  • (2) A government-commissioned review into the RET, headed by the businessman and climate change sceptic Dick Warburton, concluded that while it has largely achieved its aims and helped create jobs in clean energy, it should be either wound back or cut off entirely.
  • (3) Although lidocaine and mexiletine increased RET, procainamide and disopyramide did not.
  • (4) With low grade astrocytomas, survival beyond 4 years was significantly worse (higher death rates) in the group receiving more than 1400 rets.
  • (5) Striking similarities were found between the functional pathways affected differentially by RET stimulation and well-defined cholinergic pathways which originate in the midbrain tegmentum.
  • (6) Oxipurinol plasma levels and plasma elimination half-life were investigated in five healthy volunteers after oral administration of 300 mg allopurinol in customary (A 300) and in slow-release preparation (A ret) in a double blind cross-over study.
  • (7) The nucleotide sequence indicates that the active ret transforming gene encodes a fusion protein with a carboxy-terminal domain which is 40 to 50% homologous to members of the tyrosine kinase gene family.
  • (8) But neither option from Dick’s report is closing down the RET, to be clear.” Abbott has previously blamed the RET for having a “significant impact” on power prices, although the Warburton report found this wasn’t the case.
  • (9) The remaining 6 patients suffered from prominent swallowing disturbances and their initial postoperative RETS demonstrated prolonged defective transit or the presence of gastroesophageal (GE) reflux.
  • (10) NBD-cholesterol linoleate (NBD-CL) and octadecyl rhodamine B (R18) were incorporated simultaneously into LDL, as a RET donor and a RET acceptor, respectively.
  • (11) The plan would overcome the effect of falling electricity demand on the real impact of the RET.
  • (12) RET-P1 and lectin binding did not always correspond in developing retina, indicating that at least part of the observed lectin label must be due to other glycoproteins or glycolipids.
  • (13) The review concedes this, and changed the rationale it used to argue in favour of getting rid of the RET.
  • (14) We have investigated the pH-dependent interaction between large unilamellar phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) and membrane vesicles derived from Bacillus subtilis, utilizing a fluorescent assay based on resonance energy transfer (RET) (Struck, D. K., Hoekstra, D., and Pagano, R. E. (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4093-4099).
  • (15) A vigorous defence of the RET, run by the Solar Council, is targeting the 20 most marginal Coalition electorates in the country.
  • (16) The RET is working – it has helped triple solar and wind energy since 2009, led to some $18bn in investment and grown jobs in the sector by more than 250%” said John Connor, chief executive of the Climate Institute.
  • (17) The pneumonitis was more frequently noted with increasing rets dose in both age groups (n.s.)
  • (18) The ret proto-oncogene shows a pattern of expression restricted to neuroendocrine tissue.
  • (19) In all the patients included in this study, dosage had exceded 1,600 rets.
  • (20) Immunoprecipitation with anti-phosphotyrosine antibody followed by Western blotting revealed that p57retTPC is constitutively phosphorylated, whereas the ret proto-oncogene products are not.

Rutting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Rut

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Our results were compared with those obtained with other therapeutical options, and it was demonstrated that prostatectomy (both retropubic and RUT) are, clinically and urodynamically, the most effective procedure in the treatment of obstructive prostate hypertrophy.
  • (2) Labour is in danger of being left behind, of becoming stuck in an anti-pluralist rut.
  • (3) Here are our tips for breaking out of the rut: Find a mentor Is there a female leader in your organisation you admire?
  • (4) The higher producer strain T. reesei RUT C-30 exhibited a higher conidial level of CBH II than T. reesei QM 9414.
  • (5) Perhaps that was the break that Swansea so badly needed to get them out of their rut.
  • (6) The results provide direct evidence for a primary binding contact between Rho protein and the rut segment of cro RNA and demonstrate that this binding contact remains stable when the cro RNA is serving as a cofactor for ATP hydrolysis, an observation that is consistent with a mechanism in which Rho maintains contact with the rut region while it makes additional interactions with RNA that are coupled to ATP hydrolysis.
  • (7) The subsequent post-rut profiles of treated bucks were characterized by lower basal plasma LH concentrations, and reduced frequency and amplitude of plasma testosterone surges.
  • (8) The results provide evidence for altered plasticity of synaptic morphology in memory mutants dnc and rut and suggest a role of cAMP cascade in mediating activity-dependent synaptic plasticity.
  • (9) We have to stick together and keep believing we are good enough to get ourselves out of this rut that we’ve been in.
  • (10) Elevated concentrations of SUN in adult males killed in December were attributed to an increased catabolism of muscle protein caused by low dietary intake and high energy requirements during the rut.
  • (11) The extreme increase in size of certain muscles in the neck in connection with the rutting season (e.g.
  • (12) H. pylori positivity or negativity was defined as the concordance of two of the following tests: RUT, microbiologic culture, and histologic examination on bioptic samples.
  • (13) Acetylcholinesterase (ACE) activity was studied by the Karnovsky-Ruts method from the 5th to the 30th day in the brain of young rats born to chronically alcoholized animals receiving ethanol for 3 to 5 months prior to conception as well as during pregnancy and breast feeding.
  • (14) Park at the main overlook at Goosenecks and hike south and west along the old, increasingly rutted road for about a mile out to the tip of the mesa.
  • (15) In prostaglandin-treated animals, progesterone concentration was high at the time of the rut and remained so until late February 1990.
  • (16) The Guardian’s Michael Billington said it offered “a rutting rake’s modern progress” but it lacked the “subversiveness” of Molière’s original.
  • (17) We show, using a filter retention assay technique, that rho protein binds with about 10-fold lower affinity to variants of cro RNA lacking both parts of rut or to normal cro RNA having one or the other part of rut bound to a complementary DNA oligonucleotide than it binds to unmodified cro RNA.
  • (18) The predictivity value of combined RUT and nodular antritis, whether positive or negative, was 100%.
  • (19) Undeniably one of the best roads in a part of the world where rutted single-lane highways still link many major cities, it joins the international airport with Colombo, the political and commercial capital.
  • (20) For supporters, high-speed rail is the solution to California's future transportation needs, when the state's already jammed, rutted highways and busy airports won't be enough for a population expected to hit 46 million by 2035.

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