What's the difference between rightness and tightness?

Rightness


Definition:

  • (n.) Straightness; as, the rightness of a line.
  • (n.) The quality or state of being right; right relation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
  • (5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
  • (9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
  • (15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
  • (16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
  • (19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.

Tightness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or condition of being tight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freshly isolated sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles contain 0.05 mol of tightly bound ADP and 0.03 mol of tightly bound ATP per mol of Ca2+, Mg2+-ATPase (ATP phosphohydrolase, EC 3.6.1.3).
  • (2) The expression of the Pgp isoforms appears to be tightly regulated and, at least in some cells, under complex hormonal control.
  • (3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (4) The cells are predominantly monopolar, tightly packed, and are flattened at the outer border of the ring.
  • (5) These data indicate that topoisomerase I and RNA polymerase I are tightly complexed both in vivo and in vitro, and suggest a role for DNA topoisomerase I in the transcription of ribosomal genes.
  • (6) Immunofluorescence and immunoelectronmicroscopy experiments demonstrated that while tight junctions demarcate PAS-O distribution in confluent cultures, apical polarity could be established at low culture densities when cells could not form tight junctions with neighboring cells.
  • (7) Investigations have been made to determine the identity and binding characteristics of the pterins that are bound tightly to dihydrofolate reductases which are isolated from vertebrate sources by a well established procedure.
  • (8) At all times, a tight inverse correlation exists between ATP and IMP concentrations.
  • (9) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
  • (10) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
  • (11) In contrast, interchange of the histones and tightly bound non-histone protein DNA complexes from hormone-withdrawn and estrogen-stimulated chromatins during reconstitution did not affect the level of mRNAOV sequences produced.
  • (12) Using microelectrodes and various microscopic techniques active Na+ absorption as well as K+ secretion has been localized to the principal cells, while Cl- absorption was found to proceed largely, though not exclusively, through the tight junctions between cells.
  • (13) The successful establishment of a postcrisis SV-40 T antigen transformed epithelial cell line, 1HAEo-, which retains tight junctions and vectorial ion transport, is described.
  • (14) The present investigation shows that the intramembranous proteins of tight and gap junctions are mobile structures within the fluid membrane.
  • (15) In contrast, after incubation with 0.5% DOC, the core microfilaments are no longer tightly bundled yet the lateral arms remain attached with a distinct 33-nm periodicity.
  • (16) The data collected by several approaches reveal that assembly and maturation of vaccinia involves a tightly coupled sequence of interrelated events including the assembly of the envelope, post-translational cleavage of several virion polypeptides, and induction of the core enzymes.
  • (17) The tight coupling between neuronal activity and oxidative energy metabolism forms the basis for the use of cytochrome oxidase as an endogenous metabolic marker for neurons.
  • (18) When using a nylon thread for the attachment of a pseudophakos to the iris, it may happen that the suture is slung tightly around the implant-lens.
  • (19) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
  • (20) Independent experts warn that rumours and deliberate misinformation about the regime are rife, partly because it is impossible to verify or disprove most stories about the tightly controlled country's elite.

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