What's the difference between ringlet and singlet?

Ringlet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small ring; a small circle; specifically, a fairy ring.
  • (n.) A curl; especially, a curl of hair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She began as a ringletted country singer, teenage sweetheart of the American heartland, but between 2006’s eponymous first album and now she’s become the kind of culturally titanic figure adored as much by gnarly rock critics as teenage girls, feminist intellectuals and, well, pretty much all of emotionally sentient humankind.
  • (2) One ringlet on a handle has been offset to facilitate retrieval of the needle holder from a flat surface.
  • (3) The ringlet configuration of the splayed scissors conforms to the normal resting posture of the hand.
  • (4) The purpose of this study was to develop orthodontic ringlets from polyurethane which have maximum flow resistance.
  • (5) The ringleted far-out Mona Ramsey is on a quest to find herself when the answer is right beneath her coke-dusted nose.
  • (6) Neither intact phage nor ghosts were seen in any of the preparations, although ringlets of two different diameters, which appeared to correspond to the diameters of the sheath and inner core, were observed.
  • (7) Side by side on the shelves near us are two framed photographs: on the left is Melanie in a white dress, with a cascade of blond ringlets; and on the right is Tom, still the same bright blue eyes, but with a boy’s short hair.
  • (8) Writing about Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh in 1978, Lorna Sage drew attention to the "slump" in its reputation after the success it had first enjoyed after its 1856 publication: at first, she argued, it seemed to have successfully liberated the epic form from a male monopoly; subsequently, though, a ringletted Barrett Browning morphed into "almost the archetype of the powerless, fey poetess".
  • (9) A Hasidic Jewish schoolboy with ringlets and a limp.
  • (10) Soluble rCR2, visualized by high resolution electron microscopy, was shown to be an extended, highly flexible molecule comprised of ringlet domains, each approximately 24.1 A in length, which likely correspond to the short consensus repeat motif deduced from the CR2 cDNA nucleotide sequence.
  • (11) PMC formed 15 times as many epithelial ringlets or "stomata" as PMVEC.
  • (12) In addition, surgeons can apply greater force to the splayed scissor ringlets than that which could be applied to the ringlets of conventional scissors.
  • (13) The abnormalities were predominantly confined to the posterior pole and ranged from many small (100- to 200-microns) subretinal black ringlets to single large (2- to 3-disc diameter) geographic lesions.
  • (14) Brown bodies, formed by coelomocytes surrounding foreign material, accumulated in the posterior region of the animal around the cloacal suspensors; these eventually were eliminated through a ringlet of ducts connecting the coelomic cavity with the external environment.
  • (15) Ringlet numbers increased by 354% while marbled white counts rose by 503%.

Singlet


Definition:

  • (n.) An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quantitative singlet-singlet energy-transfer measurements were carried out to determine changes in the distance between the two Met-84 H4 sites within the same nucleosome following conformational transitions which we have reported earlier.
  • (2) In neutral or basic aqueous solution guanine, guanosine, deoxyguanosine, guanylic acid, deoxyguanylic acid, thymine, and uracil reacted with singlet oxygen.
  • (3) This broad singlet does not appear to be a tyrosyl radical.
  • (4) The ESR spectrum exhibited a singlet (g = 2.0021) with a 5.4-G peak-to-peak linewidth.
  • (5) While hydroxyl radicals produce DNA strand breaks and sites of base loss (AP sites) in high yield and react with all four bases of DNA, singlet oxygen generates predominantly modified guanine residues and few strand breaks and AP sites.
  • (6) These changes are detected by variations in the rate of decay of the excited singlet state of pyrene after pulsation with a 10-nsec ruby laser flash.
  • (7) This has been demonstrated using a separated-surface-sensitizer system for generating chemically pure singlet oxygen, eliminating most of the complications that arise with singlet oxygen generation by conventional photosensitization.
  • (8) Since all the sulfhydryl groups of beta-crystallin are known to be exposed on the surface of the protein (Andley et al, 1982, Biochemistry 21, 1853), these results suggest that the pronounced changes in conformation of beta-crystallin by singlet oxygen may be due to a rapid loss of the protein tertiary structure by oxidation of the sulfhydryl groups.
  • (9) The quantum yields for singlet oxygen formation via energy transfer from triplet alpha-terthienyl have been obtained from time-resolved measurements of its IR phosphorescence: these yields are in the 0.6-0.8 range in non-polar and polar (hydroxylic and non-hydroxylic) solvents.
  • (10) Attempts with various chemical sources of singlet oxygen to determine whether this species inactivates DNA did not give an unequivocal answer.
  • (11) The near IR emission at 1270 nm following pulsed laser excitation of methylene blue in deuterium oxide, was used to study the interaction of a singlet molecular oxygen (1O2) with (i) 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) and its oxidation products, and (ii) biosubstrates of relevance in Parkinson's disease.
  • (12) This differs from results obtained with native enzyme, where pterin acts as a sensitizer via efficient singlet-singlet energy transfer to FADH2.
  • (13) Chemiluminescence appears to result from a side reaction involving singlet oxygen attack on the alpha-methene bridge, yielding a dioxetane.
  • (14) In acetonitrile, diphenylamine was oxidized by singlet oxygen to form N-phenyl-p-benzoquinonimine.
  • (15) This information combined with the fluorescence quantum yield data account for the low values for singlet oxygen production.
  • (16) Other roles of carnosine, such as chelation of metal ions, quenching of singlet oxygen, and binding of hydroperoxides, are also discussed.
  • (17) Tests for the ability of singlet oxygen to induce lambda prophage in E. coli K12 also proved negative.
  • (18) The light-dependent reaction appears to be mediated by singlet oxygen.
  • (19) Superoxide anion (O-2) and singlet oxygen (1O2) were estimated but undetectable during the dopa-tyrosinase reaction.
  • (20) Evidence is presented for three mechanisms of inhibition by extendible nucleotides (of dhp and ara types) exhibiting frequent internalization: araATP acted as a simple pseudoterminator of alpha and beta polymerases, but was easily extended past singlet sites by Herpesviridae polymerases and only stalled at sites requiring two or more araATP insertions in a row.