What's the difference between sag and stag?

Sag


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To lose firmness or elasticity; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced.
  • (v. i.) To loiter in walking; to idle along; to drag or droop heavily.
  • (v. t.) To cause to bend or give way; to load.
  • (n.) State of sinking or bending; sagging.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the posterior capsule was sectioned, no significant changes were noted in the severity of the sag or the rotation.
  • (2) Axonal regeneration with the ANG was equal to SAGs as measured by axonal diameters, physiological, and functional methods, although the SAG demonstrated statistically higher axonal counts.
  • (3) Yards away from a genuine station, he used a huge funnel to fill up a car sagging under the weight of its occupants and market produce.
  • (4) Guanacline, but not guanethidine or SAG, produced fluorescent lipopigment in all species examined.
  • (5) For cross-linked alpha alpha, however, the curve sags at temperatures somewhat below the region of principal cooperative loss of helix, the latter occurring at higher temperature but with the same steepness as in the non-cross-linked case.
  • (6) Myosin ATPase staining showed that about 80% of the LGM consists of type II A fibres, whilst the remainder are type II B. Physiological determination of the contractile properties of motor units indicated two classes of units: those that were relatively fatigue resistant and did not show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigue-resistant fibres or FR) and those that were relatively fatigable and did show a sag property (like fast-twitch, fatigable fibres or FF).
  • (7) The time-dependent sag elicited by hyperpolarization was reduced when Na+ or K+ was removed from the normal bath solution but was abolished with the removal of both Na+ and K+.
  • (8) In his bid to revitalise Spain's sagging monarchy, Felipe VI must be willing to show that he will handle things differently to his father, said Urreiztieta.
  • (9) By lacking possibilities of the comparison of equivalent (produced under the same preparation and storage conditions) concentrates of erythrocytes the higher transfusion efficiency of the SAG-S concentrates of erythrocytes to be expected could not be verified.
  • (10) This domed white building is now a magnet for national expectations, and many wonder whether it will sag under the weight of so much anticipation.
  • (11) Superantigens (SAg) interact with T lymphocytes bearing particular V beta sequences as part of their T cell receptor (TcR).
  • (12) Both produce substantial labeling of PC but [14C]SMG gives rise to the highest proportion of TG and the lowest of PA and PI, whereas [14C]SAG yields the opposite pattern.
  • (13) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
  • (14) As the temperature of the tarts increases a race will start between the sag of melting fat and the drying of the structure-forming gluten network.
  • (15) Several species were treated chronically with varying doses of guanethidine, guanacline or SAG; the superior cervical ganglia were examined light microscopically for neuronal destruction and for osmiophilic fluorescent lipopigment accumulation.
  • (16) An important exception concerned SE to which an equal antibody response is produced in high and low lines of sAg selection.
  • (17) Cheerful and eager to be helpful, he arrives to collect me the following morning, dressed in sagging brown corduroy jacket, faded blue T-shirt, blue silk cravat and socks beneath his Velcro-strapped sandals.
  • (18) A statistically significant improvement was observed, on the SAG score obtained during the follow-up, in patients (n = 16) who were not admitted to hospital in the 12 month period following discharge.
  • (19) Jannetta has summarized this concept as follows: "As we age, our arteries elongate and our brains 'sag'.
  • (20) The observation that ingrowth of SAG neurites to presumptive sensory areas of the inner ear preceded cytodifferentiation of those receptor cells suggested a causal relationship.

Stag


Definition:

  • (n.) The adult male of the red deer (Cervus elaphus), a large European species closely related to the American elk, or wapiti.
  • (n.) The male of certain other species of large deer.
  • (n.) A colt, or filly; also, a romping girl.
  • (n.) A castrated bull; -- called also bull stag, and bull seg. See the Note under Ox.
  • (n.) An outside irregular dealer in stocks, who is not a member of the exchange.
  • (n.) One who applies for the allotment of shares in new projects, with a view to sell immediately at a premium, and not to hold the stock.
  • (n.) The European wren.
  • (v. i.) To act as a "stag", or irregular dealer in stocks.
  • (v. t.) To watch; to dog, or keep track of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Specifically, StAg splicing uses either of two lariat branch points, one of which is located only 4 nucleotides from the 3' splice site.
  • (2) In particular, all cases of the epithelial predominant type presenting favorable histology, including stag 4 cases, survived over two years.
  • (3) During a research project on the occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes 194 strains were isolated in southern West Germany during the years 1972 to 1974:154 from soil and plant samples (20.3%), 16 from feces of deer and stag (15.7%), 9 from old moldy fodder and wildlife feeding grounds (27.2%), and 8 from birds (17.3%).
  • (4) Mean creatine kinase activity and creatinine, albumin and phosphorus concentrations were higher in stags than in hinds.
  • (5) I started chatting with owner Charlie MacDonald about who would take over from Donnie in a jokey way at first, but then, before I knew it I had left my job and joined Stag as Donnie's replacement.
  • (6) The combination of intraoperative localization of intrarenal arteries by Doppler flowmetry and cutting through renal parenchyma using the neodymium-YAG laser beam was used in 7 patients with stag-horn calculi or recurrent stones.
  • (7) Detailed information obtained from 4 stags indicated that there was a fixed relationship between stage of the antler cycle and testis diameter; minimum testis diameter occurred 1-2 months after antler casting whereas maximum testis diameter occurred when stags were in hard antler.
  • (8) Since lymphatic invasions are unusual in children, surgical exploration of the retro-peritoneal space is no longer considered necessary for the stagging and is replaced nowadays by ultrasonography and CT scan.
  • (9) Reports of George’s stag do at Ristorante da Ivo near St Mark’s Square with the free £3,000 meal featuring six flavours of ice cream, including takeaway cartons, initially irked me.
  • (10) We investigated the value of 10 free serum amino acids in continuous therapy monitoring in 9 patients with primary cancer of vulva stag pT1-2pN0M0.
  • (11) In contrast, THX stags maintained a testosterone response (P less than 0.01) in these 2 months and did not exhibit any signs of a seasonal lack of reproductive activity at this time of year.
  • (12) Jo, the youngest brother, learned from his earliest years to keep quiet and watch Boris earn his rightful place as top stag.
  • (13) The 18C2-purified soluble target Ag (STAg) caused inhibition of cytotoxicity when preincubated with fish NCC.
  • (14) Even if you’re one of those refuseniks who proudly claim “I’m not on Facebook”, you probably are – what about that chemically inconvenienced stag weekend in Tallinn that your pals created a Facebook album for?
  • (15) There is little evidence that hungover customers struggle, taste-wise, with what one provider calls the Auschwitz Stag Do Package, which could be attributable to amnesia, or to that fact that, as with lap dancing and medieval banquets, what happens at Birkenau stays at Birkenau.
  • (16) Its 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II , shifted the stag-do antics of bachelor quartet Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner and Doug Billings from Las Vegas to Bangkok and once again broke box-office records.
  • (17) Hypothermic in situ perfusion of the kidney in difficult surgical procedures on the renal parenchyma, e.g., multiple stones, stag-horn calculi, benign and malignant tumors in solitary, residual or functionally residual kidneys.
  • (18) The composition of the antlers did not vary significantly between penned and grazing stags or with age.
  • (19) These STAG planes are placed in the myocardium in a star pattern so that they intersect on the long axis of the heart and stripes appear through the width of the heart wall.
  • (20) This study was undertaken to evaluate both technique and aesthetic results of early excision and split thickness autografting (STAG) of full skin thickness face burns.

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