What's the difference between scintillate and stencil?

Scintillate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To emit sparks, or fine igneous particles.
  • (v. i.) To sparkle, as the fixed stars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
  • (2) An accurate and reproducible method is described for generating a map of the cobalt sheet source from images of it made in multiple positions with the scintillation camera.
  • (3) (The scintillation medium is preheated with ethanolamine to eliminate chemiluminescence.)
  • (4) [8(-14)C]Inosine monophosphate formed was separated by high-voltage electrophoresis and radioactivity was measured by liquid-scintillation counting.
  • (5) With liquid scintillation counting after two-dimensional gel electrophoresis it is possible to estimate the proportion of species-specific ribosomal protein in a mouse-hamster somatic cell hybrid.
  • (6) Plasma data and scintillation camera images obtained from patients receiving either 1, 50, or 100 mg of monoclonal antibody indicated dose-dependent (i.e., saturable) kinetics.
  • (7) Features of this spectrometer which make it more suitable than the previously employed scintillation spectrometers for the observation of granulocyte and other chemiluminescent systems include; (1) the ability to measure CL immediately upon reaction initiation; (2) simplicity of photomultiplier tube exchange; and (3) built-in optical filter holders for spectral analysis.
  • (8) A simple scanning apparatus, similar to that used in a hand-held scintillation probe, was compared with simultaneous measurements made by a gamma camera in 16 healthy males.
  • (9) We conclude that analog motion correction should be provided in all scintillation cameras used for liver scintigraphy.
  • (10) To investigate the potential application of radionuclide computed tomography (RCT) to nuclear medicine imaging using 99mTc, a tomographic system using a lightweight scintillation camera for brain imaging was constructed, and lesion contrast with RCT and conventional scintigraphy were compared.
  • (11) Larger detectors with converging collimation result in much higher photon input rates to the scintillation crystal in routine clinical studies than has occurred in the past.
  • (12) Samples were assayed using liquid scintillation counting and the iodoantipyrine results were regressed against the butanol results.
  • (13) A device based on an 8080 microprocessor was assembled for the generation of image data in a manner similar to that of the scintillation camera.
  • (14) Graft segments, effluents, and seeding suspension were assayed in a beta scintillation counter.
  • (15) Metabolism of 2-aminofluorene was measured both colorimetrically (formation of a reduced iron chelate from the N-hydroxyfluorene metabolite) and radiochemically (separation of 3H-metabolites by high performance liquid chromatography and quantitation by scintillation counting).
  • (16) The bioluminescence marker was expressed in the presence of n-decanal, and was monitored as chemiluminescence in a liquid scintillation counter.
  • (17) The migration of the donor lymphocytes was followed by labeling them in vitro with either [3H] or [14C]uridine and measuring radioactivity by scintillation counting of the spleen and lymph nodes of the recipients removed 24 h after injection and in TDL collected throughout this period.
  • (18) By utilizing the gamma-emitting isotope of selenium, Se-(8-azidoadenosyl)[75Se]selenomethionine eliminates the need for the impregnation of acrylamide gels with fluorographic enhancers and dilution of liquid samples into scintillation cocktails, as is required with the commonly used methyl-3H-labeled and 35S-labeled S-(8-azidoadenosyl)methionine.
  • (19) Of 116 patients who had undergone combined liver-lung scintillation imaging, 23 with negative studies had abnormal subphrenic spaces at operation, and 5 with positive studies had abnormal subphrenic spaces at laparotomy (hematomas, bile spillage, serous fluid or abscess); 4 of 6 nonexplored positive studdies showed resolution of defects on serial imaging.
  • (20) Elution with 2 X 5 ml of 0.1 M sodium chloride in 5 mM ammonium acetate removes all of the orotate and leaves all of the product orotidine monophosphate (OMP) bound so that it may be measured in a scintillation counter.

Stencil


Definition:

  • (n.) A thin plate of metal, leather, or other material, used in painting, marking, etc. The pattern is cut out of the plate, which is then laid flat on the surface to be marked, and the color brushed over it. Called also stencil plate.
  • (v. t.) To mark, paint, or color in figures with stencils; to form or print by means of a stencil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His stencils, skewed perspective and wit are recognizable enough to be mocked in the New Yorker .
  • (2) Qassem is one of a small band of graffiti artists in the Afghan capital who, encouraged by a group of western "art activists", are set on bringing tagging, wall-painting and graphic stencils to public spaces across the city.
  • (3) Kaltenbach's step test (individually by stencils defined normal ranges of the heart rate during a 6 minute submaximal exercise and a 6 minute recovery period; age and sex dependent work load relative to body surface area) is able to mimic everyday efforts in an easy and reliable way.
  • (4) Stencilling – If you want to get started with spray cans, precut stencils are pretty easy to get your hands on and you can make some really nice things by overlapping the same patterns with different colours.
  • (5) It was facing closure earlier this year and needed £120,000 to survive – until the Banksy stencil arrived next to the club's gates.
  • (6) The envelope contains a small red card with the number 23 stencilled in black and a handwritten invitation to deliver a talk of my choosing at the semi-annual convention to take place in mid-January in Berlin.
  • (7) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol.
  • (8) "He's sort of like Batman," Matt Adams, a Williamsburg resident, said as he photographed the Japanese-themed stencil.
  • (9) Leopard and Barcode, one of the artist’s celebrated early stencil works, had been situated on the side of a house on Pembroke Road, Bristol .
  • (10) A piece of engine cowling featuring a Rolls-Royce stencil, which was found in South Africa earlier this year , is “almost certainly” from the Boeing 777 that went missing more than two years ago with 239 people on board, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau said on Thursday.
  • (11) Retrospective evaluation of the nomogram showed that it can separate normal labour from labour destined to result in an abnormal outcome, such as longer first and second stages, a greater incidence of instrumental delivery, and babies with low Apgar scores.It is suggested that the use of a stencil representing normal labour progress, together with Philpott's partogram, will be of considerable use, both in specialist and in general-practitioner units.
  • (12) Glenn Ligon – Call and Response Often using words as image, Ligon’s stencilled paintings, neons and films detail the experience of black America.
  • (13) Two years later, when “The Four” were invited to contribute to the London Arts and Crafts Exhibition, he sent a rather heavily proportioned settle, with stencilled patterns and beaten metal panels, made by Margaret Macdonald.
  • (14) That’s me,” he said of the stencilled outline shown in one of the clips.
  • (15) "It's quite easy to be a bad stencil artist, but it takes a lot of work to get the images he gets."
  • (16) Dj Lu’s pineapple hand-grenade stencil is one of the most famous and prominent symbols on the streets of Bogotá - a comment, he says, on the way land is used in Colombia , where soil that was once for crops is now full of landmines.
  • (17) Instead, the site showed images of only one painting, a stencil of a man and a woman standing in a doorway and appearing to embrace, but in fact looking over each other's shoulders to read their smartphones, which illuminate their faces.
  • (18) I am very optimistic about the future of an independent UK.” In front of Jackson’s stencil is David Burns, a wheelchair user from Dorset, who describes himself as “a self-unemployed artist”.
  • (19) The artist's work, even when removed from outdoor locations, can command huge sums: in February a painting of two policemen kissing that had originally been stencilled onto a pub wall in Brighton was sold at a Miami auction for $575,000.
  • (20) But their identities can be gleaned by cross-checking photos submitted online against silhouette stencils applied by Perry to the pots shown in clips he has released.