What's the difference between searching and starching?
Searching
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Search
(a.) Exploring thoroughly; scrutinizing; penetrating; trying; as, a searching discourse; a searching eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
(4) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
(5) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
(6) We were searching for spontaneous and positional nystagmus in 5 positions with open eyes in darkness and with closed eyes.
(7) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(8) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(9) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
(10) The most controversial part of the resolution is the stop and search powers.
(11) Twelve mutations were searched for using classical techniques of molecular biology in a total of 126 patients.
(12) The interactions of nitrous oxide with cytochrome c oxidase isolated from bovine heart muscle have been investigated in search of an explanation for the inhibition of mitochondrial respiration by the inhalation anesthetic.
(13) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
(14) A manual search, derived from the references of these papers, was performed to obtain relevant citations for the years preceding 1970.
(15) Restriction site analysis, DNA sequence analysis, and computer-assisted search revealed eight retrotransposon-like elements distributed over a 25 kilobase (kb) mouse Il-6 region.
(16) A DNA sequencing of 139 bp at the 3' end of these clones and a search of the data bank revealed that the sequence was identical to the parallel domain in the human H19 gene.
(17) Statistical diagnostic tests are used for the final evaluation of the method acceptability, specifically in deciding whether or not the systematic error indicated requires a root source search for its removal or is simply a calibration constant of the method.
(18) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
(19) The molecular structure of the hexagonal crystal form of porcine pepsin (EC 3.4.23.1), an aspartic proteinase from the gastric mucosa, has been determined by molecular replacement using the fungal enzyme, penicillopepsin (EC 3.4.23.6), as the search model.
(20) The rationale for using the high-risk-group research design in the search for the aetiology of schizophrenia is described.
Starching
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Starch
Example Sentences:
(1) Glucose release from these samples was highly correlated with starch gelatinization (r2 = .99).
(2) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
(3) Tissue storage of hydroxyethyl starch (HES), a widely used artificial colloid, has been reported.
(4) Therefore, we changed from dextran 40 to hydroxyethyl starch in 1987 for the treatment of several otoneurological disorders.
(5) The present experiments examined flavor differences among starches.
(6) A small number of children with protracted diarrhoea, who have severe mucosal injury may not be able to handle even starch and may require diets based on short chain glucose polymers.
(7) Agarose gel electrophoresis demonstrated that the fast and slow components obtained on starch block electrophoresis corresponded to the pre-beta and late pre-beta band respectively.
(8) Dry matter and starch intakes were greater when corn was fed than when barley was fed.
(9) In a starch block, migration was toward the cathode at pH 8.0.
(10) Slowing starch digestion by inhibiting amylase activity in the intestinal lumen should improve postprandial carbohydrate tolerance in patients with diabetes mellitus.
(11) This study uses breath hydrogen analysis, a sensitive method for detecting the passage of starch into the colon, to determine if a potent amylase inhibitor is capable of producing carbohydrate malabsorption.
(12) Concentrates of amyloid substance derived from organs of 10 human patients representing a variety of clinical entities were characterized according to their amino acid compositions, their electrophoretic constituents mobile in urea-starch gel at pH 3 and their stability with respect to the binding of Congo red in the pH interval 9-12.5.
(13) The 13CO2 starch breath test is an attractive test for the study of factors affecting carbohydrate assimilation.
(14) Production of milk and milk fat was not affected, but yields of CP and SNF were decreased when additional starch was fed to cows.
(15) The effect of two doses (3 mg and 10 mg) of the inhibitor of pancreatic alpha-amylase trestatin on the metabolism of an oral load of 75 g of starch was observed in healthy human subjects.
(16) These were analyzed for: tannins, trypsin inhibitors, hemagglutinins (with cow, sheep, and human erythrocytes), damaged starch, available lysine, protein quality (by the NPR method), and true digestibility.
(17) Two-day-old poults were fed diets containing no added fat [44.6% starch, 2.2% ether extract by weight (HC)], 10% tallow (T), or 10% corn oil [(CO) 29.0% starch, 10.9% ether extract].
(18) We have examined under a variety of conditions the ability of potato starch phosphorylase to cause exchange of the ester and phosphoryl oxygens of alpha-D-glucopyranose 1-phosphate (Glc-1-P).
(19) In contrast, foci formed by 3-4 dysplastic crypts were decreased by the starch diet (P less than 0.05).
(20) Several experiments examined the preference of adult female rats for starch and starch-derived polysaccnarides using short- and long-term two-choice tests.