What's the difference between shim and ship?

Shim


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of shallow plow used in tillage to break the ground, and clear it of weeds.
  • (n.) A thin piece of metal placed between two parts to make a fit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The model contains 13 parameters that can be varied, 12 shim coil currents, and the receiver mixer frequency.
  • (2) The derivatized bile acids were separated stepwise on a Shim-pack CLC-ODS column using acetonitrilemethanol-water (100:50:30) (A), (100:50:20) (B), and (100:50:0) (C) as mobile phases with changing automatically from A to C using a solvent changer.
  • (3) For this purpose, a method of automatic shimming was developed and tested on phantoms and volunteers.
  • (4) This probe design tunes to 23-Sodium for rapid shimming and then, to 31-Phosphorus for measurements of pH and high energy phosphate metabolites.
  • (5) Voxels may be shimmed using only first-order X, Y, and Z shims to produce three-dimensional shim current maps, thus avoiding shim coupling problems.
  • (6) A novel latent proteinase of which activity was induced by heating in the presence of NaCl was purified to homogeneity from threadfin-bream muscle by a combination of DEAE-cellulose, Con A-Sepharose, Arg-Sepharose, and Shim-pack HAC chromatographies.
  • (7) Our localization strategy also allows us to shim easily on the well-defined volume of interest and leads to high-resolution spectra that exhibit multiplet structure.
  • (8) A complete shimming process generally requires only 80 transients.
  • (9) A data link to the shim power supply allows automatic update of currents.
  • (10) Addition of CO2 to the oxygen and appropriate changes in gas flow and "shim" pressure permit changes to be made in the ventilation of the device during perfusion to achieve desired levels of PaO2 and PaCO2 under widely disparate conditions of temperature and flow.
  • (11) We recently described the identification of BOS1 (Newman, A., J. Shim, and S. Ferro-Novick.
  • (12) However, despite our monitoring of additional variables, including shim and inlet pressure and recirculation flow, gas exchange abnormalities were encountered in 5 patients on whom the membrane oxygenator was used; in 4 of these cases the abnormalities were encountered prior to our recognition of the potential for occasional internal shunting with this device.
  • (13) The thickness of the blood film is decreased by increasing the "shim" pressure, so that increasing the "shim" presure results in higher PaO2.
  • (14) The chromatographic conditions were as follows: column: Shim-pack CLC-ODS; mobile phase: methanol-water (70:30).
  • (15) In addition to the main magnet important additions like gradient and shim coils, aspects of site planning and future problems are discussed.
  • (16) An acid sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been purified from human placenta by means of successive procedures including extraction, Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, activation, p-aminophenyl thio-beta-D-galactoside-CH-Sepharose (PATG-Sepharose) affinity chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
  • (17) The resolution and homogeneity limitations of echo-planar imaging (EPI) are overcome by zoom imaging of an easily shimmed localized volume.
  • (18) This high failure rate has led the authors to reevaluate the use of prosthetic shims or wedges in large fragment defects but to continue to use bone grafting for smaller, circumscribed defects.
  • (19) A sialidase [EC 3.2.1.18] has been partially purified from human placenta by means of procedures comprising Con A-Sepharose adsorption, ammonium sulfate precipitation, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, and high-pressure liquid chromatography on a Shim pack Diol 300 column.
  • (20) We have developed a pulse sequence which enables fast and accurate measurement of three-dimensional field maps in vivo, and a data analysis package that allows calculation of shim currents to optimally shim arbitrary selected volumes.

Ship


Definition:

  • (n.) Pay; reward.
  • (n.) Any large seagoing vessel.
  • (n.) Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix.
  • (n.) A dish or utensil (originally fashioned like the hull of a ship) used to hold incense.
  • (v. t.) To put on board of a ship, or vessel of any kind, for transportation; to send by water.
  • (v. t.) By extension, in commercial usage, to commit to any conveyance for transportation to a distance; as, to ship freight by railroad.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to send away; to get rid of.
  • (v. t.) To engage or secure for service on board of a ship; as, to ship seamen.
  • (v. t.) To receive on board ship; as, to ship a sea.
  • (v. t.) To put in its place; as, to ship the tiller or rudder.
  • (v. i.) To engage to serve on board of a vessel; as, to ship on a man-of-war.
  • (v. i.) To embark on a ship.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (3) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (4) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
  • (5) Already Britain's electricity is becoming too dependent on gas brought in by ship through the Suez canal.
  • (6) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
  • (7) The risk for gastric cancer and non-malignant respiratory disease among the workers of the coke shipping department was increased but the SMRs did not reach statistical significance.
  • (8) The plan to round up some business and ship away seemed sound.
  • (9) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
  • (10) Polish foreign affairs minister Radoslaw Sikorski has opposed the ships being handed over.
  • (11) The 61-year-old Canadian, who was one of the original founders of Greenpeace , was arrested last Sunday at Frankfurt airport at the request of Costa Rica, which wants to see him extradited over a 10-year-old charge of "violating ships traffic".
  • (12) I don’t do the social media myself, so who knows.” The Pentagon said the drone, also described as a “glider” or unmanned underwater vehicle, was deployed by civilian contractors aboard the USNS Bowditch, a scientific research ship.
  • (13) The main animal paramyxoviruses are parainfluenza 3 (agent of shipping fever) in cattle; NDV (cause of fowl pest) and Yucaipavirus in birds; Sendai and PVM in mice; Nariva virus in rodents; possibly bovinerespiratory syncytial virus; and SV5 and SV41 in monkeys.
  • (14) Vigils have been held in Cairo for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 as a French navy ship headed to join the deep-sea search in the Mediterranean for the main wreckage and flight recorders.
  • (15) The source of the first outbreak was monkeys shipped from Africa; the origin of the second episode is unclear.
  • (16) Ships should be able to sail directly over the north pole by the middle of this century, considerably reducing the costs of trade between Europe and China but posing new economic, strategic and environmental challenges for governments, according to scientists.
  • (17) Rob DiGiovanni, who heads a marine mammal rescue group on Long Island, said he was seeing "more evidence of ship strikes and that's definitely a concern".
  • (18) An improved membrane filtration procedure for use on board ship to enumerate Escherichia coli and Group D faecal streptococci in marine sediments is described.
  • (19) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
  • (20) The survey ship has been used in the Gulf of Aden monitoring the Somali coastline, as well as scientific missions such as mapping the seabed of the Persian Gulf.