What's the difference between shim and skim?

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.

Skim


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
  • (v. t.) To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
  • (v. t.) To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
  • (v. i.) To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
  • (v. i.) To hasten along with superficial attention.
  • (v. i.) To put on the finishing coat of plaster.
  • (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
  • (2) Each malnourished child was given 1 pound of dried skimmed milk (DSM) per week.
  • (3) These results indicate that healthy VLBW infants maintain adequate growth and macronutrient balance for the first 2 months postnatally when fed mothers' milk fortified with additional skim and cream components.
  • (4) Neither extracellular nor cell-associated hydrolase profiles changed significantly when cells were grown in skim milk or mineral salts medium at either 5 or 20 degrees C. Similarly, added calcium did not seem required for synthesis of any of the enzymes.
  • (5) A MI individual then, appears able to absorb the monosaccharides of the prehydrolyzed milk and can, furthermore, tolerate the low-lactose skim milk without suffering from symptoms normally associated with lactose intolerance.
  • (6) Streptococci and lactobacilli were assayed for their proteolytic activity in pasteurised (95 degrees C for 30 min) fresh Friesian cows' skim milk incubated at 30 degrees C for 48 h. Lactobacilli were more proteolytic than the streptococci except S. faecalis subsp.
  • (7) The solubility of both free and low molecular weight ligand complexed calcium, magnesium, and zinc in skimmed human and bovine milks over intestinal luminal pH ranges (approximately 3-7) was measured using ultrafiltration techniques.
  • (8) Uptake with skimmed milk was the same as with whole milk and we suggested that the factor was not fat.
  • (9) With a dried skim milk extender, prefreeze and postfreeze motility was greater in samples containing 20% seminal plasma.
  • (10) Distribution of membrane in mature milks was: fat globules, 80%; skim milk, 20% (including fluff, 5%); and cells, less than 1%.
  • (11) The lipoprotein lipase and tributyrate hydrolysing activities were found to be similarly distributed in the fractions obtained when whole milk was separated into skim-milk and cream, and when the cream was washed and freed from lipid.
  • (12) Addition of dried skim milk or dried whey to the diet resulted in higher values (P less than .05) for DMD and ED as compared with the basal or corn-soy and lard diet.
  • (13) Recovery of vitamin D added to unfortified skim milk is 98%.
  • (14) A method is described for purification of sulfhydryl oxidase from bovine milk which consistently yields preparations with greater than 3000-fold purification over skim milk.
  • (15) Neutrophil morphology was altered by fat, skim, CL, CE, NO, and DP.
  • (16) Mourinho’s pre-match utterances are generally best skimmed for the odd word not specifically dedicated to inflammatory falsehoods, but Chelsea’s manager was correct to offer some wary respect for the Football League’s champion club and here, lining up in a tightly knit 4-4-2, Leicester were sharp in the tackle early on, and pacy on the break throughout.
  • (17) The activity was destroyed by heating to temperatures higher than 50 degrees, whereas the presence of skim milk during heating preserved the enzyme activity, at least, up to 70 degrees.
  • (18) In the department for calves being fed with fluid feed of a specialised enterprise for calf rearing the daily intake of fluid feed (skim milk improved with milk substitute), concentrated feed and hay of a total of 341 female animals and the daily intake of energy and protein was calculated thereof.
  • (19) In the second experiment the utilization of lysine (relative to free lysine) for weight gain, as measured in weaner pigs, was found to be 0.68, 0.73, 0.81, 0.86 and 1.00 for cottonseed meal 1, cottonseed meal 2, meat meal, sunflower meal and skim milk respectively.
  • (20) Everything started to unravel for Spurs a minute before half-time when Willian’s free-kick skimmed off Rose’s head, ricocheted off Dier and dropped invitingly for Terry.