What's the difference between silencer and suppressor?

Silencer


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Cory Bernardi wasn’t currently in a period of radio silence as he contemplates his immediate political future he’d be all over this too, mining the Trumpocalypse – or in our domestic context, mining the fertile political fault line where Coalition support intersects with One Nation support.
  • (2) More evil than Clocky , the alarm clock that rolls away when you reach out to silence it, or the Puzzle Alarm , which makes you complete a simple puzzle before it'll go quiet, the Money Shredding Alarm Clock methodically destroys your cash unless you rouse yourself.
  • (3) So much of England possesses this grace and silence.
  • (4) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (5) Cameron has already announced there will be one minute’s silence on Friday at noon, a week after the start of the killing.
  • (6) In addition, he describes a type of transference interpretation that is better not made, and emphasizes the transference value of silence on the part of the analyst at certain crucial moments in the analysis.
  • (7) According to his blog, he's been acting on the advice of a friend and pursuing a course of "silence, exile and cunning", but I'm not sure a couple of years of not giving interviews to Heat qualifies.
  • (8) Transient ischemic electrical silence with Q waves in the absence of MI is a rare phenomenon and affects the anterior leads much more commonly than the inferior leads.
  • (9) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (10) The site's manifesto proclaims that "the goal … is to break down the wall of omertà and silence that protects the mafia … We call on all citizens: 'if you know something, say something'".
  • (11) That led to the second breakthrough, as the once formidable laws of omerta - silence punishable by death - cracked.
  • (12) 1:109-124, 1983) suggested that the insertion might have been selected to silence a disadvantageous bglR+ allele.
  • (13) He criticised attempts to create “safe spaces” by silencing controversial speakers such as Germaine Greer, who was recently targeted by students at the University of Cardiff for her position on transgender women.
  • (14) Von Trier, who took a " vow of silence " after being banned from the Cannes film festival in 2011 after joking about Nazism during a press conference for Melancholia, arrived at Nymphomaniac's photocall wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the phrase "Persona Non Grata"; true to his word, he failed to attend the subsequent press conference where his actors and producer talked about the film.
  • (15) They were tested both in silence and against a background of continuous spoken Arabic presented at 75 dB(A).
  • (16) Our data indicate that these elements exert their effect irrespective of orientation and position, suggesting that they are silencers.
  • (17) The silence about Ji's fate was broken by his former boss, Nanjing party secretary Yang Weize.
  • (18) • The News of the World was ordered to hand over details of the secret agreement which it struck with Gordon Taylor in the earlier case as well agreements it has made withMulcaire which are alleged to have bought his silence.
  • (19) But the case is widely seen as a means of silencing the man who has become Putin's loudest critic.
  • (20) In the silence, I heard a car reversing in the courtyard and then the Þrst slow notes of the call to prayer.

Suppressor


Definition:

  • (n.) One who suppresses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (3) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (4) The NM23-Hl gene is a putative tumor suppressor gene that may be important in the metastasic process.
  • (5) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
  • (6) To assess the role of amniotic fluid (AMF) in the maintenance of pregnancy, immunosuppressive effects of AMF were studied in vivo, and the mechanisms of suppressor activity were analyzed immunologically in vitro in the rat.
  • (7) Allelic complementation was not observed, despite testing of a large number of allele pairs, and alleles suppressible by the ochre suppressor SUP11 were absent from a sample of 48 spontaneous mutants and occurred infrequently (7%) among a sample of ultraviolet-induced mutants.
  • (8) To this end, a meiosis-defective mating-type mutation was used as a marker for the plus segment, by taking advantage of its suppressibility by a nonsense suppressor.
  • (9) Conversely, rat galanin increased unstimulated glucagon output (approximately 20%, P less than 0.05), potentiated the glucagon response to arginine (approximately 50%, P less than 0.05) and VIP (approximately 90%, P less than 0.05), and counteracted the suppressor effect of glucose on alpha-cell secretion.
  • (10) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
  • (11) The spontaneous v alleles that are suppressed by the suppressor of sable [su(s)] are apparently identical insertions of 412, a copia-like transposable element.
  • (12) Transforming activity is closely linked with the presence of a region designated conserved domain 2 and the ability of this region to bind the product of the cellular retinoblastoma tumor suppressor gene.
  • (13) In addition, we have shown that long-lived, presumably non-senescent, strains do not arise by suppressor mutation, but lose senescence plasmid DNA by another mechanism.
  • (14) Because haptenated cells can induce immunity if injected subcutaneously or into cyclophosphamide-pretreated recipients (thereby avoiding the induction of suppressor cells), we suggest that the activation of contrasuppressor cells by antigen-antibody complexes overrides suppressive influences in the host, allowing immunity to become dominant.
  • (15) This strain does not suppress phage phi 29 mutant susB47, selected on a B. subtilis strain containing the su+3 suppressor isolated by Georgopoulos.
  • (16) The suppressor cell is radioresistant; requires 24 hr to suppress optimally; is inactivated by heating at 56 degrees C for 15 min, and is enriched in the non-T interface after SRBC rosette depletion over a discontinuous Ficoll-Hypaque gradient.
  • (17) The decline in DTH response was found to be associated with suppressor cells generated by intraperitoneal immunization and could be prevented by cyclophosphamide treatment prior to immunization.
  • (18) To test for the presence of suppressor cells in peripheral blood, we have modified the standard, one-way mixed lymphocyte culture by adding mitomycin C-treated mononuclear cells from the responder.
  • (19) A yeast protein, Sui3, isolated as an extragenic suppressor of his4 initiation codon mutations, exhibits extensive sequence identity with human eIF-2 beta, especially in the polylysine and zinc finger domains, thereby reinforcing the view that these elements are important for function.
  • (20) These regions seem to be important in the activity of gpE, since amber mutations in these regions are suppressed on the average by less species of suppressors than those outside these regions.

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