What's the difference between sinker and weight?

Sinker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, sinks.
  • (n.) A weight on something, as on a fish line, to sink it.
  • (n.) In knitting machines, one of the thin plates, blades, or other devices, that depress the loops upon or between the needles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Simple suturing techniques are also described, including the practicability of using padded buttons plus lead fishing sinkers to adjust the tension and secure these sutures on the surface of the neck.
  • (2) The investigation consisted of four studies: (1) visual observation of the dissolution performance using 12 different sinkers; (2) the effect on drug release from nine classified sinkers on two different capsule formulations; (3) side-by-side comparison between the selected optimal longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers; and (4) hydrodynamic effects caused by the use of the longitudinal U clip and the wire helix lateral type sinkers in the absence of capsule shells.
  • (3) The mean morbidity level of professional diseases in sinkers was 12.0 per 1000 (vibration disease--4.9, hypoacusis--6.4).
  • (4) Longitudinal sinkers contact the dosage forms on the long axis.
  • (5) An 11-year-old girl developed a corneal ulcer five days after sustaining a corneal abrasion from a fishline sinker.
  • (6) And if it’s a choice then it’s a lot easier to demonize it.” Recalling how believing that he was a sinner made him depressed, Nesbitt said he “was buying all that hook, line and sinker and of course it makes you feel like you’re a failure.
  • (7) Updated at 10.27pm BST 10.12pm BST First pitch Adam Wainwright faces Starling Marte, starts him off with a sinker, finishes him with a curveball - strike three.
  • (8) During 1963-1990 professional disease were registered in 336 sinkers (vibration disease--42.6%; hypoacusis--35.1%; silicosis and dust-induced bronchitis--11.3 and 7.4% respectively).
  • (9) Stone net sinkers, which is the evidence of the use of fish nets, were also found.
  • (10) He said the government’s threat to drop its own legislation was a negotiating tactic which the Greens “fell for hook, line and sinker”.
  • (11) His article is so far off the mark, and bears so little relation to the facts, that he appears to have swallowed Labour spin hook, line and sinker.
  • (12) Various new sinker designs were fabricated, tested, and classified.
  • (13) 4.09am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, bottom of 8th Middlebrooks pulls a sinker ball into the corner in left field and has himself a one-out double.
  • (14) In the swimming test (5 gr sinkers, 36 degrees C water) the median swimming time was reduced from greater 120 minutes in the controls to 16 minutes in the bilaterally depressed rats.
  • (15) Lateral sinkers either wrap around or contact capsule dosage forms in the middle, such as the line where the top and bottom halves of a capsule shell come together.
  • (16) Data are presented on the formation of neuropsychic disorders in mine shaft sinkers and drill operators at different stages of vibration disease.
  • (17) The objective of this investigation was to determine if other sinker shapes will influence the rate, extent, or variability of dissolution.
  • (18) Cardinals 3 - Dodgers 2, bottom of 4th Ellis lines a sinker for a single, right up the middle and Ethier scores to cut the Dodgers deficit to a single run!
  • (19) Four classes of sinker shapes were defined: longitudinal, lateral, screen enclosures, and internal weights.
  • (20) We concluded that capsules sunk with either of the two longitudinal sinkers, the U clip or the paper clip, have faster, more complete dissolution and less variable results than did lateral type sinkers.

Weight


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially when expressed in certain units or standards, as pounds, grams, etc.
  • (v. t.) The quantity of heaviness; comparative tendency to the center of the earth; the quantity of matter as estimated by the balance, or expressed numerically with reference to some standard unit; as, a mass of stone having the weight of five hundred pounds.
  • (v. t.) Hence, pressure; burden; as, the weight of care or business.
  • (v. t.) Importance; power; influence; efficacy; consequence; moment; impressiveness; as, a consideration of vast weight.
  • (v. t.) A scale, or graduated standard, of heaviness; a mode of estimating weight; as, avoirdupois weight; troy weight; apothecaries' weight.
  • (v. t.) A ponderous mass; something heavy; as, a clock weight; a paper weight.
  • (v. t.) A definite mass of iron, lead, brass, or other metal, to be used for ascertaining the weight of other bodies; as, an ounce weight.
  • (v. t.) The resistance against which a machine acts, as opposed to the power which moves it.
  • (v. t.) To load with a weight or weights; to load down; to make heavy; to attach weights to; as, to weight a horse or a jockey at a race; to weight a whip handle.
  • (v. t.) To assign a weight to; to express by a number the probable accuracy of, as an observation. See Weight of observations, under Weight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (2) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
  • (3) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (4) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (5) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
  • (6) In animal experiments pharmacological properties of the low molecular weight heparin derivative CY 216 were determined.
  • (7) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (8) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
  • (9) The peak molecular weight never reached that of a complete 2:1 complex.
  • (10) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (11) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (12) Maximal yields of lipid and aflatoxin were obtained with 30% glucose, whereas mold growth, expressed as dry weight, was maximal when the medium contained 10% glucose.
  • (13) During the digestion of these radiolabeled bacteria, murine bone marrow macrophages produced low-molecular-weight substances that coeluted chromatographically with the radioactive cell wall marker.
  • (14) The molecular weight of antigen RFB2 was estimated to be approximately 85,000 daltons based on the results of gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B.
  • (15) The product of the ugpQ gene, expressed in minicells, has an apparent molecular weight of 17,500.
  • (16) There were significant differences in the body weight of control and undernourished rats in each experiment.
  • (17) Milk yield and litter weights were similar but backfat thickness (BF) was greater in 22 C sows (P less than .05) compared to 30 C sows.
  • (18) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
  • (19) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
  • (20) It reduced serum AP levels, increased serum Ca levels, increased bone ash weight, epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone volume, with a concomitant reduction in epiphyseal and metaphyseal bone marrow volume.