What's the difference between snippet and strand?

Snippet


Definition:

  • (n.) A small part or piece.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rest of the show finds Morpurgo – one of the stars of improv hit Austentatious – connecting these snippets to tell the tale of a female cop charged with solving the mystery of that blaze.
  • (2) There are complaints, too, from soldiers in the field that live information is not always transferred to them fast enough, but they, too, express gratitude for snippets passed on about potential Taliban attacks.
  • (3) Third of Saudi air raids on Yemen have hit civilian sites, data shows Read more The unease manifested itself early on in the campaign when calls were put into media organisations by British expatriates based in Saudi Arabia and members of the public in the UK who had picked up snippets from British service personnel in pubs, clubs or school playgrounds about the UK military working alongside the Saudi air force.
  • (4) Shortly afterwards journalists began being offered snippets designed to undermine Staines, including news of his drink-driving conviction.
  • (5) These snippets will be contested and pored over and parsed in the days to come.
  • (6) In addition to speaking on the phone call, the occupiers appeared to have a separate, closed line of communication to an FBI negotiator, and they frequently relayed snippets of their negotiations.
  • (7) Geithner has tantalizing snippets of self-awareness – “I must have sounded like a bank lobbyist when opposing financial reform ”.
  • (8) 12.49pm BST While we are waiting for the full text, here's some snippets to keep you warm: I both understand and share their frustration.
  • (9) In October a legal battle with German publishers prompted Google to remove news snippets taken from news sites from its search results.
  • (10) Murdoch's editors and executives have repeatedly criticised aggregators such Google News, claiming it is leeching off their content by displaying snippets of their work.
  • (11) The snippets of Jimmy Erskine’s reviews and letters in the novel are my own invention, but they are all inspired by Agate’s voice.
  • (12) It intersperses snippets of the film itself - which premieres on 15 March - with fascinating behind-the-scenes footage of how an animation of Sydney Opera House in flames was done by a team of 16 "boys in their bedrooms" , how the stories of the six main characters in the film were selected , how she persuaded Pete Postlethwaite to take up the role of narrator and how it was financed using a "crowd-funding" model .
  • (13) Originally Activision intended to dripfeed the news of its next blockbuster via snippets of information.
  • (14) You might hear little snippets of it, five seconds on the news.
  • (15) He was aiming high, to build his music around saccharine snippets dropped from Taylor Swift records , or the Bieber hooks that had remained unsung, and then filter it through echoing synthesizers and discombobulating rhythms.
  • (16) "People haven't been able to call in at the office with snippets for some time now," said Press.
  • (17) British ministers, with the backing of MI5 and MI6, have used US anger at snippets of CIA information being disclosed by UK courts as the reason for a change in the law.
  • (18) He said the organisation monitors Twitter feeds from Tripoli and other places for "snippets of information".
  • (19) The Magistrate's Blog Description: "Musings and Snippets from an English Magistrate.
  • (20) He also posted a picture of him and Young together, and a snippet of Young’s letter to him.

Strand


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
  • (v. t.) To break a strand of (a rope).
  • (n.) The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river.
  • (v. t.) To drive on a strand; hence, to run aground; as, to strand a ship.
  • (v. i.) To drift, or be driven, on shore to run aground; as, the ship stranded at high water.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Within the outflow tract wall, the labelled cells were enmeshed by strands of alcian blue-stained extracellular matrix.
  • (2) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
  • (3) Single stranded DNA and RNA are hydrolyzed by the spinach endonuclease.
  • (4) The M 13 specific DNA present in minicells isolated several hours after infection consists of single stranded viral DNA and double stranded replicative forms in nearly equal amounts.
  • (5) Each L subunit contains 127 residues arranged into 10 beta-strands connected by turns.
  • (6) Globin cDNA was used as the template for the synthesis of a complementary strand (ccDNA) by avian myeloblastosis virus DNA polymerase.
  • (7) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
  • (8) Neutral sucrose density sedimentation patterns indicate that neutron-induced double strand-breaks sometimes occur in clusters of more than 100 in the same phage and that the effeciency with which double strand-breaks form is about 50 times that of gamma-induced double strand-breaks.
  • (9) Equilibrium and kinetic studies of the interaction of gene 32 protein of T4 phage with single-stranded fd DNA were performed monitoring the changes in protein fluorescence.
  • (10) Single-stranded circles did not form if a limited number of nucleotides were removed from the 3' ends of native molecules by Escherichia coli exonuclease III digestion prior to denaturation and annealing.
  • (11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (12) An average size chromomere of the polytene X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster contains enough DNA in each haploid equivalent strand to code for 30 genes, each 1,000 nucleotides long.
  • (13) Preparations of the 72 kDa, purified by immunoprecipitation or by single-stranded DNA-cellulose column chromatography and incubated with [gamma-32P]ATP, were found to contain protein kinase activity.
  • (14) Longer times of radiolabeling demonstrated that the nascent RNA accumulated as 42S RNA, which was primarily of the same sense as the virion strand when it was radiolabeled at 5 h postinfection.
  • (15) In vivo, ribosomal RNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is transcribed from the light strand of gamma DNA.
  • (16) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
  • (17) These experiments represent the first occasion that the sequence specificity of a DNA damaging agent, which causes only double-strand breaks, has been determined to the exact base-pair in intact cells.
  • (18) Crandell feline kidney cells in which the ADV-G strain of ADV was permissively replicating contained virion and non-structural proteins, large amounts of single stranded virion DNA, duplex replicative form (RF) DNA, and mRNA.
  • (19) Oligodeoxynucleotides related to the non-transcribed DNA strands can effectively inhibit the RNA synthesis catalyzed by E. coli RNA polymerase.
  • (20) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.