What's the difference between stainer and strainer?

Stainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who stains or tarnishes.
  • (n.) A workman who stains; as, a stainer of wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
  • (2) Manual deparaffinization was compared with two semiautomated methods using an automatic slide stainer with either a 70-minute or 35-minute schedule.
  • (3) More than one hundred times the amount of PT was produced in Stainer-Scholte medium with MeCD in shake culture than was produced in MeCD-free medium.
  • (4) With the goal of making this procedure applicable to the general surgical pathology laboratory, this method was adapted to the Histomatic Code-On slide stainer.
  • (5) Richard Stainer Bradfield St George, Suffolk • I am old enough to have taught in primary and secondary modern schools in the West Riding in the 1950s.
  • (6) The elution patterns from stainers and non-stainers were identical.
  • (7) Stainers and non-stainers were selected on the basis of their individual tendency to develop extrinsic tooth discolorations from a chlorhexidine mouth rinse.
  • (8) The blood smears were prepared in a Coulter Electronics slide spinner, stained with a Hematek II slide stainer and analyzed in the Coulter Electronics Diff 3-50 cell classifier.
  • (9) And in many cases introduced new drinkers to cask beer.” Differences aside, Stainer laments the difficulties in “pinning down a definition of craft beer”, and suggests “in many cases, real ale is craft beer and craft beer is real ale”.
  • (10) The heat-labile toxin (HLT) of Bordetella bronchiseptica was purified successively from sonic extracts of phase I organisms grown in Stainer-Scholte medium, by partition in hydrophobic interaction, sucrose density gradient centrifugation, gel filtration through Sepharose 4B and 6B, isoelectric precipitation and isoelectric focusing.
  • (11) Immunohistochemistry was automated and performed on a Code-on slide stainer (Instrumentation Laboratories, Lexington, MA) using Pronase predigestion, a monoclonal antibody (ER-ICA; Abbott, Chicago, IL), and a biotin-labeled secondary antibody.
  • (12) Charcoal agar alone detected 87% of all strains (n = 668), soft charcoal agar grew 78% (n = 602), and 637 strains (83%) were isolated when Stainer-Scholte broth with heptakis was used.
  • (13) A total of 475 swabs contained other bacteria or had no growth; only one of the Stainer-Scholte broth cultures of these swab samples contained measurable adenylate cyclase activity.
  • (14) The results showed that this group of persons exhibited a markedly higher concentration of salivary lactoferrin compared with non-stainers.
  • (15) Yet Camra’s communications chief, Tom Stainer, believes craft beer has been welcomed by Camra.
  • (16) B. pertussis Tohama (phase III) was grown in liquid Stainer-Scholte medium containing [3H]diaminopimelic acid (DAP) to label PG specifically, washed to remove free label, and suspended in fresh medium without [3H]DAP.
  • (17) Tom Stainer, head of communications at Camra, said: "Popular and profitable pubs are being left vulnerable by gaps in English planning legislation as pubs are increasingly being targeted by those wishing to take advantage of the absence of proper planning control.
  • (18) Increased adenylate cyclase activity was detected in 124 (92%) Stainer-Scholte broth cultures of these samples.
  • (19) Our data indicate that Stainer-Scholte medium supplemented with heptakis can be effectively used as an enrichment medium for detection of B. pertussis in clinical specimens.
  • (20) The adenylate cyclase activity of Bordetella pertussis in clinical isolates was measured in calmodulin-supplemented Stainer-Scholte broth by the rate of conversion of ATP to cyclic AMP.

Strainer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who strains.
  • (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tissue was sieved through a large strainer (2 mm2) to produce a homogeneous suspension.
  • (2) The Brooklyn Bridge Park, High Line and Low Line parks are healthy gauges of this, along with project +POOL , a “plus” shaped pool which will act like a giant strainer dropped into the Hudson river.
  • (3) In chaps, a battered Stetson and with a soup-strainer moustache, Tex immediately provided – to fans of old western movies like us – a far more thrilling encounter than anything Sin City could offer.
  • (4) The authors describe a method of plasty of proximal parts of the femoral diaphysis with a nonfree vascularized autotransplant from the iliac crest on the muscular-vascular connections including the strainer of the wide fascia, portion of the musculus gluteus medius and the feeding ascending branch of the lateral artery surrounding the femoral bone with the accompanying veins.
  • (5) The wash procedure consisted of a jet of tap water over the specimen contained in a tea strainer.
  • (6) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into a glass.
  • (7) Application of temephos in unsafe water sources for destroying cyclops, the intermediate hosts of guineaworm, and distribution of fine mesh nylon strainers for promoting prophylaxis against guineaworm are accepted methods of guineaworm control in different endemic countries.
  • (8) 4 Pour the liquor through a strainer, retaining both liquid and solids.
  • (9) Occasionally, he’d stray into being a bee, sporting a couple of tea strainers over his eyes.
  • (10) This procedure utilized a tea strainer, plastic cup and conical centrifuge tube, all of which could be made available at a minimally equipped laboratory.
  • (11) No worries if you don't have a juicer: a blender and a strainer do the trick.
  • (12) Alternatively, you can chop all the ingredients and pop them into a powerful blender with 120ml of water, then pass the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer and drink immediately.
  • (13) Also, a single isolate of L. ivanovii was obtained from a mesh screen strainer of the waste water treatment plant located near the works.
  • (14) Hyperchlorination of shower heads and angle valve strainers had only a short-lived effect on legionellae.
  • (15) 4 Strain with a tea strainer and serve (preferably in two old-fashioned teacups).

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