What's the difference between stirring and trowel?

Stirring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stir
  • (a.) Putting in motion, or being in motion; active; active in business; habitually employed in some kind of business; accustomed to a busy life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
  • (3) The apparent Km for K+-ATP was 2.1 mM when the incubation mixture was vigorously stirred, and the effect of stirring indicated that the kinetics of K+-ATP hydrolysis are limited by external diffusion.
  • (4) The last time Republic of Ireland played here in Dublin they produced a performance and result to stir the senses.
  • (5) This modification facilitated a wider range of application of the Kedem-Katchalsky equations to systems in which the solutions were stirred or unstirred.
  • (6) Sheryl Sandberg gave the commencement speech at UC Berkeley last weekend, during the course of which she said many stirring things about the future awaiting the class of 2016.
  • (7) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (8) Additionally, in 12 of 15 cases examined by Short-TI-IR (STIR) image, the trabecular structures and fluid collections in the subcutaneous tissue were shown more definitely in high signal intensity than by T2-weighted image.
  • (9) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
  • (10) We examined the effect of ethylene glycol (EG) concentration, in water, on O2 sensitivity, stirring effect, in vitro drift, in vitro response time, behaviour on the skin of newborn infants and in vivo response time.
  • (11) Stirring of the sample induced a significant decrease of neutrophils (P less than 0.001) but no changes of red blood cell (RBC) and platelet count.
  • (12) There was no potentiation when A119 alone was pre-stirred or left standing for several days in the presence of divalent cations prior to use.
  • (13) I drive past buildings that I know, or assume, to house bedsits, their stucco peeling like eczema, their window frames rattling like old bones, and I cannot help myself from picturing the scene within: a dubious pot on an equally dubious single ring, the female in charge of it half-heartedly stirring its contents at the same time as she files her nails, reads an old Vogue, or chats to some distant parent on the telephone.
  • (14) 3) After stirring for 1 and 5 minutes, there was a negative correlation (Spearmann's rank correlation coefficient test) between the pH values of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
  • (15) Simmer for 2 minutes then stir in the orange zest, orange blossom water and vanilla extract.
  • (16) And after stirring for 10 and 20 minutes, there was a negative correlation between the Ca concentrations of the sport drinks and the amounts of Ca2+ released into them.
  • (17) Having stirred the viewer's emotional responsiveness, the art work provides a reliable "container" for the objectification of latent emotions.
  • (18) The inversion recovery sequence with short inversion time (STIR) will suppress signal from fat tissue and this is of particular value in differentiating dermoid from hemorrhagic cyst.
  • (19) At different intensities of medium stirring the lysins synthesizing activity was directly related to the activity of tricarboxylic acid cycle dehydrogenases.
  • (20) The experimental result of the quantitative determination of magnolol in Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis and its processed samples by HPLC has shown that the stir-fried sample has the highest content of magnolol among all sample and so does the ginger-fried sample among all ginger-processed samples.

Trowel


Definition:

  • (n.) A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
  • (n.) A gardener's tool, somewhat like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring the earth, etc.
  • (n.) A tool used for smoothing a mold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
  • (2) They have buckets and trowels as they're going clamming, and Popeye leaves first, navigating the sand with a gratifyingly bandy gait.
  • (3) Anything, really, to trowel vaseline over the lens for a soft ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown segment.
  • (4) Molar tooth germs from 17-d-old mouse embryos were cultivated in a Trowell-type culture, and different culture media were tested for their ability to support enamel formation.
  • (5) Based on the morphologic and physiologic findings, it became evident that this organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium at 25 degrees C can be successfully used as an in vitro experimental model for as long as 24 h. The organ culture system could be a useful tool, from the structural integrity of ceca observed in this study, in investigating mucosal function and mucosal response to drugs, carcinogens, trophic factors, and pathogens.
  • (6) Photograph: Martin Godwin for The Guardian Not that he wants to harp back to the days when he went to work with a trowel.
  • (7) We incubated mouse calvaria explants in Trowell-type organ culture dishes for one h and then added [14C]-glycine for two h. We dissected the interparietal sutural tissues for collagen solubilization by limited pepsin digestion.
  • (8) This rate is similar to that reported for Trowell's-type cultures with IMEM:F12 medium and 1% FBS.
  • (9) Colons from chickens, four weeks old, can best be maintained for 48 hours in a serum-free organ culture system using Trowell T8 medium-agar sheet at 25 degrees C. As determined by light microscopy as well as scanning and transmission electron microscopies, mucosal architecture involving classical ultrastructure of chicken colonic mucosa was preserved.
  • (10) Both series were incubated in BGJb medium according to the Trowell method.
  • (11) The cartoon shows a menacing looking Netanyahu wielding a blood-splattered trowel, bricking screaming Palestinians into the wall's structure.
  • (12) Finance minister Mathias Cormann lays it on with a trowel.
  • (13) Pancreatic explants from perinatal or 1-week-old rat circumfusion organ cultured with an insulin-free variant of Trowell's Medium T8 survive functionally, as judged from tissue amylase content, for about 3 days.
  • (14) We used Trowell's T8 medium and conventional Hank's balanced salt solution to obtain high yields of islets with morphologically-intact cells.
  • (15) This study was carried out to investigate the efficacy of cyclosporine to prolong islets isolated by collagenase in Trowell's T8 medium and Ficoll gradient separation.
  • (16) In this study, explants from 19 canine prostate glands were cultivated for a minimum of 9 days in Trowell's T-8 medium.
  • (17) The blood drips off Netanyahu's trowel and oozes between the laid bricks, like wet concrete.
  • (18) The six concrete floor test pads with different surface treatments (fine and coarse sand, fine and coarse broom, wood float and steel trowel) were evaluated for friction coefficient (skid resistance value) using a British pendulum tester both before and after pig tests.
  • (19) Results reveal that the islets isolated by Trowells T8 medium were less fragmented and had better fine-structural integrity than those isolated by the conventional medium.
  • (20) He wasn't even sure the bone was human until he carefully scraped away with his trowel, found a second, parallel bone, and knew he had a pair of buried legs.