What's the difference between strainer and tamis?

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).

Tamis


Definition:

  • (n.) A sieve, or strainer, made of a kind of woolen cloth.
  • (n.) The cloth itself; tammy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These are the EMERA trial in South America, using streptokinase; the LATE study involving several European countries, the United States, Canada, and Australia, using tissue plasminogen activator (tPA); and the TAMI-6 trial, in which either tPA or placebo is given 6 to 24 h postinfarction, and patients with closed infarct-related arteries are randomized further to either angioplasty or no angioplasty.
  • (2) Tami Hargreaves, commercial director of digital consumer payments at Barclaycard, said: “As our data shows, Brits are turning to these payments for all types of purchases, from a supermarket top-up shop to stocking up on everyday essentials in discount stores and pharmacies.” The increasing popularity of mobile payments and wearable devices such as the Apple Watch had also contributed to the surge in contactless payments, she added.
  • (3) Based on the strong correlation between occurrence of left ventricular free wall rupture and development of sudden electromechanical dissociation (EMD) in patients with a first TAMI without relevant heart failure, we compare the incidence of this mechanism of death in patients treated with streptokinase and in those from a control group.
  • (4) Party sources said Winterton’s deputy Alan Campbell and colleague Mark Tami are expected to meet the new chief whip Nick Brown on Monday.
  • (5) The Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) Trial was a multicenter, randomized trial designed with the purpose of determining the clinical impact of immediate or deferred angioplasty on left ventricular function following successful myocardial reperfusion with tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA).
  • (6) However, thrombolytic therapy for the acute MI does not reduce the incidence of recurrent ischemia or infarction, as is evident from the 18-26% incidence of recurrent ischemia reported in the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trials.
  • (7) In the first three phases of Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) multicenter trials, 708 patients received intravenous recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator (rt-PA) and underwent detailed assessment of clinical, angiographic and ventriculographic outcomes.
  • (8) One-hundred ninety-two patients from the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) I and TAMI III trials had successful rt-PA-mediated thrombolysis without immediate coronary angioplasty (PTCA).
  • (9) Coronary bypass surgery was performed before hospital discharge on 82 (21%) of 386 consecutive patients enrolled in the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) multicenter trial of intravenous tissue plasminogen activator and coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction.
  • (10) Dr. Tami states that the initial management of the wound was reasonable.
  • (11) I’m sure everyone has been stuck behind the person who orders the most complicated cocktail on the menu or a round of 10 drinks for their group of friends,” said Tami Hargreaves, the commercial director, digital consumer payments, at Barclaycard.
  • (12) The study differed from the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) and the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction Phase-IIB (TIMI-IIB) trials in that the philosophy of intervention to produce the earliest and most complete reperfusion resulted in a high incidence of angioplasty procedures in vessels not yet reperfused.
  • (13) "It's a well-studied campaign," said Anastasios Tamis, Australia's pre-eminent ethnic Greek historian.
  • (14) In the course of the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) trials, we used the transbrachial approach to cardiac catheterization with or without angioplasty in 202 of 704 (28.6%) patients.
  • (15) The design of the Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Acute Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) 5 study, which addresses the role of acute interventional catheterization in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction, is described.
  • (16) In the forthcoming sequel , Ted now wants to adopt children with his human partner, Tami-Lynn.
  • (17) After a US military helicopter from the Futenma US marine base crashed into Okinawa International University in 2004, Chibana was moved to write his best-known song, Tami no Domino (People's Domino), a collaboration between his band Duty Free Shopp and local rapper Kakumakushaka .
  • (18) Important results have been gathered by the larger studies of the last few years, TAMI, ECSG, and TIMI as well as by numerous smaller investigations, about the pathophysiology and treatment of myocardial infarction.
  • (19) Coronary bypass surgery was performed prior to hospital discharge in 303 (22%) of 1387 consecutive patients enrolled in the TAMI 1 to 3 and 5 trials of intravenous thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction.
  • (20) We evaluated left ventricular regional wall motion by the centerline chord method in 332 patients treated with intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in the multicenter Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (TAMI) I trial.

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