What's the difference between swallowtail and tapering?
Swallowtail
Definition:
(n.) A kind of tenon or tongue used in making joints. See Dovetail.
(n.) A species of willow.
(n.) An outwork with converging sides, its head or front forming a reentrant angle; -- so called from its form. Called also priestcap.
(n.) A swallow-tailed coat.
(n.) An arrow.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of large and handsome butterflies, belonging to Papilio and allied genera, in which the posterior border of each hind wing is prolongated in the form of a long lobe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Krka also plays host to a life-enhancing variety of butterflies, including swallowtails and clouded yellows, which appear to jostle for your attention along the paths.
(2) We have isolated and sequenced cDNA clones encoding a P-450, CYP6B1, from larvae of Papilio polyxenes (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae), the black swallowtail butterfly.
(3) Insect species examined were lepidopterous larvae of the cabbage looper (Trichoplusia ni), southern armyworm (Spodoptera eridania), and black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes).
(4) Two of these stages unfold in the structural axis of the swallowtail model.
(5) Response properties and spectral sensitivities of a functional class of medulla neurons that received dominant input from a single stemma in the swallowtail butterfly larva were examined with regard to neutral and chromatic backgrounds.
(6) Many neurons exhibiting an antagonistic interaction between signals from one particular stemma (center) and neighboring stemmata (surround) were found in the second optic neuropil (medulla) of the larval swallowtail butterfly.
(7) In this model called swallowtail bifurcation set, the structural state of a biomembrane was within the control of two structural attractors.
(8) On Northern blots, mRNAs crossreactive with CYP6B1 were detected in three Papilio species that, like the black swallowtail, have high levels of xanthotoxin-metabolic P-450 activity and encounter xanthotoxin or related compounds in their host plants; in contrast, no crossreactive mRNAs were detectable in three papilinid species that never encounter xanthotoxin in their host plants and lack detectable xanthotoxin-metabolic activity.
(9) The swallowtail hypothesis was upheld for three criteria: color matching time (R2 = .55), printing press time (R2 = .55), and printing paper conserved or wasted (R2 = .83).
Tapering
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Taper
(a.) Becoming gradually smaller toward one end.
Example Sentences:
(1) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
(2) The cases of S-type were changed to those of ST-type, which emphasized the Tapering type factors.
(3) The former possess a variety of spines, axonlike processes and sometimes an unmyelinated axon, and are presumably interneurons, while type IIB cells show a thick tapering axon that is probably myelinated.
(4) He presents measures for the management of withdrawal symptoms and relapse, focusing on the use of a slow taper over 3 to 6 months.
(5) In the experiments which covered exposure time from 4.5 to 17.0 s, we found that it started slowly, the reflectance increased rapidly once the surface temperature of the lesion reached approximately 90 degrees C. After this rapid rise, the reflectance began to taper off until no change in reflectance was recorded.
(6) During the 3-month tapering-off period eight initially improved patients (36%) in the cyclosporin group worsened, as did six (55%) in the placebo group.
(7) Special complications included postoperative renal deterioration, especially after tapering of megaureters.
(8) Yes, at the 2010 Conservative conference the party announced a similar cliff-edge at the higher rate tax threshold as a way of effectively means-testing child benefit payments, but that was eventually removed and replaced with a less egregious taper at the 2012 budget.
(9) Myocardial fibers were elongated and thinner (tapered) in the tips of papillary muscles.
(10) Urinary leakage in 3 patients with a right colonic reservoir (2 with an intussuscepted ileal nipple valve and 1 with a plicated ileal segment as a continence mechanism) was managed with tapered narrowing of the nipple valve and the ileocecal valve, respectively, using stapling techniques.
(11) Bad pun aside, investors are concerned that the company's high growth-rates are tapering.
(12) In addition, after incubation in ATP, they are intermingled with, and converge onto the surfaces of, thick, tapered filaments, which we have tentatively identified as of myosin-like nature.
(13) The spheroids grew exponentially with a volume-doubling time of approximately 24 h up to a diameter of approximately 580 microns and then the growth rate tapered off, more for spheroids grown at the low than at the high oxygen tension.
(14) The tapered tubes and constricted tubes are of special importance.
(15) It involves the deep white matter symmetrically, tapering off toward the cortex.
(16) Those on antihypertensive medication prior to enrollment without documented diastolic hypertension had their medication tapered and discontinued, and then met BP criteria (33% of cohort).
(17) It has not yet been possible to enumerate these tapered rods by culture methods, but as judged by visual appearances in the histological sections, they seemed to outnumber all other bacteria in the cecum and the colon by a factor of as much as 1000.
(18) Child benefit is to be withdrawn from families as soon as one parent hits earnings of £44,000, but any tapering would be costly and require ploughing money back via child tax credits.
(19) The imaging system consists of a ZnS(Ag) screen, two tapered fibers, an image intensifier, and a Polaroid film.
(20) The micropyle canal measures 8 microns at the opening and tapers to 3.6 microns as it penetrates the membrane.