What's the difference between tag and tar?

Tag


Definition:

  • (n.) Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
  • (n.) A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
  • (n.) The end, or catchword, of an actor's speech; cue.
  • (n.) Something mean and paltry; the rabble.
  • (n.) A sheep of the first year.
  • (n.) A sale of usually used items (such as furniture, clothing, household items or bric-a-brac), conducted by one or a small group of individuals, at a location which is not a normal retail establishment.
  • (v. t.) To fit with, or as with, a tag or tags.
  • (v. t.) To join; to fasten; to attach.
  • (v. t.) To follow closely after; esp., to follow and touch in the game of tag. See Tag, a play.
  • (v. i.) To follow closely, as it were an appendage; -- often with after; as, to tag after a person.
  • (v.) A child's play in which one runs after and touches another, and then runs away to avoid being touched.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In general, optimal DAGAT activity in vitro was observed when long-chain unsaturated acyl-CoAs and diacylglycerols (DAGs) containing long acyl chains were used as substrates for in vitro TAG synthesis (although 1,2-didecanoin was also very effective).
  • (2) Calves were tagged in the right ear with the green certified preconditioned for health (CPH) tag of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners.
  • (3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (4) Nuclear pores were frequently tagged after estradiol treatment.
  • (5) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (6) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
  • (8) Here we describe the cloning of da by the transposon tagging approach as well as some aspects of the molecular characterization of wild-type and mutant alleles.
  • (9) Liquid nitrogen spray followed by light electrodesiccation treatment is helpful in the management of flat warts, small skin tags, seborrheic keratoses, and cherry angiomas.
  • (10) Harry Kane laughs off one-season wonder tag after Alan Shearer pep talk Read more “He is a great role model.
  • (11) This is a report on our experience with the EPICS C (Coultronics) cytometric flux apparatus, a screening cell analyzer, employing a laser ray (2 or 5 watts); we obtained good results to analyze immunologically-tagged mononuclear blood cells with or without prior separation: for rhythm, repeatability, and contamination.
  • (12) Monoclonal antibodies tagged with chelated metal ions have numerous potential applications.
  • (13) Not just going to a live show, but that kind of live show, with that kind of audience, the kind where mums and dads either have to tag along or turn up at the end to pick their children up.
  • (14) The recurrent cases were found to be caused by adhesion bands produced by hanging tags of incompletely removed yellow ligament.
  • (15) Bolus tracking, flow enhancement by spin replacement, and selective tagging are three classes of methods being pursued for MR angiography.
  • (16) We evaluated 109 women with endometrial carcinoma to determine the accuracy of preoperative tumor-associated antigen levels (CA 125, CA 72, CA 15-3) for prediction of extrauterine disease and whether TAG 72, CA 15-3, or both would improve the predictive value of CA 125 alone.
  • (17) The duration of S phase was unaffected by Tag expression.
  • (18) Although more than one vector can be utilized, only a library of fragments cloned into any single phage, phagemid or plasmid vector is actually required, together with a set of tagged oligonucleotide primers.
  • (19) The results also showed that Tag treated fruits developed their internal and external coloration normally, whereas mangos with Falvorseal coating did not develop their external coloration nor their red internal coloration.
  • (20) In addition, nonheme iron absorption from a test meal of the respective beef pattie consumed for the 180 days was estimated by the extrinsic tag procedure.

Tar


Definition:

  • (n.) A sailor; a seaman.
  • (n.) A thick, black, viscous liquid obtained by the distillation of wood, coal, etc., and having a varied composition according to the temperature and material employed in obtaining it.
  • (v. t.) To smear with tar, or as with tar; as, to tar ropes; to tar cloth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (2) Utilizing the bilateral comparison technique in 30 hospitalized patients with chronic stable plaque-type psoriasis vulgaris, we closely monitored the clinical responses to ultraviolet radiation (Westinghouse fluorescent FS40 bulbs, 290--400 nm) and a variety of tar preparations and lubricant vehicles in combination and separately.
  • (3) It seems that the addition of liquid tar elevates the reaction threshold to dithranol in hypersensitive patients with psoriasis.
  • (4) We now present evidence that such a decrease in amounts of P68 could be essential for HIV-1 replication because of the presence of the Tat-responsive sequence (TAR sequence) present in the 5' untranslated region of HIV-1 mRNAs, which activates the P68 kinase.
  • (5) We conclude that there appears to be no benefit from exceeding a concentration of 5% crude coal tar in yellow soft paraffin in the treatment of patients with psoriasis and that the plateau in the dose-response curve for the action of crude coal tar in psoriasis begins at a point between 1 and 5%.
  • (6) Purified tat binds specifically to HIV-1 trans-activation-responsive region (TAR) RNA in gel-retardation, filter-binding, and immunoprecipitation assays.
  • (7) benj67 asks: How do you continue to justify continued your role in financing the Canadian tar sands, arguably a greater crime than the Libor scandal?
  • (8) Hansen has been an outspoken critic of tar sands, saying last year "it will be game over for the climate if development of the oil sands isn't stopped".
  • (9) In contrast, erythroid and myeloid colony growth from the TAR infant's marrow cells was preserved.
  • (10) Finally, by 6 min of heavy exercise at 8 mph 20% grade, Tar increased 2 degrees C (P less than 0.05) while Tre increased 0.5 degree C (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) Hydroxylamine mutagenesis was used to alter the tar gene that encodes the transmembrane Tar protein required for chemotaxis.
  • (12) A previously described smoking apparatus (20) was used for measurement of puff volume and inhaled tar.
  • (13) Again, tat protected TAR RNA from RNase A cleavage at both U23 and U31.
  • (14) Since its 2013 announcement, a key aim of TTIP has been to destroy regulations that prevent high-polluting tar sand crude oil from entering Europe.
  • (15) TARS-1 and TART-1 but not TARL-2 were transplantable into newborn syngeneic rats and nude mice.
  • (16) Both the occupational and in particular the therapeutic exposure to coal tar resulted in clear increases in urinary levels of PAH metabolites as compared to unexposed subjects.
  • (17) During the remission period the patients were advised to use a tar preparation or topical corticosteroids in the event of minor exacerbations.
  • (18) Biological studies have demonstrated that concentrated extract of tars from combustion of shale oil are carcingenic to the skin of mice.
  • (19) Beech tar, in a concentration of 5% induced a 19% increase in orthokeratosis.
  • (20) For the study reported in the present investigation these data have been augmented by estimates of past workplace exposure to total tar (benzene-soluble matter) and to benzo-a-pyrene (BaP).

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