What's the difference between tain and tait?

Tain


Definition:

  • (n.) Thin tin plate; also, tin foil for mirrors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors main tain that the mechanisms underlying the above changes are not contradictory but rather interrelated and complementary.
  • (2) The similar absorption curves obtained with Pronasone 20 mg and 30 mg doses and the aberrantly high values and delayed peaks ob tained in 2 subjects with the 30 mg dose imply that further work on dosage range, ointment formulation, and the method of application may be necessary before dependable clinical utility can be demonstrated.
  • (3) Pressure values were higher for the Tru-Tain stent than for the lip bumper.
  • (4) Maybe that’s because Laurie’s Roper has been enter taining us for so long with his cool, his wit, his urbanity and his sheer wickedness that we don’t want to let him go.
  • (5) Some of the nonwords, like tain and goach, shared their VC unit with a number of real words.
  • (6) Measurements of intraoral muscle force with foil strain gauges, load cells, and pressure transducers bonded to a Tru-Tain stent and to a lip bumper appliance were tested by means of seven functional exercises in five adult subjects over a 5-day interval.
  • (7) The diagnoses, number and types of consultations requested, types of patients cared for by residents in various levels of taining, and other pertinent data are reviewed.
  • (8) For general pictures, however, haematoxylin-eosin taining offers most advantage.
  • (9) Semiconductor pressure transducers mounted on Tru-Tain stents in the mandibular midline and left canine areas were used to measure lip pressures with the patient at rest and during five functional exercises.
  • (10) Firefly luciferase exposed to a temperature of 135 degrees C for 36 hours re tained up to 40 percent of its original activity.
  • (11) The enzyme activity of a homogenate of cells grown at pH 7.2 in Eagles's MEM supplemented with 10% new born calf serum and con taining galactose in place of glucose, was about ten times that of a homogenate of cells cultured at pH 6.3 in the same medium.
  • (12) Provided a high index of suspicion be mai-tained, particularly in those groups of patients in whom secondary gout is common, a combination of signs may allow the diagnosis to be correctly inferred, leading to biochemical confirmation.

Tait


Definition:

  • (n.) A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experimental work has established that a sexual process can occur in African trypanosomes (Jenni, Marti, Schweizer, Betschart, Le Page, Wells, Tait, Paindavoine, Pays & Steinert, 1986; Paindavoine, Zampetti-Bosseler, Pays, Schweizer, Guyaux, Jenni & Steinert, 1986; Tait, personal communication).
  • (2) Robert Tait is a senior correspondent for Radio Free Europe.
  • (3) Awards: 1954 Somerset Maugham Award (for Five, a collections of short stories); 1985, WH Smith Literary Award and the Mondello Prize for The Good Terrorist; 1994 James Tait Black Prize for Under my Skin; nominated for the 1996 Bad Sex Award iin the Literary Review.
  • (4) The statement was signed by Clare Solomon, president of the University of London Union, Cameron Tait, president of Sussex University's student union and Lee Hall, author of Billy Elliot, among others.
  • (5) Taite argues that just because it's luxurious doesn't mean clients always get their way.
  • (6) Tait described four categories of binocular disorders including convergence excess, convergence insufficiency, divergence excess, and divergence insufficiency.
  • (7) "I've had very influential people here," Taite says.
  • (8) I get about £130 a week once everything is added on, so this rise is very good,” Tait says.
  • (9) "These proposals offer countries the chance to buy their way out of reducing emissions through forest protection," said Greenpeace's head of biodiversity, Andy Tait.
  • (10) We recently identified residues 185-224 of the light chain of human high molecular weight kininogen (HMWK) as the binding site for plasma prekallikrein (Tait, J.F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
  • (11) Finally, if in doubt, all surgeons should recall the words of Halsteads in 1898 "No drainage at all is better than the ignorant employment of it" rather than the advice of Lawson Tait.
  • (12) Yesterday talks with the government were being led at the BBC by Thompson, chief operating officer Caroline Thomson, strategy chief John Tait and Lyons.
  • (13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian Valerie Tait reached state pension age 10 years ago but, at the age of 70, is still working part-time as a civil servant.
  • (14) But Tait is being replaced by a former BBC news executive, Richard Ayre, who was a member of Ofcom's content board until being appointed as a trustee.
  • (15) In a conventional protein fragmentation approach, the prekallikrein-binding site was mapped to positions 556-595 of the human H-kininogen sequence (Tait, J. F., and Fujikawa, K. (1986) J. Biol.
  • (16) By reporting successful treatment of tubal pregnancy with salpingectomy in 1884 Robert Lawson Tait (1845-1899) started an era of almost 70 years of exclusively extirpative treatment of ectopic pregnancy.
  • (17) To have crossed that line would, as Richard Tait and his sub-committee said clearly, amount to a very serious threat to the BBC's independence.
  • (18) Tait Coles, vice-principal, Dixons city academy, Bradford Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tait Coles If students asked me, I would turn the question around and ask them what they’d do.
  • (19) Taite has close-cropped grey hair, a goatee and a pair of black-rimmed glasses that automatically tint when he walks out into the southern California sunshine.
  • (20) It won the James Tait Black Prize, but was still received by some critics as almost hurtfully factual: the tone snappish, the refusal to flirt with the reader's expectations of personality taken as a snub.

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