What's the difference between tain and wain?

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.

Wain


Definition:

  • (n.) A four-wheeled vehicle for the transportation of goods, produce, etc.; a wagon.
  • (n.) A chariot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By using these data and the known structure of the combining site of protein MOPC 315 [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977), Nature (London) 266, 31-37] the mode of binding of Tnp derivatives is deduced by ring-current calculations.
  • (2) At Christmas I went to department stores in Buchanan Street and bought inexpensive ornaments and prints, again not understanding – or not understanding well enough – that seeing more of me was worth any number of smoked glass decanters or pictures by the Impressionists (an unusually dreary example of which replaced FD Millet's Between Two Fires in the frame above the fireplace, until my parents, suffering it in silence for long enough, papered it over with Constable's The Hay Wain).
  • (3) As well as The Hay Wain in the National Gallery there is The Valley Farm in the Tate collection .
  • (4) The samples studied were derived from the same man for whom a detailed analysis of the tat gene was previously described (A. Meyerhans, R. Cheynier, J. Albert, M. Seth, S. Kwok, J. Sninsky, L. Morfeldt-Manson, B. Asjö, and S. Wain-Hobson, Cell 58:901-910, 1989).
  • (5) A method of modifying a Cape-Waine Anaesthetic Ventilator is described in detail showing what parts need to be replaced or removed.
  • (6) She might have stitched the whole thing in front of her hissing gas fire, with her brass ornaments twinkling in the background, Corrie playing on the telly and The Hay Wain over the fireplace.” Perry flirts with John Major territory – “cricket on the village green” makes an appearance among Perry’s aggregation of words and phrases that seem to him to express Britishness – but it is too sly to fall for the whole warm beer and cycling spinsters schtick.
  • (7) Adenomyosis wained in the aged hybrids, apparently due to declining ovarian function.
  • (8) Hillsborough disaster: six people, including David Duckenfield, charged Read more Norman Bettison – inspector Bettison’s role included writing most of the force’s account of the disaster in the Wain report to Lord Justice Taylor.
  • (9) "Shropshire council has acknowledged that the 2,600 figure is both arbitrary and inexact," said John Waine from Hoooh.
  • (10) In protein XRPC 25 a positively charged residue was located at the entrance to the site, similarly positioned to that reported for protein MOPC 315 [Sutton, Gettins, Givol, Marsh, Wain-Hobson, Willan & Dwek (1977) Biochem.J.165, 177-197].
  • (11) The contacts expected between epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine and the site on MOPC 315 IgA, on the basis of a recent model for this site [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977) Nature (London) 266, 31--37] were not detected.
  • (12) By using a series of Dnp-spin-labelled haptens, the dimensions of the binding sites of the three myeloma proteins were compared by the method described for protein MOPC 315 [Sutton, Gettins, Givol, Marsh, Wain-Hobson, Willan & Dwek (1977) Biochem.
  • (13) On one of many evenings at Orton's home, Waine also recalls Williams's fury when the playwright revealed that he had spiked Williams's food with hashish.
  • (14) Simon Wain-Hobson , a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, said that scientists working on the controversial virus studies should be less defensive.
  • (15) Known as the Babes in the Woods, Waine and Dennis became friends with Williams after Waine, an Oxford undergraduate, sent him an amusing fan letter.
  • (16) While Williams was clearly attracted to Waine, the friendship remained platonic.
  • (17) Willy Lott’s House from the Stour (The Valley Farm) is the same cottage seen from a different angle in Constable’s most famous painting, the slightly later The Hay Wain .
  • (18) Waine and Dennis helped Stevens to unravel the background to many unexplored sections of the diaries, which Williams started keeping in 1942 and famously finished with a final dark entry on 14 April 1988, the night of his death, with the words "Oh – what's the bloody point?"
  • (19) "Tom Waine and Clive Dennis feature frequently in the published extracts, but they're never fully identified," Stevens said.
  • (20) Some experts argue that fat is the wrong target and that salt, sugar and refined carbohydrates should be tackled instead, but Dr Colin Waine, former chairman of the National Obesity Forum, welcomed the move.

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