What's the difference between thinning and tinning?

Thinning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thin

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are going to all destinations.” Supplies are running thin and aftershocks have strained nerves in the city.
  • (2) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
  • (3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (4) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (5) Dose distributions were evaluated under thin sheet lead used as surface bolus for 4- and 10-MV photons and 6- and 9-MeV electrons using a parallel-plate ion chamber and film.
  • (6) Separation of PL by thin-layer chromatography revealed a prevalence of phosphatidylcholine followed by phosphatidylethanolamine.
  • (7) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (8) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (9) When [14C]methyl-labelled N,N-dimethylformamide was injected and urine samples investigated by radio thin layer chromatography, the major area of radioactivity corresponded to the Rf of N-(hydroxymethyl)-N-methylformamide.
  • (10) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
  • (11) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (12) The triglycerides are isolated by means of thin-layer chromatography.
  • (13) The OPL first appears as a thin, discontinuous break in the cytoblast layer that is frequently interrupted by the profiles of migrating neuro- and glioblasts.
  • (14) It's bad enough that they're so thin,” said Kilbourne.
  • (15) A specific vitamin A-dependent fluorophore was isolated from these retinas using thin-layer chromatography (TLC).
  • (16) Thinning of the dermis and the arrangement of collagen in parallel bundles appear to be constant findings.
  • (17) Thin-layer chromatogram with immunostaining revealed that serum IgG from this patient reacted with GM1, GD1a, GD1b, but did not react with GM2 and GT1b.
  • (18) A CT of the chest revealed typical thin-walled cysts of lymphangioleiomyomatosis.
  • (19) Homogenates of mucosa and muscle layer were incubated with (14C)-labelled arachidonic acid, and prostaglandin formation was determined using thin-layer chromatography.
  • (20) Draining of thin films has thus a dehydrating effect as well as a sorting and ordering effect.

Tinning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tin
  • (n.) The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like.
  • (n.) The covering or lining of tin thus put on.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
  • (3) A knee simulator was used to study the wear of carbon fiber reinforced UHMWPE (Poly Two) (Poly Two is a registered trademark of Zimmer, USA) tibial and patellar components against Ti-6A1-4V, titanium nitride (TiN)-coated Ti-6A1-4V, and cobalt-chromium-molybdenum femoral components.
  • (4) It's a small sample, consisting of the folk on the train to Kings Cross this lunchtime, but your MBM correspondent saw: several gentlemen swilling from cans of San Miguel and talking excitedly about the World Cup; two blonde women in frankly disorienting 1980s style football shorts waving flags; and a bloke sitting on his own necking a tin of pre-mixed gin and tonic.
  • (5) The Meikhtila district chairman, Tin Maung Soe, said one Buddhist man was sentenced to five years' imprisonment on Thursday for causing grievous harm in connection with the killing of two Muslim men.
  • (6) FreeKachin (@FreeKachin) Nov 10, 5pm, attached object fell off of the sky at Tin Aung Kyaing mining lot in Hpakant Jade tract.
  • (7) To measure the degree of wetting of the metallic phases, silver, tin, and copper were melted in such proportions as to give specimens of silver, tin, the alpha, beta, and gamma silver-tin phases, the eutectic in the silver-copper system.
  • (8) Designed seven years ago by Foggo Associates , the 24-storey spam tin has been revived by one of the world’s biggest pension funds, TIAA-CREF.
  • (9) Logging, cattle farming and soy plantations are key, plus the increased construction of dams and road, and shifting patterns of farming for local people and mining (for diamonds, bauxite, manganese, iron, tin, copper, lead and gold).
  • (10) The calcium binding activity in the soluble fraction of renal cortex increased significantly at any of the time intervals between 6 and 72 hr after administration of tin, and this increase preceded an elevation of the calcium concentration in the renal cortex.
  • (11) Comparison of the data from the tin-fed groups with both the control and the reduced diet groups allowed discrimination between effects of reduced feed intake and Sn2+ effects.
  • (12) Critical verdict The Tin Drum catapulted Grass to the forefront of European fiction and since then he has been Germany's "permanent Nobel candidate"; of the remainder of the Danzig trilogy, Cat and Mouse is the best regarded.
  • (13) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
  • (14) Lead and tin concentrations in the blood were estimated.
  • (15) Because of the tin effect 99mTc-DTPA or 99mTc-citrate should be used for brain scintigraphy if this has to be performed within the first 5 or 7 days following a bone scintigraphy with a tin-containing radiopharmaceutical.
  • (16) Webb agreed, calling Miliband "irresponsible" for "stirring up cheap headlines", sneering: "Why doesn't the government set a price cap on a tin of beans?"
  • (17) Of the metalloporphyrins examined (Fe, Co, Zn and Sn) all inhibited ferrochelatase at micromolar concentrations, although tin protoporphyrin was the least effective.
  • (18) This procedure gives the silver-tin amalgam the bactericidal characteristics of a copper amalgam but essentially higher marginal strength.
  • (19) Jasmin Lorch, from the GIGA Institute of Asian Studies in Hamburg, said: “If the military gets the feeling that its vested interests are threatened, it can always act as a veto player and block further reforms.” The New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch said the elections were fundamentally flawed, citing a lack of an independent election commission with its leader, chairman U Tin Aye, both a former army general and former member of the ruling party.
  • (20) At the beginning of his career, Moreno as Freud, found himself in a transcultural position which allowed him to better observe the "classical occidental individual" captive of his stereotypal "Tinned culture".

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