What's the difference between threefold and trine?

Threefold


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The fasted rats also exhibited a threefold increase in glucose 1,6-diphosphate (G-1,6-P2) in the white quadriceps after 30 min of exercise, whereas no significant changes were observed in the red quadriceps or in liver.
  • (2) Use of oestrogens without progestogens is associated with a twofold to threefold increase in risk of endometrial neoplasia.
  • (3) Latencies were increased two- to threefold, and tracking was more variable.
  • (4) Densitometry of immunoblots indicated that there was two- to threefold more PrP-res than PrP-sen in one infected clone.
  • (5) At 7 days after inoculation, BN rats had 65-fold higher (P less than .001) pulmonary viral titers and threefold higher (P less than .002) numbers of neutrophils in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid than did F344 rats.
  • (6) Plasma lactate levels were elevated by about threefold during both glucose and lactate infusion.
  • (7) The VO2 resp did not increase, despite approximately threefold increases in both inspiratory flow rate and contraction frequency.
  • (8) Our results showed an approximately two- to threefold increase in the level of the type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a somewhat smaller increase in the type II kinase in extracts of the "old" IMR-90 cells (population doubling greater than 48) as compared to that of the "young" cells (PDL 22-27).
  • (9) After exposure to 400 microM aluminum lactate and removal of unbound aluminum, human cytoskeletal proteins were degraded two- to threefold more slowly by calpain.
  • (10) Such an inhibition occurred slowly and irreversibly; it might be related to the threefold increase in cyclic GMP.
  • (11) Rifampin increased the clearance of (R)-warfarin threefold and the clearance of (S)-warfarin twofold.
  • (12) Cholesterol levels remained relatively constant in all tissues examined except brain, where a threefold increase was observed.
  • (13) The expression of shlA was measured as a function of alkaline phosphatase activity, which increased threefold under iron-restricted conditions.
  • (14) SCF interacted with erythropoietin (Epo) and granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) to maintain large numbers of cells as well as to generate a twofold to threefold increase in CFC in the case of Epo, and a 10-fold increase in CFC in the case of G-CSF.
  • (15) MG-63 cells also possessed an alkaline phosphatase isoenzyme of the bone-liver-kidney type that was stimulated by 1,25-(OH)2D3 treatment (two- to threefold) and inhibited by parathyroid hormone (40 nM, -25%, p less than 0.025).
  • (16) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
  • (17) It was found that: the two cell types have the same basal adenylate cyclase activity; prespore cells and prestalk cells are able to relay the extracellular cAMP signal equally well; intact prestalk cells show a threefold higher cAMP phosphodiesterase activity on the cell surface than prespore cells, whereas their cytosolic activity is the same; intact prestalk cells bind three to four times more cAMP than prespore cells; no large differences in cAMP metabolism and detection were observed between cells derived from migrating slugs and culminating aggregates.
  • (18) Dosage with the second lead shot did not result in further accumulation of bone lead in hens, but increased bone lead concentrations threefold in drakes, suggesting that saturation levels for bone lead had already been reached in the hens after ingestion of one shot.
  • (19) Four weeks after replantation, a more than threefold increase in PBF was measured in premolars with two roots, while PBF in premolars with one root and incisors was consistently reduced to an average of 40% of the controls.
  • (20) However, basal insulin levels and acute insulin responses to glucose were threefold greater in the recipients.

Trine


Definition:

  • (a.) Threefold; triple; as, trine dimensions, or length, breadth, and thickness.
  • (n.) The aspect of planets distant from each other 120 degrees, or one third of the zodiac; trigon.
  • (n.) A triad; trinity.
  • (v. t.) To put in the aspect of a trine.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trine Hahnemann is a Danish chef and food writer; trinehahnemann.com Anissa Helou’s baked fish with a coriander and nut stuffing Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Here is a quick and particularly delicious way of preparing fish.
  • (2) Dr Trine Brox of the University of Copenhagen, who researches democratisation in the exile community, said very few exile Tibetans understood or accepted the Dalai Lama's distinction between his political and religious authority.
  • (3) Vivek Singh is executive chef and CEO of The Cinnamon Club, London SW1; cinnamonclub.com Trine Hehnemann’s frikadeller with mushroom, parsley and boiled potato and celeriac Facebook Twitter Pinterest Romas Foord for the Observer Frikadeller is the national dish of Denmark and a favourite among children.
  • (4) "Explosives were found at the farm," police prosecutor Trine Dyngeland told Reuters.

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