What's the difference between time and tine?

Time


Definition:

  • (n.) Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof.
  • (n.) A particular period or part of duration, whether past, present, or future; a point or portion of duration; as, the time was, or has been; the time is, or will be.
  • (n.) The period at which any definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.
  • (n.) The duration of one's life; the hours and days which a person has at his disposal.
  • (n.) A proper time; a season; an opportunity.
  • (n.) Hour of travail, delivery, or parturition.
  • (n.) Performance or occurrence of an action or event, considered with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen.
  • (n.) The present life; existence in this world as contrasted with immortal life; definite, as contrasted with infinite, duration.
  • (n.) Tense.
  • (n.) The measured duration of sounds; measure; tempo; rate of movement; rhythmical division; as, common or triple time; the musician keeps good time.
  • (v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly.
  • (v. t.) To regulate as to time; to accompany, or agree with, in time of movement.
  • (v. t.) To ascertain or record the time, duration, or rate of; as, to time the speed of horses, or hours for workmen.
  • (v. t.) To measure, as in music or harmony.
  • (v. i.) To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time.
  • (v. i.) To pass time; to delay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) Neuromedin B (C50 6 x 10(-12) M) was 3 times less potent than bombesin-14.
  • (3) Since fingernail creatinine (Ncr) reflects serum creatinine (Scr) at the time of nail formation, it has been suggested that Ncr level might represent that of Scr around 4 months previously.
  • (4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (5) In contrast, resting cells of strain CHA750 produced five times less IAA in a buffer (pH 6.0) containing 1 mM-L-tryptophan than did resting cells of the wild-type, illustrating the major contribution of TSO to IAA synthesis under these conditions.
  • (6) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (7) The proportion of motile spermatozoa decreased with time at the same rate when samples were prepared in either HEPES or phosphate buffers.
  • (8) Arachidic acid was without effect, while linoleic acid and linolenic acid were (on a concentration basis) at least 5-times less active than arachidonic acid.
  • (9) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
  • (10) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (11) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (12) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (13) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (14) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
  • (15) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (16) ), the concentration of AMPO in the hypothalamus was 5.4 times the concentration at 20 h after one injection.
  • (17) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
  • (18) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
  • (19) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
  • (20) The extent of the infectious process was limited, however, because the life span of the cultures was not significantly shortened, the yields of infectious virus per immunofluorescent cell were at all times low, and most infected cells contained only a few well-delineated small masses of antigen, suggestive of an abortive infection.

Tine


Definition:

  • (n.) Trouble; distress; teen.
  • (v. t.) To kindle; to set on fire.
  • (v. i.) To kindle; to rage; to smart.
  • (v. t.) To shut in, or inclose.
  • (n.) A tooth, or spike, as of a fork; a prong, as of an antler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tined transvenous pacing leads were inserted into nine healthy large-breed dogs as part of an experimental study evaluating an implantable defibrillator.
  • (2) With the advent of tined transvenous cardiac pacing leads, the complete extraction of pacing leads in the treatment of an infected cardiac pacing system has become increasingly difficult.
  • (3) The introduction of the tined atrial J lead has decreased the incidence of atrial lead dislodgment, allowing for continued effective sensing and pacing.
  • (4) Natasha Orekhova, 26, a public relations specialist with a real estate firm, stood next to a friend who carried a fork with a pretend snake spiked on its tines, a reference to Putin calling the protesters Bandar-logs, the monkeys hypnotised by a python in Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
  • (5) Fixation included tines or fins (160), screw (40), flange (12), and other (16).
  • (6) Results obtained with immunotherapy in 318 cases of lung cancer showed that an initial Tine test is useful prognostically (initial negativity is equivalent to poor survival), and survival increases and decreases in function of positivity and negativity respectively.
  • (7) Ookinetes of Haemoproteus meleagridis were structurally similar to kinetes of other apicomplexan parasites and possessed a polar ring complex (PRC) composed of an electron-lucent polar ring with 25 supporting tines.
  • (8) and Tuberculin Tine tests were performed on 393 in-patients on a chest unit.
  • (9) The tined tip of a ventricular pacemaker electrode was entrapped in the chordae of the tricuspid valve and could not be removed by subtle manipulations in two patients.
  • (10) The aim of this study was to assess the effect of difference in tine diameter on probing pocket depth measurement.
  • (11) With the Mantoux test 52 (27%) were tuberculin-positive and 19 (9.8%) were positive with the tine test.
  • (12) Eighty-four patients with culture-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections of the lung were evaluated with the Mono-Vacc and tine tuberculin skin tests.
  • (13) Tine-test was negative in all subjects and converted to positive in 106 out of 109 patients after vaccination.
  • (14) Therefore, the tined J-leads fulfill all requirements of a suitable atrial electrode.
  • (15) The tine test is unsuitable for epidemiological use because of the high proportion of negative and doubtful results in people positive on the Mantoux test.
  • (16) No conversions from negative to positive tine test results occurred after sludge had been applied to the farms.
  • (17) Biopsy samples of the main beams and tines were obtained from the antlers of mature Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) during the rapid phase of the antler grow-th cycle.
  • (18) A variety of lead types were used: passive fixation with preformed J (including tines or fins in a solid electrode); porous tip electrodes with small tines, most of which were also preformed; active fixation leads (both straight and preformed); and finally bipolar leads, which were all preformed.
  • (19) The use of tined leads and careful technique may minimise the likelihood of transvenous lead displacement.
  • (20) Only tined leads with silicone insulation were used.