What's the difference between tine and tone?

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.

Tone


Definition:

  • (n.) Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
  • (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
  • (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
  • (n.) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones.
  • (n.) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone.
  • (n.) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone.
  • (n.) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
  • (n.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
  • (n.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
  • (n.) State of mind; temper; mood.
  • (n.) Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
  • (n.) General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
  • (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
  • (v. t.) To utter with an affected tone.
  • (v. t.) To give tone, or a particular tone, to; to tune. See Tune, v. t.
  • (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
  • (2) In summary, GABAergic tone did not effect basal acid secretion in anesthetized rats.
  • (3) After midazolam infusion, there was a 50% decrease in amplitude of P3 in response to target tones (P less than 0.006), whereas N3 latency increased by 40 ms (P less than 0.05).
  • (4) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (5) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
  • (6) Noradrenaline decreased the phasic contraction amplitude of the circular muscle and exerted a stimulant effect on the tone which suggested an existence of two alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes.
  • (7) Histamine (10(-6)-10(-4) M) induced concentration-dependent increases in tone and Ca2+i, but these responses were not sustained.
  • (8) Masking experiments are demonstrated for electrical frequency-modulated tone bursts from 1,000 to 10,000 cps and from 10,000 to 1,000 cps with superimposed clicks.
  • (9) The stimuli were two simple tones in experiment 1 and two tonal complexes in both experiments 2 and 3.
  • (10) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
  • (11) Complex tones containing the first 20 harmonics of 50, 100, or 200 Hz, all at equal amplitude, were used.
  • (12) An attempt to eliminate the age effect by adjusting for age differences in monaural shadowing errors, fluid intelligence, and pure-tone hearing loss did not succeed.
  • (13) Inhibition of the production or action of these substances will allow for vasodilatation, and it is probable that perinatal pulmonary vascular tone reflects a balance between local prostaglandin and leukotriene production.
  • (14) Subject evaluations in accordance with the intensity levels of tones, i.e.
  • (15) Maximum expiratory flow on partial flow-volume curve at 25% forced vital capacity (PEF25) was measured as an index showing basal bronchomotor tone.
  • (16) Twenty-four hours later, a stimulus generalization test was conducted in the absence of drug; during this session, tones that varied in frequency around 4.5 KHz were presented while the animals were responding under the VI schedule.
  • (17) Auditory sensory perception was operationalized as number of tones heard on audiometric examination.
  • (18) Later, Lucas, also a former party leader, strongly defended Bennett, saying it was a “bad day for Natalie” but there was also “kind of a gloating tone that strikes one as having something to do with her being a woman in there too”.
  • (19) From a set of tones that varied only in intensity, it was possible to calculate the growth of loudness with intensity for the budgerigar.
  • (20) Two hundred forty-six fetuses had at least one abnormal biophysical profile variable with the risk of bad outcome, for a single abnormal variable, ranging from 8% (body movements) to 100% (tone) and increasing from 14% (any variable abnormal) to 63% (all variables abnormal).