What's the difference between tracer and tracker?

Tracer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, traces.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If tracer is introduced into the carotid artery after osmotic treatment, brain uptake is increased by a net factor of 50 (a factor of 70 due to elevation of PA, multiplied by 7 due to infusion by the carotid route) as compared to uptake by normal, untreated brain with infusion into a peripheral vein.
  • (2) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (3) Thus, the enzyme-immunoassay shows specificity and sensitivity comparable to radioimmunoassay making use of radioactive tracer unnecessary.
  • (4) By contrast, there was a rapid exchange of tracer Leu carbon between placenta and fetus resulting in a significant flux of labeled KIC from placenta to fetus.
  • (5) Acetylcholine caused a rapid decrease (42% in 1 min) in 36Cl content of control acini which were preloaded with tracer for 12 min, but only a 23% decrease in acini of reserpine-treated rats.
  • (6) An isotopic steady state was established in five pregnant animals by the daily feeding of a tracer dose of cholesterol-4-(14)C. Comparison of maternal and fetal serum cholesterol SA revealed that an average of 42.6% of the serum cholesterol in the term fetus originated by transfer from the maternal blood.
  • (7) Injection of the tracer substance wheat germ agglutinin-horseradish peroxidase (WGA-HRP) directly into the basilar pontine nuclei using a ventral surgical approach resulted in the labeling of somata in many areas both rostral and caudal to the basilar pons.
  • (8) These results suggest that [99mTc]LDL acts as a trapped ligand in vivo and should therefore, be a good tracer for noninvasive quantitative biodistribution studies of LDL.
  • (9) The organization of the afferent and efferent connections of the sagittal Zones A and B of the cerebellar cortex of the rat have been studied using wheat-germ agglutinin conjugated to horseradish peroxidase as a tracer.
  • (10) Three exponential terms were required to fit the data for each of the tracers in all six experiments.
  • (11) The radiation dose to the tumor after a single injection of 500 muCi 131I-MAb 139H2 was 1,300 cGy over 7 days, which appeared slightly lower than the dose calculated after administration of a tracer dose of iodinated MAb 139H2.
  • (12) A light and electron microscopic double immunostaining technique was employed using the beta subunit of unconjugated cholera toxin as a neural tracer.
  • (13) Coronary collateral blood flow was measured with tracer microspheres in 3 different experimental conditons in the dog heart: 1. after occlusion of a large coronary artery in the in situ beating heart, 2. after occlusion of a small coronary artery in the in situ beating heart and 3. after occlusion of a large coronary artery in the isolated, empty beating, blood-perfused heart.
  • (14) This exogenous protein tracer could be seen in apical vacuoles and phagosomes in the cuboidal parietal epithelium.
  • (15) In the present study, we assessed transepithelial transport of Na+, K+ and Cl- in the isolated initial segment (P1) of rabbit colon in vitro using radioisotopic tracer fluxes and electrophysiological techniques.
  • (16) Each group of cattle consisted of six permanent members, two members fistulated at the oesophagus and one worm-free tracer calf.
  • (17) The immunoreactivity of the tracer can instead be lower than that shown by the standard, although it must not be too different.
  • (18) This reconstruction only requires very general assumptions, such as tracer-tracee indistinguishability and mass conservation; in particular it is independent of the glucose model structure, i.e., number of compartments and their interconnections.
  • (19) When normalized with respect to scala cross-section, the process of tracer movement across the spiral ligament is similar in the basal and third turns.
  • (20) The electron-dense tracers, ferritin, peroxidase, Thorotrast, and latex beads were all ingested but none was phagocytized.

Tracker


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, tracks or pursues, as a man or dog that follows game.
  • (n.) In the organ, a light strip of wood connecting (in path) a key and a pallet, to communicate motion by pulling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eye movements of convergence and divergence were recorded by a limbus tracker.
  • (2) Lloyds TSB, Cheltenham & Gloucester and Nationwide have SVRs of 2.5% while the Woolwich transfers existing customers to a tracker of base rate plus 0.95% - a pay rate of a minuscule 1.44%.
  • (3) It’s first Fitbit Tracker was released that year, a glorified pedometer that looked like a clothes peg.
  • (4) The responses of accommodation and vergence were measured simultaneously with a dual Purkinje image eye tracker and infrared optometer while subjects viewed a Maltese cross monocularly through a pinhole pupil and made voluntary efforts to imaginary changes in target distance.
  • (5) But this is not sufficient and IEA should be more transparent regarding the sensitivities of its key assumptions.” The Carbon Tracker report found that the cumulative impact of a world of low population and economic growth and a continued renewable energy boom would cut energy demand even lower than the IEA’s low emissions scenario, which keeps the world within 2C of warming.
  • (6) Someone with a £150,000 repayment mortgage currently on a tracker rate of 2.5% would see their costs rise from £673 a month to £877 a month if rates went up to 3%, and to £1,060 if they hit 5%.
  • (7) It is encouraging to see this major central bank seeing the need to move with the times and understand its role in dealing with one of the major challenges facing our economies today: climate change,” said James Leaton, research director at the Carbon Tracker Initiative .
  • (8) Democrats are planning to highlight what they see as the Republican party’s unpalatable views on immigration over the weekend, sending “trackers” to monitor the event in search of further gaffes from potential candidates.
  • (9) Nationwide building society has cut the cost of its two-year tracker to just 2.64% for loans up to 70% LTV.
  • (10) Tortuosity of LIMA was negotiated using the Tracker-Seeker catheter guidewire system.
  • (11) The film garnered $40m in digital sales after the company made it available for download, according to Sony, and another $6.7m in cinemas worldwide, according to industry tracker boxofficemojo.com .
  • (12) Low rates have left mortgage borrowers, particularly those on base-rate trackers, much better off.
  • (13) Four million people with tracker mortgages will see repayments fall following today's move.
  • (14) A loan tracker service, set up by Citizens Advice examining about 2,000 loans taken out with 113 lenders, found that 87% of lenders did not ask the borrower to provide documents to show they could afford the loan, while 58% failed to explain that the loan should not be used for long-term borrowing.
  • (15) Xiao controls Tomorrow Group, a holding company with stakes in real-estate, insurance, coal and cement firms and his wealth is estimated to be about 40 billion yuan (£4.6 billion), according to wealth tracker Hurun Report .
  • (16) BP’s 2017 outlook has increased its electric vehicle projections on last year, but this still lags far behind the potential penetration if the technology were to take off, meaning there is still a risk of the company misreading oil demand,” said James Leaton, head of research at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based thinktank.
  • (17) The latest Asda income tracker survey, which tracks the amount of cash households have left after paying for necessities such as mortgage or rent, gas and electricity, food and transport, is at its lowest point since the survey started in 2007.
  • (18) After several unsuccessful attempts at dislodgment, a Tracker catheter system was advanced directly to the site of the sphere, and the sphere was successfully dislodged.
  • (19) FitBug Orb and Kik Plans The FitBug Orb, released last year, makes fitness trackers more affordable at under £50.
  • (20) Under Zonneveld's valuation, Royal Mail would join the FTSE100 list of Britain's biggest companies, which means tracker funds will be forced to buy the stock.