What's the difference between untie and unwind?

Untie


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of; as, to untie a knot.
  • (v. t.) To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
  • (v. t.) To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
  • (v. i.) To become untied or loosed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We're simply untying heads' hands so they can spend the money as they see fit.
  • (2) Eight of 9 Mute swans (Cygnus olor) untied in the river acrossing the central part of Tottori-city died within the period of 40 days of summer in 1989.
  • (3) 1.28am BST Heat 15-20 Spurs, 3:53 remaining in 1st quarter Tony Parker sneaks through two defenders to untie it.
  • (4) LD may be used to follow the complexation both stoichmetrically and structurally, since when specified to unti complex concentration LD provides a measure of the average orientation of the absorbing transition dipole.
  • (5) The donor heart is transplanted heterotopically into the recipient with the brachiocephalic artery anastomosed to the renal artery with 10 single sutures, and the pulmonary artery to the renal vein with 2 continuous, semicircular sutures which were left untied.
  • (6) In both experiments, bonding to each other of both tied and untied specimens was observed one month after implantation.
  • (7) The EU changed its food aid policy in 1996, shifting to cash donations, and Canada fully untied its food aid budget in 2008 – a move commended internationally, including by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
  • (8) The holding power of many of the knots that untied was substantially less than that of knots reaching knot break.
  • (9) On the 20th realimentation day, the absolute red cell volume had increased less than the absolute plasma volume, the total blood volume was almost normal per unti of body size.
  • (10) In our series of 42 patients who underwent adjustable-suture surgery, 22 cases were not adjusted and 30 cases were left untied.
  • (11) When one of the soldiers wanted to have sex with one of us, he would come and untie us, take us away then bring us back to tie up,” said Nyabol, shaking at the memory.
  • (12) Most other donors have "untied" their food aid budgets and have shifted towards buying food closer to where it is needed, on the basis that it is cheaper, faster and easier to find food local people are used to eating.
  • (13) Furthermore, no knot has come untied or developed other complications.
  • (14) By passing a spring guidewire into the catheter under fluoroscopic control, the knot was easily untied leaving the catheter correctly in place.
  • (15) An unrelated second pair of repeat sequences was located at 0.67 and 0.88 map untis.
  • (16) They called for a scaling up of aid commitments, for concrete timetables for reaching the commitments, and for improving the quality of aid, including full untying of aid (lifting requirements by some donors that aid be spent on goods and services provided by companies based in their own countries, or a limited number of countries).
  • (17) Multilaterals benefit from having greater independence from immediate political considerations; their aid is untied and much less fragmented, and their larger projects reduce the administrative burden on recipients.
  • (18) The affair did leave some positive legacies: a cross-party consensus that aid should be officially "untied" from commercial interests, a new act enshrining in law its poverty reduction focus, and a cabinet minister for the new Department for International Development (DfID).
  • (19) Standing with the cheering crowds by the finish line on Monday, Liliana’s mother Nancy said that only “little things” – a red traffic light, an untied shoelace – prevented them from being right where Richard was killed that day.
  • (20) the heat quantity generated by the tumour per untis of volume and time, computed from from intramammary temperature and thermal conductivity measurements made using of fluvographic needle probes), is typical of each cancer and re7ains remarkably constant during the growth in spite of themorphological and of the morphological and circulatory changes; b) the tumour doubling time tau2v (calculated from measurements of the tumour size effected at various stages of the evolution by assuming an exponential growth), is univocally related to 1 by a hyperbolic law so that the faster the tumour is growing themore heat generates; c) q is significanty higher and tau2v shorter in all cases where the histological examination has revealed signs of lymphatic dissemination (carcinomatous lymphangitis, lymph node metastases,...).

Unwind


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wind off; to loose or separate, as what or convolved; to untwist; to untwine; as, to unwind thread; to unwind a ball of yarn.
  • (v. t.) To disentangle.
  • (v. i.) To be or become unwound; to be capable of being unwound or untwisted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike cisplatin, bis(platinum) complex binding does not unwind supercoiled DNA.
  • (2) Of the 47 compounds that were positive or equivocal in the alkaline unwinding assay, only carbon tetrachloride and prednisolone were negative in the mouse lymphoma assay, while 12 of the 19 compounds that were negative in the alkaline unwinding assay were positive in the mouse lymphoma assay.
  • (3) As suggested from the high level of sequence similarity of these viral proteins with the recently described superfamilies of helicase-like proteins (3-5), the NTBM-containing cylindrical inclusion (CI) protein from plum pox virus (PPV), which belongs to the potyvirus group of positive strand RNA viruses, is shown to be able to unwind RNA duplexes.
  • (4) This limited unwinding of heterologous duplex DNA, termed heterologous unwinding, was detected within 30 seconds and reached a steady state within a few minutes.
  • (5) Comparison of the superhelix densities obtained by both methods permits a calculation of an unwinding angle for ethidium.
  • (6) The exposure of the cells from mussel haemolymph and from mouse L1210 to a genotoxic compound such as dimethylsulfate results in DNA damage and consequently in a reduction of the unwinding time.
  • (7) As for unwinding, the rituals of it give a satisfying end to the shape of my day.
  • (8) Chromosome replication appears to initiate in E. coli when the dnaA boxes in oriC become filled with DnaA protein, which could simultaneously mediate both the unwinding of the origin for the start of polymerization and the attachment of oriC to the cell envelope (Bramhill and Kornberg, 1988; Løbner-Olesen et al., 1989; Pierucci et al., 1989).
  • (9) The protein fraction containing the 93 000 dalton protein had considerable unwinding activity, depressing the melting temperature of poly(dA-dT) by 39 degrees C. The protein fraction containing the bulk of the 35 000 dalton protein did not have unwinding activity.
  • (10) The required cellular protein may be a eukaryotic single-stranded-DNA-binding protein (SSB), since unwinding of the template is also observed when Escherichia coli SSB is substituted for the HeLa protein fraction.
  • (11) Evidence is presented that the first step in initiation of SV40 DNA replication involves the specific binding of T antigen to the origin, followed by the local unwinding of the two strands of the template.
  • (12) Complex formation leads to very little, if any, unwinding of the duplex.
  • (13) It is suggested that the gene D product may function in replicative form DNA unwinding to expose the template for transcription.
  • (14) Topotecan (SK&F 104864) is a novel antitumor agent whose mechanism of action is inhibition of the DNA unwinding protein topoisomerase I.
  • (15) We used an RNA unwinding assay to compare the activities of these factors from the different species.
  • (16) The extension and unwinding of the DNA helix brought about by the intercalating chromophore of the dye molecules are not requirements for the entrapment process.
  • (17) Second, mutant T antigens with impaired ATPase function also showed a reduced DNA unwinding activity.
  • (18) Analysts at UBS said: “After Friday’s ... market plunge, many turned to the authorities for support measures as concerns rose that the rapid unwinding of margin trades was fuelling the sell-off.
  • (19) It is proposed that the DNA-unwinding activity causes the efficient recombination, DNA repair, and SOS induction (after application of nalidixic acid) in recD mutants.
  • (20) But within minutes of the five-year-old video of Obama being released by the Daily Caller website on Tuesday night , the "exclusive" began to unwind amid criticism that much of it had been reported at the time and the content was anything but explosive.

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