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Assay vs Microneutralization - What's the difference?

assay | microneutralization |

As nouns the difference between assay and microneutralization

is that assay is trial, attempt, essay while microneutralization is any of several forms of assay for dengue viruses in which virus growth is reduced by neutralization with antigens.

As a verb assay

is to attempt (something).

assay

English

Noun

(wikipedia assay) (en noun)
  • Trial, attempt, essay.
  • * Milton
  • I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance.
  • Examination and determination; test.
  • * Shakespeare
  • This cannot be, by no assay of reason.
  • The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
  • Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
  • * Spenser
  • Through many hard assays which did betide.
  • Tested purity or value.
  • * Spenser
  • With gold and pearl of rich assay .
  • The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
  • The alloy or metal to be assayed.
  • (Ure)

    Verb

  • To attempt (something).
  • *Shakespeare
  • *:To-night let us assay our plot.
  • *Milton
  • *:Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed .
  • *1936 , (Alfred Edward Housman), More Poems , IV , The Sage to the Young Man, ll.5-8:
  • *:Who seest the stark array / And hast not stayed to count / But singly wilt assay / The many-cannoned mount.
  • *2011 , ‘All-pro, anti-American’, The Economist , 28 May:
  • *:Speaking before a small crowd beneath antique airplanes suspended in the atrium of the State of Iowa Historical Museum, an effortfully cheerful Mr Romney assayed an early version of a stump speech I imagine will become a staple of his campaign for the Republican nomination, once it "officially" begins some time next week in New Hampshire.
  • (archaic) To try, attempt ((to) do something).
  • *1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts IX:
  • When Saul cam to Jerusalem he assayde to cople hymsilfe with the apostles, and they wer all afrayde of hym and beleved not that he was a disciple.
  • To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
  • (obsolete) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
  • *:
  • *:I wold not by my wille that ony of vs were matched with hym / Nay said sir Gawayne not so / it were shame to vs were he not assayed were he neuer soo good a knyghte
  • *1977 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales) , Penguin Classics, p.351:
  • *:The marquis, in obsession for his wife, / Longed to expose her constancy to test. / He could not throw the thought away or rest, / Having a marvellous passion to assay' her; / Needless, God knows, to frighten and dismay her, / He had ' assayed her faith enough before / And ever found her good; what was the need / Of heaping trial on her, more and more?
  • To affect.
  • *Spenser
  • *:when the heart is ill assayed
  • To try tasting, as food or drink.
  • Derived terms

    * assay office * assay mark * bioassay * immunoassay * radioimmunoassay

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    microneutralization

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several forms of assay for dengue viruses in which virus growth is reduced by neutralization with antigens