What's the difference between distant and yond?

Distant


Definition:

  • (a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
  • (a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
  • (a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
  • (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
  • (a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (2) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (4) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (5) Seven patients died, six because of distant metastases within one year.
  • (6) Local or distant metastases presented in 6 patients.
  • (7) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (8) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (9) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (10) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
  • (11) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
  • (12) Although a high rate of local control can be expected, distant metastases continue to be a problem.
  • (13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (14) Concomitant immunity (CI) is defined as the lack or retardation or proliferation of a secondary tumor implant at a distant site; it has been given an immunological interpretation.
  • (15) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
  • (16) The effect of combined treatment was studied in 97 patients with nonseminomatous testicular tumors with regional and distant metastases with regard to the blood serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein and chorionic gonadotropin.
  • (17) At diagnosis, 15 (16.5%) patients had regional metastases and six (7%) had distant metastases.
  • (18) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
  • (19) Sequences homologous to Inp are present in multiple copies in the N. plumbaginifolia and the N. tabacum genome but not in more distant species.
  • (20) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.

Yond


Definition:

  • (a.) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.
  • (a.) Yonder.

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