What's the difference between abbreviation and depredator?
Abbreviation
Definition:
(n.) The act of shortening, or reducing.
(n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.
(n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.
(n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.
Example Sentences:
(1) The profile includes three physiologic assessments and four variables which express the number, location, and severity of a patient's injuries in terms of 'Abbreviated injury scale' values.
(2) The results also demonstrate the effect of an outward current to prolong the action potential and the effect of an outward current blocker to abbreviate the action potential.
(3) We investigated the accuracy of the Hodkinson abbreviated mental test (AMT) as a screening instrument for dementia in an Italian population.
(4) The aberrant conformation is evidently forced upon the abbreviated constructs by the residual 5' precursor sequence, since its removal by the maturation endonuclease RNAase M5 precipitates the reordering of the mature domain into its native conformation.
(5) This abbreviated therapeutic approach may eliminate the need for serial electropharmacologic testing, long-term drug therapy, antitachycardia pacemakers, and surgical ablation.
(6) Challenge after abbreviation of primary infections at different stages of worm development showed that persistence of larvae beyond day 21 was critical in determining poor response to reinfection.
(7) An abbreviated review of behavioral animal studies provides additional support for the clinical investigations presented.
(8) Under simulated ischaemic conditions, lignocaine, propranolol and nicainoprol did not produce a concentration-dependent reduction in action potential duration whereas disopyramide and verapamil, respectively, prolonged and abbreviated both APD50 and APD90.
(9) The temperature-sensitive Drosophila developmental mutation, l(3)c21RRW630 (abbreviated RW630) disturbs oogenesis and has a maternal effect on embryogenesis.
(10) PEP I was prolonged, LVET I was abbreviated, while QS2 I remained unaltered.
(11) And, finally, the "R", an abbreviation for recommandé (registered), suggests that it would have contained the 100-franc allowance that Theo regularly sent his brother.
(12) A correlation and linear regression study was performed, to establish differences between the detailed and the abbreviated methods.
(13) An abbreviated form of the MMPI test was used in the clinical part.
(14) Abbreviated and full versions of the discharge summary were generated with very little interactive time required of the physician or record clerk.
(15) The lateral preferences of 959 Brazilian adults (471 males and 488 females) were assessed with the abbreviated form of the Edinburgh Inventory using the interview method.
(16) Two-thirds of hospitals performed a major antiglobulin crossmatch (rather than an abbreviated one) before all neonatal red cell transfusions.
(17) This report describes the development and validation of a computerized system for converting ICD-9CM rubrics to Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) scores.
(18) Third, MATa cells expressing a truncated but functional STE2 gene (in which the COOH-terminal 135-hydrophilic residues were deleted) produced a protein detected by cross-linking to 35S-alpha-factor of apparent molecular weight 33,000, close to the size expected for the predicted abbreviated STE2 polypeptide.
(19) The Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, could be abbreviated and simplified for the use in population surveys.
(20) The Italian MMPI abbreviated version was administered to all subjects.
Depredator
Definition:
(n.) One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Example Sentences:
(1) Human depredation was not continuous as Desmodus located other hosts.
(2) There’s no question that wolves have eaten them from time to time — there were two confirmed kills here in 2014 — and though cattle depredation is decreasing, there’s no question that it will happen again in the future.
(3) This is the first report to document the use of famphur as an intentional means of killing wildlife thought to be depredating crops.
(4) Though The Oregon Cattlemen’s Association had been party to the discussions, they were furious about the outcome, saying that the new definition of chronic depredation was impossible to meet.
(5) The film shows the depredations of time, but also the lability of the past, its different meaning and value for both parties, and how, now that the couple are talking, the past can seem as unstable as the future.
(6) He could temporarily push out of his mind the horrors of the depredations of the planet being carried out by big business, or the dumbing-down of people's minds through the mass media, and he could relish the cultivation of what he himself termed "obsolete and obsolescent" varieties of apple, such as Royal Russett and Orleans Reinette.
(7) When the Arab spring uprising in Libya took shape in February, Britain and France , who had suffered more than most western countries from his depredations, saw a chance to settle with him.
(8) As elsewhere in the world, rodents are responsible for very considerable economic losses in tropical Africa because of their depredations on both growing crops and stored food products.
(9) Nigerian president meets schoolgirl who escaped Boko Haram Read more The disastrous economic and social legacy of Boko Haram’s depredations, and a linked, ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Lake Chad basin, has brought calls for Buhari to adopt a more constructive approach extending beyond crude military suppression tactics.
(10) I am 77 and entitled to a free TV licence, but I am happy to keep paying for it if it will save the BBC from the depredations of this government.
(11) Several cattle had been taken by the pack, and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW), which administers the state’s wolf plan, authorised the removal of two wolves for “chronic depredation”.
(12) It was not clear from the report whether Gove was explaining the horrific rise of neo-Nazism as primarily a response to the depredations of the EU.
(13) I don't doubt that Thurley has an aversion to patronising his paying guests – but really, patronising is precisely what the heritage industry is all about: preserving our ancient monuments against our own thoughtless depredations; organising a charitable and corporate funding structure for them because we cannot be trusted to pay for them out of the public purse; educating us as to their possible meaning; and, most of all, providing a seamless complex of car parks and road trains so we can visit them without having to animate our own overweight bodies.
(14) Much of what is happening now reflects the impact of decades of self-serving western policy in the Middle East and Africa, whether it be the fallout from the Iraq and Libya interventions, the depredations of climate change or the imposition on postcolonial developing countries of trade, aid and investment rules favouring richer nations and multinational corporations.
(15) The scale of current violence in Kurdish areas dwarfs Isis’s Turkish depredations.
(16) The state distributes compensation to ranchers for confirmed depredations.
(17) The National Campaign for the Arts heart sinks at the need to make yet more utilitarian arguments – but those are the only ones likely to stave off worse depredations.
(18) It has been rumoured for weeks that the Emiratis have been discreetly backing General Khalifa Haftar , the renegade Libyan general who presents himself as the only man who can save his chaotic country from the depredations of Islamists he dismisses as terrorists.
(19) No fiction set in the 14th century, for instance, has ever rivalled the portrayal in Game of Thrones of what, for a hapless peasantry, the ambitions of rival kings were liable to mean in practice: the depredations of écorcheurs ; rape and torture; the long, slow agonies of famine.
(20) Food chains are an essential link, for they associate animals to plants (in the case of depredators such as herbivores, fruit- and grain-eaters) and to other animals (in the case of predators).