What's the difference between abound and abut?

Abound


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful.
  • (v. i.) To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (2) Whilst there were some encouraging signs of behaviour change, opportunities for the spread of HIV continued to abound in this important group.
  • (3) Lewis adds: Dark rumours of personal frictions during the Clinton Administration abound but, politically, a Yellen appointment would probably be the easiest course for the President to pursue.
  • (4) Clinical medicine abounds in uncertainties arising from the very nature of clinical data and physicians' judgments.
  • (5) Although psychiatric literature abounds in allusions to the phenomenon of "déjà vu", few communications were devoted to an analysis of this interesting psychological state.
  • (6) While breads might abound in the world's cuisine, whether they are employed as a means of making a reasonably tidy portable meal limns the sandwich classification.
  • (7) Evidence of the existence of these two separate functions abounds in animals and in humans, but a clinical advantage has not evolved.
  • (8) Although invasive as well as noninvasive tools have been developed to determine the existence of this disorder, none is perfect and false negative as well as false positive diagnoses abound.
  • (9) While it is true that a descending chromatic four-chord progression is a common convention that abounds in the music industry, the similarities here transcend this core structure,” Klausner wrote.
  • (10) However, the skills required for such a task are often not acquired in academic training, nor do scientific journals abound with information on the practical aspects of running a large study.
  • (11) Tensions, suspicions and misunderstandings between Germany and its eurozone partners abound.
  • (12) Krebs and Meyer's (162) "marked differences in findings between one investigator and another," and Senay's (245) comment 77 years later that "disagreements abound" can now be seen as an inevitable consequence of the widely differing experimental protocols and procedures that have been adopted.
  • (13) Ultrastructural studies revealed that with estrogens, the cultures had the appearance of rapidly dividing cells having large euchromatic nuclei and prominent nucleoli, with aboundant free ribosomes in the cytoplasm.
  • (14) The deaths or disappearance of more than 40 journalists, probably because of their work in this period, together with the direct and indirect threats that abound in all the main hotspots, mean most regional media limit their coverage to superficial reporting of violent events and arrests.
  • (15) Pence met repeatedly with House Republicans but rebels still abounded.
  • (16) Tales of tips to hostesses and waitresses of £50,000 also abounded.
  • (17) Although the literature abounds with strategies to prevent unionization, little had been presented on establishing and maintaining effective relations with bargaining units.
  • (18) Rumours abound that Trump has had some link to Putin’s sinister finances.
  • (19) In the basal telencephalon NPY-immunoreactive cells abound mostly in striatum, but some are also found in the amygdala (particularly basal, central, and lateral amygdaloid nuclei), the claustrum, and in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
  • (20) With its troops heavily involved in southern Somalia, suggestions abound that Nairobi may seek to create a permanent buffer zone in the three Somali regions – Gedo, Lower Juba and Middle Juba – abutting Kenya's North Eastern province.

Abut


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One abutment was used to evaluate each of nine oral hygiene instrumentation methods used for specified lengths of time or instrument strokes.
  • (2) During the study period, it was possible to maintain mean plaque index scores of 0.40 to 0.70 and mean gingival index scores of 0.90 to 0.98 adjacent to the abutments.
  • (3) Supragingival plaque samples from selected surfaces of two abutment teeth were taken at one week, and at one, three, and six months after initial insertion of the overdenture.
  • (4) The second technique is the fabrication of a cast post and core restoration that fits an abutment root as well as the existing crown of a four-unit fixed restoration.
  • (5) This technique allows an accurate cast to be made of a prepared abutment tooth with the removable partial denture in place in the mouth.
  • (6) The clinical results shown that, after twelve years of experience, the stress breaker framework allows the preservation of the abutments as well as the conservation of osseo-mucous tissues (no need of rebase).
  • (7) Capillaries and small arterioles or venules, ranging from 8-50 microns in diameter, showed perikarya and dendrites abutting the basement membrane without evidence of glial interposition.
  • (8) Complications that resulted in catheter malfunction included deposition of fibrin around the catheter tip (formation of a fibrin sheath) in 44 (57%) instances, a constricting suture in six, abutment of the catheter tip against the venous wall in eight, catheter leak in two, and migration of the catheter completely out of the vein in three.
  • (9) Two of these were used as abutments for partial dentures.
  • (10) All vessels were found in the typical retroesophageal location, abutting the esophagus from the vertebral C-7 to T-3 levels.
  • (11) Twenty-five extracted caries-free anterior teeth from patients aged 50-70 were prepared as overdenture abutments.
  • (12) 2 implants in the lower jaw showed some mobility at the abutment installation and were removed immediately.
  • (13) The abutment teeth next to the modification spaces were moderately restored with MOD or class II restorations on most of the teeth.
  • (14) The abutment tooth is then prepared, providing adequate clearance between the clasp assembly and the tooth preparation.
  • (15) The index improves visibility of the tooth and abutment cylinder relationship permitting the optimization of framework dimensions and contour.
  • (16) Self-curing resins enable the operator to prepare directly temporary prosthesis on single crown abutments.
  • (17) The avoidance of lateral forces on overdenture retainers is essential to prevent pathological change in the supporting tissues of the root abutment.
  • (18) In each hemicerebellum there is one zebrin II+ band abutting the midline (P1+), and two others laterally in the vermis (P2+, P3+).
  • (19) It was formed by electrolytic etching directly after the bonding surface of metal retainer was abraded, preparation of the axial grooves in the edentulous proximal surfaces of abutments, drying with compressed air and drying agent after enamel was acid etched and washed, bonding area was about 49 mm2 in each retainer and without using opaque agent between bonding agent and resin.
  • (20) In the implant fixed partial denture, stresses induced in the surrounding bone became higher around the posterior abutment and became lower around the premolar retainer than the stresses produced with the natural tooth fixed partial denture.

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