What's the difference between account and balance?

Account


Definition:

  • (n.) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
  • (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.
  • (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.
  • (n.) A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.
  • (n.) A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
  • (n.) An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
  • (n.) Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
  • (v. t.) To reckon; to compute; to count.
  • (v. t.) To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; -- with to.
  • (v. t.) To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
  • (v. t.) To recount; to relate.
  • (v. i.) To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
  • (v. i.) To render an account; to answer in judgment; -- with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.
  • (v. i.) To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These factors might account for the lower systemic bioavailability of these compounds.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (4) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
  • (5) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (6) Thus, it appears that neuronal loss may account for up to roughly half of the striatal D2 receptor loss during aging.
  • (7) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (8) That is why you will be held relentlessly to account for those choices; why what you said in February invites forensic scrutiny.
  • (9) This decrease cannot be accounted for by increased turnover of the mRNA in the presence of the drug.
  • (10) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (11) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
  • (12) ACh released from the vesicular fraction was about 100-fold more than could be accounted for by miniature end-plate potentials; possible causes of this overestimate are discussed.
  • (13) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (14) This study examines the extent to which changes in smoking can account for the decrease in CHD mortality for men and women aged 35-64 years.
  • (15) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
  • (16) The multiple logistic model, the most commonly used model for the analysis of coronary heart disease studies, does not consider survival time in assessment of the dependent covariates and does not account for the censoring which usually occurs in such studies.
  • (17) Decreased synthesis rather than increased utilization accounted for the nucleoside effect.
  • (18) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (19) Gradual evolutionary change by natural selection operates so slowly within established species that it cannot account for the major features of evolution.
  • (20) The term acute allergic colitis seems to be more suitable taking into account the distribution, the cause and the development of this disease.

Balance


Definition:

  • (n.) An apparatus for weighing.
  • (n.) Act of weighing mentally; comparison; estimate.
  • (n.) Equipoise between the weights in opposite scales.
  • (n.) The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness.
  • (n.) An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account; as, to bring one's accounts to a balance; -- also, the excess on either side; as, the balance of an account.
  • (n.) A balance wheel, as of a watch, or clock. See Balance wheel (in the Vocabulary).
  • (n.) The constellation Libra.
  • (n.) The seventh sign in the Zodiac, called Libra, which the sun enters at the equinox in September.
  • (n.) A movement in dancing. See Balance, v. i., S.
  • (n.) To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance.
  • (n.) To support on a narrow base, so as to keep from falling; as, to balance a plate on the end of a cane; to balance one's self on a tight rope.
  • (n.) To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize.
  • (n.) To compare in relative force, importance, value, etc.; to estimate.
  • (n.) To settle and adjust, as an account; to make two accounts equal by paying the difference between them.
  • (n.) To make the sums of the debits and credits of an account equal; -- said of an item; as, this payment, or credit, balances the account.
  • (n.) To arrange accounts in such a way that the sum total of the debits is equal to the sum total of the credits; as, to balance a set of books.
  • (n.) To move toward, and then back from, reciprocally; as, to balance partners.
  • (n.) To contract, as a sail, into a narrower compass; as, to balance the boom mainsail.
  • (v. i.) To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance.
  • (v. i.) To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate.
  • (v. i.) To move toward a person or couple, and then back.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (2) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
  • (3) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (4) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (5) Under these conditions, arterial pressure and sodium balance remained stable.
  • (6) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (7) Some dental applications of the pressure measuring sheet, such as the measurement of biting pressure and balance during normal and unilateral biting, were examined.
  • (8) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
  • (9) Many speak about how yoga and surfing complement each other, both involving deep concentration, flexibility and balance.
  • (10) The effect of dietary fibre digestion in the human gut on its ability to alter bowel habit and impair mineral absorption has been investigated using the technique of metablic balance.
  • (11) Accumulating evidence indicates that for most tumors, the switch to the angiogenic phenotype depends upon the outcome of a balance between angiogenic stimulators and angiogenic inhibitors, both of which may be produced by tumor cells and perhaps by certain host cells.
  • (12) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (13) These results suggest that a lowered basal energy expenditure and a reduced glucose-induced thermogenesis contribute to the positive energy balance which results in relapse of body weight gain after cessation of a hypocaloric diet.
  • (14) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (15) Temperature, heart rate and respiratory rate as well as enzymatic activities (CK, CK-MB, AST, LDH), and characteristics of base-acid-balance (pH, BE, pCO2, Lactate) were taken from 52 pigs during the period shortly before and after they gave birth.
  • (16) The cells were taken from cultures in low-density balanced exponential growth, and the experiments were performed quickly so that the bacteria were in a uniform physiological state at the time of measurement.
  • (17) Moments later, explosive charges blasted free two tungsten blocks, to shift the balance of the probe so it could fly itself to a prearranged landing spot .
  • (18) Blockade of beta-adrenoceptors interferes with haemodynamic and metabolic adaptations and ion balance during dynamic exercise.
  • (19) The observation of positive side-effects in these cases balances this possibility to some extent.
  • (20) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.