What's the difference between admeasure and dower?

Admeasure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To measure.
  • (v. t.) To determine the proper share of, or the proper apportionment; as, to admeasure dower; to admeasure common of pasture.
  • (v. t.) The measure of a thing; dimensions; size.
  • (v. t.) Formerly, the adjustment of proportion, or ascertainment of shares, as of dower or pasture held in common. This was by writ of admeasurement, directed to the sheriff.

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Dower


Definition:

  • (n.) That with which one is gifted or endowed; endowment; gift.
  • (n.) The property with which a woman is endowed
  • (n.) That which a woman brings to a husband in marriage; dowry.
  • (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the basis of these findings and previous reports that complexes bound to a receptor-bearing membrane undergo additional antibody-antigen bond formation [Dower et al., Biochemistry 20, 6326-6334 (1981a) and Leslie, Protides biol.
  • (2) By using these data and the known structure of the combining site of protein MOPC 315 [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977), Nature (London) 266, 31-37] the mode of binding of Tnp derivatives is deduced by ring-current calculations.
  • (3) (Mosley, B., Urdal, D. L., Prickett, K. S., Larsen, A., Cosman, D., Conlon, P. J., Gillis, S., and Dower, S. K. (1987) J. Biol.
  • (4) One method, which was recently described by Dower et al., (J Electrocardiol 1988;21:5182-7), uses modified vectorcardiographic leads and allows for the acquisition of a derived 12-lead ECG of selected rhythm strips during the recording.
  • (5) 262, 2941-2944; Mosley, B., Dower, S. K., Gillis, S., and Cosman, D. (1987) Proc.
  • (6) The contacts expected between epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl-L-lysine and the site on MOPC 315 IgA, on the basis of a recent model for this site [Dwek, Wain-Hobson, Dower, Gettins, Sutton, Perkins & Givol (1977) Nature (London) 266, 31--37] were not detected.
  • (7) The inverse transformation matrix of Dower proved to be the best method of synthesis.

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