What's the difference between affect and upend?

Affect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
  • (v. t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
  • (v. t.) To love; to regard with affection.
  • (v. t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
  • (v. t.) To dispose or incline.
  • (v. t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
  • (v. t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
  • (v. t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
  • (v. t.) To assign; to appoint.
  • (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The urinary excretion of PGF2 alpha was not affected by atenolol.
  • (2) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
  • (3) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (4) alpha 1-Adrenergic agonists, phenylephrine and norfenefrine, did not affect the synthesis.
  • (5) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (8) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (9) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (10) When perfusion of the affected lung was less than one-third of the total the tumour was found to be unresectable.
  • (11) We postulate that FAA may affect the human peripheral and mucosal immune system.
  • (12) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (13) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
  • (14) "We have a good reputation, so this won't affect us at all.
  • (15) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) It was concluded that the significant factors affecting outcome are tumor cell type and presence or absence or mitoses.
  • (18) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (19) Periodontal diseases are a collection of disorders that may affect patients throughout life.
  • (20) The pH gradient measured with dimethyloxazolidine-2,4-dione and acetylsalicylic acid was very small in both bacteria at a high pH above 8, and was not affected significantly by the addition of CCCP.

Upend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To end up; to set on end, as a cask.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 16 min: Vermalelen upends Ibrahimovic down the right.
  • (2) The year before that, a video of a huge truck bomb ploughing into Salerno base in Khost province upended Nato reports of a relatively minor attack in which no one was killed.
  • (3) In Minato neighbourhood, which was cut off from the centre when a fishing trawler was upended on a bridge, the 500 evacuees sheltering in an elementary school did not get hot food until Saturday night.
  • (4) Ms Le Pen’s party is intent on dismantling the EU , on setting up protectionist barriers, stigmatising Muslims and upending traditional western alliances.
  • (5) President Obama announced on Friday that in the "days ahead" he will decide on a package of military and diplomatic options to halt the rapid advance of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) , as the jihadist army's march from Syria through Sunni Iraq has upended Obama's achievement of extricating the US military from the Iraq conflict.
  • (6) Even the suggestion that Christie might enter the race will serve to upend it, with current front-runner Rick Perry causing dismay among some Republicans after a catalogue of bumbling debate performances.
  • (7) Just One Day, about an American girl named Allyson whose entire life is upended after spending one day in Paris with a Dutch guy named Willem, came out earlier this year.
  • (8) Plainly the system has faults, but seeking to upend things at a time when the public can see no imminent need for change might be considered brave if not foolhardy.
  • (9) Democrats are seeking to repeat history and have optimistically noted a surge in ballots from young and first-time voters that could upend a Republican advantage and tip the election in Udall’s favour.
  • (10) Just a few days later Ali would upend that career, and much of the world’s opinion, when he refused to be drafted by the US army.
  • (11) Nearly 18 months after Edward Snowden’s disclosures upended the secret world of US surveillance, the US Senate has rejected the most politically viable effort to rein in the National Security Agency in almost four decades.
  • (12) But kicking Israel's most important ally in the shins, denigrating their diplomatic efforts, darkly hinting that they will unilaterally use military force and seeking to upend what is clearly one of President Obama's key foreign policy priorities, nuclear non-proliferation, is incredibly unwise.
  • (13) On my visit, pieces included a Keralan teak canoe upended to form a bookcase, and a Rajput palace window frame with a mirror inserted.
  • (14) Instead, piles of mesh sacks filled with rocks are all that separate the water from the exposed bowels of the reactors' turbine buildings, now a mass of twisted metal, shutters and ladders, where upended trucks sit in ditches filled with wreckage.
  • (15) 53 min: Pearson and Fletcher combine nicely in the centre of the park to release Maloney, who weaves towards the Georgian box and is upended.
  • (16) Critics said the speech contained multiple contradictions and upended previous policy positions, leaving in doubt his views on talking to Iran, pressuring Nato allies to shoulder more defence costs, nation building, wooing goodwill in the Arab world, and whether he thinks the US foreign policy should be “unpredictable” or “disciplined, deliberate and consistent”.
  • (17) While I am deeply concerned for the rights of the average citizen - my film shows case after case of perfectly innocent people and protestors having their lives upended by these spy systems - I’m far more concerned about spying on members of Congress.
  • (18) But as things stand now, no amount of disdain, regret and constitutional obfuscation is going to stop Scotland upending the politics of Britain.
  • (19) Andreas Weimann anticipated Marc Wilson's poor touch to dispossess the Irishman who, in his attempts to make amends, upended the Austrian.
  • (20) Things could have become even worse for Levein had the referee, as would have been entirely possible, adjudged McGregor to have illegally upended Mirko Ivanovski inside the Scottish penalty area.

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