What's the difference between aftermath and impact?

Aftermath


Definition:

  • (n.) A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is Cruz, a longtime critic of so-called “amnesty” policies, who has spent the greater part of the debate’s aftermath seeking to clarify his position.
  • (2) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
  • (3) Gazans have also been badly affected by Egypt's closure of the Rafah crossing, the main route out of Gaza, in the aftermath of the military takeover.
  • (4) In the aftermath of the incident, there was considerable confusion over the hecklers’ identities – even within the Cossack community.
  • (5) The sanctions that could be levied in the aftermath of the Geneva meeting were expected to focus on Putin's close associates, including oligarchs who control much of Russia's wealth, as well as businesses and other entities they control.
  • (6) In the aftermath of that war, Hasan Zeyada, a psychologist with the GCMHP, told the Guardian : "The majority of children suffer many psychological and social consequences.
  • (7) All these freedoms have been crushed in the aftermath of the coup.
  • (8) A former Halliburton manager was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday for destroying evidence in the aftermath of BP's fatal 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, which claimed 11 lives.
  • (9) In the aftermath of the horsemeat scandal, Tesco mounted a huge advertising campaign insisting it was changing – that it would pay farmers a fair price for their produce and honour its responsibilities to the food supply chain.
  • (10) Too distressed to utter more than a single word - "Devastated" - in the immediate aftermath of her withdrawal, a pale and red-eyed Radcliffe emerged yesterday to give her version of the events that ended the attempt to crown her career with a gold medal.
  • (11) In the aftermath of Snowden's disclosures he was forced to apologise for misleading Congress.
  • (12) Based on one-to-one interviews with more than 40 people, the inquiry said the immediate aftermath of the stabbing “was well managed by all agencies”.
  • (13) The same would be true in the aftermath of the crisis of the neoliberal order, as the need to reconstruct a broken economy on a more democratic, egalitarian and rational basis began to dictate the shape of a sustainable alternative.
  • (14) Naureen Shah, director of Amnesty International USA’s security and human rights programme, acknowledged the need for governments to assess their approach in the aftermath of major attacks but said: “What we don’t want to see is government using the Paris attacks as a pretext for extending surveillance authorities or pushing back against reforms that even the government acknowledged as necessary.” Some of the hawkish responses to events in Paris “raise a question of whether there’s an exploiting of public fear and anger and anxiety to push legislation through”, she added.
  • (15) But it was funny and interesting also because it really showed that, maybe, I can still bring something to a team.” This will be Drogba’s second departure from Stamford Bridge having initially left for Shanghai Shenhua in 2012 in the immediate aftermath of his winning penalty in the shoot-out against Bayern Munich which saw Chelsea claim the European Cup .
  • (16) The identity of the four Britons, whose details did not emerge in the immediate aftermath of the crash, became known over the weekend.
  • (17) Neil Morton has written a dandy little blog explaining how he found the perfect soundtrack for the aftermath of England's tussle with Italy last weekend.
  • (18) Parts seem as deserted as Chernobyl or as blasted as Stalingrad in the aftermath of battle.
  • (19) Along with a team of collaborators with curiously close ties throughout a big election and its aftermath.
  • (20) I understand why biting is seen so badly.” Suárez said that he had “no desire” to speak to anyone in the aftermath of the match against Italy.

Impact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.
  • (n.) Contact or impression by touch; collision; forcible contact; force communicated.
  • (n.) The single instantaneous stroke of a body in motion against another either in motion or at rest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
  • (5) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (6) The impact of ending 500 years of shipbuilding in Portsmouth won't be seen in the data for a while.
  • (7) In Stage II patients, chemotherapy has an impact on disease mortality for ER-positive and ER-negative premenopausal women and possibly ER-negative postmenopausal patients.
  • (8) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (9) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
  • (10) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
  • (11) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
  • (12) The pharmacological effects characterize reproterol as a bronchospasmolytic with preferential impact on the adrenergic beta2-receptors.
  • (13) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
  • (14) He elaborates: "Republicans use powerful economic wedge issues to great impact.
  • (15) These agents may improve functional status, but in general have had little impact on survival.
  • (16) While much research has examined the aetiology and treatment of asthma, little work has been done on its social impact.
  • (17) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
  • (18) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
  • (19) "I have to say that it is my expectation that they probably can be, because the data that we have to date is unlikely to show an adverse impact."
  • (20) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.