What's the difference between aggregate and omnium?

Aggregate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
  • (v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
  • (v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
  • (a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
  • (a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
  • (a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
  • (a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
  • (a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.
  • (n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
  • (n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
  • (2) We have examined overlapping octapeptides from the kappa IIIb light chain variable region and show that some framework peptides have the ability to bind aggregated IgG.
  • (3) Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) was prepared, and platelet aggregation studies were conducted directly or conducted on washed platelets prepared from PRP collected with ACD.
  • (4) Macrophages internalize aggregated low density lipoprotein (LDL) by LDL receptor-dependent phagocytosis.
  • (5) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
  • (6) Only IgG2a and IgG2b myeloma proteins bound readily to IC-21 Fc-receptors, the former in nonaggregated as well as aggregated form, the latter only as aggregated complexes.
  • (7) When the aggregates occurred on the cell periphery their position coincided with areas free of lamellae.
  • (8) 2-(4'-Isobutylphenyl)propionic acid, ibuprofen, is an antiinflammatory agent which possesses moderate platelet aggregation inhibitory activity.
  • (9) In addition, spontaneous platelet aggregation is increased when vegetations are present on cardiac valves.
  • (10) At concentrations several hundredfold higher than the equivalents present in the minimum concentration of rat skin soluble collagen required for platelet aggregation, neither Hyl-Gal (at 29 muM) nor Hyl-Gal-Glc (at 18 muM) caused platelet aggregation or inhibited platelet aggregation by native collagen.
  • (11) The mechanisms leading to spontaneous platelet aggregation and thrombocytopenia appear to be similar to those described for other patients with type IIB vWD.
  • (12) There is approximately a 25% decrease in aggregation from regions of the rib distal to the metaphyseal-growth plate junction (69%) to the region proximal to it (50%).
  • (13) Laboratory data were aggregated similarly within each study, using the last active drug as a grouping factor.
  • (14) No correlation could be found between DS content and state of aggregation.
  • (15) The synthetic S-nitroso-thiol, S-nitroso-N-acetylcysteine, markedly inhibited platelet aggregation with an IC50 of 6 nM.
  • (16) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
  • (17) The ternary complex consisting of a 65-kDa peptide originating from the proteoglycan core protein and a 43-kDa link protein bound to hyaluronic acid was purified from a clostripain digest of the rat chondrosarcoma aggregating proteoglycan and 14C-carbamylated with potassium [14C]cyanate.
  • (18) The IC50 on arachidonic acid-induced platelet aggregation was: fisetin, 22 microM; kaempferol, 20 microM; quercetin, 13 microM; morin, 150 microM less than IC50 less than 300 microM.
  • (19) Changes in the determinants of blood viscosity (packed cell volume, plasma viscosity, red cell aggregation, and red cell deformability) were studied on day 1 and day 5.
  • (20) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).

Omnium


Definition:

  • (n.) The aggregate value of the different stocks in which a loan to government is now usually funded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was not linked to Sutton’s departure in any way, or reported outside specialist media, but the head of the Manxman’s Dimension Data squad, Brian Smith, quit on Tuesday, and with his successor yet to be named it remains unclear what the fallout will be for Cavendish’s quest for the solitary men’s omnium place.
  • (2) He could be favoured by a change in format in the track omnium, now heavily weighted towards the points race, a discipline that suits Cavendish.
  • (3) The new man at the helm at British Cycling , Shane Sutton, has the Manxman on his shortlist of possible candidates, and told the Guardian: “He has the potential to win the omnium.
  • (4) Later on in the day the omnium started with the 800m handicap.
  • (5) On the same website, the trainer of the omnium specialist Bryan Coquard backed up the British response that their secret is due to the way they roll out the best equipment at the vital moment.
  • (6) Jordi Cuixart, the president of Omnium, a separatist group, told the crowd teeming with pro-independence flags that he had a message for the Spanish state.
  • (7) Ed Clancy meanwhile, also got off to the perfect start in the omnium, scoring maximum points in the first event, the flying 250m time trial, where he registered a personal best.
  • (8) So I'm just writing to thank the entire Guardian team for keeping me informed, entertained and (especially when it comes to the rules of the men's Omnium) educated, in the absence of the BBC coverage.
  • (9) As late as last September she was winning national titles on the track but she faced an obvious dilemma: positions in the team pursuit squad were hard to guarantee and Laura Trott was rapidly emerging as the team's strongest omnium rider.
  • (10) Cavendish has said he feels he could win the omnium, but is undecided .
  • (11) However, there was a non-championship open event called an "omnium" which included an 800m handicap on the same day, which I was allowed to ride.
  • (12) Alongside the sprint conundrum, there are the small matters of managing Sir Bradley Wiggins’s return to the track midway through next year – with the foundation of “Team Wiggo” to include the bulk of his fellow potential team pursuiters – and persuading Mark Cavendish or Ben Swift to take a brief break from professional road racing to ride the omnium.
  • (13) On Sunday Clancy will complete the omnium with the scratch race, individual pursuit and kilometre time trial; the latter two are as much his strong suit as the flying lap, meaning that he can look to move up the table, although the seven-point margin to the leader, Bryan Coquard of France, may prove too much.

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