What's the difference between agreement and compact?

Agreement


Definition:

  • (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
  • (n.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
  • (n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) Interadjudicator agreement was stronger on 'originality' than on 'aesthetic pleasingness'.
  • (5) The prospectus revealed he has an agreement with Dorsey to vote his shares, which expires when the company goes public in November.
  • (6) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
  • (7) The data for the eubacterial ribosomes are in full agreement with the model of the 50S protein topography derived from immunological data.
  • (8) Cytochemical studies on renal peroxisomes were in agreement with these biochemical findings.
  • (9) Amid the acrimony of the failed debate on the Malaysia Agreement, something was missed or forgotten: many in the left had changed their mind.
  • (10) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (11) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
  • (12) In agreement with the data in the literature, melanocytes incubated with IFN-gamma acquire HLA-DR, -DQ, and -DP antigens.
  • (13) These calculated values are compared with observed values and implications of the agreement are discussed.
  • (14) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (15) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
  • (16) There was good agreement between the survival of normally oxygenated cells in culture and bright cells from tumors and between hypoxic cells in culture and dim cells from tumors over a radiation dosage range of 2-5 Gray.
  • (17) Herman Van Rompuy, the European Council president chairing the summit, hoped to finesse an overall agreement on the banking supervisor.
  • (18) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (19) Off The Hook has facilities of up to £30,000 from the bank, a signatory to the Project Merlin agreement.
  • (20) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.

Compact


Definition:

  • (p. p. & a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.
  • (p. p. & a) Composed or made; -- with of.
  • (p. p. & a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
  • (p. p. & a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
  • (v. t.) To thrust, drive, or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
  • (v. t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
  • (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
  • (2) DNA compactization by protamines and histones HI is discussed in terms of the results obtained.
  • (3) At S-L clefts, paranodal-nodal regions, and Schwann cell nuclei, the axonal areas were smaller and the NF densities were higher than at compact myelinated regions.
  • (4) A compact attachment for microscope-type instruments is described enabling to introduce, rapidly and qualitatively, minute biological speciments into melted embedding medium and ensuring the safety of optics.
  • (5) Laminin was already present on the cell surface at the 2-cell stage, while nidogen was first detectable on compacted 8- to 16-cell stage morulae.
  • (6) Both types of molecules are compact and globular in shape and apparently contain beta-pleated sheet conformation.
  • (7) The tail region appeared to be cleaved off, making the head region less compact.
  • (8) Qualitatively the cell aspirator collected epithelial cells which were better preserved morphologically, but also a larger number of compact cell clusters.
  • (9) The ultrastructural study of nucleoli and ribonucleoprotein-containing structures in human seminiferous tubules revealed that the nucleoli of spermatogonia, spermatocytes and Sertoli cells exhibited a tripartite structure consisting of: a fibrillar center, a compact granular portion, and a reticular portion containing both pars fibrosa and pars granulosa.
  • (10) Compaction of the morula is a prerequisite for subsequent differentiation of the mouse embryo.
  • (11) Most double-helical segments were reactive to cobra venom ribonuclease to some degree; the exceptions were the five "long-range" helices that are probably compactly folded within the structure.
  • (12) During powder compaction on a Manesty Betapress, peak pressures, Pmax, are reached before the punches are vertically aligned with the centres of the upper and lower compression roll support pins.
  • (13) Based on these results we propose that the linearization of the DNA elution dose-response curve observed after chromatin decondensation reflects a reduction in the degree of chromatin compactness in the nuclear complexes that leads to a relatively uniform distribution of the DNA on the filter and reduces trapping of elutable material in the compact nuclear structures otherwise present.
  • (14) Cleavage to the compacted and cavitating stages was achieved in 78% and 69%, respectively, of human embryos cocultured in 24-48 hour human ampullary subcultures as compared to 50% and 33%, respectively, for embryos grown in culture medium alone.
  • (15) These observations strongly suggest that (i) GCN4 specifically recognizes the central base pair, (ii) the optimal half-site for GCN4 binding is ATGAC, not ATGAG, and (iii) GCN4 is a surprisingly flexible protein that can accommodate the insertion of a single base pair in the center of its compact binding site.
  • (16) In fact, the large scattering angle we chose, theta = 135 degrees, allowed us to assemble a very compact source-detector device.
  • (17) A monoclonal antibody to the cell adhesion molecule, E-cadherin, which mediates mouse embryo compaction, completely blocks compaction induced by these activators of PKC.
  • (18) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
  • (19) This shows that the compaction of chromatin associated with transcriptional inactivation does not require phosphorylation of H3 and suggests that the level of basal phosphorylation of H1 is not correlated with the intensity of transcription or DNA replication.
  • (20) After 8 days of incubation, SM subdivides into superficial (compact) and deep (disperse) sublaminae.