What's the difference between agreement and consort?

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.

Consort


Definition:

  • (n.) One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
  • (n.) A ship keeping company with another.
  • (n.) Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union.
  • (n.) An assembly or association of persons; a company; a group; a combination.
  • (n.) Harmony of sounds; concert, as of musical instruments.
  • (v. i.) To unite or to keep company; to associate; -- used with with.
  • (v. t.) To unite or join, as in affection, harmony, company, marriage, etc.; to associate.
  • (v. t.) To attend; to accompany.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fructosamine concentration also remained high in consort with increased blood glucose concentration in cats with poorly controlled diabetes mellitus over extended periods.
  • (2) Other reactions include consort dermatitis and reactions to toothpastes, gum and perfumes in paper products, sanitary napkins, ostomy pastes, and detergents.
  • (3) These results suggest that these cytokines may function in consort as regulators of cellular growth and function in normal tissues.
  • (4) The INCA program converts Consort 30-generated fluorescence list mode data collected from Indo-1-stained cells to absolute intracellular calcium concentrations (nM Ca2+i).
  • (5) Unity state’s acting governor, Stephen Taker, and his consorts laughed off questions about whether government and allied forces had abducted women.
  • (6) The three companies work together as Consort Healthcare, with other projects including Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Pinderfields and Pontefract Hospital and Hope Hospital, Salford .
  • (7) When routine patch testing reveals a positive reaction, the dermatologist should consider exposure to the antigen not only in the patient but also through contact with the patient's consort.
  • (8) At the same age as Kaminski was consorting with fascist skinheads, I was a member of the Young Conservatives .
  • (9) Since then, he has been travelling across Russia and the former Soviet republics in what at times appears to be a concerted effort to consort with the region's least savoury politicians.
  • (10) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was employed to detect human papillomavirus (HPV) 16 and 18 in cytological samples from the uterine cervix and in urine samples from the male consorts.
  • (11) The sexual consorts of confirmed and suspected STD patients must be promptly evaluated and treated of disease spread is to be curtailed.
  • (12) "The emphasis so far in Qatar has been on literacy, and our second challenge is how to move from literacy to literature to create a culture," said Abdel-Rahman Azzam, a spokesman for Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the emir's consort and the chair of the Qatar Foundation.
  • (13) In all but seven instances, the gonococci isolated from different sites of the same patient, or from a consort, had the same nutritional requirements and penicillin MIC.
  • (14) The executive offices overlook a construction site: the trust is part-way through a reconstruction project, funded by a £200m private finance initiative deal with Balfour Beatty and Consort Healthcare.
  • (15) And, if one is not at the zenith of adulation of the Pacific islanders who believe the Prince to be the penis-gourd-sporting Melanesian Messiah, then, at the very least, the example of Britain's longest-serving monarchal consort is deserving of our – and, more specifically, the Duchess of Cambridge's – interest.
  • (16) In 18 male consorts of females with positive cultures, asymptomatic bacteriospermia was found.
  • (17) In mice, only strange male pheromones block pregnancy; pheromones of the familiar male with which the female has mated have the capacity to block pregnancy but are ineffective with the consort female.
  • (18) Of 98 male patients with non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) who had regular female consorts who received concurrent epidemiological treatment, NGU recurred in four (16%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia positive and 20 (27%) men whose treated partners were initially chlamydia negative.
  • (19) He became known as "Wally" after Wallis Simpson, consort of the abdicated Edward VIII and subsequent Duchess of Windsor.
  • (20) In most cases the role of a partner is performed by the consort (26.9%) or by a son or daughter (19.3%).