What's the difference between ahead and passant?

Ahead


Definition:

  • (adv.) In or to the front; in advance; onward.
  • (adv.) Headlong; without restraint.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (2) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (3) One is that the issue of whether the World Cup should go ahead in Russia and Qatar still firmly remains on the table.
  • (4) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
  • (5) On 17 December Clegg will set out his own script for the year ahead, testing the idea that coalition governments can function even as the two parties clearly show their separate colours.
  • (6) Hemoglobin A reductively ethylated at the alpha-amino groups eluted on CM-52 ahead of unmodified hemoglobin A, and hemoglobin A reductively ethylated at the epsilon-amino groups.
  • (7) Activists in the country are pushing to get their voices heard ahead of Sunday's race.
  • (8) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
  • (9) Looking ahead to next year, voters fully expect the hard times to continue.
  • (10) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
  • (11) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
  • (12) And in the days and months ahead we will be setting out our plans in all these areas."
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (14) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (15) It called for an independent, international inquiry as the only way to achieve full accountability, ahead of the March deadline for the Sri Lankan government to report back to the UN Human Rights Council.
  • (16) The deteriorating situation would worsen if ministers pressed ahead with another controversial Lansley policy – that of abolishing the cap on the amount of income semi-independent foundation trust hospitals can make by treating private patients.
  • (17) The minister for health, Mamy Lalatiana Andriamanarivo, says he is determined to push ahead with ambitious plans for universal free healthcare.
  • (18) So Fifa left that group out and went ahead with the draw – according to legend, plucking names from the Jules Rimet trophy itself – and, after Belgium were chosen but decided not to participate, Wales came out next.
  • (19) Only eye position proved statistically significant; straight-ahead eye position induced more bias than did fixation of the visual stimulus.
  • (20) If we’re going to change the model, we can’t just do it on a whim of government or the people who design these courses.” What he does like about Think Ahead is that participants will be doing “proper social work”, even if, in his view, they will be unprepared for the task.

Passant


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Passing from one to another; in circulation; current.
  • (v. i.) Curs/ry, careless.
  • (v. i.) Surpassing; excelling.
  • (v. i.) Walking; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Motor axons possessed elongate, irregularly shaped boutons en passant and morphologically variable boutons terminaux; the latter included huge endings with knobbed projectiles arising from thick collaterals, or smaller, round boutons from thin collaterals.
  • (2) Bouton terminals (1.0-2.0 microns) are of both the en passant and end terminal varieties.
  • (3) ROHDE axons make small "en passant" synapses with other neuronal processes.
  • (4) Terminal boutons within the A-laminae were nearly all en passant, which gave the axons a beaded appearance.
  • (5) En passant and single or clustered groups of terminal boutons arose from preterminal branches of these arbors.
  • (6) A second, delicate thin (type II) fiber system provided with numerous and passant varicosities showed a much more restricted laminar innervation pattern and appeared to originate from areas in MS-VDB which are rich in AChE-positive neurons.
  • (7) Most of the labelled axons were studded with large en passant varicosities (Type 1), whereas the others (Type 2) had smaller boutons often of the drumstick type.
  • (8) Sixty per cent of the synapses are formed by boutons en passant and the remainder by the terminal swellings of spine-like axonal appendages, boutons terminaux.
  • (9) The findings demonstrate that the nigral boutons are of medium-sized to large, with the majority being of the en passant type.
  • (10) The end terminals are large bulbs, usually preceded by two to three equally large en passant enlargements.
  • (11) The postsynaptic elements to the axon terminals were dendrites of small to medium size, which received "en passant" synaptic contacts in extraglomerular regions of the geniculate neuropil by the terminals distributed in series.
  • (12) P. vulgaris leucoagglutinin-labeled axons within laminae I and II exhibited boutons en passant and terminaux; many of these axons also terminated or were collaterals of axons that terminated in deeper dorsal horn laminae.
  • (13) Each band appears composed of numerous, thin and weakly varicose fibers that make only en passant type of contact with pallidal cell bodies rostrally, but form a dense field of woolly fibers caudally.
  • (14) The low number of en passant varicosities associated with the ventral root axonal aborizations suggests that these axons do not synapse with all available targets and that the rules governing synaptic specificity during development may apply during regeneration in the adult frog spinal cord.
  • (15) They gave rise to a number of circumscribed, highly branched arbors with many boutons of the terminal and en passant types.
  • (16) All of these projection axons travel in the trapezoid body and their terminals make, primarily, en passant endings upon their targets.
  • (17) The collaterals, while running medially, gave rise to fine terminal branches with en passant boutons in the SVN, and further coursing caudally, they entered the rostral part of the medial vestibular nucleus (MVN).
  • (18) Several efferents showed extensive branching beneath the inner hair cells which might represent en passant synapses with other neuronal elements.
  • (19) Electron microscopic examination confirmed that nearly all of the varicosities observed in the light microscope contained synaptic vesicles and represented either terminal boutons or boutons en passant.
  • (20) Corticotectal axon arbors became more specialized in the first 8 weeks after birth; both en passant and terminal swellings increased in diameter, and terminal swellings increased in number, although the total number of swellings per unit length of axon remained relatively stable.

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