What's the difference between allowance and mileage?

Allowance


Definition:

  • (n.) Approval; approbation.
  • (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
  • (n.) Acknowledgment.
  • (n.) License; indulgence.
  • (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
  • (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
  • (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
  • (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To examine the central nervous system regulation of duodenal bicarbonate secretion, an animal model was developed that allowed cerebroventricular and intravenous injections as well as collection of duodenal perfusates in awake, freely moving rats.
  • (2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (3) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) A chronic cannulation procedure is described which allows for sampling vomeronasal organ (VNO) contents repeatedly in freely moving conscious subjects.
  • (6) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
  • (7) "At the same time, however, we cannot allow one man's untrue version of what happened to stand unchallenged," he said.
  • (8) The hprt T-cell cloning assay allows the detection of mutations occurring in vivo in the hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (hprt) gene of T-lymphocytes.
  • (9) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (10) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
  • (11) Sewel is also recorded complaining about the level of appearance allowances at the House of Lords .
  • (12) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (14) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (15) This mobilization procedure allowed transfer and expression of pJT1 Ag+ resistance in E. coli C600.
  • (16) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (17) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (18) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
  • (19) Subthreshold concentrations of the drug to induce complete blockade (5 x 10(-8)M) allowed to observe a greater depression of bioelectric cell characteristics in primary than in transitional fibres.
  • (20) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.

Mileage


Definition:

  • (n.) An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
  • (n.) Aggregate length or distance in miles; esp., the sum of lengths of tracks or wires of a railroad company, telegraph company, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (2) Certainly, the new leader will need a way to continue to talk unmediated to this base, and may also – like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage – gain some mileage with the wider electorate for being at ease with himself, and refusing to talk to a script.
  • (3) It was concluded that distance running performance can be maintained while considerably reducing training mileage and increasing exercise intensity twice a week.
  • (4) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
  • (5) Using a multiple logistic regression model, the following factors were found to be associated with having one or more URTIs in the follow-up period: living alone (odds ratio = 2.27, 95% CI = 1.01, 5.09), running mileage (486-865 miles, odds ratio = 2.00, 95% CI = 1.01, 2.78; 866-1388 miles, odds ratio = 3.50, 95% CI = 1.52, 4.44; greater than 1388 miles, odds ratio = 2.96, 95% CI = 1.30, 3.68), body mass index greater than the 75th percentile (odds ratio = 0.58, 95% CI = 0.35, 0.94), and male gender (odds ratio = 0.14, 95% CI = 0.03, 0.68).
  • (6) Those most likely to drop out of the study were younger and heavier at baseline and, prior to drop out, were less likely to experience general health problems and more likely to show a 40% decline in weekly running mileage in the month before dropout.
  • (7) The male and female runners were similar in terms of maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max), training mileage, fiber compositions, and data collected during a 60-min treadmill run at 70% VO2max.
  • (8) Environmental factors determining the risk of amenorrhoea in runners are low body fat content, mileage, and nutritional inadequacy, with low intakes of calories, protein, and fat.
  • (9) Mail shots • The Royal Mail handles 75,000,000 items of post every day • Collects from 113,000 different points • Delivers to 28,000,000 addresses • Has 33,000 vehicles using 135,000,000 litres of diesel a year • Has an annual road mileage equivalent to a return trip to Jupiter • Has 12,000 retail outlets • Has annual carbon dioxide emissions of just under 1m tonnes a year, about 0.15% of all UK emissions • Has an annual electricity consumption that would power 112,000 homes • Produces annual landfill waste equivalent to over 2,200 buses • Has an annual water consumption equivalent to 28 litres for every person in the UK
  • (10) The Vo2 max value before conditioning was a relatively poor predictor of the magnitude of improvement in functional capacity, but those with higher initial Vo2 max logged more cumulative training mileage.
  • (11) Women (N = 22) were adverse to the risk of both anemia and iron deficiency without anemia, and their preferences did not correlate with age, running mileage, years of running, or vitamin supplement use.
  • (12) We didn’t have the best mileage and we had a couple of issues in the car.” McLaren looked happier at the end of the day, by which time Jenson Button had clocked up a very respectable 84 laps.
  • (13) "I love this car," said Luis Fretas, owner of a baby-blue 1981 Chevy Malibu, insisting that it "gets great mileage".
  • (14) Increasing mileage is associated with more frequent visits to the doctor, and this increased frequency of medical consultations is due entirely to jogging-related injuries.
  • (15) It shows that runner's hemolysis can be reduced by reducing mileage but not necessarily by changing shoes, and it suggests that runner's hemolysis can impair race performance by preventing the attainment of an optimal red cell mass and, in time, by evolving into iron-deficiency anemia.
  • (16) There were no significant differences in any hormone between low mileage runners and controls.
  • (17) I said: "I'd love to show you how the Copenhagen Consensus is a good idea," and she looked at me and said: "I think that probably might be right, Bjørn, but I will just get so much more mileage out of criticising you."'
  • (18) Diagnosis is not limited to novice runners since runners with significant mileage, or baseball or basketball players, can develop femoral shaft stress fractures.
  • (19) Both mileage groups reported menstrual changes and weight loss since starting to run.
  • (20) These include excessive running mileage and training intensity, hill running, running on hard or uneven surfaces, and wearing poorly designed running shoes.