What's the difference between ally and diminutive?

Ally


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy; -- often followed by to or with.
  • (v. t.) To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love.
  • (v.) A relative; a kinsman.
  • (v.) One united to another by treaty or league; -- usually applied to sovereigns or states; a confederate.
  • (v.) Anything associated with another as a helper; an auxiliary.
  • (v.) Anything akin to another by structure, etc.
  • (n.) See Alley, a marble or taw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
  • (2) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
  • (3) Polls indicated that anger over the government shutdown, which was sharply felt in parts of northern Virginia, as well as discomfort with Cuccinelli's deeply conservative views, handed the race to McAuliffe, a controversial Democratic fundraiser and close ally of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  • (4) To safeguard its long-time regional ally, Iran gave full political, economic and military backing to the embattled Syrian president.
  • (5) Others said it might appeal to Russia, Assad's chief ally, which backs talks between the regime and the opposition.
  • (6) Even regional allies disagree with American priorities about Isis, Biddle noted, which is why Turkey continues to bomb Kurds and Saudi Arabia and the UAE arm groups around the region , most notably in Syria but also in the ruins of Yemen .
  • (7) There are no more parties, there is only Greece," said Markos Bolaris, the new deputy health minister and close ally of the former prime minister George Papandreou .
  • (8) It also leaves Britain and its western allies marginalised.
  • (9) On 26 April 1937 this market town was obliterated in three hours of bombing by Nazi planes, allies of Generalísimo Francisco Franco’s fascists in the Spanish civil war.
  • (10) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
  • (11) Recent theoretical developments in health psychology and allied disciplines on coping behaviour and social support should be integrated into biomedical models of the aetiology, pathogenesis and clinical course of malignant neoplasia.
  • (12) David Beckham's plan to bring a Major League Soccer franchise to Miami looks to be on life support after the city's mayor, Tomás Regalado, previously a key ally in the project, said no to the construction of a stadium at a prime waterfront site.
  • (13) "This was followed later by an attack at the SPLA (South Sudan army) headquarters near Juba University by a group of soldiers allied to the former vice-president Dr Riek Machar and his group.
  • (14) The US and its allies are balking at Iranian demands for all UN sanctions to be lifted at the start of a deal.
  • (15) • Mubarak becomes a major mediator in the Arab-Israeli peace process, remaining a consistent US ally bolstered by billions of dollars in American aid.
  • (16) The Ayotzinapa school has long been an ally of community police in the nearby town of Tixtla, and Martinez said that, along with the teachers’ union and the students, it had formed a broad front to expel cartel extortionists from the area last year.
  • (17) [The US] is our friend and strategic ally and you can't just treat a friendly country's representatives like this.
  • (18) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
  • (19) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
  • (20) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.

Diminutive


Definition:

  • (a.) Below the average size; very small; little.
  • (a.) Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word.
  • (a.) Tending to diminish.
  • (n.) Something of very small size or value; an insignificant thing.
  • (n.) A derivative from a noun, denoting a small or a young object of the same kind with that denoted by the primitive; as, gosling, eaglet, lambkin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
  • (2) The rate of removal of exogenous PGE2 in the hind limb circulation was not influenced by HC, suggesting that the diminution of PG release by HC results from the suppression of PG generation rather than from the enhancement of degradation.
  • (3) Incubation of freshly isolated rat hepatocytes with highly purified radiolabeled rat transferrin in weakly buffered medium in the presence of 10 mM ethanol resulted in a marked diminution of iron uptake by these cells, associated with a greater pH depression than in ethanol-free control studies.
  • (4) The effect was more pronounced in those patients with a greater basal excretion of THP and in those with a more significant diminution of their bone mass.
  • (5) After intact, cycling female mice received subcutaneous injections of antipain and leupeptin for 16 days, their uteri showed significant diminution in weight and total DNA when compared to untreated controls.
  • (6) The fibrosis of the gastric wall with motility disturbances, and the diminution of acid and pepsin production from damage to the glandular elements, would weigh against the addition of a vagotomy to the drainage procedure.
  • (7) The content of membrane lipids also diminished continuously up to 90 years of age, when a marked diminution in level of gangliosides and cerebrosides occurred, a result indicating a rapid reduction in amount of neuronal membranes and myelin.
  • (8) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
  • (9) Large loads of aspartate cause 20% diminution of glutathione in outer cortex, due entirely to changes in proximal tubule segments.
  • (10) Rabbits immunized with the flagella developed an immune response to the flagella but showed no statistically significant prolongation of incubation time or diminution of lesion severity when challenged intradermally with 4 X 10(3) Treponema pallidum organisms.
  • (11) Major changes include an early diminution in myofibrillar density, accompanied by a small reduction in mitochondrial density.
  • (12) Simultaneous treatment with both drugs resulted in a decrease in the quantity of immune complexes and a diminution of the migration inhibition.
  • (13) The results presented in this report suggest that the diminution of interphase cytoplasmic microtubules in tumor cells is probably due to the deficiency of microtubule organizing mechanism in interphase tumor cells.
  • (14) Animals irradiated with 1 Gy showed no diminution in plasma and ileal DAO activities through Day 13 relative to nonirradiated controls.
  • (15) Response to reimmunization was characterized by a significant acceleration and diminution of skin response, but not to the degree seen in an equivalent group who had received their primary immunization percutaneously.
  • (16) During the operation and the postoperative period various hemorheological and hemostasiological alterations acquire clinical significance: 1. hyperreagibility of platelets with increased aggregation and adhesion tendency 2. changes in fibrinogen, albumin, and globulin concentrations, which affect viscosity and red cell aggregation 3. impairment of red cell deformability 4. increase in clotting factors 5. disturbance of fibrinolysis characterized by diminution of plasmatic plasmin and increase in antiplasmin activity In addition, anesthetic techniques have also been shown to affect hemorheological and hemostasiological parameters.
  • (17) In dilute solution this is indeed observed, and the diminution in tetramer concentration when 30% of normal spectrin is replaced by alpha beta' dimers, amounts to only a small proportion.
  • (18) In contrast to acidosis induced in vivo, mitochondria from normal rats subjected to a diminution in medium pH, either by manipulation of HCO3 concentration or PCO2, significantly decrease NH3 production.
  • (19) All individuals manifested a marked diminution of CD4+ cells.
  • (20) Flow cytometric determination of DNA content in R3327AT-3 cells treated in vitro indicated a selective diminution of cells in the G2 and M phases of the cell cycle.