What's the difference between along and onward?

Along


Definition:

  • (adv.) By the length; in a line with the length; lengthwise.
  • (adv.) In a line, or with a progressive motion; onward; forward.
  • (adv.) In company; together.
  • (prep.) By the length of, as distinguished from across.
  • () (Now heard only in the prep. phrase along of.)

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
  • (2) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (3) A modification of Mason's vertical banded gastroplasty for morbid obesity is presented, along with experience from 62 treated patients.
  • (4) Along the spectrum of loyalties lie multiple loyalties and ambiguous loyalties, and the latter, if unresolved, create moral ambiguities.
  • (5) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
  • (6) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
  • (7) Then, when he was forgiven, he walked along a moonbeam and said to Ha-Notsri [Hebrew name for Jesus of Nazareth]: “You know, you were right.
  • (8) The kidney disease was characterized by diffuse beaded deposition of rat gammaglobulin along the glomerular capillaries and proteinuria.
  • (9) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (10) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
  • (11) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (12) Fusiform cells were most concentrated along the lateral margin of the subnucleus interpolaris.
  • (13) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (14) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (15) These data indicate that the development of HCC in HBV-negative alcoholics with cirrhosis occurs in relation to the development of macronodules and loss of liver weight, most likely along with the prolongation of the life span.
  • (16) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (17) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (18) These two enzymes may act jointly in filling up the gaps along the DNA molecule and elongating the DNA chain.
  • (19) Possible mechanisms for this change in nucleosome placement along the DNA are discussed.
  • (20) In 20 adult patients with asthma, we evaluated bronchodilation to a single administration of metered-dose glycopyrrolate aerosol (GA) to ascertain its onset and duration of action along with evaluation of safety.

Onward


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
  • (a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.
  • (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
  • (2) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
  • (3) Permeability measurements, published elsewhere, indicate that the epithelium is functionally 'tight' from 69 days onwards.
  • (4) In addition, there is significantly less germ cell production from the primary spermatocyte stage of spermatogenesis onwards and the total number of Sertoli cells observed is less.
  • (5) We present prediction intervals for two years from January 1990 onwards.
  • (6) In the preimplantation period, ER patterns remained unvarying on days 2-6 of gestation in both cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments; their levels in nuclear fraction were significantly higher from day 3 onwards while, total cytoplasmic ER concentrations were higher from day 4 of gestation compared with the values obtained for secretory phase tissues from normal ovulatory cycles.
  • (7) On the other hand, immunohistochemical studies with QH-1 or MB-1 antibody show, beside a capillary network in the central core of the wing bud, individual immunolabelled cells of mesenchymal character within the primarily avascular subectodermal region from the onset of vascularization onwards.
  • (8) We compared these data with data on the kinetic development of H-2b antigens on fetal hepatocytes cultured from days 15, 16, and 17 pc onwards.
  • (9) Erythropoietin (EPO) responsive cells can be detected from 7th day onwards.
  • (10) Similarly from day 140 onwards no oestradiol receptors are evident.
  • (11) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (12) By 7 days, notochordal uptake is markedly diminished, and no uptake of isotope occurs from 8 days onward.
  • (13) From the second post-transplant year onwards patient survival was worse in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients.
  • (14) Stem-stature ratios showed a similar pattern; and were confined within a narrow margin from 6 months onwards.
  • (15) From 8 weeks onward, as a result of the treatment, the tubular lumen of the corpus epididymides became narrowed with thickened pseudostratified epithelium and there was a reduction in the amount of spermatozoa.
  • (16) In the ileum, significant lysis of collagen in the anastomotic area, as represented by a decreased level of hydroxyproline, occurs from 12 hr postoperatively onward.
  • (17) From the fourth generation onward, neither hyperinfection nor extra-intestinal migration could be induced even by higher doses of corticosteroids.
  • (18) First, the disintegration of class voting patterns noticed by sociologists from the late 1950s onwards.
  • (19) The allegations from the 1970s onwards relate to Knowl View School in Rochdale, where the Liberal Democrat MP served as chairman of governors.
  • (20) The results indicate that the hypothalamo-pituitary in immature rats reacts in a similar way as that in adult animals from day 16-20 onwards.