What's the difference between also and eke?

Also


Definition:

  • (adv. & conj.) In like manner; likewise.
  • (adv. & conj.) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.
  • (adv. & conj.) Even as; as; so.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In April, they said the teenager boarded a flight to Turkey with his friend Hassan Munshi, also 17 at the time.
  • (2) Results by these three assays were also highly reproducible.
  • (3) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
  • (4) First results let us assume that clinically silent TIAs also (in analogy to clinically silent brain infarctions) could be detected and located.
  • (5) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
  • (6) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (7) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
  • (8) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (9) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (10) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (11) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
  • (12) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
  • (13) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
  • (14) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (15) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
  • (16) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
  • (17) Lp(a) also complexes to plasmin-fibrinogen digests, and binding increases in proportion to the time of plasmin-induced fibrinogen degradation.
  • (18) The second amino acid residue influences not only the rate of reaction but also the extent of formation of the product of the Amadori rearrangement, the ketoamine.
  • (19) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
  • (20) The planned development (october 1989) is also depicted.

Eke


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other.
  • (adv.) In addition; also; likewise.
  • (n.) An addition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Those who have escaped form a growing underclass of refugees on the Thai border, where they eke out a meagre living and face deportation at any time.
  • (2) Branko, a former television repairman who now ekes out a living by farming, leaves the house accompanied by two other men.
  • (3) As the silt cleared, we found ourselves on a flat plain of yellow-tinged mud, inscribed with pits, burrows and tracks by species that eke out their existence on the detritus that settles from above.
  • (4) While Klimt was creating modern art there, Hitler was going to the opera to hear Wagner (conducted by the modernist Gustav Mahler), and soon eking a living painting drab topographic scenes.
  • (5) The trade-off begins to look like a real pain in the ass if one has been here for years and years and is barely eking out a living.
  • (6) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
  • (7) Even the stronger economies at the eurozone's core have seen growth hit hard by the crisis and the German government was forced to concede on Wednesday that it now expects to eke out GDP growth of only 1% in 2013, not the 1.6% it had forecast.
  • (8) Better news saw Spain eke out marginal growth of 0.1% while the Italian economy essentially stabilized following extended contraction, although concerns persist about the ability of both countries to develop and sustain genuine recove 10.35am GMT Greece's recession may be easing, but there's no end to its unemployment crisis.
  • (9) His inquisitors tried to eke out what Cain would have done had he been in the White House but to little avail.
  • (10) After Ramsey's fancy flick was diverted by Jose Fonte, Wilshere burst on to the ball and eked out a chip so delicate it sailed over Boruc as if in slow motion.
  • (11) Cech dealt with assurance with Newcastle’s best efforts, which gave Arsenal the platform to eke out a win.
  • (12) Johariah ekes out a living to support her family by selling salted fish.
  • (13) He left school at 13 and for the past five years has eked out a living selling pirated books, guides and out-of-date maps to the soldiers and civilians going in and out of Nato's headquarters there.
  • (14) Khirbet Susiya is home to between 250 and 350 villagers – depending on the season – who live in around 100 structures and eke out an existence largely from subsistence agriculture.
  • (15) The sight of Chelsea's crestfallen players proved as much, their inability to convert when chances had been eked out in the first period proved critical as the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero, once a Bayern Munich player, registered the only goal midway through the second period.
  • (16) The study, which covered 100 carers affected by the changes, found local authorities were drawing up tight rationing criteria to eke out local discretionary support funds.
  • (17) Without copra, outer islanders will be reduced to a subsistence survival, eked from the land, supplemented by fishing and likely made impossible by tidal inundations.
  • (18) The commission said, however, that it expected Germany, France, Italy and Spain to perform even less well than the UK next year, with the 17-nation eurozone eking out expansion of just 0.1% in 2013.
  • (19) In a dizzying finale before the recess, House Republicans eked out the votes to pass two bills – neither of which have a realistic chance of becoming law – that aim to address the crisis at the US’s southern border.
  • (20) Gurgaon could just as well have been called DLF , the name of the company that built the city on a site where 30 years ago peasants eked a living out of the rocky land.