What's the difference between altogether and exception?

Altogether


Definition:

  • (adv.) All together; conjointly.
  • (adv.) Without exception; wholly; completely.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (2) Altogether 47 variables were investigated, and of these 34 gave results which were statistically significant.
  • (3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (4) Altogether, 29% of the drivers had evidence of alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, prescription or nonprescription stimulants, or some combination of these, in either blood or urine.
  • (5) Altogether 60% of the readmissions occurred during the two winter months (June and July).
  • (6) Originally she was barred from seeing Filip altogether.
  • (7) Taken altogether, these findings suggest that an autocrine IL-4-mediated pathway might be implicated in early thymocyte differentiation--namely, in the generation of T cells bearing the gamma delta T-cell receptor.
  • (8) Altogether, 17 species were recorded from the rice fields.
  • (9) Altogether the data indicate that the rod-like structure is found outside the cell and that the extra sequence that forms the head is inside.
  • (10) Altogether 10 reports on the safety of chorionic villus sampling, either by the transcervical (TC) or the transabdominal (TA) approach, were reviewed and combined with our own data.
  • (11) In 61 patients altogether subjective side-effects could be recorded, such as vertigo (5%), palpitations (2.8%), fatigue (2%), insomina (1.9%), nausea (1.7%) and vomiting (0.8%).
  • (12) After victimization, almost 15% of responding nurses had considered transferring to another unit; almost 18% had considered leaving nursing altogether.
  • (13) This weekend, Rae, 40, was dealt another blow: she expects to be one of the 200,000 disabled people who will lose benefit altogether, according to a Labour analysis, under further changes to disability benefit to be included in Wednesday’s budget .
  • (14) Altogether an increase of the linoleic acid of 14% and a decrease of the uric acid of 16% were furthermore the result.
  • (15) Altogether 16 experiments were performed, employing 260 recipients and 200 donors in two modifications: 1) bone marrow from animals exposed to hypokinesia for 3 days or 3 weeks (stage I or II of the general adaptation syndrome) was implanted to intact mice; 2) recipients who 5 to 7 day before exposure were implanted with bone marrow from intact donors were hypokinetic for 3 weeks.
  • (16) So it was not altogether a surprise this weekend when Elio di Rupo, the socialist charged with trying to form a viable coalition in Belgium, confessed failure to King Albert.
  • (17) Altogether, therefore, full descensus could be achieved in 29% of cases with hormonal treatment.
  • (18) When inflation was allowed to drift from 2% to 4% in the 1970s, inflation expectations became unanchored altogether, and price growth far exceeded 4%.
  • (19) Why not stop using the word recovery altogether – we are not, in fact, trying to return to some kind of normal.
  • (20) Altogether the amino-acid sequence shows 56% hydrophilic or charged amino acids arranged in alternating regions of hydrophilic or hydrophobic character as it is typical for porins.

Exception


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
  • (n.) That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
  • (n.) An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency in a pleading; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts something before granted.
  • (n.) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; -- usually followed by to or against.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
  • (2) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (3) Manometric studies with resting cells obtained by growth on each of these sulfur sources yielded net oxygen uptake for all substrates except sulfite and dithionate.
  • (4) No monosynaptic connexions were found between anterodorsal and posteroventral muscles except between the muscles innervated by the peroneal and the tibial nerve.
  • (5) Other haematological parameters remained normal, with the exception of the absolute number of lymphocytes, which initially fell sharply but soon returned to, and even exceeded, control levels.
  • (6) When the concentration of thrombin or fibrinogen was altered systematically, mu T and mup were found to mirror each other except when the fibrinogen concentration was increased at low thrombin concentrations.
  • (7) The penicillin-resistant Enterococcus hirae R40 has a typical profile of membrane-bound penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) except that the 71 kDa PBP5 of low penicillin affinity represents about 50% of all the PBPs present.
  • (8) In 14 of the patients the imaging results were checked against the histological findings of a subsequent thymectomy, which revealed four thymomas and (with the exception of one normal thymus) hyperplastic changes in all the others.
  • (9) With the exception of PMMA and PTFE, all plastics leave a very heavy tar- and soot deposit after burning.
  • (10) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
  • (11) Except for IAP in hypopharyngeal carcinoma, these values were significantly higher than those of controls (IS, P less than 0.01; IAP, P less than 0.05).
  • (12) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
  • (13) In all cases, endocrine cells immunoreactive to only one of the paired antisera were detected except for anti-glucagon and anti-glucagon-like peptide 1, which always immunostained the same cells.
  • (14) Label was found widely distributed among all the organs except the nervous system and its rate of disappearance from the tissues paralleled its disappearance from the circulation.
  • (15) In the dark the 6-azidoflavoproteins are quite stable, except for L-lactate oxidase, where spontaneous conversion to the 6-amino-FMN enzyme occurs slowly at pH 7.
  • (16) There was also no significant correlation when prognostic factors were compared to uptake in the individual organ systems except that T cell disease was associated with a significantly greater propensity for lymph node uptake.
  • (17) There was no difference in triglyceride content or phospholipid species between WKY rats and untreated SHR, except for a higher cholesterol content in SHR.
  • (18) All of the above factors except female sex were related to one year mortality.
  • (19) Papillomatosis of the biliary ducts is exceptional.
  • (20) With one exception, the mutant control regions showed elevated beta-lactamase activity in comparison to the wild-type.