What's the difference between amen and surname?

Amen


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To say Amen to; to sanction fully.
  • (interj., adv., & n.) An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, verily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The methodology, in algorithm form, should assist health planners in developing objectives and actions related to the occurrence of selected health status indicators and should be amenable to health care interventions.
  • (2) Most of these other factors are under the control of the investigator, and thus are amenable to improvement.
  • (3) Studies of E1A support the notion that small DNA tumour viruses target cellular pathways at key points that are amenable to regulation.
  • (4) The other three were of the thoracoomphalopagus type with major cardiac and other abnormalities, they were not amenable to surgery and did not survive.
  • (5) These long-term effects of therapy have important implications, as some are amenable to treatment and others may be prevented by the careful monitoring of drug and radiation administration.
  • (6) The aims of this study were to examine mortality in one village in Israel and to determine which deaths could have been prevented by identifying those which were associated with avoidable factors or were caused by conditions which would have been amenable to preventive measures.
  • (7) There was no mortality and no allograft loss from these complications, which tend to occur late and be amenable to prompt repair.
  • (8) Consideration was given to length and sequence composition in an effort to maximize triple-strand formation under conditions amenable to the formation of the UL9-DNA complex.
  • (9) These results indicated that standardized fitness tests can predict performance on some CTT tasks and that test predictors were amenable to exercise training.
  • (10) From the original concept of encapsulating hemoglobin in an inert shell, LEH has evolved into a fluid proven to carry oxygen, capable of surviving for reasonable periods in the circulation, and amenable to large-scale production.
  • (11) In symptomatic cases, extraluminal diverticula are amenable to surgery, whereas intraluminal diverticula may be either surgically or endoscopically resected.
  • (12) The aspect of permanence may involve periods of many years, and is not amenable to standardization; meaningful limitation is subject to the individual needs, based on critical scientific follow-along of rehabilitation.
  • (13) We conclude that the quantitative aspects of bacterial anion exchange are amenable to study in an artificial system, and that the use of osmolytes as general stabilants can be a valuable adjunct to current techniques for reconstitution of integral membrane transport proteins.
  • (14) The results suggested that the modified tyrosine residues responsible for the activation were not involved in the active site of pseudocholinesterase or aryl acylamidase and that they were more amenable for modification in comparison to the residues responsible for inactivation.
  • (15) Cor triatriatum dexter is rare and is infrequently diagnosed before postmortem study; however, once the diagnosis is extablished, the condition is amenable to a relatively simple surgical correction.
  • (16) Local ownership and opportunities for action Organisations that use data to effectively support improvement know that you often need to break it down to the local level to understand variation and make it amenable to action for staff.
  • (17) These preliminary findings are important because they suggest that the dysfunctional sleep patterns of girls with the Rett syndrome may be amenable to behavioral treatments.
  • (18) We also discuss the amenability of surgical correction as well as the mechanisms of the intravenous growth of this type of tumor.
  • (19) They also suggest that the B6 background expresses an Igh allotype particularly amenable to autoantibody production, in spite of the relatively mild SLE-like syndrome in this strain.
  • (20) While many forms of male factor infertility are amenable to treatment, for some patients there is no corrective therapy available.

Surname


Definition:

  • (n.) A name or appellation which is added to, or over and above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
  • (n.) An appellation added to the original name; an agnomen.
  • (v. t.) To name or call by an appellation added to the original name; to give a surname to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After excluding isonymous matings the chi-square values for unique and nonunique surname pairs remained significant for both religious groups.
  • (2) 7.20pm BST An email from Artie Prendergast-Smith This could be a long night of long surnames.
  • (3) However, the overall pattern of results for rare surnames showed a measure of agreement with what is already known of the genetics of twinning.
  • (4) Yassine, who declined to provide his surname, is the son of a Parisian jewellery designer and a "not that famous" French artist.
  • (5) Both the father and mothers' surnames are passed on in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries, but the father's name is more often used day-to-day.
  • (6) The program kept asking what my surname at birth was - annoying, since, despite getting married in 1994, I've had the same surname all my life.
  • (7) Because many Southern California Indians have Spanish Surnames and most do not reside on an Indian reservation it is shown that the suicide statistics may represent an over-estimation of actual Mexican-American suicidal deaths while simultaneously representing an under-estimation of the suicides among American Indians of the region.
  • (8) Her fellow tenants at 28 Barbary Lane, Mona Ramsey and Brian Hawkins had surnames drawn from my Southern father's self-published family history.
  • (9) My surname, though, is so late in the alphabet that I'm normally one of the "62 others".
  • (10) There was a convergence of Spanish surname rates toward the other White rates for nearly all sites, regardless of whether other Whites showed increasing, decreasing, or stable rates.
  • (11) Great news for Arsenal fans, who, if the summer transfer of Mesut Özil was anything to go by, love nothing more than to pull people up on the internet for accidentally forgetting to add diacritics to people's surnames.
  • (12) The following March, it was ceremonially opened by none other than Tony Blair, who was presented with a Middlesbrough FC shirt bearing his surname.
  • (13) But it clashed with other things.” Asked what his reaction would be now, he said: “I’d jump at it.” Blessed – who is also fondly remembered for another sci-fi role, appearing as Prince Vultan in the movie Flash Gordon – appeared to be a little confused about the Doctor’s surname, inaccurately suggesting the “Who” of the title was actually the character.
  • (14) To some the disadvantages of having a famous surname can be almost as significant as the advantages.
  • (15) On the example of 7 populations of the regional level allowability of using surnames with frequencies exceeding 0.001 in adequate estimation of the population structure indices is shown.
  • (16) Since given names show none of the localisation seen in surnames, the surname geography is ascribable to genetic rather than cultural factors of personal naming.
  • (17) Eponymous syndrome nomenclature now includes the names of literary characters, patients' surnames, subjects of famous paintings, famous persons, geographic locations, institutions, biblical figures, and mythological characters.
  • (18) This study examined the correlations between academic achievement and factor specific, as well as global, measures of self-concept for 314 fourth and sixth grade boys and girls divided into grade level groups with and without Spanish surnames.
  • (19) Valid contrast studies were possible in only one region within the city for all three groups and in six regions for white excluding Spanish-surnamed and nonwhite.
  • (20) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.