What's the difference between amend and repair?

Amend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change or modify in any way for the better
  • (v. t.) by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;
  • (v. t.) by supplying deficiencies;
  • (v. t.) by substituting something else in the place of what is removed; to rectify.
  • (v. i.) To grow better by rectifying something wrong in manners or morals; to improve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (2) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (3) 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.
  • (4) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (5) It is a moment to be grateful for what remains of Labour's hard left: an amendment to scrap the cap was at least tabled by John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn but stood no chance.
  • (6) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
  • (7) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
  • (8) The Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments of 1990 was signed into law by President Bush on November 15, 1990.
  • (9) Earlier this week the Obama administration said it would veto the bill unless major amendments were made.
  • (10) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
  • (11) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (12) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
  • (13) This article was amended on 29 January 2016 to correct statistics from the BASW survey.
  • (14) The factsheet, concerning NSA's powers under Section 702 of the 2008 Fisa Amendments Act, was also supplied to members of Congress.
  • (15) During the night the Government has to do whatever it takes to re-include those amendments – on which they will attach a vote of confidence – otherwise Italians will see their taxes increase again without important compensatory measures being passed.
  • (16) • The headline on this article was amended on 20 January 2015.
  • (17) The Vitter amendment is popular with the Tea Party, which takes it to be an accountability measure.
  • (18) They all owe their existence to him.” This article was amended on 2 July 2015 to correct the name of the hospital where Sir Nicholas Winton died.
  • (19) This article was amended on 10 May 2016 to correct the wording of Labour’s Clause IV.
  • (20) The amendment has sparked a particular backlash against the senator widely regarded as responsible for the decision, Ahmed Yerima, who is reported to have married a 13-year old Egyptian girl.

Repair


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To return.
  • (v. i.) To go; to betake one's self; to resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety.
  • (n.) The act of repairing or resorting to a place.
  • (n.) Place to which one repairs; a haunt; a resort.
  • (v. t.) To restore to a sound or good state after decay, injury, dilapidation, or partial destruction; to renew; to restore; to mend; as, to repair a house, a road, a shoe, or a ship; to repair a shattered fortune.
  • (v. t.) To make amends for, as for an injury, by an equivalent; to indemnify for; as, to repair a loss or damage.
  • (n.) Restoration to a sound or good state after decay, waste, injury, or partial restruction; supply of loss; reparation; as, materials are collected for the repair of a church or of a city.
  • (n.) Condition with respect to soundness, perfectness, etc.; as, a house in good, or bad, repair; the book is out of repair.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (2) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (4) Post-irradiation hypertonic treatment inhibited both DNA repair and PLD recovery, while post-irradiation isotonic treatment inhibited neither phenomenon.
  • (5) Substances with a leaving group at the C-3 position form unsaturated conjugated cyclic adducts and are mutagenic only in the His D3052 frameshift strains with an intact excision repair system (no urvA mutation).
  • (6) We conclude that removal of dimers and repair of gaps were similar in all cases.
  • (7) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
  • (8) Carotid artery injury seems to have a good prognosis if repaired promptly within 3 h.
  • (9) This study demonstrated that significant global and regional ventricular dysfunction develops immediately after removal of the papillary muscles, whereas myocardial contractility is preserved in patients undergoing mitral valve repair.
  • (10) In situ repair was performed in 30 patients (arterial bypass: 17 patients; splenorenal bypass: 13 patients).
  • (11) Repair may be accomplished by open or closed techniques.
  • (12) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
  • (13) Just don’t be surprised if they ask you to repair their phones, too.
  • (14) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
  • (15) In adults it reappears in malignant tumors and during inflammation and tissue repair.
  • (16) We attribute the greater strength of the step-cut repair to the additional number of epitendinous loops, which lie perpendicular to the long axis of the tendon.
  • (17) irradiation by a mechanism that is independent of excision repair.
  • (18) Thus, there is still a need for improvement, particularly future research devoted to better understanding of the electrophysiological mechanisms responsible for arrhythmias, electrosurgical and medical arrhythmia therapy, and right and left ventricular mechanics after repair of tetralogy of Fallot.
  • (19) Such lesions should be chemically stable and should not be recognized by DNA-repair enzymes.
  • (20) Polypropylene mesh was used to repair the abdominal wall.