What's the difference between amount and rank?

Amount


Definition:

  • (n.) To go up; to ascend.
  • (n.) To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
  • (n.) To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
  • (v. t.) To signify; to amount to.
  • (n.) The sum total of two or more sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.
  • (n.) The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the amount of the testimony is this.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Combinations of maximum amounts of glucagon and the cyclic nucleotide did not produce a greater effect than either agent alone.
  • (2) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
  • (3) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
  • (4) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
  • (5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (6) By 24 hr, rough endoplasmic reticulum in thecal cells increased from 4.2 to 7% of cell volume, while the amount in granulosa cells increased from less than 3.5% to more than 10%; the quantity remained relatively constant in the theca but declined to prestimulation values in the granulosa layer.
  • (7) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (8) In addition, KM231 could detect a small amount of the antigen ganglioside in human gastric normal and cancerous mucosa and in gastric cancer cell lines by HPTLC-immunostaining.
  • (9) Significant amounts of 35S-labeled material were lost during the alkali treatment.
  • (10) Only small amounts of 3H oleic acid were converted.
  • (11) It was also shown that after a shock at 44 degrees C teratocarcinoma cells were able to accumulate anomalous amounts of hsp 70 despite hsp 70 synthesis inhibition.
  • (12) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (13) We analyzed the amounts and types of glycosphingolipids (GSLs) from peripheral blood lymphocytes, monocytes, and granulocytes isolated by counter-current elutriation.
  • (14) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
  • (15) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
  • (16) At low concentrations of TFIC there is a more or less direct relationship between the amount of the factor and the number of initiated complexes formed.
  • (17) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
  • (18) In both experiments, Gallus males were placed on a commercial feed restriction program in which measured amounts of feed are delivered on alternate days beginning at 4 weeks of age.
  • (19) Project grants to selected State and local agencies amounted to about $.8 billion.
  • (20) Malondialdehyde was undetectable in cerebrospinal fluid after subarachnoid placement of agarose alone, although it was present in similar amounts in all groups that received subarachnoid placement of OxyHb.

Rank


Definition:

  • (superl.) Luxuriant in growth; of vigorous growth; exuberant; grown to immoderate height; as, rank grass; rank weeds.
  • (superl.) Raised to a high degree; violent; extreme; gross; utter; as, rank heresy.
  • (superl.) Causing vigorous growth; producing luxuriantly; very rich and fertile; as, rank land.
  • (superl.) Strong-scented; rancid; musty; as, oil of a rank smell; rank-smelling rue.
  • (superl.) Strong to the taste.
  • (superl.) Inflamed with venereal appetite.
  • (adv.) Rankly; stoutly; violently.
  • (n. & v.) A row or line; a range; an order; a tier; as, a rank of osiers.
  • (n. & v.) A line of soldiers ranged side by side; -- opposed to file. See 1st File, 1 (a).
  • (n. & v.) Grade of official standing, as in the army, navy, or nobility; as, the rank of general; the rank of admiral.
  • (n. & v.) An aggregate of individuals classed together; a permanent social class; an order; a division; as, ranks and orders of men; the highest and the lowest ranks of men, or of other intelligent beings.
  • (n. & v.) Degree of dignity, eminence, or excellence; position in civil or social life; station; degree; grade; as, a writer of the first rank; a lawyer of high rank.
  • (n. & v.) Elevated grade or standing; high degree; high social position; distinction; eminence; as, a man of rank.
  • (v. t.) To place abreast, or in a line.
  • (v. t.) To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.
  • (v. t.) To take rank of; to outrank.
  • (v. i.) To be ranged; to be set or disposed, as in a particular degree, class, order, or division.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain grade or degree of elevation in the orders of civil or military life; to have a certain degree of esteem or consideration; as, he ranks with the first class of poets; he ranks high in public estimation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (2) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (3) Measures of average and cumulative rank were used to augment tests of the significance of correlations between different indicators.
  • (4) The programs are written in Fortran and are implemented on a Rank Xerox Sigma 6 computer.
  • (5) Significant differences in the pharmacological characteristics of the alpha 2 adrenoceptor were observed between the tissues with reference to both absolute drug affinities as well as rank order of drug potency.
  • (6) While superheroes like “superman” (21st in SplashData’s 2014 rankings) and “batman” (24th) may be popular choices for passwords, the results if they are cracked could be anything other than super – and users will only have themselves to blame.
  • (7) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
  • (8) When histamine (5 micrograms) was injected into three different levels of the ventricular system, the magnitude and duration of the resulting increases in plasma epinephrine and glucose were in the following rank order: the third ventricle greater than aqueduct much greater than fourth ventricle.
  • (9) The rank order of potency of the peptides tested was VIP greater than rat (r) peptide histidine isoleucine = human (h) PHI greater than rGRF greater than bovine GRF = porcine PHI = VIP-(10-28) greater than hGRF greater than secretin greater than apamin greater than glucagon.
  • (10) In the latter case, the studies have resulted in a ranking of processes and treatment methods to protect the environment.
  • (11) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (12) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
  • (13) Using an explicit process, the Oregon Health Services Commission has completed the ranking of 714 condition-treatment pairs.
  • (14) Autonomy, sense of accomplishment and time spent in patient care ranked as the top three factors contributing to job satisfaction.
  • (15) On guinea-pig lung strip the rank order of potency was U-46619 greater than Wy17186 much greater than PGF2 alpha greater than PGE2 and responses to all agonists tested were blocked by AH19437 but not by SC-19220.
  • (16) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (17) The eight senators, including the incoming ranking member Mark Warner of Virginia, wrote to Barack Obama to request he declassify relevant intelligence on the election.
  • (18) Hence, a priori haplotyping cannot exclude a particular CF mutation, but in combination with population genetic data, enables mutations to be ranked by decreasing probability.
  • (19) The rank order of potencies of the four AEDs was: (a) in young: CBZ > PHT > PhB > VPA; (b) in adult: CBZ > PhB > PHT > VPA.
  • (20) Patients clinically evaluated as effective tended to be so pathologically as well, as shown by Spearman's rank correlation test which gave a significant correlation between the clinical and pathological scores.