What's the difference between amount and vicinity?

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.

Vicinity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
  • (n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (2) Assays with monoclonal antibodies (MB47, 2b, 4G3, and C1.1) directed against different epitopes of the LDL apoprotein B suggested that AcA modification reduced the immunological recognition of the LDL receptor binding region and its vicinity.
  • (3) Furthermore, we can accurately measure heteronuclear and homonuclear vicinal coupling constants.
  • (4) It can be concluded that at least some of the neurones in the nucleus tractus solitarius and its vicinity receive inputs from more than one source.
  • (5) Furthermore, duplications in the vicinity of this locus involving the beta-amyloid gene and the proto-oncogene ets-2 have been reported in association with AD.
  • (6) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
  • (7) Pathomorphologically, spongiform alteration and demyelinization of the white matter in the vicinity of the amyloid deposits was detected and systemic amyloidosis excluded.
  • (8) It is colocalized with talin, but is not related to the distribution of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) which are clustered at the postsynaptic membrane in the vicinity of the MTJ in these fibers.
  • (9) In the presence of the drug, the higher permeability for Cl- diminishes the depolarization caused by the potassium released and accumulated in the vicinity of the membrane in the course of AP.
  • (10) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
  • (11) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
  • (12) Comparison of FAS from different sources shows that the primary sequence is conserved only for the active residues and the amino acids in their immediate vicinity.
  • (13) A rare case of aseptic tenosynovitis from oxytocin injection in the vicinity of a tendon causing spontaneous rupture of the extensor digitorum communis tendon is reported.
  • (14) During a period of almost ten years with 280 cases, experience has been gathered in connection with the immobilisation of radius fractures, in the vicinity of the wrist, by means of the fixateur externe.
  • (15) PTZ seizures appear to be mediated by an extensive system involving the reticular formation, diencephalic regions in the vicinity of the anterior medial thalamus and caudal hypothalamus, and bulbar regions which give rise to descending motor pathways to the spinal cord.
  • (16) In contrast, antagonists rely predominantly upon hydrophobic binding in the vicinity of the acetylmethyl group present in the endogenous transmitter.
  • (17) The regenerative response of myelinated axons of the mammalian central nervous system was investigated by inserting peripheral nerve grafts in the vicinity of traumatized rat optic axons.
  • (18) "The protest camp does not have significant impact on the rights and freedoms of those visiting, walking through or working in the vicinity.
  • (19) The third type projected to the contralateral spinal cord and distributed terminal boutons in the medial part of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and its vicinity.
  • (20) Glycine completely prevented the effect of FITC modification, suggesting the existence of lysine group(s) either at or in the vicinity of the agonist binding site.