What's the difference between amount and wastage?

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.

Wastage


Definition:

  • (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reduction of wastage throughout the life-cycle is now being attempted.
  • (2) By contrast the perinatal wastage was only 7 per 1,000 births in babies born weighing more than 1,500g and this included lethal congenital malformations.
  • (3) These three factors indicate increased bicarbonate wastage from the kidneys.
  • (4) and involuntary fetal wastage, HLA-A, B compatibility between husband and wife was studied in a group of 77 couples with known obstetric histories.
  • (5) No increase in fetal wastage, congenital abnormalities or complicated pregnancies was noted, suggesting that these drugs do not damage human oocytes in the doses and time periods used.
  • (6) Estimate of wastage in all eighty-two families was 3.8%, and consumption of food by visitors accounted for 3.0% of purchases.
  • (7) However, beyond this the risk of pregnancy wastage increases with age.
  • (8) We conclude that some patients with unexplained infertility and pregnancy wastage suffer from polyclonal B cell activation.
  • (9) Current knowledge supports the view that nonviral organisms may be responsible for repeated pregnancy wastage through chronic or recurrent occupancy in the maternal reproductive tract.
  • (10) A chronic disease also occurs and this can be protracted with progressive wastage and diarrhoea.
  • (11) Gross underfunding with financial wastage, poor non-clinical and specialist advice, and top-heavy management need to be urgently reviewed.
  • (12) There is virtually no data to support that HBV, HSV and HPV significantly contribute to transmitted intra-uterine disease leading to pregnancy wastage.
  • (13) A study has been done to assess the extent to which toxoplasma was responsible for fetal wastage.
  • (14) To reduce wastage of insecticide, nozzle tips are changed periodically but the tips are expensive and the replacement schedule should be based on the cost of the tip in relation to the cost of the insecticide wasted.
  • (15) Abnormal luteal function causes failure of implantation and embryonic wastage.
  • (16) The available data suggest that different patterns of infertility and pregnancy wastage, and different etiological agents and processes, contribute to the problem of infertility in the different areas.
  • (17) In the present study, possible statistics on reproductive wastages are collected and summarized, then comprehensive examinations on the causes of habitual abortion were performed on our registered patients.
  • (18) The findings from this survey have implications for Health Authorities in relation to costs and manpower planning, and emphasize the need to provide further education and prompt referral and treatment to prevent long-term back morbidity and wastage, not only for registered nurses but also for nursing auxiliaries and aides.
  • (19) These results suggest that G-banded chromosome analysis should be a useful tool in the initial evaluation of couples with recurrent fetal wastage, rather than being recommended only after extensive investigation of other factors is unrewarding.
  • (20) Pregnancy wastage was mainly due to preimplantation and early-postimplantation mortality.