What's the difference between ample and brief?

Ample


Definition:

  • (a.) Large; great in size, extent, capacity, or bulk; spacious; roomy; widely extended.
  • (a.) Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.
  • (a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
  • (2) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
  • (3) Thirty mg was an ample in dose of PGF2alpha to cause luteolysis.
  • (4) Despite ample evidence of need for specialized psychiatric services in the nursing home setting, the majority of patients who could benefit from such care do not receive it.
  • (5) Fewer, but still ample numbers, of SP-reactive axons are present also in the ventral tegmental and retrorubral areas of the midbrain tegmentum and in the ventral pallidum of the basal forebrain, but only sparse ME-reactive axons are present in these areas.
  • (6) Treatment of the acute phase in which ample use is made of colchicine must be followed by medical and dietary treatment of the chronic condition.
  • (7) It is understood García will be given ample time to make a full recovery and may be given an extended leave of absence if required.
  • (8) Despite uncertainties and differences in interpretation of various cancer studies, there is ample justification for public health measures now in place or proposed, such as restriction or elimination of smoking in the workplace and in public places.
  • (9) Despite the presence of ample drug on the cell membrane, the conjugate alone was not cytotoxic over the course of several days.
  • (10) Ample sensitivity is accomplished with a simple fluorometer by selecting a combination of Schott bandpass filters with high-transmittance characteristics at appropriate wavelengths.
  • (11) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
  • (12) Hardly a surprise given ample spare capacity and in many cases continued credit rationing.
  • (13) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
  • (14) Nitromethane (NM) and 2-nitropropane (2-NP) and versatile compounds employed in a wide variety of industrial applications, thus providing ample opportunity for occupational exposure.
  • (15) The main nutrition consideration during the all-day meet is fluid replacement, and swimmers should be encouraged to drink ample water, especially when in a hot environment.
  • (16) The data points were accurate to about 0.03 mm in each of the three space directions, allowing ample resolution of surface detail.
  • (17) Without hormonal treatment, the interstitial gland expressed ample amounts of P-450scc.
  • (18) A special purpose operating system, implemented on a stand-alone computer configuration, allows a high data-acquisition rate and ample data processing capacity.
  • (19) The selection process takes place during T cell maturation, in the absence of antigen and under the dominant influence of the thymus, even though there is ample evidence for selective pressure in the extrathymic environment.
  • (20) The US embassy and Nato forces in Afghanistan did not comment, but they have previously said there is "ample evidence" to suspect all the men of a role in attacks that killed or wounded 60 foreign soldiers and 57 Afghans.

Brief


Definition:

  • (a.) Short in duration.
  • (a.) Concise; terse; succinct.
  • (a.) Rife; common; prevalent.
  • (adv.) Briefly.
  • (adv.) Soon; quickly.
  • (a.) A short concise writing or letter; a statement in few words.
  • (a.) An epitome.
  • (a.) An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made out for the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word is applied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.
  • (a.) A writ; a breve. See Breve, n., 2.
  • (n.) A writ issuing from the chancery, directed to any judge ordinary, commanding and authorizing that judge to call a jury to inquire into the case, and upon their verdict to pronounce sentence.
  • (n.) A letter patent, from proper authority, authorizing a collection or charitable contribution of money in churches, for any public or private purpose.
  • (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
  • (2) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
  • (3) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (4) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
  • (5) The introduction of intravenous, high-dose thrombolytic therapy during a brief period has markedly reduced mortality of patients with acute myocardial infarction.
  • (6) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
  • (7) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (8) It is suitable either for brief sampling of AP durations when recording with microelectrodes, which may impale cells intermittently, or for continuous monitoring, as with suction electrodes on intact beating hearts in situ.
  • (9) We found no statistically significant difference in one-year, biochemically validated, sustained cessation rates between the group offered the long-term follow-up visits (12.5%) and the group given the brief intervention (10.2%).
  • (10) If anyone should have been briefed on Prism and Tempora, it should have been the NSC.
  • (11) A subgroup of 40 patients was asked to complete a brief survey on medical care information and satisfaction.
  • (12) It will act as a further disincentive for women to seek help.” When Background Briefing visited Catherine Haven in February, the refuge looked deserted, and most of its rooms were empty, despite the town having one of the highest domestic violence rates in the state.
  • (13) Technically speaking, this modality of brief psychotherapy is based on the nonuse of transferential interpretations, on impeding the regression od the patient, on facilitating a cognitice-affective development of his conflicts and thus obtain an internal object mutation which allows the transformation of the "past" into true history, and the "present" into vital perspectives.
  • (14) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (15) Brief digestion at neutral pH without reduction produced a molecule in which the Fab and Fc fragments were still linked by a pair of labile disulphide bridges, and the Fc fragment released by cleaving these bonds, called 1Fc fragment, contained a portion of the ;hinge' region including an interchain disulphide bridge.
  • (16) A brief review of the last decade or so of developments in health politics, policy and law suggests that health is no longer a field of mere "dynamics without change."
  • (17) Sharif Mobley, 30, whose lawyers consider him to be disappeared, managed to call his wife in Philadelphia on Thursday, the first time they had spoken since February and a rare independent proof he is alive since a brief phone call with his mother in July.
  • (18) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
  • (19) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
  • (20) A U-shaped second-grade polynomic relationship (R = 0.69) was found between steady state of haloperidol and percentage improvement in total score on the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale.