What's the difference between annex and appendix?

Annex


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to.
  • (v. t.) To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater.
  • (v. t.) To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc.; as, to annex a penalty to a prohibition, or punishment to guilt.
  • (v. i.) To join; to be united.
  • (n.) Something annexed or appended; as, an additional stipulation to a writing, a subsidiary building to a main building; a wing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sechin warned the west earlier this week that expanding sanctions over Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region would only make the political situation deteriorate further, according to Reuters.
  • (2) "We began planning to evacuate, and took 55 people to the annexe," said Hicks.
  • (3) Abe’s attempts to build closer ties with Russia since he took office in 2012 registered some success until Tokyo threw its weight behind G7 sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year, and increased aid to Ukraine.
  • (4) People attend a rally called "We are together" to support the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea to Russia at Red Square in central Moscow, 18 March, 2014.
  • (5) Since Israel captured and annexed the Old City, including the compound, in the 1967 war, it has also become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
  • (6) He suggests Britain will then be confronted by a eurozone that will see itself as the core, and an outer ring of states working towards eventual membership, with a third group probably led by Britain in an annex outside as a matter of politics or policy.
  • (7) The very idea that meaningful reform of the NSA will come out of this annexed, captured, corrupted Committee is ludicrous on its face.
  • (8) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel , visited Moscow the day after the parade to lay a wreath at a war memorial, but she criticised Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Crimea in a joint press conference with Putin.
  • (9) A reason for Stepanenko’s extrication was also mooted – he and his family visited Crimea, annexed by Russia, in 2015 and did not hide the fact, protesting that it is simply part of Ukraine.
  • (10) 3.22pm BST Mr Burnham’s suggestion is a worthy addition to all the rest – the mobile phone charges, the annexation of Faslane, embassies refusing to hold whisky receptions!
  • (11) Oleg Sentsov should make new films, not count years in prison.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Oleg Sentsov sings the Ukrainian national anthem as he is sentenced to 20 years in a Russian penal colony Sentsov attracted the ire of the Russian authorities after helping to organise a campaign protesting at Russia’s occupation and annexation of Crimea in March 2014.
  • (12) After annexing Crimea last year, Mr Putin raised the stakes by launching a conflict in the Donbass and firing up Russian nationalist sentiment.
  • (13) According to Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-linked analyst who has been taking part in official meetings with local politicians in Crimea, the initial plan was not to annex Crimea, and the final call to do so was taken only a fortnight ago.
  • (14) But as the majority of Russian troops have now moved away from the border with Ukraine, the prospect of a Russian invasion or a Crimea-style annexation of the territory is unlikely.
  • (15) The local government in Crimea is preparing for a referendum on Sunday which could lead to Russia annexing the region.
  • (16) Indeed, it was only at the end of his reign that king William I succeeded to persuade the local and provincial authorities of the dire necessity of establishing a maternity clinic with annexed school for midwives.
  • (17) One short-notice exercise was used to move Russian forces to annex Crimea in February 2014 and others were employed to support separatists in eastern Ukraine and to stage a military build-up on Ukraine’s border.
  • (18) First, Anastasia Myskina carried off the French Open title four weeks ago, and now Sharapova, the thirteenth seed, gloriously and unexpectedly annexes the Wimbledon crown.
  • (19) The annexation led to the worst crisis between Russia and the west since the cold war, and sanctions introduced by the US and European Union mean Visa and Mastercard do not work in Crimea, leaving a mainly cash-based economy, while major Russian banks and chains have not entered the peninsula, fearing that to do so will lead to western sanctions.
  • (20) Among a "toolbox" of actions under consideration are: • full or partial annulment of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established • withholding tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA • cancellation of permits for thousands of Palestinian labourers to work in Israel • withdrawal of travel privileges for senior PA officials • acceleration of building programmes in West Bank settlements • unilateral annexation of the main Jewish settlement blocks.

Appendix


Definition:

  • (n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
  • (n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
  • (2) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
  • (3) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
  • (4) Pathologic examination revealed no endometriosis, but examination of the distal appendix showed structural disorganization of its entire wall, with lack of proper differentiation of its normal coats and irregular overgrowth of fibroadipose, fibromuscular, and neural elements.
  • (5) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
  • (6) This study reports eight patients who underwent appendicectomy between 1978 and 1986 for apparently isolated, previously undiagnosed Crohn's disease of the appendix.
  • (7) The appendix of the laryngeal ventricle courses superiorly between the laryngeal vestibule and the thyroid cartilage which differentiates this normal structure from ulcerations and fistulous tracts of laryngeal tumors.
  • (8) We report on a 47-year-old man with a granular cell tumour of the appendix, discovered incidentally during surgery for a rectal adenocarcinoma that had been irradiated preoperatively.
  • (9) A mathematical model for Mab binding and inactivation of nuclease, taking into account multiple binding events for one or two Mabs interacting with nuclease, was used to derive affinities and maximum reductions of the enzymatic rate (details on the derivation of the equations and on the hypotheses of the model are given in an appendix).
  • (10) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
  • (11) In another patient, the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa was established after a retrospective identification of one additional site of arteritis in the appendix removed 5 years prior to cholecystectomy.
  • (12) The relationships between thermodynamic quantities in a quaternary system of electrolytes are discussed in Appendix 2.
  • (13) All T1's were determined within 30-60 min of removal of the appendix at operation.
  • (14) It corresponds well with the working of the normal human appendix as regards tissue type and characteristics.
  • (15) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
  • (16) The arterial blood supply, position, and length of the appendix were studied 103 Zambian cadavers.
  • (17) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
  • (18) The final pathologic report was a cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.
  • (19) Thus it is important to distinguish between cystic neoplasms (cystadenomas) and non-neoplastic retention cysts of the appendix.
  • (20) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.