What's the difference between appoint and institute?

Appoint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.
  • (v. t.) To fix by a decree, order, command, resolve, decision, or mutual agreement; to constitute; to ordain; to prescribe; to fix the time and place of.
  • (v. t.) To assign, designate, or set apart by authority.
  • (v. t.) To furnish in all points; to provide with everything necessary by way of equipment; to equip; to fit out.
  • (v. t.) To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign.
  • (v. t.) To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed.
  • (v. i.) To ordain; to determine; to arrange.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
  • (5) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
  • (6) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
  • (7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
  • (8) The data document the compliance of adolescent girls with telephone appointments and suggest that this technique may be a useful adjunct for monitoring patients requiring close medical follow-up.
  • (9) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (10) She said she has turned to hairdressing to pay the bills, with “appointments for braids and weaves about three times a week”.
  • (11) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (12) A teaching union has questioned appointment of a trustee of Britain's largest academy chain group as chairman of the schools regulator Ofsted , in what was a surprise announcement meant to calm some of the internal conflicts within the coalition.
  • (13) "I think there is an absolutely determined effort from No 10 that Conservative supporters will be appointed to public bodies.
  • (14) With Everton heading for a sixth-placed finish in the Premier League, the additional television revenue and prospect of further funds from Fellaini, the club are confident of appointing an "equally significant" successor to Moyes, according to the chairman, Bill Kenwright.
  • (15) He can appoint Garland to the supreme court, and even push through the other 58 federal judicial nominees that are pending.
  • (16) The Rhode Island Democrat got his start in national politics in 1999 when he was appointed to the Senate as a Republican after his father’s death.
  • (17) Elvira Nabiullina took office in June of this year after her appointment by President Putin – not a man known for his feminist views.
  • (18) This is no doubt a captain’s pick by Malcolm Turnbull and we hope for the sake of the relationship that it has been a good pick.” The planned appointment of Hockey to the Washington role has been one of the worst-kept secrets in Australian politics .
  • (19) Michael Garcia, the former New York district attorney appointed to investigate the 2018 and 2022 votes, will deliver his report in seven weeks.
  • (20) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.

Institute


Definition:

  • (p. a.) Established; organized; founded.
  • (v. t.) To set up; to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
  • (v. t.) To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.
  • (v. t.) To nominate; to appoint.
  • (v. t.) To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.
  • (v. t.) To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
  • (v. t.) To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
  • (a.) The act of instituting; institution.
  • (a.) That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
  • (a.) Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.
  • (n.) An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
  • (n.) The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
  • (3) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (4) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (5) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
  • (6) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
  • (7) Our results underline the importance of patient-related factors in MVR, and indicate that care is needed in comparing the quality of MVR from different institutions with respect to mortality and morbidity.
  • (8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (9) Undaunted by the sickening swell of the ocean and wrapped up against the chilly wind, Straneo, of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, one of the world's leading oceanographic research centres, continues to take measurements from the waters as the long Arctic dusk falls.
  • (10) Clinical pharmacists were required to clock in at 51 institutions (15.0%), staff pharmacists at 62 (18.2%), and pharmacy technicians at 144 (42.9%).
  • (11) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (12) After these two experimental years, a governmental institute for prevention of child abuse and neglect was organized.
  • (13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (14) Mechanical ventilation was soon instituted and several antibiotics and acyclovir were administered intravenously, with marked effects.
  • (15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (16) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (17) They derive from publications of the National Insurance Institute for Occupational Accidents (INAIL) and refer to the Italian and Umbrian situation.
  • (18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
  • (19) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
  • (20) The experimental results for protein preparations of calmodulin in which Ca2+ was isomorphically replaced by Tb3+ were obtained by a spectrometer working at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.