What's the difference between apposer and officer?

Apposer


Definition:

  • (n.) An examiner; one whose business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electron microscope examinations of the developing triadic junction in fibers from leg muscles of fetal and postnatal rats reveal a range of complexity from no structural connections across the space between apposed membranes of T and SR to all of the junctional structures visible in adult rat muscle fibers.
  • (2) The fast process in the presence of PEG was identified as due to rapid interbilayer monomer diffusion between closely apposed vesicles, and, in the absence of PEG, as due to monomer diffusion through the aqueous phase.
  • (3) Furthermore, the long axis of the right and left atria was measured from the center of the apposed atrioventricular valve leaflets to the posterior atrial wall, and the sizes of the atrial chambers were defined using their widths at the prospective broadest points through the area of foramen ovale.
  • (4) Examination of apposed replicas and deep-etched specimens indicated that at least some of the IMPs extend through the T. pallidum outer membrane and are exposed on the surface of the organism.
  • (5) In both the dentate and hippocampus proper, 10% of the terminals with TH-LI were observed closely apposed to unlabeled terminals that formed asymmetric synapses with dendrites and dendritic spines.
  • (6) These nerve fibers were sometimes closely apposed to the blood capillaries and to the islet cells.
  • (7) Subglottic stenosis is a disorder characterized by narrowing of the airway below the glottis or apposing edges of the true vocal cords.
  • (8) But environmentalists and indigenous leaders have strongly apposed the plans, which the government admits would see around 500 sq km of land flooded and activists believe would see thousands displaced.
  • (9) Within the central autonomic and intercalated regions there were numerous GLY-LIR processes, many of which closely apposed retrogradely labeled sympathetic preganglionic somas and proximal dendrites.
  • (10) During feather follicle formation, N-CAM was expressed in the dermal papilla and was closely apposed to the L-CAM-positive papillar ectoderm, while the dermal papilla showed no evidence of laminin or fibronectin.
  • (11) In the PNT and the ARC, but not in the ME, they formed synaptic contacts with dendritic elements and were occasionally apposed to neuronal cell bodies.
  • (12) The histologic exam revealed a proliferation of voluminous round lymphoid cells with 2 or 3 nucleoli often apposed to the nuclear membrane.
  • (13) The distal ends of cut dorsal rootlets were apposed to the fetal tissue.
  • (14) Histological examination demonstrated the closely apposed vascular channels characteristic of cavernous angiomas.
  • (15) There was no resistive coupling between the myocytes and the intercellular junction consisted of closely apposed pre- and post-junctional membranes, separated by a uniform cleft distance.
  • (16) Antigen is highly concentrated on small vesicles that are closely apposed to (and possibly interact with) granules.
  • (17) Positive cells were found apposed to or scattered among the blood vessels of the immature vascular network located just vitread to the developing retina.
  • (18) All of the profiles apposing one of the retrogradely labeled lamina I spinothalamic tract neurons were categorized from eight planes of section spaced at 1-micron intervals.
  • (19) Electron-dense material occurs apposed at the cytoplasmic side of the axolemma of collaterals (ethanolic phosphotungstic acid method).
  • (20) The membrane skeleton is closely apposed to the axoneme and is attached to the outer doublets by fine radial bridges having a 20-24 nm longitudinal periodicity, supporting earlier observations made utilizing a lipophilic cross-linking agent.

Officer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer.
  • (n.) Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with officers; to appoint officers over.
  • (v. t.) To command as an officer; as, veterans from old regiments officered the recruits.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (13) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
  • (16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
  • (18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
  • (20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.

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