What's the difference between appropriate and confiscate?

Appropriate


Definition:

  • (a.) Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper.
  • (v. t.) To take to one's self in exclusion of others; to claim or use as by an exclusive right; as, let no man appropriate the use of a common benefit.
  • (v. t.) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, in exclusion of all others; -- with to or for; as, a spot of ground is appropriated for a garden; to appropriate money for the increase of the navy.
  • (v. t.) To make suitable; to suit.
  • (v. t.) To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property.
  • (n.) A property; attribute.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increased plasmin activity was associated with advancing stage of lactation and older cows after appropriate adjustments were made for the effects of milk yield and SCC.
  • (2) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
  • (3) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (4) Throughout the period of rehabilitation, the frequent changes of a patient's condition may require a process of ongoing evaluation and appropriate adjustments in the physical therapy program.
  • (5) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.
  • (6) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
  • (7) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
  • (10) Multiple operations were done in 7 patients prior to the appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
  • (11) The compounds 1-3 in reaction with nicotine aldehyde or p-chlorobenzaldehyde were transformed into appropriate anilides of 2,3-epoxypropionic acid 4-9.
  • (12) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (13) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
  • (14) The morbidity is well known and if properly anticipated can be reduced to a minimum by judicious use of antibacterial agents and early surgical intervention when appropriate.
  • (15) Rats were injected subcutaneously with 10 ml of air into the dorsal skin to make an air-pouch and with 2 ml of antiserum at an appropriate dilution for passive sensitization, and then 5 ml of air was removed.
  • (16) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.
  • (17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (18) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (19) A careful history, a thorough physical examination, and an appropriate selection of tests will identify these patients.
  • (20) The data show that as much as a 9% difference from the correct activity can be observed for these radionuclides, even when the ampoule reference source gives the appropriate reading.

Confiscate


Definition:

  • (a.) Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use; forfeited.
  • (v. t. ) To seize as forfeited to the public treasury; to appropriate to the public use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It wants courts to be able to ban them from driving, to confiscate their passport, or even impose a curfew.
  • (2) Politicians know that: they usually do not campaign on proposals to confiscate high incomes and pad low incomes.
  • (3) The present catamnestic study covers 100 petitioners, who either applied for the first time for a driving licence or for readmission to traffic after confiscation of their license by the police.
  • (4) But it is impossible to do so; police confiscated the documents of the company that handled his affairs.
  • (5) Meanwhile, an increase in labour inspectors has led to existing laws prohibiting the confiscation of passports being better enforced.
  • (6) The onset of smoking in the oldest male group in this rural area occurred in the first years after the war (first land confiscation) while in the group from 70 to 74 years of age it occurred in the years of compulsory crop-purchase system.
  • (7) The officials confiscated his laptop, phone, two memory sticks, two DVDs, a Sony games console, a smartwatch and a hard drive, the letter revealed.
  • (8) It gets up your nose.” Mahmood, 16, from Syria, said his shoes had been confiscated by police last Thursday night.
  • (9) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
  • (10) He added that the government should confiscate all other assault weapons and imprison those who insist on keeping guns.
  • (11) During a raid in 2013 on a village in Guangdong province nicknamed “China’s number one drug village”, police closed dozens of secret drug labs producing meth and ketamine and confiscated at least three tonnes of drugs worth about £142m.
  • (12) According to the source, security forces have been going around markets in recent months confiscating items suspected of being South Korean in origin, such as second hand clothes.
  • (13) In Germany a confiscated driving licence is only given back by the road traffic authorities to suspected alcoholics after a medico-psychological examination.
  • (14) Law enforcement efforts were intensified, supported by the criminalization of stimulant abuse with the enactment of the Stimulant Control Law in 1951 and subsequent amendments to it that were rigorously enforced, resulting in more arrests, indictments and relatively harsh penalties for stimulant offences, as well as an increase in the number and volume of confiscations.
  • (15) Agglomeration in the onset of smoking in two male age groups (60-64, 65-69) occurred at the time of the second land confiscation.
  • (16) In the summer of 1984, police in Pinellas County, Florida, confiscated six identically colored imported Asian skulls (in a shipping case) from a private citizen.
  • (17) "The fear is that records become a back door to registration and then, when the political moment is right, registration will turn to confiscation," said Robert Cottrol, a gun control expert at George Washington University.
  • (18) Detainees have described to their lawyers in phone calls and letters a hard regime at the base, with confiscations of many basic items, like toothbrushes.
  • (19) Instead of helping her, the authorities imposed a travel ban on her and my little brother and confiscated her passport at the request of her ex-husband, leaving her in limbo and exposing the shocking inequities of the UAE legal system.
  • (20) Criminal charges against him were dropped, but Mohamed was nevertheless suspended from school for three days and his clock was confiscated.