What's the difference between apt and toward?

Apt


Definition:

  • (a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  • (a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
  • (a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
  • (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
  • (3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
  • (5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
  • (6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
  • (7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
  • (8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
  • (9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
  • (10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
  • (11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
  • (12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
  • (14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
  • (15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
  • (16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
  • (17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
  • (18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
  • (19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
  • (20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.

Toward


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Towards
  • (adv.) Alt. of Towards
  • (prep.) Approaching; coming near.
  • (prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
  • (prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
  • (2) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
  • (3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
  • (4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (5) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
  • (6) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
  • (7) Normal and tumor cell cultures exhibited increased sensitivity toward TNF in the presence of mifepristone.
  • (8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (9) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
  • (10) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
  • (11) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (12) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
  • (13) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (14) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (15) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
  • (16) An N-acetylation polymorphism is described that is expressed toward arylamine carcinogens in tumor target organs of an inbred rat model.
  • (17) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
  • (18) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
  • (19) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
  • (20) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.