What's the difference between archipelago and sporades?
Archipelago
Definition:
(n.) The Grecian Archipelago, or Aegean Sea, separating Greece from Asia Minor. It is studded with a vast number of small islands.
(n.) Hence: Any sea or broad sheet of water interspersed with many islands or with a group of islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a statement to the UN's general assembly last summer, Ramgoolam said: "The dismemberment of part of our territory, the Chagos archipelago – prior to independence – by the then colonial power, the United Kingdom, in clear breach of international law, leaves the process of decolonisation not only of Mauritius, but of Africa , incomplete."
(2) Bay of Bengal map The Mergui archipelago on the Thai-Myanmar border is one of the more secluded parts of the Bay.
(3) They want to send a very clear message to China that they are serious about this.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest This image from the US navy purportedly shows Chinese dredging vessels in the waters around Mischief reef in the disputed Spratly archipelago in May 2015.
(4) New-Hebrides Condominium, an archipelago in the South Pacific, is a country with a special socio-political environment, due to the duality of its French-British regime.
(5) Shelters in Denmark's Funen archipelago Along with my guide, Jakob, I was on the Danish island of Tåsinge, part of the South Funen archipelago that lies just south of Fyn, the large island sandwiched between the Jutland peninsula and Zealand (which hosts Copenhagen).
(6) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.
(7) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
(8) David Connell Senior research fellow, UK Innovation Research Centre, University of Cambridge, and Chairman, Archipelago Technology • I hope the new £61m National Graphene Institute at Manchester will reap some rewards ( Letters , 5 December).
(9) Pentecost largely escaped the severe damage inflicted on much of the archipelago by the cyclone, he said.
(10) Vanuatu disaster: follow the Guardian's reporter on the ground in the wake of cyclone Pam Read more Little is still known of conditions on the ground in outlying islands after Pam wiped out the archipelago’s wider telecommunications network.
(11) Wednesday's demonstration flight was mostly carrying representatives from Indonesian airlines, which are rapidly expanding to serve a burgeoning middle class in the sprawling archipelago where air travel between islands is a quicker alternative to ferries.
(12) Indonesia is an archipelago, the largest in the world, stretching 3,200 miles from east to west.
(13) The author gives the results of an entomological survey in neo-caledonian archipelago (New Caledonia and Loyalty Islands), november-december 1972.
(14) Drosophila differens, endemic to Molokai, Drosophila planitibia of Maui, and Drosophila silvestris and Drosophila heteroneura from the island of Hawaii are chromosomally homosequential species that presumably have colonized the newer islands of the Hawaiian archipelago by sequential founder events.
(15) The coast guard in southern Japan's Okinawa prefecture said nine or 10 activists had made an unauthorised landing on Uotsuri Island, part of the small archipelago known in Japan as Senkaku and in China as Diaoyu.
(16) Today the archipelago’s sparsely populated islands remain pristinely beautiful while some of its underwater landscapes present scenes of utter devastation.
(17) Autochthonous human samples of the three westernmost islands of the Canarian Archipelago, La Palma, Gomera, and Hierro, have been analyzed for eight red cell polymorphic enzymes.
(18) The thyroid function has been subject of study on a casual and significant sample consisting of 189 individuals living in Filicudi, Alicudi and Panarea, the smallest of the inhabited islands in the Eolian archipelago.
(19) This date fits with the geological history of the archipelago, which has witnessed the sequential rise and erosion of many islands during the past 70 million years.
(20) ID815996 The Swedish archipelago Facebook Twitter Pinterest A ferry arrives at Branno.
Sporades
Definition:
(n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(2) TR was classified as follows: severe (massive systolic opacification and persistence of the microbubbles in the IVC for at least 20 seconds); moderate (moderate systolic opacification lasting less than 20 seconds); mild (slight systolic opacification lasting less than 10 seconds); insignificant TR (sporadic appearance of the contrast medium into the IVC).
(3) High mortality, severe destruction of pancreatic B-cells and presence of sporadic mononuclear infiltrations in islets and around excretory ducts were observed.
(4) Progressive sporadic myopathy in association with Down's syndrome has not been reported previously.
(5) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(6) This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina.
(7) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(8) Instead, we suffer sporadic exhibitions, which they call consultation.
(9) Fairly frequently the patients complained about mucosal dryness and sporadically about dyspeptic symptoms, but these symptoms were not disturbing the course of the treatment.
(10) Women with a history of recurrent spontaneous abortions (repeaters) are compared with women who have had live births and no spontaneous abortions (multiparae) and women who have had live births and only one spontaneous abortion (sporadics) to identify characteristics of the women and their abortuses that might predict subsequent fetal loss.
(11) DNA studies were undertaken following 53 requests from pregnant women at risk for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy, including 32 in whom there was only 1 affected individual in the family (sporadic cases).
(12) To date we have analysed members of 28 DMD families (10 familial, 18 sporadic) and six BMD families (four familial, two sporadic) with the closely linked pERT probes 87-1, 87-8, and 87-15 (DXS164).
(13) The autonomic centers in the brain-stem and cerebellum were systematically affected in both the sporadic and the hereditary cases.
(14) After intrauterine inoculation E. coli was isolated from the uterus up to 30 days, and sporadically from the kidneys and urinary bladder, but not from the liver.
(15) In sporadic cases this may have serious implications.
(16) Associated non-urogenital anomalies, although more frequent in sporadic cases, have been reported in HRA.
(17) Six patients without abnormal clones had more than 20% metaphases with random heteroploidy and sporadic structural anomalies.
(18) AIDS, having presented itself as a sporadic and ill defined entity, remained unrecognized in Central Africa until the outset of the present outbreak.
(19) The time-related incidence of these cells entities--the appearance of "dusk" and "bright" cells at 5 min, transitory domination of "bright" cells and the nadir of "dusk" cells at 20 min, sporadic recognition of "bright" cells, lack of "dusk" cells at 45 min and the absence of both cell forms at 180 min--displayed that LP-reactive response promptly appeared and rapidly ceased.
(20) The results of virological investigations on 492 sporadic cases with a clinical diagnosis compatible with an enterovirus etiology studied in Lombardy between 1965 and 1972 are reported.