What's the difference between assignation and rendezvous?

Assignation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  • (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
  • (n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (2) A statement from the company said it had assigned all its assets for the benefit of creditors, in accordance with Massachusetts' law.
  • (3) Five days later, the animals were randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups: Group 1 received intracranial implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 2 received intraperitoneal implantation of controlled-release polymers containing dexamethasone; Group 3 received serial intraperitoneal injections of dexamethasone; and Group 4 received sham treatment.
  • (4) Students are assigned to tutorial groups, and much of the educational thrust of the program is built upon interactions within these groups.
  • (5) The second triplet, which was stable in the dark at 4.2 K following illumination, was assigned to the radical pair Donor+I-.
  • (6) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
  • (7) In an effort to identify the optimal dose and strain of measles vaccination for early immunization, Peruvian infants were randomly assigned to receive one of three measles vaccines in varying doses at 5 to 6 or 8 to 9 months of age.
  • (8) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (9) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
  • (10) Patients were randomly assigned to receive 10 minutes before surgery either I.V.
  • (11) Some additional amino proton resonances have also been assigned.
  • (12) These chemical shift assignments have been achieved using 1H-detected two-dimensional heteronuclear 1H-13C correlation techniques.
  • (13) 7 male and 39 female undergraduates were alternately assigned to rooms painted red or Baker-Miller Pink.
  • (14) These data agree with the recent assignment of DIA1 to chromosome G22 by Fisher et al.
  • (15) The sequential resonance assignment of the 1H NMR spectrum of the antihypertensive and antiviral protein BDS-I from the sea anemone Anemonia sulcata is presented.
  • (16) Following a baseline examination, the furcation-involved molars were randomly assigned in each patient to either a test or a control treatment procedure.
  • (17) The letter to Florence Nightingale was written by Bernita Decker as part of a nursing course assignment for our Nurse Educator advisor, Betty Pugh.
  • (18) This initial observation of release of eosinophil chemotactic factor of anaphylaxis in vivo along with histamine assigns the mast cell a central role in cold urticaria.
  • (19) This assignment was supported by peptide mapping with a tryptophan-specific reagent.
  • (20) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.

Rendezvous


Definition:

  • (n.) A place appointed for a meeting, or at which persons customarily meet.
  • (n.) Especially, the appointed place for troops, or for the ships of a fleet, to assemble; also, a place for enlistment.
  • (n.) A meeting by appointment.
  • (n.) Retreat; refuge.
  • (v. i.) To assemble or meet at a particular place.
  • (v. t.) To bring together at a certain place; to cause to be assembled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That night, Weah borrowed from a Ronald Reagan script in promising supporters 'a rendezvous with destiny'.
  • (2) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (3) And with an A-list rendezvous just a three-digit credit card security number away, no wonder fan expectations have increased.
  • (4) Her blog was gaining a growing following, and she gave an interview by email to CNN and agreed to talk in person to the Guardian's correspondent in Damascus, though she did not show up to that meeting, as is not uncommon for activists in the city, saying she had seen secret police at the rendezvous cafe.
  • (5) They also were great at showing how dangerous this "final frontier" of outer space was, as in this episode where two crew members arrive early in their shuttle to a rendezvous with the Enterprise, only to find evidence that the ship has been destroyed and they are totally alone.
  • (6) A brightly coloured train rattles across their path and stops abruptly and, after an affectionate hug, the two creatures climb aboard, carefully fasten their seatbelts and are bounced away to a rendezvous with their friends (a lavishly hatted family of peg dolls called the Pontipines; Makka Pakka, a squat, fuzzy troglodyte with OCD, and the Tombliboos, a triumvirate of pastel-coloured pepper pot creatures who live inside a topiary bush).
  • (7) The story of the Trump dossier: secret sources, an airport rendezvous, and John McCain Read more Coming just nine days before he enters the White House as the 45th president of the United States, Trump staged his first encounter with the world’s media since last July, admitting that he had actively avoided subjecting himself to press scrutiny in recent months on the grounds that we had been “getting quite a bit of inaccurate news”.
  • (8) Jaguar: 'Rendezvous' (starts at 01:18) - US Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong are all appearing as "British villains" in a commercial designed to emphasise Jaguar's movie heritage.
  • (9) Even in their undiluted misery back home in France and Italy, it would take a footballing spoilsport of the highest order not to want to cast an eye over the rendezvous between Argentina and Mexico at Soccer City in Johannesburg this evening.
  • (10) Katsu Naito's book West Side Rendezvous is out now.
  • (11) There were bacon rolls at £5.75 each according to the menu, and granola with yoghurt (£5.25) on the table at the Delaunay restaurant on the Aldwych – a rendezvous frequented by London's business and media elite – for the meeting which was chaired by the editor of the Times, James Harding.
  • (12) China is the third country after the United States and Russia to complete space rendezvous and docking procedures, Xinhua said.
  • (13) Ambulance rescue systems are of two types: the stationary, in which the physician travels with the ambulance, and the rendezvous, in which the physician and ambulance, travelling separately, meet at the accident site.
  • (14) On Sunday, the Greeks have a rendezvous with history.
  • (15) I think the difficult thing is just having to juggle your career and your spare time with a dog,” she tells me when we meet for our cutesily termed “welcome woof”, a brief rendezvous to check all three of us are happy at the prospect of handing over the leash.
  • (16) He says that he and his son were watching a baseball game in the US on 29 August, a date suggested for the secret rendezvous.
  • (17) The results of this investigation reveal that the prehospital treatment of cardiac arrest in Odense can be improved by participation of a doctor in the treatment, (particularly the rendezvous model).
  • (18) One bonus was that the kidnapped families had been left their cars, so a rendezvous outside Garara Qataf was arranged.
  • (19) The rendezvous in Ankara was beset by further uncertainty.
  • (20) The "rendezvous procedure" combines percutaneous transhepatic and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography.

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