What's the difference between attain and attaint?

Attain


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest.
  • (v. t.) To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire.
  • (v. t.) To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
  • (v. t.) To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
  • (v. t.) To overtake.
  • (v. t.) To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
  • (v. i.) To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
  • (v. i.) To come or arrive, by an effort of mind.
  • (n.) Attainment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The goals in control patients were to attain normal values for all hemodynamic measurements.
  • (2) In the group of high myopia (over 20 D), the mean correction was 13.4 D. In the group with refraction between 0 and 6 D, 88% of the eyes treated had attained a correction between -1 and +1 D 3 months postoperatively.
  • (3) Seven patients were treated with combination chemotherapy, consisting of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, prednisone) or MOPP (chloromethine, vincristine, procarbazine, prednisone), in some cases followed by non-cross-resistant second line chemotherapy, if no complete response was attained.
  • (4) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
  • (5) When cultures were pulse labeled for 15 min and then incubated under chase conditions for 105 min, the amount of degraded collagen attained a value equal to approximately 20% of the amount synthesized during the labeling period; the data were fit with a simple exponential function that had a 40-min rise time and a 12-min lag time.
  • (6) The amount of 15N incorporated into the proteins in 1 litre plasma attained up to 3% of the given dose.
  • (7) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
  • (8) The mechanism by which such high levels were attained was primrily a combination of arterial hypoxia and a high carbon monoxide yield from tobacco.
  • (9) However, when it has attained a length of about half the cell body diameter, it becomes SUP GLU+ and 6-11B-1+.
  • (10) One patient attained a complete response, two a partial response, and two showed progressive disease.
  • (11) Dose adjustment using 24-hour levels was well tolerated and should help to attain a more rapid response to antidepressant treatment.
  • (12) In contrast, T lymphocyte cytolytic activity developed more slowly in regressing sarcomas and attained peak levels coincident with the beginning of tumor regression.
  • (13) Experimental photogenic epilepsy attained by creating GPIE in the EGB with the aid of TT, is proposed as a model for studying the mechanism of epileptogenesis and testing the efficacy of anticonvulsive drugs.
  • (14) The surgical approach used for each type of complication is discussed, underlining the end-result to be attained in relation to the patient's future.
  • (15) In particular, poorly differentiated carcinomas at this site should be treated as germ cell tumors, and so long-term survival will be attainable.
  • (16) ODC attained maximum activity in controls on day 11, increasing by more than an order of magnitude above the activity found on day 9.
  • (17) As many as 25 turnovers of the transport cycle per monomer can occur prior to attainment of steady state.
  • (18) Nearly 30% of students scored A or A*, whereas across the UK only 26% attained these grades.
  • (19) During well-coordinated neurological and psychiatric treatment the laughing seizures (spontaneous, event-related, psychogenic) decreased and a considerable improvement in psychiatric and psychosocial problems was attained.
  • (20) An arrest of a depressive syndrome in manic-depressive psychosis in old age can be attained by an introduction of 150-200 mg of azafen daily.

Attaint


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To attain; to get act; to hit.
  • (v. t.) To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict.
  • (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder.
  • (v. t.) To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act.
  • (v. t.) To affect or infect, as with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt.
  • (v. t.) To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy.
  • (p. p.) Attainted; corrupted.
  • (v.) A touch or hit.
  • (v.) A blow or wound on the leg of a horse, made by overreaching.
  • (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried.
  • (v.) A stain or taint; disgrace. See Taint.
  • (v.) An infecting influence.

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