What's the difference between auction and duction?
Auction
Definition:
(n.) A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
(n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.
(v. t.) To sell by auction.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re learning to store peak power in all kinds of ways: a California auction for new power supply was won by a company that uses extra solar energy to freeze ice, which then melts during the day to supply power.
(2) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
(3) The four other works were sold at auction at Christie's and disappeared into private collections.
(4) When I moved house a little while ago, a friend suggested using another service in the sharing economy – the delivery auction website, AnyVan .
(5) Volatility on European markets was "mainly driven by Portugal's disappointing bond auction", said Gavan Nolan, an analyst at Markit.
(6) Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, has promised to reform the auction scheme but one of her ministers, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed this year’s awards, arguing they reduced costs for homeowners.
(7) The biggest loser could be the state-owned oil company Rosneft, which bought Yukos assets in auctions when the latter's stock was almost worthless.
(8) But the Wu-Tang leader went on to speak about it anyhow: “[The album has] been handed over to an auction house, and they plan on doing something,” he said.
(9) The 4Growth report calls on government to reinvest the £4bn proceeds from the auction of 4G telecoms licences back into science and technology.
(10) Serum C concentrations of the calves (n = 100 x 4 years) were evaluated on their farm of origin, on arrival at an auction market, on arrival at a feedyard, and during their first 4 weeks in the feedyard.
(11) The annual capacity market auction – under which power suppliers bid for contracts to feed electricity into the grid – is due to begin on Tuesday.
(12) The original version wrongly stated that Madrid had to pay 5.7% at a debt auction to borrow €2.4bn for 12 months, rather than 5.07%.
(13) It was described as one of the artist's masterpieces by David Moore-Gwyn, deputy chairman in the UK of Sotheby's, which will auction the painting in December.
(14) However, the most spectacular fundraiser was not the auction room but a wedding, when the ninth duke married the American railroad heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt, securing a gigantic dowry, a fortune in shares and an annual allowance.
(15) A week after the Tories raised £160,000 by selling a game of tennis with David Cameron and Boris Johnson , the Labour party will on Wednesday be auctioning a five-a-side football match against the "shadow cabinet all-stars".
(16) The report said Isis had begun holding online slave auctions with an encrypted application to circulate photos of captured Yazidi women and girls.
(17) Another option could be to partner with BSkyB, which is desperate to see off direct rival BT in the next football rights auction, with whom Discovery already has a strong commercial relationship.
(18) Maria Miller wanted to launch the debate about BBC charter renewal herself, thus guaranteeing that the future of the BBC would become part of a political auction.
(19) There has been a spate of thefts of rhino horns and elephant tusks from European museums, zoos and auction houses in recent years, amid a rising illegal trade in poached or stolen ivory .
(20) As Yannis Koutsomitis notes, the Spanish in particular, probably have the ECB to thank for its successful auctions.
Duction
Definition:
(n.) Guidance.
Example Sentences:
(1) This includes the clinical presence of diplopia, evidence of muscle entrapment with forced duction testing, and CT scan showing orbital wall fracture with explosion of the orbital contents into the paranasal sinuses.
(2) Semiconductor strain gauges mounted on the shanks of a custom machined eye forceps and an ultrasonic method of making continuous duction measurements of the eye have proved feasible.
(3) FD of observers with steep forced-duction curves increased with both the coarseness and eccentricity of fusion locks.
(4) Different types of restrictions have been described and the technique of forced duction testing reviewed.
(5) Four patients with no medial rectus contracture on forced duction testing were treated six months or longer after the onset of the palsy and none recovered full function.
(6) Vertical ductions were normal in each case and the maximal HD ranged from 8 to 16 prism diopters (PD) in 10 of 16 patients (62.5%) and from 4 to 7 PD in 6 of 16 patients (37.5%).
(7) Forced ductions are positive and surgical exploration confirms anomalous muscle structure.
(8) Operative decisions are taken after clinical and radiological study, being based above all on evaluation of the forced duction tests and upon frontal tomographies.
(9) Postoperatively, the conjunctiva had a satisfactory cosmetic appearance and ductions were normal.
(10) Proptosis and ductional restriction subsequently developed.
(11) Versions, forced ductions, saccadic velocities, and diplopic field examinations were done.
(12) Diagnostic confirmation is obtained by forced duction testing and computed tomography.
(13) The stoppage of movement observed in young individuals in the MP articulation of the forefinger occurs under the effect of trauma, - under normal articular conditions, - on strongly flexed finger, under the effect of powerful ulnar duction.
(14) A mutation, pnt-1, causing loss of pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenase activity in Escherichia coli, was mapped by assaying for the enzyme in extracts of recombinant strains produced by conjugation, F-duction, and P1 transduction.
(15) Despite limitation of ductions in MG, the group means of velocities of 10 deg saccades recorded with IR were similar in MG and normal subjects.
(16) A previously paralysed lateral rectus muscle, which has completely recovered function but has left the patient with a concomitant esotropia with full ductions and normal versions, responds excessively to resection.
(17) This disorder is exhibited in infancy as unilateral blepharoptosis, strabismus, limited ductions, globe displacement (enophthalmos and blepharoptosis), and decreased vision, usually due to amblyopia.
(18) We recommend that the slope of the extreme limits of the forced duction curve be used clinically to discriminate between normal and abnormal disparity vergence dynamics.
(19) The forced duction test has been valuable in determining the extent of mechanical restrictions and, in some instances, indirectly provides information about muscle strength.
(20) Particular reference was placed on the active force generation test and the passive forced duction test.