What's the difference between august and may?

August


Definition:

  • (a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.
  • (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Slager’s next court appearance is not until 21 August.
  • (2) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
  • (3) They are just literally lying.” In August Microsoft severed its ties, saying Alec’s stance on climate change and several other issues “conflicted directly with Microsoft’s values”.
  • (4) The sensitivity of ejaculated spermatozoa to ouabain (in inhibitor of Na+-K+ ATPase) was determined on 4 consecutive weeks in November, March-April, and July-August.
  • (5) Alternatively, try the Hawaii Fish O nights, every Friday from 26 July until the end of August, featuring a one-hour paddleboard lesson, followed by a fish-and-chip supper looking out over the waves you've just battled (£16.75).
  • (6) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (7) Oscar Pistorius ‘to be released in August’ as appeal date is set for November Read more But the parole board at his prison overruled an emotional plea from the 29-year-old victim’s parents when it sat last week.
  • (8) 139 cases of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection (serological diagnosis) were treated at Aurora Hospital, Helsinki, between January 1975 and August 1977.
  • (9) At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured by a car bomb at a funeral in Jaramana at the end of August.
  • (10) The number of deaths was significantly higher during the months of July, August and October.
  • (11) From August 1986 to July 1987, 62 patients with clinical signs of acute appendicitis received US examinations after initial clinical evaluations.
  • (12) The Nelson Monument and other sites (0131-226 6558), 2 August–2 September.
  • (13) An immunization program was implemented in August 1988 using a recombinant vaccine (GenHevac BTM).
  • (14) Arcadia’s pension deficit was measured at £190m in the company’s accounts for the year to August 2015, but is understood to have grown substantially since then.
  • (15) TUC, CPE and ART viruses were obtained from pools of Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) sp captured in Tucuruí, Pará State, in February, August and October of 1984, respectively.
  • (16) The seasonal rhythm in hypothalamo-hypophyseal-adrenal function was studied in 3-week-old, meat-hybrid chickens, bred under standard conditions, CRF content in the median eminence and ACTH content in the adenohypophysis showed the maximum in February, the minimum in August, to return practically to the February level by November.
  • (17) "When people don't feel they have a reason to stay out of trouble, the consequences for communities can be devastating – as we saw last August," said Darra Singh, chair of the panel.
  • (18) The US-led air campaign against Isis began on 8 August in Iraq and was extended into Syria in September.
  • (19) Despite fulfilling a boyhood wish to play for Milan when he returned to Italy, the striker admitted he erred in taking his career back to Serie A, having had a controversial spell at Internazionale before City recruited him for £17.5m in August 2010.
  • (20) On 21 August 1968, armies of five Warsaw Pact countries – the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and East Germany – invaded Czechoslovakia to crush democratic reforms known as the Prague spring.

May


Definition:

  • (v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
  • (n.) A maiden.
  • (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
  • (n.) The early part or springtime of life.
  • (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
  • (n.) The merrymaking of May Day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
  • (2) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (3) Therefore, these findings may extend the use of platelets as neuronal models.
  • (4) Circuit weight training does not exacerbate resting or exercise blood pressure and may have beneficial effects.
  • (5) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
  • (6) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (7) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (8) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
  • (9) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (10) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (11) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (12) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (13) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (14) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
  • (15) Previous attempts to purify this enzyme from the liquid endosperm of kernels of Zea mays (sweet corn) were not entirely successful owing to the lability of partially purified preparations during column chromatography.
  • (16) It is concluded that amlodipine reduces myocardial ischemic injury by mechanism(s) that may involve a reduction in myocardial oxygen demand as well as by positively influencing transmembrane Ca2+ fluxes during ischemia and reperfusion.
  • (17) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
  • (18) Down and up regulation by peptides may be useful for treatment of cough and prevention of aspiration pneumonia.
  • (19) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
  • (20) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.

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