What's the difference between available and disengaged?

Available


Definition:

  • (a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.
  • (a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) These results demonstrate that increased availability of galactose, a high-affinity substrate for the enzyme, leads to increased aldose reductase messenger RNA, which suggests a role for aldose reductase in sugar metabolism in the lens.
  • (3) After 55 days of unrestricted food availability the body weight of the neonatally deprived rats was approximately 15% lower than that of the controls.
  • (4) Since 1979 there has been an increase of 17,122 in the number of beds available in nursing homes.
  • (5) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (6) The availability and success of changes in reproductive technology should lead to a reappraisal of the indications for hysterectomy, especially in young women.
  • (7) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (8) The presently available data allow us to draw the following conclusions: 1) G proteins play a mediatory role in the transmission of the signal(s) generated upon receptor occupancy that leads to the observed cytoskeletal changes.
  • (9) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (10) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
  • (11) A two-year follow-up was available for fifty-nine of the treated knees.
  • (12) Cicaprost is an orally available analogue of PGI2 and has been shown to inhibit platelet aggregation in both in vitro and animal studies.
  • (13) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (14) A reduction in neonatal deaths from this cause might be expected if facilities for antenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy were made available, although this raises grave ethical problems.
  • (15) Immunochemical techniques, in particular ELISA are available for only a very limited number of NM (e.g.
  • (16) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (17) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (18) The use of fresh semen is possible, since results of appropriate cultures could be available and treatment instituted before clinical disease occurs.
  • (19) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (20) The availability of locus-specific probes should significantly expand the role of minisatellite markers in population biology.

Disengaged


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disengage
  • (a.) Not engaged; free from engagement; at leisure; free from occupation or care; vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (2) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
  • (3) Two groups, one institutionalized and the other noninstitutionalized but without formal activities, were described as being disengaged: e.g., withdrawn socially, self-absorbed, as well as powerless, pessimistic, and depressed.
  • (4) However, an increasing body of experts argues something must be done to arrest disengagement by winning over this so-called Generation Y, born after 1982, who are predicted to be poorer than their parents, and according to Ipsos Mori research, have a record low level of trust in their fellow man.Guy Lodge, of the IPPR thinktank, makes the case for an even more radical solution – compulsory voting for first-timers.
  • (5) In New York, the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), whose mission is to monitor a 1974 disengagement in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria , reported that shortly after midnight local time, during a ceasefire agreed with the armed elements, all 40 Filipino peacekeepers left their position and "arrived in a safe location one hour later."
  • (6) With the coming of the meritocracy, the now leaderless masses were partially disfranchised; as time has gone by, more and more of them have been disengaged, and disaffected to the extent of not even bothering to vote.
  • (7) It is time for the responsible, serious section of the British press to disengage from any coalition with the popular newspapers.
  • (8) The four stress reaction factors identified were burnout, reduction in work load, tolerance, and disengagement.
  • (9) He also called for the party to be disengaged from the Tories at least six months before the 2015 election.
  • (10) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
  • (11) If we leave,” said George, “the House of Commons will be doing nothing but talking about how to disengage from the EU for the next 10 years.” The committee fell silent as they absorbed the impact of that statement.
  • (12) These results strongly suggest that the process of enzyme turnover not only regenerates the active conformation of topoisomerase II but also confers upon the enzyme the ability to disengage from its nucleic acid product.
  • (13) 2) The relation between Awareness of Death and Self-Engagement, as the initial cause and final outcome of disengagement.
  • (14) The pilot disengaged the autopilot and descended and landed safely back in Perth.
  • (15) Tony Blair will make an impassioned intervention in the debate over Britain's future in Europe, warning that any disengagement from the European Union's "top table" would be a disaster for the UK's economy and its power on the world stage.
  • (16) The disengagement takes some time which is or is not included in the saccadic reaction time depending on whether or not visual attention is engaged at the time of the onset of the saccade target.
  • (17) From a scientific-theoretical point of view activity- and disengagement-theory are adequately examined in this contribution.
  • (18) The original government proposals suggested no sanction for refusing to register – a shift that led to warnings that millions of mainly poor voters would drop off the register, so increasing disengagement from democratic politics.
  • (19) It was shown by Ghadiminejad and Saggerson (1991) that the anionic detergent cholate caused disengagement of the malonyl-CoA binding entity from the catalytic entity of outer membrane carnitine palmitoyltransferase (CPT1).
  • (20) In contrast to both canonical structures, the beta 97 histidine residue in carbonmonoxy hemoglobin Ypsilanti is disengaged from quaternary packing interactions that are generally believed to enforce two-state behavior in ligand binding.

Words possibly related to "disengaged"