What's the difference between avoid and eliminate?

Avoid


Definition:

  • (a.) To empty.
  • (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
  • (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
  • (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
  • (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
  • (a.) To get rid of.
  • (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
  • (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
  • (v. i.) To become void or vacant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
  • (2) The catheter must be meticulously fixed to the skin to avoid its movement.
  • (3) Sample processing appears effective in avoiding spontaneous oxalogenesis.
  • (4) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (5) A 24-h test trial employing a dry target demonstrated a robust memory for the training manifested in passive avoidance behavior.
  • (6) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (7) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (8) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (9) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
  • (10) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
  • (11) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
  • (12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (13) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (14) This method avoids disturbance of the cellular metabolism.
  • (15) We determined to further clarify the mechanism of this transmural coronary "steal" employing intracoronary DP administration, thereby avoiding systemic hypotension.
  • (16) Maintenance therapy was always steroid-free to start with (cyclosporin+azathioprine) but in almost one half of our oldest survivors, it failed to avoid rejection and we had to add low-dose oral steroids for at least several months.
  • (17) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
  • (18) Long-distanced urethrocystopexy which permits to avoid an unwanted increase of outflow resistance with following retention of urine should be preferred.
  • (19) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
  • (20) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.

Eliminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
  • (v. t.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
  • (v. t.) To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
  • (v. t.) To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
  • (v. t.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
  • (2) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
  • (3) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
  • (4) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
  • (5) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
  • (6) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
  • (7) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
  • (8) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
  • (9) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (10) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
  • (11) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (12) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
  • (13) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (14) The elimination half-life of most beta-agonists is relatively short, and pharmacokinetics are independent of dose and duration of treatment.
  • (15) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
  • (16) (The scintillation medium is preheated with ethanolamine to eliminate chemiluminescence.)
  • (17) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
  • (18) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
  • (19) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
  • (20) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.