What's the difference between backup and spare?

Backup


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accordingly, the New York State rabies diagnostic laboratory has replaced the MIT with the in vitro procedure as a backup for the fluorescent-antibody test in the routine diagnosis of rabies.
  • (2) A total of 60 Gy was delivered in 30 fractions, with backup temporary pacing and continuous ECG monitoring used for the first 5 fractions.
  • (3) Pant had to buy extra hard drives to serve as backup copies of the top-secret files.
  • (4) I live in a town of 1,500 people with seven pharmacies as well as pain clinics and methadone clinics and the full backup industry.
  • (5) In the remaining 1,014 procedures (79%) (backup group), although the surgical team was "in house," they were not necessarily ready for an immediate intervention.
  • (6) Cooperative group protocols, used in the clinical setting of pediatric oncologists, with extensive resources and major referral center backup, have improved the prognosis of childhood ALL.
  • (7) These results indicate that the contribution to cell survival of UV endonuclease, an enzyme specific for pyrimidine dimers, is manifest if the backup by the Uvr homolog is absent.
  • (8) Carbamazepine receives special attention because of its status as the most promising backup treatment for lithium.
  • (9) My personal favorite part was Beyoncé had her backup singers and dancers in pantsuits.” Each celebrity who joined Clinton for her last push seemed to top the previous night, giving her closing appearances an aura of celebration.
  • (10) Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the FTTH Council, a lobbying group funded by telecoms manufacturers (but explicitly not telecoms companies), notes that if you introduce high-speed links, suddenly all sorts of connections become possible: video from local services streamed directly, high-speed real-time backups (100Mbps is twice as fast as USB 2.0), real-time high-quality interactive multiplayer games and so on.
  • (11) When flight controllers initially could not confirm deployment of the antennas in the minutes following its launch, they selected the backup rendezvous plan of two days and 34 orbits instead of the planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous.” A spokesman at Russian mission control said that the Progress “reached orbit but the full volume of telemetry (data transmissions) is not being received.” Russia’s mission control website said that the ship would dock with the ISS, where the international crew of six people awaits the cargo, on April 30.
  • (12) Power demands and battery backup capability of equipment should be considered in future equipment purchases.
  • (13) A community woman, with educational, social service, and medical backup support from the Children and Youth Program, made home visits 7 to 10 days after the birth and between regularly scheduled well-child-care visits.
  • (14) Study findings indicate that efforts to reduce hospital backups must address specific barriers to timely LTC placement, including shortages of institutional and noninstitutional LTC services, and the lack of financial incentives for LTC providers to accept heavier care patients.
  • (15) Also, if greater than 3,500 ml is expected additional backup (i.e.
  • (16) The ribbon procedure appears to be a viable form of timeout, provided that disruptive behaviors during timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout can be tolerated within the setting, or a backup procedure such as exclusionary timeout is available when needed.
  • (17) Backup decongestant medication decreased during treatment with azelastine and increased during the placebo regimen.
  • (18) The Daily Staff Log is an empirically refined instrument to assess staff hours spent in direct patient and collateral contact, clinical backup time, consultation, education, and administration.
  • (19) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
  • (20) His backup, Daryl Richardson, is inactive, meaning that rookie Bennie Cunningham should see some action in relief of Stacy.

Spare


Definition:

  • (a.) To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save.
  • (a.) To keep to one's self; to forbear to impart or give.
  • (a.) To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to.
  • (a.) To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
  • (a.) To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
  • (v. i.) To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
  • (v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
  • (v. i.) To desist; to stop; to refrain.
  • (v. t.) Scanty; not abundant or plentiful; as, a spare diet.
  • (v. t.) Sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
  • (v. t.) Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous; as, I have no spare time.
  • (v. t.) Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency; as, a spare anchor; a spare bed or room.
  • (v. t.) Lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
  • (v. t.) Slow.
  • (n.) The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
  • (n.) Parsimony; frugal use.
  • (n.) An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
  • (n.) That which has not been used or expended.
  • (n.) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Vascular surgical procedures sparing renal parenchyma are relatively new, as the most common treatment for this condition had been nephrectomy.
  • (4) Juvenile diabetics appear to have fewer cutaneous abnormalities than adults who develop the disease, but the juvenile diabetic is not spared.
  • (5) On histopathologic examination there were microabscesses in the inner choroid and subretinal space, disrupting the outer retina but sparing the inner retina.
  • (6) Injuries due to fellatio must be considered as an etiological factor to hemorrhagic changes of the oral mucosa, and with a positive history, patients can be spared from other investigations.
  • (7) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (8) Bipolar cells appeared to be spared from damage at these doses.
  • (9) However, hemodynamic effects of the compound, suggesting an oxygen sparing action, did not preclude the antifibrillatory effectiveness.
  • (10) I know you're busy, but spare a few minutes to read at least some of it.
  • (11) Sparing technique was used in all operations, carried out under local anesthesia with 2% procaine or trimecaine.
  • (12) A previous study has described considerable sparing of vision after combined optic tract and visual cortex lesions in cats.
  • (13) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
  • (14) The loss of muscarinic and the sparing of benzodiazepine receptors occurs in the temporal cortex of histologically normal brains in the absence of significant atrophy and of gross dementia.
  • (15) Muscle sparing thoracotomy can be used safely for most thoracic procedures and we believe it permits easier pain control and early preservation of full shoulder motion.
  • (16) However, our studies suggest that much of the initial damage is extracellular, sparing nerve fiber layer axons.
  • (17) The script is taken almost entirely from Charles Webb 's excellent novel, which itself is sparely written and led by dialogue.
  • (18) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
  • (19) Not only are the treatment results with regional hyperthermic perfusions excellent for both primary and locally recurrent sarcomas of the extremities, but limbs previously considered unsalvagable can be spared.
  • (20) The isointensity bands in the ischemic area on T2-weighted images showed the spared transverse fibers originating from the contralateral pontine nuclei, and this may explain the cause of the unilateral ataxia.