What's the difference between base and marginal?

Base


Definition:

  • (a.) Of little, or less than the usual, height; of low growth; as, base shrubs.
  • (a.) Low in place or position.
  • (a.) Of humble birth; or low degree; lowly; mean.
  • (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard.
  • (a.) Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.
  • (a.) Alloyed with inferior metal; debased; as, base coin; base bullion.
  • (a.) Morally low. Hence: Low-minded; unworthy; without dignity of sentiment; ignoble; mean; illiberal; menial; as, a base fellow; base motives; base occupations.
  • (a.) Not classical or correct.
  • (a.) Deep or grave in sound; as, the base tone of a violin.
  • (a.) Not held by honorable service; as, a base estate, one held by services not honorable; held by villenage. Such a tenure is called base, or low, and the tenant, a base tenant.
  • (n.) The bottom of anything, considered as its support, or that on which something rests for support; the foundation; as, the base of a statue.
  • (n.) Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.
  • (n.) The lower part of a wall, pier, or column, when treated as a separate feature, usually in projection, or especially ornamented.
  • (n.) The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decoration.
  • (n.) That extremity of a leaf, fruit, etc., at which it is attached to its support.
  • (n.) The positive, or non-acid component of a salt; a substance which, combined with an acid, neutralizes the latter and forms a salt; -- applied also to the hydroxides of the positive elements or radicals, and to certain organic bodies resembling them in their property of forming salts with acids.
  • (n.) The chief ingredient in a compound.
  • (n.) A substance used as a mordant.
  • (n.) The exterior side of the polygon, or that imaginary line which connects the salient angles of two adjacent bastions.
  • (n.) The line or surface constituting that part of a figure on which it is supposed to stand.
  • (n.) The number from which a mathematical table is constructed; as, the base of a system of logarithms.
  • (n.) A low, or deep, sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base.
  • (n.) A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forward movements are made, supplies are furnished, etc.
  • (n.) The smallest kind of cannon.
  • (n.) That part of an organ by which it is attached to another more central organ.
  • (n.) The basal plane of a crystal.
  • (n.) The ground mass of a rock, especially if not distinctly crystalline.
  • (n.) The lower part of the field. See Escutcheon.
  • (n.) The housing of a horse.
  • (n.) A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.
  • (n.) The lower part of a robe or petticoat.
  • (n.) An apron.
  • (n.) The point or line from which a start is made; a starting place or a goal in various games.
  • (n.) A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.
  • (n.) A rustic play; -- called also prisoner's base, prison base, or bars.
  • (n.) Any one of the four bounds which mark the circuit of the infield.
  • (n.) To put on a base or basis; to lay the foundation of; to found, as an argument or conclusion; -- used with on or upon.
  • (a.) To abase; to let, or cast, down; to lower.
  • (a.) To reduce the value of; to debase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
  • (3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (4) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
  • (5) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (6) The analysis is based on the personal experience of the authors with 117 cases and the review of 223 cases published in the literature.
  • (7) In the fall of 1975, 1,915 children in grades K through eight began a school-based program of supervised weekly rinsing with 0.2 percent aqueous solution of sodium fluoride in an unfluoridated community in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York.
  • (8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (9) Induction of labor, based upon only (1) a finding of meconium in the amniocentesis group or (2) a positive test in the OCT group, was nearly three times more frequent in the amniocentesis group.
  • (10) Therefore, we have developed a powerful new microcomputer-based system which permits detailed investigations and evaluation of 3-D and 4-D (dynamic 3-D) biomedical images.
  • (11) The distance between the end of fic and the start of pabA was 31 base pairs.
  • (12) Based on several previous studies, which demonstrated that sorbitol accumulation in human red blood cells (RBCs) was a function of ambient glucose concentrations, either in vitro or in vivo, our investigations were conducted to determine if RBC sorbitol accumulation would correlate with sorbitol accumulation in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats; the effect of sorbinil in reducing sorbitol levels in lens and nerve tissue of diabetic rats would be reflected by changes in RBC sorbitol; and sorbinil would reduce RBC sorbitol in diabetic man.
  • (13) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
  • (14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
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  • (16) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (17) Based on these results, we concluded that the inhibition of putrefactive anaerobe 3679 by sorbate resulted from a stringent-type regulatory response induced by the protonophoric activity of sorbic acid.
  • (18) Thus, mechanical restitution of the ventricle is a dynamic process that can be assessed using an elastance-based approach in the in situ heart.
  • (19) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
  • (20) Descriptive features of the syndrome in children, adults and adolescents are given based on the respective work of Pine, Masterson and Kernberg.

Marginal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a margin.
  • (a.) Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Blood pressure control was marginally improved during the study and it is thought possible that better patient compliance might explain this.
  • (2) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
  • (3) Fusiform cells were most concentrated along the lateral margin of the subnucleus interpolaris.
  • (4) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (5) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
  • (6) Computed tomography (CT) is the most sensitive radiologic study for detecting these tumors, which usually are small, round, sharply marginated, and of homogeneous soft tissue density.
  • (7) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
  • (8) Such margins would be enough to put the first female president in the White House, but Democrats are guarding against complacency.
  • (9) When collateral marginal vessels were eliminated, adjacent arterial blood flow decreased to control levels and venous flow virtually stopped.
  • (10) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (11) The ruffles of the sub-marginal cells showed different characteristics, being longer and not propagated successively as were the marginal ruffles.
  • (12) Based on review examination of 224 patients 5 years after their ankle fractures, the authors demonstrate a significant worsening of prognosis with fractures of the anterior or posterior tibial margin.
  • (13) Chloroquine concentrations were marginally but significantly higher in venous whole blood.
  • (14) Sialomucin was markedly increased in 17.0 percent of proximal resection margins and 17.3 percent in distal resection margins.
  • (15) The combined prevention of caries was conductive to improved treatment quality which was accounted for by a 1.5 to 2-fold reduction in the rate of disorders in marginal contact with filling material and secondary caries.
  • (16) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
  • (17) After 21 days, supragingival and marginal plaque was collected from each subject and assayed for total cultivable microbiota, total facultative anaerobes, facultative Streptococci, Actinomyces, Fusobacterium, Veillonella and Capnocytophaga.
  • (18) Even when combined with a peripheral-acting BZD, such as Ro5-4608, which displayed only marginal antiproliferative activity against human melanoma cells when applied alone, growth suppression of the combination of this peripheral-type BZD with all three types of IFNs was more than additive.
  • (19) Suede sang about life on the margins, in council homes.
  • (20) The most important variable for anastomotic recurrence was mucin histochemical changes at the resection margins according to the Wald statistic value.