What's the difference between beforehand and onward?

Beforehand


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
  • (adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
  • (a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (2) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
  • (3) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
  • (4) Beforehand, the claim that the symport of L-glutamate with Na+ is linked to simultaneous antiport with K+ has been confirmed by the demonstration that equilibrium exchange of L-glutamate is inhibited by potassium.
  • (5) In the aortic strips which had been treated with Ca antagonists beforehand, nicorandil at all concentrations tested produced a long lasting relaxation, and the rhythmic contraction did not appear during exposure to nicorandil.
  • (6) Administration of propranolol (a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug) beforehand did not prevent lipid mobilization.
  • (7) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
  • (8) The two men walked through the grounds beforehand, and were to meet again on Wednesday.
  • (9) [The Sunday Mirror] ought to have the justification already in place ... One of the things about the code is that newspapers think beforehand,” he told a fringe meeting organised by the Media Standards Trust at the Tory party conference on Tuesday morning.
  • (10) Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir’s mother Samaria, said they had been given no information about the announcement beforehand and had learned it was taking place through a public statement made by the county prosecutor’s office about an hour earlier.
  • (11) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
  • (12) In normotensive patients the filling pressure could often not be sufficiently lowered as a too severe reduction of arterial pressure occurred beforehand.
  • (13) The ability of spermatozoa to survive cryopreservation could not be predicted from the properties of the semen beforehand.
  • (14) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
  • (15) Procedures to be followed were carefully explained to all students beforehand.
  • (16) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
  • (17) was injected intravenously 20 minutes before operation in 4 patients but 24 hours beforehand in the remainder.
  • (18) He said beforehand that it would be "a weight off my shoulders, like going on holiday".
  • (19) A cone-shaped dilator is placed beforehand at the proximal end of the vertical limb of the T tube to facilitate the passage of that end through the stenotic subglottic space.
  • (20) May sound reassuring on the electoral doorstep but likely to be trashed beforehand by weary doctors and political opponents.

Onward


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
  • (a.) Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end.
  • (adv.) Toward a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ben Bernanke's testimony to the Senate: from here onwards .
  • (2) When researching his book, Moore could see from Margaret Roberts's student days onwards that she was conscious of the attention being paid to her.
  • (3) Permeability measurements, published elsewhere, indicate that the epithelium is functionally 'tight' from 69 days onwards.
  • (4) In addition, there is significantly less germ cell production from the primary spermatocyte stage of spermatogenesis onwards and the total number of Sertoli cells observed is less.
  • (5) We present prediction intervals for two years from January 1990 onwards.
  • (6) In the preimplantation period, ER patterns remained unvarying on days 2-6 of gestation in both cytoplasmic and nuclear compartments; their levels in nuclear fraction were significantly higher from day 3 onwards while, total cytoplasmic ER concentrations were higher from day 4 of gestation compared with the values obtained for secretory phase tissues from normal ovulatory cycles.
  • (7) On the other hand, immunohistochemical studies with QH-1 or MB-1 antibody show, beside a capillary network in the central core of the wing bud, individual immunolabelled cells of mesenchymal character within the primarily avascular subectodermal region from the onset of vascularization onwards.
  • (8) We compared these data with data on the kinetic development of H-2b antigens on fetal hepatocytes cultured from days 15, 16, and 17 pc onwards.
  • (9) Erythropoietin (EPO) responsive cells can be detected from 7th day onwards.
  • (10) Similarly from day 140 onwards no oestradiol receptors are evident.
  • (11) A general practitioner practising from 1940 onwards on the Gruyère region describes visually his former task: permanence on call, daily journeys of 80 km for house calls, often on skis or by sleigh, surgery under most primitive conditions, serious decisions taken lonely, diphtheria-epidemics, frequent tuberculosis, penicillin as a major break-through, picturesque human encounters...A lively testimony of times gone by.
  • (12) By 7 days, notochordal uptake is markedly diminished, and no uptake of isotope occurs from 8 days onward.
  • (13) From the second post-transplant year onwards patient survival was worse in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients.
  • (14) Stem-stature ratios showed a similar pattern; and were confined within a narrow margin from 6 months onwards.
  • (15) From 8 weeks onward, as a result of the treatment, the tubular lumen of the corpus epididymides became narrowed with thickened pseudostratified epithelium and there was a reduction in the amount of spermatozoa.
  • (16) In the ileum, significant lysis of collagen in the anastomotic area, as represented by a decreased level of hydroxyproline, occurs from 12 hr postoperatively onward.
  • (17) From the fourth generation onward, neither hyperinfection nor extra-intestinal migration could be induced even by higher doses of corticosteroids.
  • (18) First, the disintegration of class voting patterns noticed by sociologists from the late 1950s onwards.
  • (19) The allegations from the 1970s onwards relate to Knowl View School in Rochdale, where the Liberal Democrat MP served as chairman of governors.
  • (20) The results indicate that the hypothalamo-pituitary in immature rats reacts in a similar way as that in adult animals from day 16-20 onwards.