What's the difference between bender and branch?

Bender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
  • (n.) An instrument used for bending.
  • (n.) A drunken spree.
  • (n.) A sixpence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The objective of this study was to explore the commonly used method of Miller and Bender for determination of the net protein utilization (NPU).
  • (2) Subjects were examined with Wechsler tests (WPPSI, WISC-R or WAIS, according to their capabilities), Progressive Matrices, Bender or Santucci and memory tests.
  • (3) Practice effects within a multiple-phase administration of the Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test were investigated.
  • (4) A NSW man who died in custody after being Tasered was reportedly battling an addiction to ice and had been on a bender.
  • (5) The Bender Visual-motor Gestalt Test and Beery's Developmental Test of Visual-motor Integration were administered to 51 educable mentally retarded boys ranging in age from 72 to 161 mo.
  • (6) These children on Bender Gestalt test made more errors particularly distortions (distortion of parts, incorrect number of dots, shape of design lost etc).
  • (7) It is suggested that the group Bender test might be used as a screening device without significant loss of information on a later administration of the individual Bender test.
  • (8) The latter result, in conjunction with those results on the Bender visual-motor gestalt test and on some WAIS subtests, suggests a frequent deficit in spatial capabilities in such subjects.
  • (9) From the resultant corner Bender is beaten again, this time Martinez sending a header fractionally over the bar.
  • (10) Normative data on the Koppitz developmental scoring system for the Bender-Gestalt test were derived from a sample which included 510 protocols of adult resident retardates.
  • (11) The Bender-Gestalt and WISC or WISC-R performances of two groups of 19 emotionally disturbed children matched in age age (9-1 to 16-7) and Full Scale IQ were compared.
  • (12) The absence of a significant correlation between the Bender and the WISC Verbal IQ in these children was attributed to the relative superiority of their Verbal scores.
  • (13) The strongest and most consistent effects occurred for the Bender Gestalt test (GFT version) and for serial choice reaction performance (Vienna Device).
  • (14) The Trail Making Test and Bender Background Interference Procedure were evaluated with 598 Ss against both external neurologic criteria and against psychological opinion derived from a more complete evaluation.
  • (15) We describe a device for quantifying neglect based upon the principle of the Bender test which uses double or simultaneous bilateral stimulation to determine neglect.
  • (16) Bender scores also appeared to have more utility for predicting reading and mathematics achievement for children of low birthweight than for those of normal birthweight.
  • (17) Those normals whose free-play ankle activity was above the mean, also had significantly more errors and performed at a significantly lower level on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test than children whose activity was below the mean.
  • (18) 8.48pm BST 50 mins Other German subs were Aogo for Jansen and Kruse for Sven Bender.
  • (19) We evaluated the concurrent validity of the revised Bender-Gestalt emotional indicators (Koppitz, 1975) among three groups of children in the 7- to 10-year age range: adjustment disorder, behavior disorder, and normal control.
  • (20) On the fifteenth day of hospitalization, after five days without any psychopharmacological therapy, the patients underwent psychological testing: the Wechsler-Bellevue test, separately for the complete, verbal, and nonverbal scales and the Bender-Gestalt test.

Branch


Definition:

  • (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
  • (n.) Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler; the branch of a chandelier; a branch of a river; a branch of a railway.
  • (n.) Any member or part of a body or system; a distinct article; a section or subdivision; a department.
  • (n.) One of the portions of a curve that extends outwards to an indefinitely great distance; as, the branches of an hyperbola.
  • (n.) A line of family descent, in distinction from some other line or lines from the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family.
  • (n.) A warrant or commission given to a pilot, authorizing him to pilot vessels in certain waters.
  • (a.) Diverging from, or tributary to, a main stock, line, way, theme, etc.; as, a branch vein; a branch road or line; a branch topic; a branch store.
  • (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
  • (v. i.) To divide into separate parts or subdivision.
  • (v. t.) To divide as into branches; to make subordinate division in.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with needlework representing branches, flowers, or twigs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (3) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (4) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
  • (5) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (6) An anatomic study of the peroneal artery and vein and their branches was carried out on 80 adult cadaver legs.
  • (7) According to the national bank, four Russian banks were operating in Crimea as of the end of April, but only one of them, Rossiisky National Commercial Bank, was widely represented, with 116 branches in the region.
  • (8) The present study was done in order to document the ability of the eighth cranial nerve of the bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) to regenerate, the anatomic characteristics of the regenerated fibers, and the specificity of projections from individual endorgan branches of the nerve.
  • (9) Mechanisms by which a defect in the synthesis of dolichol-oligosaccharides might alter the degree of beta-1,6 branching in N-linked carbohydrates are discussed.
  • (10) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (11) The ACoA branches were divided into the small and the large.
  • (12) It is possible that the elements provide common precursor proteins that reach the secretory intermediate lobe cells through their dendritic branches.
  • (13) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (14) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (15) In the case with a more distally situated VSD, the bundle branches skirted the anterior and distal walls of the defect.
  • (16) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
  • (17) Autopsy revealed a primary intimal sarcoma with osteogenic elements arising in the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve and obstructing the main pulmonary artery and its right branch.
  • (18) Three cases with intermittent left bundle branch block were studied by means of an intracavitary electrode, which allowed the potential of the bundle of His to be measured, and was also used for the extrastimulus method of study.
  • (19) 500-MHz H-NMR spectroscopy of the oligosaccharides derived from gamma-seminoprotein, a human seminal plasma glycoprotein, revealed considerable microheterogeneity both with respect to the degree of branching and with regard to the peripheral sugars.
  • (20) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.