What's the difference between bent and predisposition?

Bent


Definition:

  • () of Bend
  • () imp. & p. p. of Bend.
  • (a. & p. p.) Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
  • (a. & p. p.) Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
  • (v.) The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
  • (v.) A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
  • (v.) A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
  • (v.) Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
  • (v.) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
  • (v.) Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
  • (n.) A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
  • (n.) A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
  • (n.) Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effect of age of the ewe and pregnancy on concentrations of plasma calcium, phosphorus and magnesium and its relationship to the bent-leg syndrome in lambs, were investigated.
  • (2) The bent DNA has been localized to a 40-55 base pair (bp) segment and contains six (A)3-5 stretches (that is, six poly(A) stretches, three to five nucleotides in length) phased approximately every 10.5 bp.
  • (3) A definite correlation was established between the disease and the character of work and specificity of the working postures: a long stay in a bent position aggravated by the pressure of the apron strap weighing 8-10 kg on the lumbar part of the spine.
  • (4) He frequently refers to it, including in a recent television ad he ran in Iowa during which he reads to his two daughters from reimagined holiday stories with a conservative bent, such as the Hillary Clinton-targeting “The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails”.
  • (5) Four of the eight forms studied consisted of protonated and deprotonated N(pros) in the proximal imidazole ligand with linear and bent Fe-N-O structures.
  • (6) The helix diameter of the bent ends was 0.57 micron, and the helix pitch of the bent ends was 1.85 microns.
  • (7) There were no significant correlation coefficients between semen traits (yield, concentration and frequency of bent sperm) measured prior to the first insemination and fertility over a 12-week hatching period when the amount of semen inseminated per female was greater than the minimum (.025 cc.)
  • (8) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
  • (9) Because of a right-handed cell cylinder and left-handed periplasmic flagella along with bent ends having helix diameters greater than those of either the cell cylinder or periplasmic flagella, we conclude that there is a complex interaction of the periplasmic flagella and the cell cylinder to form the bent ends.
  • (10) Many of the acrylic resin and bent-wire temporary partial dentures in use today produce pathologic changes in the oral mucosa.
  • (11) Joe Cole made his full debut for Villa and Shay Given made his first appearance since January 2013, while Darren Bent started a game for the first time since the final day of the 2012-13 season.
  • (12) With an out-of-session Congress deadlocked over immigration reform and right-wing lawmakers hell-bent on “sealing the border”, the White House faces intense pressure to do something – anything – about immigration, after years of burying a civil rights crisis in a mire of political tone-deafness and jingoistic bombast.
  • (13) Also Darren Bent, 26, whose last 2 transfer values has been £26.5 million was also considered not good enough to be picked for their squad.
  • (14) The basic principle of frame assembly and application require that the wires are never bent to reach the support rings; instead, the Ilizarov hardware is used to build up to the wires from the rings.
  • (15) Unlike in France, Italy or Germany, where publishers banded together to create options to Amazon, British and American publishers still seem bent on competing with one another, even as Amazon eats into their finances.
  • (16) In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration.
  • (17) He is also characterised as "the devoted husband of a bestselling novelist with a few of her own ideas about how fiction works"; a funny sentence construction that carries a faint whiff of husband stoically bent over his books as wife keeps popping up with pesky theories about realism.
  • (18) In the dithionite-reduced enzyme, the ring system is bent at the N(5) position.
  • (19) The former appears characteristic of circularly bent DNA and gives rise to a substantial retardation, the latter of bending across a knot or kink in the DNA chain associated with a relatively minor retardation relative to standards.
  • (20) To avoid migration of the wire, one end should be bent to form a walking-stick shape, and the arm should be immobilised.

Predisposition


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
  • (n.) Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (2) Thus, a4 and a2 alleles of the c-Ha-ras-1 may perhaps be viewed as genetic markers of predisposition to lung, ovarian and thyroid cancer, respectively, in combination with other clinical parameters.
  • (3) The reported findings strongly support the predisposition hypothesis.
  • (4) The characteristic predisposition to neoplasia exists, however, as probably does that to diabetes mellitus.
  • (5) Our knowledge of the pathogenesis of ordinary baldness is far from complete but a genetic predisposition is necessary and androgen production must be present.
  • (6) Predisposition to pancreatitis relates to duct size rather than stone size per se.
  • (7) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
  • (8) For over two decades, evidence has been accumulating that supports a genetic predisposition to alcoholism and the presence of subgroups among alcoholics.
  • (9) A thromboembolism is sometimes predictable in individuals if there is migraine, visual disturbance, or certain predispositions seen in pregnancy such as toxemia or hypertension.
  • (10) Questionnaires assessing symptoms, disability and handicap, predisposition to anxiety, and current anxiety and depression were completed by 127 people attending neuro-otology clinics with a major complaint of vertigo or dysequilibrium.
  • (11) The functional interaction between prostacyclin and thromboxane was examined in terms of a number of risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD), such as ageing, atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypokinesia, smoking, alcoholism, sex differences, and predisposition to the disease.
  • (12) Because the predisposition locus for multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) has been mapped to chromosome 10 by genetic linkage analysis, it has become possible to identify gene carriers by following the transmission of linked genetic markers from affected parents to offspring at risk for MEN2A.
  • (13) The findings suggest that migraine, major depression and anxiety disorders might share common predispositions.
  • (14) Microstructural rearrangements and nonhomologous recombination in nondisjunction of chromosomes during cell division are considered parallel with mosaicism as one of possible reasons of genetic predisposition.
  • (15) There was no correlation between specific HLA antigens and predisposition to develop cytomegalovirus infection.
  • (16) The certainty of a strong genetic predisposition to malignant melanoma was first established over 35 years ago.
  • (17) The sampling was balanced with respect to age, gender, and predisposition across the three ordinal exposure categories.
  • (18) Trait anxiety levels (predisposition to anxiety) and personality profiles were recorded in four novice anaesthetists prior to the start of their training in anaesthesia.
  • (19) Genetic predisposition to diabetes is characterized by immunodeficiency as evident from inadequate levels of antibodies to infectious or noninfectious antigens and absolute and relative deficiency in spleen lymphocyte subsets and total numbers of spleen cells.
  • (20) Tumor suppressor genes have been identified by genetic analysis either as loci associated with an inherited predisposition to certain tumors or by mapping studies that demonstrate allelic loss (reduction to homozygosity or loss of heterozygosity) during tumor development.