What's the difference between bounty and profusion?

Bounty


Definition:

  • (n.) Goodness, kindness; virtue; worth.
  • (n.) Liberality in bestowing gifts or favors; gracious or liberal giving; generosity; munificence.
  • (n.) That which is given generously or liberally.
  • (n.) A premium offered or given to induce men to enlist into the public service; or to encourage any branch of industry, as husbandry or manufactures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Saudi Arabia As one might imagine, Saudi television rather wants for the bounty we enjoy here - reality shows in which footballers' mistresses administer handjobs to barnyard animals, and all those other things which make living in the godless west such a pleasure.
  • (2) Bountiful by Todd Porter and Diane Cu (Stewart, Tabori and Chang)
  • (3) The bounty on his head seems to confirm the NTC's preference for Gaddafi's summary execution.
  • (4) In a memo sent out to the NFL's 32 teams, Goodell ordered owners to make sure their clubs are not offering bounties now.
  • (5) The US had offered a bounty of up to $10m for information leading to his arrest, putting him in the same echelon as IBaghdadi and Sirajuddin Haqqani, the leader of the Haqqani network, who is believed to be based in Pakistan.
  • (6) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
  • (7) The government announced a 50m-rupee (£300,000) bounty on his head; the following year, the US priced him at $5m (£3.1m).
  • (8) She approached everything with Christmas-morning levels of excitement: the very fact that she was out in town, after dark, on a school night; the meal beforehand at Pizza Express, where – thrillingly – we saw people who were also going to see Jessie J and who waved at us; the unimaginable bounty of the merchandise stall; the crowd screaming; the fact that she had seen the support act, a briefly popular boyband called Lawson , on TV.
  • (9) Illegal bounty from the sea Facebook Twitter Pinterest The central and western Pacific is a rich fishing ground, providing an estimated 60% of the world’s tuna catch for a $7bn annual global market.
  • (10) And while plans for a spin-off movie based around bounty hunter Boba Fett appear to be on hold, there are increasingly powerful rumours that the greatest Star Wars icon of all time, Darth Vader himself, will appear in the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story .
  • (11) Vitt was aware of the bounties and, according to the league, later admitted he had "fabricated the truth" when interviewed in 2010.
  • (12) Disney and Lucasfilm also have a film about the youthful travails of Han Solo in the works, while a third spin-off film is rumoured to focus on bounty hunter Boba Fett.
  • (13) Picking up, it seems, from Private Eye's fortnightly teasing, by which Gordon Brown is depicted as the Supreme Leader of some decidedly half-cock Soviet-style state, here we see a heroic communist-style family, circa 1945, gazing into the bountiful lands of New Labour's next five year plan.
  • (14) Never needing to work again, he ploughed his bounty into various large-scale commercial properties then sailed around the world for 14 years with his wife, Julia.
  • (15) – sadistic mob boss Black Mask has placed a hefty bounty on the nascent superhero's head.
  • (16) Inside the Hark to Bounty pub in the Lancashire village of Slaidburn, I found taciturn young gamekeepers, cheeks flushed red from a day outdoors, quietly discussing their shoot by the open fire.
  • (17) He has eluded authorities since his 2001 escape from prison in a laundry truck, and has a $7m bounty on his head.
  • (18) In the space of five days, panic-stricken authorities have launched the biggest manhunt in modern times, placed a €4m bounty on his head – dead or alive – and thrown a security cordon around the capital not seen since the 2004 Olympics.
  • (19) Until recently, Ray Pool was the proud owner of a bountiful, lovingly tended orchard of peaches.
  • (20) The Linwood Street urban farm is now in its fourth planting season, producing a bounty of corn, squash and potatoes for local residents to harvest, again for free.

Profusion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting.
  • (n.) Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
  • (2) Numerous CA fibers which are first observed at the level of the preoptic area, ascend through the central zone of the telencephalon and arborize profusely particularly within the medial zone of area dorsalis telencephali.
  • (3) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (4) A recent report indicated that an arrow poison used by the native Indians of Rondonia, Brazil, to kill small animals was associated with profuse bleeding.
  • (5) One patient had died of profuse rectovaginal bleeding.
  • (6) Brain hematomas caused by AVMs were on average bigger than those caused by AOVMs (58.8 and 20% of large hematomas, respectively), and intraventricular and subarachnoid hemorrhages were also more common and profuse in patients with AVMs.
  • (7) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
  • (8) Profuse calcium oxalate dihydrate crystals were detected in some samples 11 days after the race.
  • (9) The mean birth weight and height were significantly greater in the control group, and no control infant had an episode of cyanosis or pallor or repeated episodes of profuse sweating observed during their sleep.
  • (10) Profuse rectal bleeding, a large ischiorectal abscess, and an acute condition of the abdomen necessiated a sigmoid colostomy with drainage of the ischiorectal abscess.
  • (11) There was poor correlation between the pulmonary function tests and the nodular profusion on the chest radiograph and CT (r less than 0.50).
  • (12) The observations allow the conclusion that during acute otitis media the duration of mastoiditis development reduced and many classical symptoms of mastoiditis, e. g. protrusion of the posterior-superior wall of the external acoustic meatus, profuse purulent discharge from the ear, hyperemia, swelling of the behind-the-ear area, occurred less frequently.
  • (13) Some patients with scarred focal proliferative glomerulonephritis showed profuse proteinuria, a nephrotic syndrome and progression to renal insufficiency.
  • (14) In contrast with the situation only a decade ago, a profusion of new potential AEDs has been introduced for world-wide clinical testing.
  • (15) The other patient died of profuse pulmonary hemorrhage.
  • (16) Exploration laparotomy showed a round perforation at the site of the right uterine horn, absence of the right fallopian tube, and profuse hemorrhage from the horn and parametrium.
  • (17) The author describes the case-histories of four leiomyomas in the course of five years, all were the cause of profuse haemorrhage.
  • (18) In particular, Aspergillus fumigatus was cultured more frequently than would have been anticipated from its profusion in the air.
  • (19) Microscopically, there was severe necrotizing angiopathy with profuse fibrin deposition in renal glomeruli and sinusoids of peripheral lymph nodes.
  • (20) In the untreated state, the diarrhea was never profuse.