What's the difference between broad and loose?

Broad


Definition:

  • (superl.) Wide; extend in breadth, or from side to side; -- opposed to narrow; as, a broad street, a broad table; an inch broad.
  • (superl.) Extending far and wide; extensive; vast; as, the broad expanse of ocean.
  • (superl.) Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Having a large measure of any thing or quality; not limited; not restrained; -- applied to any subject, and retaining the literal idea more or less clearly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive.
  • (superl.) Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged.
  • (superl.) Plain; evident; as, a broad hint.
  • (superl.) Free; unrestrained; unconfined.
  • (superl.) Characterized by breadth. See Breadth.
  • (superl.) Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.
  • (superl.) Strongly marked; as, a broad Scotch accent.
  • (n.) The broad part of anything; as, the broad of an oar.
  • (n.) The spread of a river into a sheet of water; a flooded fen.
  • (n.) A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
  • (2) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (3) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (4) Accordingly, when bFGF, complexed to heparin, is treated with pepsin A, an aspartic protease with a broad specificity, only the Leu9-Pro10 peptide bond is cleaved generating the 146-amino acid form.
  • (5) A broad specificity of LipDH was observed for the glycine cleavage system.
  • (6) Time-resolved tyrosine fluorescence anisotropy shows global correlation times broadly in agreement with the NMR results, but with an additional faster correlation time [approximately 600 ps].
  • (7) Cefuzoname seems to be among the middle ranks of beta-lactam agents as far as penetration rate is concerned; however, when its potent antibacterial activity and broad spectrum are taken into account, the concentrations in CSF in patients with meningitis seem worth examining.
  • (8) It was possible to classify the bacteriophages broadly, according to the variety of mutants that were resistant to them.
  • (9) The surface film transition is especially noted in the pressure-area curve of the surfactant and approximates in two dimensions the broad thermotropic phase transition of the bulk phase surfactant.
  • (10) If Clegg's concerns do broadly accord with Cameron's, how will the PM sell such a big U-turn to his increasingly anti-Clegg backbenchers?
  • (11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (12) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
  • (13) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
  • (14) Amphotericin B has a broad spectrum of action that includes most of the major fungal pathogens of man.
  • (15) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (16) As Kuwait is one of the countries where the total consumption of antibiotics is very high as compared to most of the western countries, we are inclined to assume that this generous policy for the prescription of especially ampicillin and other broad spectrum antibiotics in uncomplicated infections has generated this serious consequence.
  • (17) Learning to do this well involves acquiring a broad base of knowledge and a complex range of skills.
  • (18) The narrow latency window contained significantly more responses than could be explained by the spontaneous activity rate, but this was not true for the added time permitted by the broad window.
  • (19) Taxol has been demonstrated in numerous laboratories worldwide to have broad-spectrum antitumor activity against many tumor models.
  • (20) This strain of the organism fits a pattern of susceptibility that is rare among N asteroides isolates in general and has been called the type 5 pattern, described as a resistance to broad spectrum cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, and all aminoglycosides except amikacin.

Loose


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not precise or exact; vague; indeterminate; as, a loose style, or way of reasoning.
  • (superl.) Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book.
  • (superl.) Free from constraint or obligation; not bound by duty, habit, etc. ; -- with from or of.
  • (superl.) Not tight or close; as, a loose garment.
  • (superl.) Not dense, close, compact, or crowded; as, a cloth of loose texture.
  • (superl.) Not strict in matters of morality; not rigid according to some standard of right.
  • (superl.) Unconnected; rambling.
  • (superl.) Lax; not costive; having lax bowels.
  • (superl.) Dissolute; unchaste; as, a loose man or woman.
  • (superl.) Containing or consisting of obscene or unchaste language; as, a loose epistle.
  • (n.) Freedom from restraint.
  • (n.) A letting go; discharge.
  • (a.) To untie or unbind; to free from any fastening; to remove the shackles or fastenings of; to set free; to relieve.
  • (a.) To release from anything obligatory or burdensome; to disengage; hence, to absolve; to remit.
  • (a.) To relax; to loosen; to make less strict.
  • (a.) To solve; to interpret.
  • (v. i.) To set sail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
  • (2) He is a leader and helps manage the defence, while Pablo Armero can be a bit of a loose cannon but he is certainly a talented player.
  • (3) This study investigates the use of the incentive inspirometer to observe the effects of tight versus loose clothing on inhalation volume with 17 volunteer subjects.
  • (4) Security forces have also tried to wrest back the Sunni stronghold of Tikrit from a loose alliance of Isis fighters, other jihadist groups and former Saddam Hussein loyalists.
  • (5) His shot, though, was pawed on to the inside of the post by David Marshall and it was left to Victor Wanyama to lash the loose ball into the empty net.
  • (6) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
  • (7) Our model is a development of previous models, but differs in several respects: the overall activity is assumed to be dependent on the error level, the effect of errors in the translating system, giving rise to additional errors in the succeeding generation of products, is explicitly included as a special term in our model, and scavenging enzymes are assumed to break down and eliminate products with a loose structure.
  • (8) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
  • (9) Two tibial components (2%) were believed to be mechanically loose, but no revisions for mechanical loosening were done.
  • (10) The results indicate that the optimal cruciform loop size is four bases, with loose 'breathing' at the first base pair at the top of the cruciform stem at 37 degrees C, and little or no opening of base pairs at the four-way junction.
  • (11) Theresa May’s plan for a loose alliance with the Democratic Unionists to prop up her government was thrown into confusion on Saturday night after the Northern Ireland party contradicted a No 10 announcement that a deal had been reached.
  • (12) We have also confirmed loose linkage with the marker (Mfd22, locus D4S171) used to establish the initial assignment of the disorder to chromosome 4.
  • (13) As demonstrated by Ficoll density gradient centrifugation and HPLC gel filtration, the cholate dialysis method made the reductase bind tightly to the liposomal membranes, while the incubation with the preformed vesicles made the reductase bind loosely to the membranes.
  • (14) In its more loose, common usage, it's a game in which the rivalry has come to acquire the mad, rancorous intensity of a Celtic-Rangers, a Real Madrid-Barcelona, an Arsenal-Tottenham, a River Plate-Boca Juniors.
  • (15) Twenty-one of 24 adult male and female cattle egrets (Bubulcus ibis ibis) collected in Geneva County, Alabama had numerous white cyst-like structures (1,466 microns X 354 microns) found within the loose connective tissues of the skeletal muscles of the inguinal region, beneath the serosa of the proventriculus and in the heart beneath the epicardium (one adult male bird).
  • (16) SCLC variant lines could further be divided into (a) biochemical variant lines having variant biochemical profile but retaining typical SCLC morphology and growth characteristics; and (b) morphological variant (SCLC-MV) lines having variant biochemical profile, altered morphology (features of large cell undifferentiated carcinoma) and altered growth characteristics (growth as loosely attached floating aggregates, relatively short doubling times and cloning efficiencies).
  • (17) At rostral levels, one third of the tracts are loosely built forming a king of curtain, while they become more compact at caudal levels.
  • (18) (1) The prerequisite for development of cholesteatoma is a cholesteatoma bed, that is a loose subepithelial connective tissue layer which acts as a nutrient bed and makes papillary growth of squamous epithelium possible.
  • (19) His mother is Denise Welch, late of Corrie and Loose Women, and his father his Tim Healy, who was briefly famous 30 years ago for his role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.
  • (20) Initially, 4-5 days post-operative, the plasma clot maintained the grafted cells in a loose sponge-like sack at the site of implantation.