What's the difference between broad and palmated?

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.

Palmated


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.
  • (a.) Spreading from the apex of a petiole, as the divisions of a leaf, or leaflets, so as to resemble the hand with outspread fingers.
  • (a.) Having the anterior toes united by a web, as in most swimming birds; webbed.
  • (a.) Having the distal portion broad, flat, and more or less divided into lobes; -- said of certain corals, antlers, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Palmatic acid uptake and oxygen consumption were significantly reduced (P less than 0.02) in adrenalectomized hearts.
  • (2) It is important to establish a diagnosis of subglottic stenosis associated with a palmation, since treatment and prognosis are very different from those of an isolated glottic palmation: all attempts at endoscopic treatment resulted in failure that intubation or tracheotomy was necessary in 7 cases.
  • (3) Morphologically, ginseng is a perennial herb with fleshy root, a single annual stem bearing a whorl of palmately compound leaves, and a terminal simple umbel of small 5-merous flowers.
  • (4) Both fascicular pinning as described by Appril and palmate pinning are inconvenient in that the pins can perforate the articular cartilage of the humeral head and provoke premature unpinning because of insufficient fixing in an osteoporotic bone.
  • (5) The 4-chlorobenzoate:coenzyme A ligase was found to be a homodimer (57-kDa subunit size), to require Mg2+ (Co2+ and Mn2+ are also activators) for activity, and to turn over MgATP (Km = 100 microM), coenzyme A (Km = 80 microM), and 4-chlorobenzoate (Km = 9 microM) at a rate of 30 s-1 at pH 7.5 and 25 degrees C. Benzoate, 4-bromobenzoate, 4-iodobenzoate, and 4-methylbenzoate were shown to be alternate substrates while 4-hydroxybenzoate, 4-aminobenzoate, 2-aminobenzoate, 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate, 4-coumarate, palmate, laurate, caproate, butyrate, and phenylacetate were not substrate active.
  • (6) Some sprouts form very large, palmate growth cones on the marginal surface, which in turn give rise to many branches that continue to grow either rostrally or caudally along the surface of the brain.
  • (7) Consistent and significant shifts from myristic and palmatic acids (in red marrow) to their respective monounsaturated derivatives myristoleic and palmitoleic acids (in yellow marrow) were found.
  • (8) Differences concern: i, substitution of phosphoryl groups by 4-amino-4-deoxy-L-arabinopyranose and phosphorylethanolamine in S. typhimurium with Col Ib plasmids; ii, the degree of acylation of hydroxyl groups of 3-hydroxytetradecanoic acid by myristic, lauric and palmatic acids; iii, presence of tridecanoic acid bound to hydroxyl of 3-hydroxy-tetradecanate residue in S. typhimurium with Col Ibdrd2 plasmid.
  • (9) The Golgi technique was used to study the morphology of spinal motoneurons at various stages in the early development of swimming behaviour in embryos and larvae of the palmate newt, Triturus helveticus ((Razoumowsky).
  • (10) Analysis of fatty acids in the triglycerides showed that almost all of the decanoate and the palmate were incorporated as intact molecules, while acetate yielded acids of varying chain lengths.
  • (11) We’re going to have to use every tool we can to repair the relationship we have.” Others, such as Pamela Palmater, who heads the centre for indigenous governance at Toronto’s Ryerson University, demand more.
  • (12) But we’re missing the biggest portion of the apology and it’s from the people who actually orchestrated it, which were representatives of the British crown.” Palmater’s call for an apology was the focus of a keynote address at the British Library in April to a gathering of British academics studying Canada.
  • (13) The Private Cannabis Club, with its palmate green leaves stencilled on the walls and the club's name etched on to smoked windowpanes, is at the vanguard of a new movement of pro-cannabis campaigners in Spain .

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