What's the difference between building and underfilling?

Building


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build
  • (n.) The act of constructing, erecting, or establishing.
  • (n.) The art of constructing edifices, or the practice of civil architecture.
  • (n.) That which is built; a fabric or edifice constructed, as a house, a church, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (4) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
  • (5) Richard Hill, deputy chief executive at the Homes & Communities Agency , said: "As social businesses, housing associations already have a good record of re-investing their surpluses to build new homes and improve those of their existing tenants.
  • (6) Labour MP Jamie Reed, whose Copeland constituency includes Sellafield, called on the government to lay out details of a potential plan to build a new Mox plant at the site.
  • (7) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (8) He also plans to build a processing facility where tourists can gain firsthand experience of the fisheries industry, and to open a restaurant.
  • (9) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (10) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
  • (11) The building block of cytokeratin IFs is a heterotypic tetramer, consisting of two type I and two type II polypeptides arranged in pairs of laterally aligned coiled coils.
  • (12) The fire at Glasgow School of Art's Charles Rennie Mackintosh building was reported at about 12.30pm.
  • (13) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (14) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
  • (15) Cooper, who was briefly a social worker in Los Angeles, also suggests working hard to build a rapport with colleagues in hotdesking situations.
  • (16) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (17) ... and the #housingstrategy on Twitter: Robin Macfarlane, a retired businessman: @MacfarlaneRobin House building should have been on the agenda from day one.
  • (18) The only other black woman I see in the building: washing dishes behind a door that was supposed to have been locked.
  • (19) Mortality rates naturally vary considerably, but in earthquakes, for example, the number of deaths per 100 houses destroyed can give an indication of the adequacy of building techniques.
  • (20) The aim of the trial was to determine the effectiveness of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular problems in people with asymptomatic atherosclerosis – the undetected build-up of waxy plaque deposits on the inside of blood vessels.

Underfilling


Definition:

  • (n.) The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For implants of the same type, the incidence of contracture was higher when the prosthesis was underfilled.
  • (2) Evidence suggests that the formation of ascites is a continuum involving both overflow (early) and underfill (late) mechanisms.
  • (3) The data support the underfilling concept of ascitic formation in advanced stages of cirrhosis.
  • (4) Inhibition was noted in nine samples after storage in boric acid, seven of which were in underfilled bottles.
  • (5) --The tissue reaction of root canal filling materials is only slight when the root canal is underfilled.
  • (6) Further, subsequent arterial underfilling has been proposed as the stimulus to sodium retention and ascites formation.
  • (7) A procedure is described for reconstituting and packaging neutral cephalothin sodium in large numbers of underfilled minibags for i.v.
  • (8) Crack propagations from the cement surface seem to related to pores and occur independently of type of drying especially in case of mechanical after treatment of already hardened cavity lining [correction of underfilling] material.
  • (9) "Underfill" of the vascular system occurs and eventually dominates the clinical picture.
  • (10) Because there is considerable evidence to support both the "underfilled" and "overflow" hypotheses for the development of ascites, current concepts concentrate on integration of these two theories.
  • (11) The main findings were: high incidence of marginal and basal decidual hemorrhage, widespread degenerative changes in the decidua and chorionic villi, intervillous congestion and thrombosis and significant underfilling of the fetal vasculature.
  • (12) Traditionally, the initiating event of renal sodium and water retention in cirrhosis was considered to be ascites formation ("underfilling" hypothesis) or primary renal dysfunction ("overflow" hypothesis).
  • (13) Sodium excretion and fluid retention seem to be the result of vascular underfill and fluid maldistribution, and hormonal changes are likely to be secondary to them.
  • (14) The underfill theory states that ascites formation results in decreased plasma volume leading to renal sodium and water retention.
  • (15) This phenomenon appears to be neither peculiar to nor indicative of mitral stenosis and is probably a direct result of the initial muscular contraction of an underfilled ventricle.
  • (16) The measurements could not be made in 23 of the patients; most of them had a gestational age of less than 10 weeks and the difficulty in obtaining measurements was usually due to an underfilled maternal bladder.
  • (17) Thus, the correct description of the appearance of ascites and the pathophysiology of sodium retention should reflect the biphasic nature of the magnitude of the plasma volume, which goes from a state of overfilling to one of underfilling.
  • (18) In addition to vasopressin stimulation we also found evidence of advanced 'circulatory underfilling' in most hyponatremic patients.
  • (19) Factors contributing to poor image quality were: artifacts caused by contrast in the collecting tubules, underfilling or overdistension of the pelvicaliceal system with contrast, movement of the patient and severe hydronephrosis.
  • (20) If the latter model is correct, a "hyperdynamic" systemic circulation and increased plasma neurohormone concentrations may indicate "effective" arterial underfilling in patients with ascites.

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