What's the difference between bury and sequester?

Bury


Definition:

  • (n.) A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
  • (n.) A manor house; a castle.
  • (v. t.) To cover out of sight, either by heaping something over, or by placing within something, as earth, etc.; to conceal by covering; to hide; as, to bury coals in ashes; to bury the face in the hands.
  • (v. t.) Specifically: To cover out of sight, as the body of a deceased person, in a grave, a tomb, or the ocean; to deposit (a corpse) in its resting place, with funeral ceremonies; to inter; to inhume.
  • (v. t.) To hide in oblivion; to put away finally; to abandon; as, to bury strife.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
  • (2) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (3) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
  • (4) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) BB July 8, 2014 Barry Bateman (@barrybateman) #OscarTrial Barry Roux has his head buried in a law journal.
  • (7) Quenching data indicated that five out of 22 tryptophans in CBH are surface-localized and are available for quenching with both KI and acrylamide, and three other tryptophans are buried and are available only to acrylamide.
  • (8) Suture knots are buried in the sclera to minimize the risk of late-onset endophthalmitis.
  • (9) Should I be killed, I would like to be buried, according to Muslim rituals, in the clothes I was wearing at the time of my death and my body unwashed, in the cemetery of Sirte, next to my family and relatives.
  • (10) Between 1972 and 1985, 17 people were abducted, sometimes tortured, then killed and buried.
  • (11) The results indicate the presence of carbohydrate epitopes buried within collagenous polypeptides that are exposed by harsh denaturing conditions.
  • (12) "The middle class was buried by the policies that Romney and Ryan have supported," he told the crowd in Asheville, North Carolina, according to the Washington Post .
  • (13) And a woman in front of me said: “They are calling for Fox.” I didn’t know which booth to go to, then suddenly there was a man in front of me, heaving with weaponry, standing with his legs apart yelling: “No, not there, here!” I apologised politely and said I’d been buried in my book and he said: “What do you expect me to do, stand here while you finish it?” – very loudly and with shocking insolence.
  • (14) I would like to see the return to a free university system for Australian students so everybody can have the same dreams and aspirations about bettering themselves and this nation, regardless of their circumstances.” Palmer said Australia’s best thinkers were being “stifled” and the country was “burying them in debt”.
  • (15) Regions 1-51, 250-310, 567-612, 650-670, and 1307-1382 are particularly buried whereas the 3'-terminal domain and the 5'-proximal region (nucleotides 53-218) are exposed.
  • (16) Those who remained in east Aleppo pointed out where families had been buried under mountains of concrete.
  • (17) We took advantage of this conserved structural conformation to help predict which variant subregions of VSG molecules may contain exposed or buried variant specific B cell epitopes.
  • (18) I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly.
  • (19) With the other half, they want the front page and, while they may dream of a splash on the lines of "Minister makes inspiring call to revive Labour", they know their article will be buried on page 94 and swiftly forgotten if it contains nothing more dramatic than that.
  • (20) The 125,000 dalton complex seems to be buried inside the lipid layer.

Sequester


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
  • (v. t.) To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  • (v. t.) To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  • (v. t.) To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw; to retire.
  • (v. i.) To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
  • (n.) Sequestration; separation.
  • (n.) A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
  • (n.) Same as Sequestrum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both organisms have previously been found to be sequestered in the posterior lens capsule by histological and microbiological examination of excised capsular specimens.
  • (2) The original agricultural wastes had captured CO2 from the air through the photosynthesis process; biochar is a low-tech way of sequestering carbon, effectively for ever.
  • (3) The rate of release of an aqueous solution of pilocarpine hydrochloride sequestered in hydrogel-type materials can be reduced by plasma treatment of the polymer surface.
  • (4) Clearance into the mediastinum may be the major pathway for liquid sequestered in the loose, binding connective tissue.
  • (5) Since some genotoxic metals are diffused in the environment and are often sequestered as insoluble precipitates in water sediments and sludges, the introduction of NTA is likely to increase the risk of environmental pollution because of its ability to solubilize and make those metals reactive.
  • (6) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (7) MCTP-treated rats receiving control serum (CS) tended to sequester more 111In-labeled platelets than respective DMF controls, but this was not statistically significant.
  • (8) Although the chemical basis of these results is not known, they indicate that profilin can tightly sequester actin monomers and support the earlier suggestion that the affinity of profilin for actin may be under metabolic control.
  • (9) Membrane receptor binding of luteolytic hormones activates production of a second messenger (such as a product of PI turnover) that stimulates release of sequestered, intracellular Ca2+ by a mechanism linked to inhibition of microsomal Ca2+-ATPase activity.
  • (10) The self-antigen may be poorly presented by APC or sequestered in a particular body compartment; alternatively, these T cells may have low affinity receptors needing high levels of antigen.
  • (11) We found that the 3' splice site of the C4-M1 intron is sequestered in a stem-loop structure, which inhibits the splicing reaction in vitro.
  • (12) This paper also discusses the effects on tissue concentrations and half-lives of trapping HCB in the intestines by sequestering a large portion of it there.
  • (13) However, in less than 15 sec, LTB4-treated PMN lose the ability to respond further to LTB4; decrease the affinity and number of high affinity receptors available for binding LTB4; sequester LTB4 in plasmalemma-associated sites that are inaccessible to a releasing buffer regimen; and begin internalizing LTB4.
  • (14) In the preceding paper we showed that de novo initiation at the L gene is prevented by a hairpin structure that sequesters the ribosomal binding site.
  • (15) The sequester is about as illogical process as you could possibly conceive."
  • (16) Light and electron microscopy revealed bacteria sequestered within the capsular bag.
  • (17) Stimulating the cells with noradrenaline (NA) also induced release of sequestered Ca2+ and an influx of extracellular Ca2+.
  • (18) Further, they demonstrate that the copper bound to metallothionein is not permanently sequestered, but can be incorporated into other copper proteins.
  • (19) By contrast, when trout were injected with cadmium intraperitoneally, most of the metal accumulated in the liver where it was sequestered by the two isoforms of metallothionein.
  • (20) There is as yet no easy explanation for regression in case of prolapsed, perhaps even sequestered, disc tissue.