What's the difference between capitate and decapitate?
Capitate
Definition:
(a.) Headlike in form; also, having the distal end enlarged and rounded, as the stigmas of certain flowers.
(a.) Having the flowers gathered into a head.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said the 8.13am train from the French capital to London reached Calais before suffering “network problems”.
(2) An unexpected result of the Greek crisis has been a flight of capital into British government bonds, which has seen gilt prices fall.
(3) The deep green people who have an issue with the language of natural capital are actually making the same jump from value to commodification that they state that they don’t want ... They’ve equated one with the other,” he says.
(4) There are currently more than 380,000 households on local authority waiting lists in the capital – and the number is growing every day.
(5) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(6) But late last month, Amisom pushed them out of Afgoye, a strategic stronghold 30km from Mogadishu, where Amisom officials say the militants used to manufacture explosives used in attacks on the capital.
(7) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(8) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
(9) There is a European Investment Bank, a Nordic Investment Bank and many others, all capitalised by states or groups of states for the purpose of financing mandated projects by borrowing in the capital markets.
(10) You can tell them that Deutsche Bank remains absolutely rock solid, given our strong capital and risk position.
(11) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
(12) Stray bottles were thrown over the barriers towards officers to cheers and chants of: “Shame on you, we’re human too.” The Met deployed what it described as a “significant policing operation”, including drafting in thousands of extra officers to tackle expected unrest, after previous events ended in arrests and clashes with police across the centre of the capital.
(13) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
(14) At least 10,000 civilians took refuge in UN compounds in the capital, said one UN official who asked not to be named.
(15) They were granted “extraordinary leave” and left with their military equipment to be captured or killed on the streets of the Chechen capital.
(16) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(17) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(18) A dam Johnson's point may need proving towards Roberto Mancini rather than Manuel Pellegrini, but Manchester City will still be aware of a Sunderland player with a cause in the Capital One Cup final.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Syrians queue for water at a shelter in Hirjalleh, a rural area near the capital Damascus.
(20) China's best-known artist Ai Weiwei has been detained at Beijing airport this morning and police have surrounded his studio in the capital.
Decapitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.
(v. t.) To remove summarily from office.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(2) To understand the control mechanisms involved in the regulation of fetal glycogen, we have studied the effect of in utero fetal decapitations on glycogen metabolism in rabbit fetal heart, lung, and liver.
(3) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
(4) Circulation was terminated by decapitation at 15s following injection.
(5) Rats were decapitated and the dissection begun either immediately ("0 min" samples) or 10 min later (10 min samples).
(6) When animals are decapitated a new head regenerates.
(7) The time course of hormonal peaks in decapitated females resembles that in starved females during the first post-ecdysial week, suggesting that some as yet unknown regulating mechanism of ECD production lies outside the head.
(8) At the end of the last stress period animals were decapitated and trunk blood was collected.
(9) After different time intervals the last infusion period to the EEG-criterion was followed by decapitation and samples from blood, brain, muscle and fat were analysed for hexobarbital content.
(10) An activation of phosphorylase which was not accompanied by a stable change in the activity of phosphorylase kinase was observed in hepatocytes incubated with phenylephrine, isoproterenol or vasopressin as well as on decapitation of unanesthetized animals.
(11) This same blunted response was not seen in chronic stress even if the animals are stressed immediately before decapitation.
(12) CC extracts and JHA were administered to decapitated females to determine their regulative effects on fat body protein synthesis.
(13) From a comparison of activation by strychnine and picrotoxin in normal and chronically decapitated embryos it was deduced that a spinal and a supraspinal component participated in their effect.
(14) The experimental animals were administered intraperitoneally benzene 6 X every 24 h. The animals were decapitated 30 min.
(15) In addition, in three unoperated rats decapitated 24 hours after MK-801 treatment, 3H-TCP binding was reduced by 15-35%; similar bilateral suppression of 3H-TCP binding was detected in MK-801-treated ligates.
(16) The neurons were identified antidromically either by stimulation of the hindlimb area in the anterior lobe of the cerebellum (in thalamic cats) or by stimulation of the contralateral ventrolateral funiculus of the spinal cord (in decapitate cats).
(17) Animals were killed by decapitation, and the subfornical organ was quickly dissected out and incubated for 6 h in a medium containing [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine.
(18) He was kicked out of a share house after threatening to decapitate a housemate.
(19) Thus, in low-flow states, the decapitation time may be lengthened to 12 s, whereas in high-flow states, the time must be 5 s to eliminate the possibility of backflux of tracer out of the brain.
(20) [3H]tyrosine was administered to rats 10 minutes before decapitation, and the rate of its incorporation into [3H]dopamine and [3H]norepinephrine was measured in whole brain.