What's the difference between capitation and captation?

Capitation


Definition:

  • (n.) A numbering of heads or individuals.
  • (n.) A tax upon each head or person, without reference to property; a poll tax.

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.

Captation


Definition:

  • (n.) A courting of favor or applause, by flattery or address; a captivating quality; an attraction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hemofiltration or CAPD may eliminate about 30 to 100% of beta 2m produced and therefore contribute to the low captation amount of these patients, as compared with that of patients treated by hemodialysis.
  • (2) The thyroid function (T-3 triiodothyronine; T-4 tetraiodothyronine and the captation of the I131 through the thyroid, in 2 and 24 hours after the intake of isotope radium), was studied in patients with Down's syndrome and the results being compared to those obtained from the respective siblings, all clinically normal.
  • (3) With doses over 30 Gy a more or less marked reduction in captation by the marrow involved in radiation was always noted.
  • (4) After administration of Gadolinium-DTPA, there was an enhanced captation at the level of the optic nerve.
  • (5) Psoralen and haematoporphyrin used in constant concentrations produce significant changes in the captation of thymidin after 8 minutes' time of irradiation.
  • (6) The myocardial blood supply was measured in tissue samples, taken from transverse sections of the infarction by means of 86Rb captation.
  • (7) Scintigraphy was evaluated for areas of subdivision in the proximal end of the femur and acetabulum, making a semi-quantitative comparison of the intensity of captation of each area with that of the skull and sacroiliac synchondrosis.
  • (8) Sequential angioscintigraphy, based on the captation curve of the radionuclide, may suggest the nature of the lesion, subsequently confirmed by the macroscopic picture and histological examination.
  • (9) On the other hand TT3, FT3, FT4 and 131-I thyroid captation showed a clear hypothyroidism picture.
  • (10) In order to invalidate or confirm the affirmation that non antithyroid sulphide molecules alter the measure of the thyroid fixation rate of iodine 131 we undertook on the rat: on one hand a kinetic study of thyroid fixation of sodium thiosulfate labelled with sulphur 35, which showed a very low captation not exceeding 0,01% of injected radioactivity; on the other hand the study of the effects of some sulphide molecules on thyroid fixation of iodine 131 in the rat: sodium thiosulfate, association of sodium thiosulfate + metalloidal sulphur + methionine, carbutamide and dimethylsulfoxyde in various kinds of dose administration and periods.
  • (11) 99mTc-diethyl-HIDA selective captation by hepatocytes and rapid excretion into bile provides a scintigraphic imaging of liver, biliary system and gall bladder.
  • (12) Captation and excretion time remained within normal values.
  • (13) HM-PAO SPECT examination showed area of abnormal captation in 9 of 19 patients.
  • (14) Cerebral cintilography showed many abnormal captation areas.
  • (15) The transfer of O2 in the system between the lung captation and the delivery to tissues is insured by a whole of factors that are components of Fick's equation.
  • (16) The present study was designed to assess the captation for ABZ and MBZ in different enterocyte populations isolated from upper to crypt villus.
  • (17) The isotopic exploration of thyroid in basal conditions and after estimulation with TSH shows a very small captation of iodide.
  • (18) During thymostimulin treatment a higher rate of 3HTdR captation (p < 0.005) by cells stimulated with ConA + IL-2 was observed; these levels tended to increase after 3 weeks and reached statistically significant levels after 3 months of treatment; no significant changes were observed in those patients treated with CMF alone.
  • (19) The comparative results showed no significant differences, except in the 2 hours captation of the I131 through the thyroid (P smaller than 0.01).
  • (20) Plasma phosphate reduction or PDR during a dialysis treatment is the algebraic sum, of phosphate cellular flux (removal or captation) and of phosphate tissular precipitation.

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