What's the difference between cave and den?

Cave


Definition:

  • (n.) A hollow place in the earth, either natural or artificial; a subterraneous cavity; a cavern; a den.
  • (n.) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
  • (n.) To make hollow; to scoop out.
  • (v. i.) To dwell in a cave.
  • (v. i.) To fall in or down; as, the sand bank caved. Hence (Slang), to retreat from a position; to give way; to yield in a disputed matter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (2) Biogastrone treatment influences the pain in a higher per cent as compared with Caved-S and oxyferroscorbon (p greater then 0.05), whereas regards the rest of the clinical symptoms -- no statistically significant difference was established.
  • (3) The prerequisite for all champions is the refusal to cave in, so City's equaliser with only three minutes remaining was pleasing.
  • (4) It is the Altamira cave, not the Altimira cave as we had it.
  • (5) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
  • (6) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
  • (7) Cave added that her organisation was engaged in a freedom of information battle with Cabinet Office minister Mark Harper, who is overseeing the coalition's plans to introduce a lobbying register.
  • (8) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
  • (9) The Cave is a mining scene complete with treasure chest, giant spider, zombie and a “Steve” minifigure.
  • (10) So it will have been a wrench for Jez, and his embattled entourage, to have to “cave in”, as the Guardian’s report put it, and suspend the MP from the party after David Cameron (who really should leave the rough stuff to the rough end of the trade) had taunted him at PMQs for not acting sooner when the Guido Fawkes blog republished her ugly comments and the Mail on Sunday got out its trumpet.
  • (11) But in recent years, directors have sought out the likes of Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood ( There Will Be Blood ), the Chemical Brothers ( Hanna ) and Nick Cave ( The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford ).
  • (12) And the confirmation that Greece won't get its bailout tranche unless its debt development is deemed sustainable means that Brussels has caved into IMF demands.
  • (13) In Pilgrim's Progress, Christian's path passes a cave in which two giants once dwelled.
  • (14) Many of the bodies are mummified, most of them were not interred, but deposited in caves.
  • (15) In the 20 years he was away, Malick moved to Paris and travelled the world, exploring caves in Nepal and the Alps as well as studying ancient civilisations and visiting Greece.
  • (16) Given that I'm trying to actually do some work while this whole thing is going on I'm not sure how successful I'll be before I cave in and *cough* go down the pub.
  • (17) The final band, at gone 4am, was Eigg's own metal band called, naturally, Massacre Cave.
  • (18) Only 11 cases of paratrigeminal epidermoid, including the cases localized in the Meckel's cave have been reported in the past literatures (Table 1).
  • (19) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
  • (20) She and her friends recalled that this land was occupied by “cave-houses” – homes built from holes in the rock – in the 1950s.

Den


Definition:

  • (n.) A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.
  • (n.) A squalid place of resort; a wretched dwelling place; a haunt; as, a den of vice.
  • (n.) Any snug or close retreat where one goes to be alone.
  • (n.) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
  • (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a den.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
  • (2) Significantly higher levels of c-myc gene expression were observed in tissues of HCC of the DEN group and in neoplastic nodules of the DEN-DES groups than in the DES and DEN-C group.
  • (3) The antibody response against flaviviruses tick-borne encephalitis (TBE), Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD), Murray Valley encephalitis (MVE), West Nile fever (WNF), Japanese B encephalitis (JE), dengue 2 (DEN-2), and yellow fever (YF) was studied in humans after administration of an inactivated TBE virus vaccine.
  • (4) ENU, in contrast with DEN, also resulted in a significant staining of nonparenchymal cells.
  • (5) A systematic study including morphologic, histologic, pathologic aspects of dens evaginatus was carried out and data were compared with those given in previous reports pertaining to dens evaginatus in other Asian countries.
  • (6) The data reflect differences in the behaviour of GR and AR in the atrophic BCLA and suggest a relative increase in sensitivity to glucocorticoids compared to androgens in the DEN muscle.
  • (7) We have now characterized in vivo Th-cell priming activity of one of these peptides (MVE 17, amino acids 356 to 376) and an analogous peptide derived from the E-glycoprotein sequence of the dengue (DEN) 2, Jamaica strain (DEN 17, amino acids 352 to 368).
  • (8) Particularly so, as Lord Denning put it "...without morality there can be no law."
  • (9) Rheumatoid arthritis, which produces anterior displacement of the atlas over the dens to more than 10 mm, neurologic symptoms, or untreatable pain must be stabilized by means of C1-C2 fusion.
  • (10) Most DEN virus strains, representing all 4 serotypes isolated from various parts of the tropics, were identical either visually of spectrophotometrically when infected cell culture fluids were used as sources of antigen.
  • (11) In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, a group of about 33 chimpanzees were observed to surround a leopard den containing a mother and at least one cub and to drag out and kill the cub.
  • (12) A series of temperature-sensitive (ts) mutants of dengue virus type 2 (DEN-2, TH-36 isolate) were induced by treatment with 5-azacytidine.
  • (13) produces more potential foci of tumour growth than in the normal liver and (2) that the repeated doses of CCl4 leading to repeated phases of regeneration, after the dose of DEN, provide a promoting stimulus.
  • (14) The shelf life of the solid phase presensitized with monoclonal antibodies was 4 mth at -15 degrees C. DEN prototype viruses were still identified after storage at -15 degrees C for 1 yr or at room temperature for 1 mth.
  • (15) O6EG levels in DNA of Clara cell-enriched populations were found to be higher than O6EG levels in DNA of alveolar type II cell-enriched populations and macrophages following acute DEN treatment.
  • (16) The fiber orientation is dependent on the height of dens axis, mostly in the cranial caudal direction.
  • (17) At earlier stages of the neoplastic process (11 or 16 weeks after the second DEN dose), most adenomas were well-differentiated lesions with no atypia or focal grade 1 or 2 atypia.
  • (18) This technique is best applied in nontraumatic cases in which the dens is not seen clearly on the "open mouth view".
  • (19) This treatment raised the number of adenosine-5'-triphosphatase (ATPase)-deficient foci up to 5-fold, that of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (GGTase) and glycogen-positive foci 13- and 10-fold, respectively, after 12 weeks; 25 mg caused no effect compared to DEN-treated controls.
  • (20) The system consists of a) single carcinogenic dose of diethylnitrosamine (DEN), b) short-term dietary exposure to 2-acetylaminofluorene (2-AAF) sufficient to suppress growth of virtually all normal hepatocytes, and c) partial hepatectomy (PH) to actuate rapid growth of DEN-altered hepatocytes not suppressed by 2-AAF.

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