What's the difference between charnel and repository?

Charnel


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing the bodies of the dead.
  • (n.) A charnel house; a grave; a cemetery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He opposed Barack Obama’s 2011 campaign to oust Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, which has left Libya the kind of charnel house it was intended to prevent.
  • (2) From the skeletal remains of about 5800 individuals from the charnel house of Eggenburg there were 2200 individuals of late medieval date.
  • (3) The bombs instantly turned Boylston Street into a charnel house.
  • (4) The journalist and historian Carey McWilliams wrote almost 70 years ago the missions could be better conceived as “a series of picturesque charnel houses ”.

Repository


Definition:

  • (n.) A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, for safety or preservation; a depository.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two patients who developed marked intraocular pressure elevations after repository corticosteroid injection did not manifest a positive response on subsequent topical corticosteroid testing.
  • (2) Three important elements of the pesticide quality assurance program in the Health Protection Branch of Canada are described--the sampling protocol, the repository of pesticide standards, and the check sample program of the Federal Interdepartmental Committee on Pesticides.
  • (3) These data are in agreement with the predictions derived from a mechanism of phosphorylation by which [gamma-32P]GTP does not act as a phosphoryl donor for the protein kinase activity but, instead, only as a repository of high group transfer potential phosphoryl groups used to make [gamma-32P]ATP, from contaminating ADP, by means of the nucleoside diphosphate kinase activity.
  • (4) The model has been used to evaluate certain assumptions underlying the environmental standard for high-level waste repositories recently issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
  • (5) In the glycerol model of this syndrome, we demonstrate that the kidney responds to such inordinate amounts of heme proteins by inducing the heme-degradative enzyme, heme oxygenase, as well as increasing the synthesis of ferritin, the major cellular repository for iron.
  • (6) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
  • (7) Stored plasma from 3 Victorian dairy herds with a history of JD, sera from specimens submitted from animals showing clinical signs of JD and sera from the US National Repository for Paratuberculosis Specimens were used to determine the sensitivity of each test.
  • (8) However, one must consider the attitudes that prevailed at the time, the high rate of fetal and infant mortality, and the blossoming role of museums as repositories of knowledge.
  • (9) This paper discusses the value of an International Repository of Chromosomal Abnormalities and Variants as a means of communication and case finding.
  • (10) Dawn Powell: A Time to Be Born (1942) Joseph Heller: Catch-22 (1961) Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions (1973) David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (1996) The American comedy, generally speaking, is a scatological thing, or a repository of racial prejudice or gender stereotypes.
  • (11) The U.S. Department of Energy has selected three sites, from five nominated, to characterize for a nuclear repository to permanently dispose of nuclear waste.
  • (12) The mast cell must also be considered since it is the repository for mediators which cause increased vascular permeability and has the potential for eliciting, and possibly sustaining, some of the white cell mediated events associated with the inflammatory process.
  • (13) An example of applying this monitoring technique at a radwaste repository is given.
  • (14) The National Neurological Research Bank (Los Angeles), the Brain Tissue Bank (Belmont, Mass), and the Department of Neuropathology at Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore) have agreed to serve as repositories for tissues.
  • (15) Professor Gordon MacKerron, an energy expert at Sussex University and a former chairman of the CoRWM, said building two repositories could have major political advantages because the government could face opposition from local communities to hosting an unlimited amount of waste from new power stations rather than a finite amount of legacy waste from existing sites.
  • (16) Unlike most previous sites censored by the state, Github is not just a news site or a social network: it is crucial to the working lives of a significant proportion of the programming community, as well as being a host for a number of important repositories required to make the internet work.
  • (17) These GCT granules probably are the repositories of nerve growth factor, which is particularly abundant in Praomys.
  • (18) This cramped, multi-storey shop is packed with them, like some great gaming repository.
  • (19) In this application of obtaining a diverse sample from the 230,000 compounds in the National Cancer Institute Repository, we cluster to select compounds that are different from the rest, to optimize screening for new leads.
  • (20) In addition, these healers were repositories of many potentially harmful beliefs, e.g., that having sex with a virgin will rid a man of AIDS.

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