What's the difference between closed and set?

Closed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Close

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The presence of lactalbumin was closely associated with the presence of E.R.
  • (2) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (4) However, survival was closely related to the severity of the illness at the time of randomization and was not altered by shunting.
  • (5) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (6) When the Tunnel closed, Hardee decamped in 1991 to Up The Creek - a slightly better behaved venue in nearby Greenwich, which Hardee described as "the Tunnel with A-levels".
  • (7) The defensive modifications of the functions of the ego itself seen in micropsia are closely allied to those seen in the dèjá vu experience and in depersonalization.
  • (8) The blastocyst antiluteolytic protein therefore closely resembles the interferon-alpha family of antiviral proteins.
  • (9) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (10) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (11) Under resting conditions, the variance of cerebral metabolism seems to be primarily related to regions which are closely involved with the limbic system.
  • (12) It was concluded that the spheno-occipital complex has a close relationship to the skeletal facial pattern and contributes to the facial formation.
  • (13) The remaining 5 soil samples, obtained from sites that were not in close proximity to lakes, were also negative except for one that contained type B.
  • (14) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
  • (15) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (16) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
  • (17) A remarkably close relationship was found between both H. pylori urease subunits and jack bean (Canavalia ensiformis) urease, the subunit of which is a single 840 amino acid polypeptide.
  • (18) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
  • (19) The new trabecular bone closely resembled that typically seen at electrically active implants.
  • (20) Using polyclonal antibodies raised against yeast p34cdc2, we have detected a 36 kd immunoactive polypeptide in macronuclei which binds to Suc1 (p13)-coated beads and closely follows H1 kinase activity.

Set


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Set
  • (v. t.) To cause to sit; to make to assume a specified position or attitude; to give site or place to; to place; to put; to fix; as, to set a house on a stone foundation; to set a book on a shelf; to set a dish on a table; to set a chest or trunk on its bottom or on end.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
  • (v. t.) To make to assume specified place, condition, or occupation; to put in a certain condition or state (described by the accompanying words); to cause to be.
  • (v. t.) To fix firmly; to make fast, permanent, or stable; to render motionless; to give an unchanging place, form, or condition to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud.
  • (v. t.) To fix beforehand; to determine; hence, to make unyielding or obstinate; to render stiff, unpliant, or rigid; as, to set one's countenance.
  • (v. t.) To fix in the ground, as a post or a tree; to plant; as, to set pear trees in an orchard.
  • (v. t.) To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash.
  • (v. t.) To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle; as, to set milk for cheese.
  • (v. t.) To put into a desired position or condition; to adjust; to regulate; to adapt.
  • (v. t.) To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare; as, to set (that is, to hone) a razor; to set a saw.
  • (v. t.) To extend and bring into position; to spread; as, to set the sails of a ship.
  • (v. t.) To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote; as, to set a psalm.
  • (v. t.) To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.
  • (v. t.) To make to agree with some standard; as, to set a watch or a clock.
  • (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
  • (v. t.) To stake at play; to wager; to risk.
  • (v. t.) To fit with music; to adapt, as words to notes; to prepare for singing.
  • (v. t.) To determine; to appoint; to assign; to fix; as, to set a time for a meeting; to set a price on a horse.
  • (v. t.) To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
  • (v. t.) To value; to rate; -- with at.
  • (v. t.) To point out the seat or position of, as birds, or other game; -- said of hunting dogs.
  • (v. t.) To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign; as, to set an example; to set lessons to be learned.
  • (v. t.) To suit; to become; as, it sets him ill.
  • (v. t.) To compose; to arrange in words, lines, etc.; as, to set type; to set a page.
  • (v. i.) To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end.
  • (v. i.) To fit music to words.
  • (v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
  • (v. i.) To be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form; as, cuttings set well; the fruit has set well (i. e., not blasted in the blossom).
  • (v. i.) To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
  • (v. i.) To congeal; to concrete; to solidify.
  • (v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward.
  • (v. i.) To begin to move; to go out or forth; to start; -- now followed by out.
  • (v. i.) To indicate the position of game; -- said of a dog; as, the dog sets well; also, to hunt game by the aid of a setter.
  • (v. i.) To apply one's self; to undertake earnestly; -- now followed by out.
  • (v. i.) To fit or suit one; to sit; as, the coat sets well.
  • (a.) Fixed in position; immovable; rigid; as, a set line; a set countenance.
  • (a.) Firm; unchanging; obstinate; as, set opinions or prejudices.
  • (a.) Regular; uniform; formal; as, a set discourse; a set battle.
  • (a.) Established; prescribed; as, set forms of prayer.
  • (a.) Adjusted; arranged; formed; adapted.
  • (n.) The act of setting, as of the sun or other heavenly body; descent; hence, the close; termination.
  • (n.) That which is set, placed, or fixed.
  • (n.) A young plant for growth; as, a set of white thorn.
  • (n.) That which is staked; a wager; a venture; a stake; hence, a game at venture.
  • (n.) Permanent change of figure in consequence of excessive strain, as from compression, tension, bending, twisting, etc.; as, the set of a spring.
  • (n.) A kind of punch used for bending, indenting, or giving shape to, metal; as, a saw set.
  • (n.) A piece placed temporarily upon the head of a pile when the latter cannot be reached by the weight, or hammer, except by means of such an intervening piece.
  • (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
  • (n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc.
  • (n.) A number of persons associated by custom, office, common opinion, quality, or the like; a division; a group; a clique.
  • (n.) Direction or course; as, the set of the wind, or of a current.
  • (n.) In dancing, the number of persons necessary to execute a quadrille; also, the series of figures or movements executed.
  • (n.) The deflection of a tooth, or of the teeth, of a saw, which causes the the saw to cut a kerf, or make an opening, wider than the blade.
  • (n.) A young oyster when first attached.
  • (n.) Collectively, the crop of young oysters in any locality.
  • (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce.
  • (n.) That dimension of the body of a type called by printers the width.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (2) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
  • (3) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (5) All former US presidents set up a library in their name to house their papers and honour their legacy.
  • (6) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
  • (7) There was virtually no difference in a set of subtypic determinants between the serum and liver.
  • (8) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (9) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (10) The stepped approach is cost-effective and provides an objective basis for decisions and priority setting.
  • (11) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (12) Dominic Fifield Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ravel Morrison, who has been on loan at QPR, may be set for a return to Loftus Road.
  • (13) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
  • (14) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
  • (15) In the genitourinary clinic setting, clinical diagnosis prior to biopsy was found frequently to be inaccurate.
  • (16) We set a new basic plane on an orthopantomogram in order to measure the gonial angle and obtained the following: 1) Usable error difference in ordinary clinical setting ranged from 0.5 degrees-1.0 degree.
  • (17) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (18) This alloimmune memory was shown to survive for up to 50 days after first-set rejection.
  • (19) Short-forms of Wechsler intelligence tests have abounded in the literature and have been recommended for use as screening instruments in clinical and research settings.
  • (20) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.