What's the difference between commodious and voluminous?

Commodious


Definition:

  • (a.) Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certain biologic principles prompt consideration of segmental mastectomy and axillary node sampling as an alternative, commodious form of treatment for such lesions.
  • (2) Sites commodious enough and with sufficient conserved carboxylate ligands to accommodate such a nucleus occur inside the protein coat at the subunit dimer interfaces.
  • (3) Everyone enmeshed will fervently hope so – especially Rupert Murdoch, who's bankrolled his publishing arm by lumping in his own commodious Australian TV profits to keep the newsprint show on the road.

Voluminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  • (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
  • (a.) Of great volume, or bulk; large.
  • (a.) Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The existence of a voluminous literature on the placing, making, and closing of abdominal incisions suggests that no single ideal method exists.
  • (2) From ultrastructural point of view interstitial cells contain the organels proper to steroidogenetic cells (important smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many voluminous mitochondria with tubular cristae).
  • (3) The histologic exam revealed a proliferation of voluminous round lymphoid cells with 2 or 3 nucleoli often apposed to the nuclear membrane.
  • (4) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
  • (5) The uterine artery has a voluminous branch to the uterine body and the cervix but does not anastomose with the vaginal artery.
  • (6) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (7) CT scan and angiography showed a voluminous intracerebral angiodysplasia and an aneurysm of the left anterior communicating artery.
  • (8) The investigations lead to the diagnosis of a voluminous plasma cell tumor involving the fossa infratemporalis, a part of the lateral orbit, as well as the middle and anterior cerebral fossae.
  • (9) The case of a 14-year old girl presenting with headaches, severe progressive hypertension and high plasma renin levels, in whom a voluminous epithelial liver hamartoma or adenoma was discovered at surgery is documented.
  • (10) Starvation resulted in extensive epithelial folds and a concomitant decrease in the crop volume, while the refed insects displayed an unfolded crop epithelium and a voluminous crop.
  • (11) During the differentiation of the infectious form into the reproductive form, the voluminous periplasm was gradually reduced and the cytoplasm expanded, until the entire bacterium was filled by the cytoplasm.
  • (12) An oral cholecystography showed that this formation corresponded to a voluminous choledochal cyst.
  • (13) But if you do dig into the voluminous polling studies and disaggregate, as the pollsters say, the results by gender, you find that what is troubling female voters is what is also troubling male voters – the future of health and education.
  • (14) Such factors include a specific syndrome the essential feature of which is that the mitral leaflets or part thereof, primarily the posterior one, are voluminous.
  • (15) Inoculation with K. pneumoniae mucoid strain DT-S into mice lung induced expansive, voluminous lethal pneumonia characterized with thickening of the alveolar septa caused by infiltration of inflammatory cell and packing of bacteria within alveolar spaces.
  • (16) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
  • (17) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
  • (18) The inner portion (between the nucleus and the ventricle) contains a voluminous Golgi apparatus, many mitochondria, RER cisternae which contain electron-dense material, SER, and many vesicles.
  • (19) A young 15 year old girl presented with a voluminous desmoid tumor of the calf.
  • (20) The principal nucleoli are more voluminous but their relations with the secondary constrictions and the satellites of the D and G chromosomes are not modified.