What's the difference between compensate and countervail?

Compensate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
  • (v. t.) To be equivalent in value or effect to; to counterbalance; to make up for; to make amends for.
  • (v. i.) To make amends; to supply an equivalent; -- followed by for; as, nothing can compensate for the loss of reputation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The acute effect of alcohol manifested itself by decreasing mitochondrial respiration, compensated by increased glycolytic activity of the myocardium so that myocardial energy phosphate concentration remained unchanged.
  • (2) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (3) Medical prevention and technique and then compensation for these occupational nuisances are then described.
  • (4) The hemorrhagic syndrome (HS) was identified in 16% of patients with chronic active hepatitis, in 26% with compensated and in 76% with decompensated LC.
  • (5) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (6) level was increased in 13 of 19 measurements made in this group, state named "compensated hypothyroidism" according to Patel and Burger.
  • (7) While there has been almost no political reform during their terms of office, there have been several ambitious steps forward in terms of environmental policy: anti-desertification campaigns; tree planting; an environmental transparency law; adoption of carbon targets; eco-services compensation; eco accounting; caps on water; lower economic growth targets; the 12th Five-Year Plan; debate and increased monitoring of PM2.5 [fine particulate matter] and huge investments in eco-cities, "clean car" manufacturing, public transport, energy-saving devices and renewable technology.
  • (8) The solution to these problems would seem either to reduce the time spent in rectangular wires or to change to a bracket with reduced torque, together with appropriate second order compensations in the archwire or the bracket.
  • (9) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
  • (10) Sympathochromaffin catecholamines are not normally critical but compensate and become critical when glucagon is deficient.
  • (11) The stretch reflex in man has a direct role in compensating for small disturbances during motor tasks.
  • (12) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
  • (13) Advocates would point to the influence Giggs maintains in the United midfield – developing a more creative game from a central role to compensate for the loss of his once blistering pace.
  • (14) A preliminary "profile" of the patient with low back pain who would likely benefit from manual therapy included acute symptom onset with less than a 1-month duration of symptoms, central or paravertebral pain distribution, no previous exposure to spinal manipulation, and no pending litigation or workers' compensation.
  • (15) The venture capitalist argued in his report, commissioned by the Downing Street policy guru Steve Hilton, in favour of "compensated no fault-dismissal" for small businesses.
  • (16) The government also faced considerable international political pressure, with the United Nations' special rapporteur on torture, Juan Méndez, calling publicly on the government to "provide full redress to the victims, including fair and adequate compensation", and writing privately to David Cameron, along with two former special rapporteurs, to warn that the government's position was undermining its moral authority across the world.
  • (17) Taxpayers will pick up an immediate £40m bill for compensating the four shortlisted companies that bid for the west coast franchise.
  • (18) Adreno-cortical compensation of the concentration of the hormone did not occur in the post-castration period.
  • (19) The principle of antagonistic compensation was presented by RIESENFELD in 1966 to explain the relative shortening and broadening of hypofunctional bones.
  • (20) But he won’t call.” Allardyce is also cynical about an offer from Swansea to compensate around 300 Sunderland fans who had booked trips to Wales before the date change.

Countervail


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate.
  • (n.) Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
  • (2) The genesis of the modern ischemic forearm exercise test (IFET) employing the measurement of lactate and ammonia as countervailing metabolites is briefly reviewed, along with the application of the lactate ammonia exercise ratio in the diagnosis of myoadenylate deaminase deficiency and disorders of glycolysis and glycogenolysis.
  • (3) We conclude that both renal and adrenal actions of ANF can be rendered ineffective by countervailing mechanisms, suggesting an explanation for the apparent lack of biological activity of endogenously elevated plasma NAF in some disease states.
  • (4) He is less of a natural autocrat than Thatcher, but he has faced less effective opposition from rival Ministers, opposition parties or countervailing bodies.
  • (5) The battle between countervailing factions in the Trump White House continues to ebb and flow, but the president’s reflexes in times of adversity lead him to fall back on the “America First” narrative that got him elected in the first place.
  • (6) A further consequence is that, in the absence of countervailing human rights protections, anti-terrorism laws have created new precedents, understandings, expectations and political conventions about the proper limits of government in Australia.
  • (7) Although multiple factors, including lactic acidosis, might have countervailed the effect of her hypermagnesemia on the AG, there is no actual substantiation in the literature of an association between increased serum Mg and AG lowering.
  • (8) Various sources of non-market (collective) failure are then identified, as countervailing argument.
  • (9) It also warns that tax credits – the Labour's government's method of preventing stagnating incomes – will no longer be able to act as a countervailing force owing to the need to cut the deficit.
  • (10) Calling for legislation that would put workers on the boards of all but the smallest companies, the pair note: "What matters most for reducing inequality is the strength of progressive politics as a countervailing voice in society.
  • (11) All others had to shadow, with no countervailing leverage.
  • (12) Over the last generation, the weakening of trade unions’ countervailing market power has seen around 5.5% of GDP being moved permanently from the workforce to shareholders.
  • (13) It is in fact established that the incidence of endometrial adenocarcinomas is augmented by the application of a continuous oestrogenic without countervailing progestational-stimulus.
  • (14) Countervailing trends in the use of convenience foods and dining out increase the difficulty for individuals to lower sodium intake.
  • (15) Thus, they were providing the countervailing force that is a necessary component of accountability when the persons to be served are a powerless group.
  • (16) A better approach to maternal-fetal conflicts emphasizes mutually held goals rather than countervailing rights and uses the doctrine of informed consent to enhance the pregnant woman's ability to make responsible choices for both herself and her fetus.
  • (17) One major conclusion is that while school counselors and, to a lesser extent, classroom teachers often expressed the feeling that they should be more proactive and supportive as professionals committed to the welfare of all of their students, due to countervailing expressions of high levels of personal prejudice, ignorance, and fear, the realities of their professional intervention and support were negligible.
  • (18) This countervailing force would disseminate objective drug information to clinicians through 2,000 therapeutic consultants, subsidize professional journals and schools, develop regional drug information centers, and conduct a variety of related functions.
  • (19) "If great pressure is coming from above for cuts there has to be an equal, indeed more powerful, countervailing pressure from below, from the people," said Gibbons.
  • (20) Second, biocultural games on average exhibit greater equilibrium strategy diversity because of the countervailing influences of cultural transmission and natural selection.

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