What's the difference between concur and convent?

Concur


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To run together; to meet.
  • (v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
  • (v. i.) To unite or agree (in action or opinion); to join; to act jointly; to agree; to coincide; to correspond.
  • (v. i.) To assent; to consent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (2) An analysis of my own practice prescriptions showed that only 31% were repeat prescriptions, and this concurs with national figures.
  • (3) These do not concur with clinical experience but the figures for overt resistance, at 39% and 69%, correspond with expected non-responders to these regimes.
  • (4) Key informants concurred that general health settings and multiservice agencies were the most appropriate for reaching Mexican Americans, and that mental health services must include bilingual and bicultural staff members.
  • (5) The surgical residents and a consultant surgeon at the hospital where she was treated concurred with the diagnosis of the referring medical officer.
  • (6) In combination with an extensive neuropsychological test battery, the three methods produce data that concur with the evaluation made of EEG recordings.
  • (7) Overall, the findings of ultrasonography concurred with those of urography in 144 cases (93%).
  • (8) These two sets of data concur to show that tumor growth rate or proliferation rate correlates with the probability of metastatic dissemination.
  • (9) Thomas appeared to concur: "We are not concerned with whether this is a good case or a bad case but whether what is charged amounts to a crime."
  • (10) We report here our experience with 16 such patients (13 males, 3 females) and concur with the original observers on the benign nature of this syndrome.
  • (11) Measurements conducted in plexiglas, animal muscle, kidney and brain concur with tabulated values and show a scatter from 5-15 percent from the mean; measurements made in perfused muscle and brain compare well with the nonperfused values.
  • (12) Maximal velocity of LSC measured at saturating intracellular lithium concentration was lower in the patients than in the controls; this may concur with previous reports on possible links between impaired activity of LSC and bipolar affective illness.
  • (13) Simon Pryor, natural environment director at the National Trust , concurred: “This report shows that government should take the time to get biodiversity offsetting right.
  • (14) The present results relative to cytotoxicity of macrophages derived from the CFC concur with and extend our previous findings indicating that the cytotoxic property of macrophages originates in its ancestral stem cell or CFC and that factors responsible for increasing the CFC population do not selectively stimulate precursor cells responsible for production of the cytotoxic macrophage.
  • (15) Finally, a report on the use of behaviour therapy for an autistic child is outlined in order to explore the psychobiological correlations between social behaviour and language, which concur with extensive experiments on brain stimulation.
  • (16) Assessing the time of injury based on clinical records concurred with prenatal origin in 32% of the children thought to have prenatal origin of hemiplegia by CT.
  • (17) While most physicians concur, they disagree as to the volume of lung needing to be resected to achieve the best survival results.
  • (18) These results concur with previously reported levels of insulin secretion in the perfused rat pancreas.
  • (19) This finding concurs with a previous report and raises the possibility that HLA-DR2 may be associated with Paget's disease of bone, probably by predisposing the bone cells to viral infection.
  • (20) As for the rib-diameter Homo concurs more with the Pongidae than with the Cercopithecidae.

Convent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
  • (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
  • (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
  • (v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
  • (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
  • (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (3) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (5) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
  • (7) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
  • (8) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
  • (9) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
  • (10) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
  • (11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
  • (12) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
  • (13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
  • (14) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Conventional control experiments for method and antiserum specificity were performed.
  • (17) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (18) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
  • (19) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (20) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.