What's the difference between configuration and form?

Configuration


Definition:

  • (n.) Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure.
  • (n.) Relative position or aspect of the planets; the face of the horoscope, according to the relative positions of the planets at any time.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distribution and configuration of the experimental ruptures were similar to those usually noted as complications of human myocardial infarction.
  • (2) The Ta loop was a smooth, elongated ellipse in configuration and showed clockwise rotation in all planes, as did the P loop.
  • (3) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (4) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (5) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (6) The distribution of the amino acid pairs, i, i + 1 in alpha-helical configurations does not differ from the random pairing.
  • (7) The purity and configuration of each isomer of the free acid and N-chloroacetylated derivative were ascertained by: (a) paper chromatography in five solvent systems, (b) elemental analysis, (c) Van Slyke nitrous acid determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (d) Van Slyke ninhydrin determination of alpha-carbonyl carbon, and (e) optical rotation.
  • (8) Because of the wide range of human nasal anatomic configurations, some people sniff odorants against comparatively high resistances.
  • (9) The principal variables influencing a particular configuration and their effects are indicated.
  • (10) The peculiar configuration of the pneumocephalus is attributed to the partial obliteration of the subarachnoid space due to the increased intracranial pressure.
  • (11) In a triple tier configuration, females concentrated 66% of their travel on the top tier.
  • (12) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.
  • (13) A new simplified technique for evaluating the internal pudendal artery and the penile vessels is described using a new catheter configuration with a very short 90 degrees-angled tip.
  • (14) Both amino acids were found to have the L-configuration by GC analysis on a chiral column and alanine was assigned to be the N-terminal amino acid by Edman degradation.
  • (15) In normal kidneys fixed by perfusion with tannic acid and glutaraldehyde, glomerular slit diaphragms have been reported to consist of highly ordered and isoporous substructures with a zipper-like configuration.
  • (16) The curved configuration of the cervico-thoracic vertebral column embedded in long spring-like muscles is interpreted to function as a shock absorber.
  • (17) In the cell-attached (CA) configuration, the presence of isoguvacine (3-5 microM) in the pipette solution triggered the opening of channels displaying multiple current levels.
  • (18) The effective direction in this stimulus configuration is opposite to the preferred direction of individual cells for movement of an object.
  • (19) Separation and recombination experiments, employing a variety of tissue configurations in organ culture, were performed to determine the extent to which the epithelium of the maxillary process influences the viability of the underlying mesenchyme during organogenesis.
  • (20) A stem cell line has been obtained with cell culture, having a germ cell character and a yolk sac configuration.

Form


Definition:

  • (n.) The shape and structure of anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed; particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure; external appearance.
  • (n.) Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of government.
  • (n.) Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula; as, a form of prayer.
  • (n.) Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form.
  • (n.) Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.
  • (n.) A shape; an image; a phantom.
  • (n.) That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.
  • (n.) A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.
  • (n.) The seat or bed of a hare.
  • (n.) The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.
  • (n.) The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
  • (n.) The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms; verbal forms.
  • (n.) The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
  • (n.) That assemblage or disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; -- called essential or substantial form, and contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.
  • (n.) Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition, which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or elements of every object known or thought of.
  • (n.) The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
  • (n.) To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.
  • (n.) To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train.
  • (n.) To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part.
  • (n.) To provide with a form, as a hare. See Form, n., 9.
  • (n.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes.
  • (v. i.) To take a form, definite shape, or arrangement; as, the infantry should form in column.
  • (v. i.) To run to a form, as a hare.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All mutant proteins could associate with troponin I and troponin T to form a troponin complex.
  • (2) Such a signal must be due to a small ferromagnetic crystal formed when the nerve is subjected to pressure, such as that due to mechanical injury.
  • (3) These data suggest that the hybrid is formed by the same mechanism in the absence and presence of the urea step.
  • (4) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
  • (5) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
  • (6) Aggregation was more frequent in low-osmolal media: mainly rouleaux were formed in ioxaglate but irregular aggregates in non-ionic media.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (9) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
  • (10) We similarly evaluated the ability of other phospholipids to form stable foam at various concentrations and ethanol volume fractions and found: bovine brain sphingomyelin greater than dipalmitoyl 3-sn-phosphatidylcholine greater than egg sphingomyelin greater than egg lecithin greater than phosphatidylglycerol.
  • (11) Because cystine in medium was converted rapidly to cysteine and cysteinyl-NAC in the presence of NAC and given that cysteine has a higher affinity for uptake by EC than cystine, we conclude that the enhanced uptake of radioactivity was in the form of cysteine and at least part of the stimulatory effect of NAC on EC glutathione was due to a formation of cysteine by a mixed disulfide reaction of NAC with cystine similar to that previously reported for Chinese hamster ovarian cells (R. D. Issels et al.
  • (12) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (13) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
  • (14) 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: β€œTo 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.
  • (15) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
  • (16) Even with hepatic lipase, phospholipid hydrolysis could not deplete VLDL and IDL of sufficient phospholipid molecules to account for the loss of surface phospholipid that accompanies triacylglycerol hydrolysis and decreasing core volume as LDL is formed (or for conversion of HDL2 to HDL3).
  • (17) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (18) The findings clearly reveal that only the Sertoli-Sertoli junctional site forms a restrictive barrier.
  • (19) The procedure used in our laboratory was not able to provide accurate determination of the concentrations of these binding forms.
  • (20) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).