What's the difference between confine and embank?

Confine


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close.
  • (v. i.) To have a common boundary; to border; to lie contiguous; to touch; -- followed by on or with.
  • (n.) Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (n.) Apartment; place of restraint; prison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Confined placental chorionic mosaicism is reported in 2% of viable pregnancies cytogenetically analyzed on chorionic villi samplings (CVS) at 9-12 weeks of gestation.
  • (2) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
  • (3) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
  • (4) After haemorrhage in conscious rabbits total renal blood flow fell by 25%, this fall being confined to the superficial renal cortex.
  • (5) Pathological changes may, thus, be initially confined to projecting and intrinsic neurons localized in cortical and subcortical olfactory structures; arguments are advanced which favor the view that excitotoxic phenomena could be mainly responsible for the overall degenerative picture.
  • (6) The overall results indicate an inherited impairment of 3-HSD activity confined only to C-21 steroid substrates and, thus, suggest the existence of at least two 3-HSD isoenzymes under independent genetic regulation.
  • (7) In all 4 cases, their reactivity outside the gastrointestinal tract is mainly confined to tracheal epithelium.
  • (8) Similarly at ) degrees glutamine is confined to the simultaneously determined sucrose or mannitol spaces...
  • (9) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
  • (10) Of the strains tested, only the germ-free ND 1 mouse appeared to be susceptible to infection, and this was confined to the stomach mucosa; lesions contained large numbers of hyphal and mycelial forms with blastospores.
  • (11) Confirmatory tests of sinus disease are transillumination (useful in adolescents if interpretation is confined to the extremes--normal or absent); radiographic findings of opacification, mucous membrane thickening, or an air-fluid level; and sinus aspiration (indicated for severe pain, clinical failures, or complicated disease).
  • (12) Significantly more slow acetylators stopped treatment because of nausea or vomiting, or both, but serious toxicity was not confined to either group.
  • (13) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (14) At an ultrastructural level, 15-1 immunogold-labeling in the epidermis was confined to the surface of cells exhibiting Birbeck granules.
  • (15) The cytolytic activity of peritoneal SEA reactive effector cells was confined to the TCR alpha beta+ CD4- CD8+ CD45RC- cell population.
  • (16) Three patients were confined to a wheelchair after 3 years of follow-up.
  • (17) This observation confirms that idiotypic recognition is confined to a limited number of clonal products, despite the fact that a very heterogeneous antibody population was used forthe anti-idiotypic immunization.
  • (18) The neighbouring neocortical areas receive afferents neither from the mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus nor from the ventral mesencephalic tegmentum; their catecholamine innervation is mainly confined to the superficial layers and appears to be of noradrenergic nature.
  • (19) Thus definitive evidence of fetal infection confined to red cell precursors is documented.
  • (20) More patients are being encountered with early Stage I lesions that are confined to the breast or with minimal axillary involvement.

Embank


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect by a bank of earth or stone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The two embankments destroyed by the army on Thursday were near the cities of Muzaffargarh and Multan.
  • (2) A few escaped by running down the embankment but most of the rest were arrested.
  • (3) Thousands are expected to join a "feeder march" outside the University of London student union building in Bloomsbury at 10am before making their way to the Embankment, where the main body of the TUC march is congregating.
  • (4) The Metropolitan police, which is thought to be expecting 15,000 protesters, said it had been in discussions with the NUS and other groups planning to march along the Embankment.
  • (5) In September Yamadayev blamed Kadyrov and promised to take revenge after his older brother Ruslan was assassinated while driving along the embankment of the Moscow river.
  • (6) A barium meal study and endoscopy revealed a huge crater surrounded by a thick embankment on the posterior wall of the stomach body.
  • (7) It is moving to a smaller HQ, the Curtis Green building on Victoria Embankment, which has stood empty since late 2011.
  • (8) However, it will not include the famous revolving sign, which is moving with the force to its new headquarters on Victoria Embankment.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Ukrainian flag being taken down from the top of Moscow’s Kotelnicheskaya Embankment building on 20 August, 2014.
  • (10) The project will create potentially dangerous crowd pressures on nearby parts of the southern Thames embankments that haven’t been studied.
  • (11) • The front of the march is due to leave the Embankment at noon arriving at Hyde Park for the rally at around 1.30pm.
  • (12) By the time of the Kinnego embankment bombing, 168 RUC officers had lost their lives.
  • (13) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port.
  • (14) If you're going to cleanse the country of indigents, then you may as well do it all in one go: clear out the squatters, get rid of all the "beds in sheds", demolish unofficial Gypsy sites, hustle the rough sleepers out of doorways, and sweep away anyone a bit weird, like Anne Naysmith, 75, who slept in her old car, and built a charming garden in a car park corner next to a railway embankment, until TfL came along and mowed down the shelter, flowers and fruit trees.
  • (15) According to the TUC people are still likely to be crossing the start line on the Embankment at 2pm so organisers are calling on people to stagger their arrival times between 10.30am and 1.30pm.
  • (16) Her body was found by chance in 2003, near a beach on the Cooley Peninsula, across the border in Co Louth, after a heavy storm washed away part of an embankment.
  • (17) Dredged material will be contained within constructed embankments near new railway lines that will run to the Abbot Point port, which is being developed by the Indian firm Adani to export coal extracted from its huge Carmichael mine in central Queensland.
  • (18) One Sunday recently while staying in London, I took a stroll in the gardens of Temple, the insular clod of quads and offices between the Strand and the Embankment.
  • (19) As well as the Bank of England vault on Threadneedle Street, there are thought to be six commercial vaults across London, with one rumoured to be below JPMorgan’s offices on Victoria Embankment .
  • (20) According to these conditions, any march by protesters must begin from Trafalgar Square and stay within an area bounded by the square, Northumberland Avenue, Victoria Embankment, Bridge Street, Parliament Square, Parliament Street and Whitehall.

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