What's the difference between confined and corner?

Confined


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Confine

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.

Corner


Definition:

  • (n.) The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
  • (n.) The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
  • (n.) An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part.
  • (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
  • (n.) Direction; quarter.
  • (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock.
  • (v. t.) To drive into a corner.
  • (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
  • (v. t.) To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) Jonker kept sticking his nose in the corner and not really cooperating, but then came a moment of stillness.
  • (3) Osman had gone close before that, flashing a shot over from seven yards after a corner.
  • (4) Gassmann, whose late father, Vittorio , was a critically acclaimed star of Italian cinema in its heyday in the 1960s, tweeted over the weekend with the hashtag #Romasonoio (I am Rome), calling on the city’s residents to be an example of civility and clean up their own little corners of Rome with pride.
  • (5) Mothers, Stadlen suggests, only turn dogmatic or bossy when they feel cornered or unsure of themselves.
  • (6) The resulting corner is dealt with easily by Real, who scoot upfield through Di Maria.
  • (7) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.
  • (8) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
  • (9) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
  • (10) Jordanian officials are aware of possible retaliation from an increasingly cornered Damascus, which this week accused Amman of "playing with fire" by opening its border to a military push.
  • (11) Miller is wide wide wide wide open in the corner of the endzone.
  • (12) 8.22pm BST 42 mins Now it's a US corner and a chance to exploit the German zonal marking.
  • (13) But I say to the honourable gentleman we won’t get Britain building unless we keep our economy going.” Later, Marie called in to radio station LBC radio to say that the new Labour leader needed to “change the way he does things, mix things up each week and really not let the Conservatives know which side it’s coming from – firing on all corners but doing it in a calm and collected way”.
  • (14) Others, like eight-year-old Stan – who was playing football with his mates in a corner of the beer-soaked field, has only good memories of Wales.
  • (15) Sigurdsson’s deep corner kick was headed back across goal by Borja and Fer, via a slight touch from Van der Hoorn, stabbed over the line.
  • (16) The MRTF was low pass in character having a corner frequency of 100-120 Hz.
  • (17) The idea that these problems exist on the other side of the world, and that we Australians can ignore them by sheltering comfortably in our own sequestered corner of the globe, is a fool’s delusion.” Brandis sought to reach out to Australian Muslims, saying the threat came “principally from a small number of people among us who try to justify criminal acts by perverting the meaning of Islam”.
  • (18) As Cavani was shunted of the ball, it broke to Suarez, who aimed a quick-witted toe-poke at the bottom corner from 15 yards, only to be denied by Buffon, who showed tremendous agility to plunge to his right and tip it around the post!
  • (19) That he was able to keep his secret treasures here, not in some remote corner of the globe but in the centre of the city that gave birth to the National Socialist movement, is both extraordinary and not short of a certain dark irony.
  • (20) The Frenchman, who arrived from Porto last month, was invited to let fly and sent his first-time volley arrowing across goal and into the corner past Artur Boruc.