What's the difference between consider and opine?

Consider


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
  • (v. t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
  • (v. t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
  • (v. t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
  • (v. i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
  • (v. i.) To hesitate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
  • (2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (3) We considered the days of the disease and the persistence of symptoms since the admission as peculiar parameters between the two groups.
  • (4) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
  • (5) Structural peculiarities in tubulin polymorphism are considered.
  • (6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
  • (7) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (8) In choosing between various scanning techniques the factors to be considered include availability, cost, the type of equipment, the expertise of the medical and technical staff, and the inherent capabilities of the system.
  • (9) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (10) External exposures to a contaminated fishing net and fishing boat are considered pathways for fishermen.
  • (11) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (12) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
  • (13) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
  • (14) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
  • (15) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
  • (16) BPH patients may be considered as "endocrinologically younger" than healthy subjects.
  • (17) Eight other children (20%) had normal or borderline elevation of CPK-MB fraction and EKG abnormalities combined with abnormal echocardiograms or radionuclide angiograms, and were considered to have sustained cardiac concussion.
  • (18) The pathogenicity of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in atypical pneumonias can be considered confirmed according to the availabile literature; its importance for other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, particularly for chronic bronchitis, is not yet sufficiently clear.
  • (19) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (20) HDAra-C in combination with anthracyclines is now considered to be a treatment which may afford some hope of a cure in a certain percentage of cases of adult acute non-lymphocytic leukemia.

Opine


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to oncogenes, the transferred DNA contains genes that direct the synthesis and exudation of opines, which are used as nutrients by the bacteria.
  • (2) When last week’s scandal broke, Tesco chair Sir Richard Broadbent airily opined: “Things are always unnoticed until they are noticed.” He forgot to mention that that goes double if people are paid to turn a blind eye.
  • (3) "Good stuff this from City as they're effectively playing with ten men," opines Paul Ruffley.
  • (4) This clone also was found to be incompatible with pAtK84b, a large plasmid encoding opine catabolism present in A. radiobacter strain K84.
  • (5) But the crowd at Bob Jones University did not seem to care for the journalism of the New York Times, or that Cruz senior has recently said that LGBT activists will try to “legalise pedophilia”, that it is “ appalling ” that Houston has a gay mayor, and that he has opined that President Obama is an “outright Marxist” who should go “back to Kenya” .
  • (6) Over on Sky News the editor of Majesty magazine felt forced to opine that he was “ not a good picker of people ”.
  • (7) The production of opines is a natural example of genetic engineering of the biosynthetic machinery of plant cells for the benefit of the bacterial pathogen.
  • (8) This is an Islamist who shakes hands with unveiled women and opines that Christians often have more self-respect than Muslims.
  • (9) We constructed cassettes which contained either the putative transport genes only or the complete occ or noc region; all constructs, however, included the elements necessary for opine-induced expression of the genes (the regulatory gene and the inducible promoters).
  • (10) Strains MBA209 and NA513 utilized mannopine and mannopinic acid, but not the other two mannityl opines.
  • (11) They opine that this function is of secondary importance except for the frontal and internal occipital pillars.
  • (12) "Hiddink should stop sticking his head up other players' arses," opined Davids to one foreign journalist afterwards.
  • (13) Ti plasmids of Agrobacterium tumefaciens are conjugal elements whose transfer is induced by certain opines secreted from crown galls.
  • (14) His elevation as a Conservative folk hero stalled after he opined on whether the "Negro" shouldn't be back in chains.
  • (15) Before you know it anyone who wants to be considered serious is opining that the country is "obviously insolvent".
  • (16) "It was the second time hosting the Academy Awards for Ellen DeGeneres, whose first stint as host in 2007 was one of the decade's best," he opined.
  • (17) In his letter delivering the cut to Sue Campbell , chair of the Youth Sport Trust, Gove opined that, while he recognised schools have "increased participation" of children in PE, the number playing competitive sport "has remained disappointingly low".
  • (18) Opine synthase activities were also observed in homogenates made from these tumors.
  • (19) Other compounds include specific monosaccharides and acidic environments which potentiate vir gene induction, acidic polysaccharides which induce one or more chromosomal genes, and a family of compounds called opines which are released from tumorous plant cells to the bacteria as nutrient sources.
  • (20) The enzyme catalyzed a reversible oxidation-reduction reaction of opine-type secondary amine dicarboxylic acids.