What's the difference between construction and rickety?

Construction


Definition:

  • (n.) The arrangement and connection of words in a sentence; syntactical arrangement.
  • (n.) The method of construing, interpreting, or explaining a declaration or fact; an attributed sense or meaning; understanding; explanation; interpretation; sense.
  • (n.) The process or art of constructing; the act of building; erection; the act of devising and forming; fabrication; composition.
  • (n.) The form or manner of building or putting together the parts of anything; structure; arrangement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This sling was constructed bu freeing the insertion of the pubococcygeus and the ileococcygeus muscles from the coccyx.
  • (2) Implications of the theory for hypothesis testing, theory construction, and scales of measurement are considered.
  • (3) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
  • (4) We have constructed retroviral vectors derived from the genome of avian erythroblastosis virus ES4 (AEV ES4).
  • (5) A total of 28 cell lines were selected for Geneticin - resistance and inoculated into the footpads of syngeneic animals following co-transfection with pSV2neo and genomic DNA, or transfection with plasmid constructs containing neo and the activated Ha-ras oncogene.
  • (6) The severity of injury in a gunshot wound is dependent on many factors, including the type of firearm; the velocity, mass, and construction of the bullet; and the structural properties of the tissues that are wounded.
  • (7) The plasmid pMucAMucB, constructed from the Haemophilus influenzae vector pDM2, and a similar plasmid, constructed from pBR322, increased the survival after UV irradiation of Escherichia coli AB1157 with the umu-36 mutation and also caused UV-induced mutation in the E. coli strain.
  • (8) C. parasitica mutant strains deficient in the production of endothiapepsin (eapA-) were constructed using a gene-replacement strategy.
  • (9) A relatively new method of estimating that date and constructing a corresponding Kaplan Meier curve is presented.
  • (10) Cells transfected with either the first or second construct and selected for the TK+ phenotype were then tested for TK induction after superinfection with HSV-1(F) delta 305, containing a deletion in the coding sequences of the TK gene, and viruses containing, in addition, a ts lesion in the alpha 4 regulatory protein (ts502 delta 305) or in the beta 8 major DNA-binding protein (tsHA1 delta 305).
  • (11) This structure could be constructed in intron 1 of tobacco rps12 gene.
  • (12) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
  • (13) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
  • (14) Analysis of Alu repeat polymorphism should be useful in construction of a high-resolution map and also in identifying genotypes of individuals for clinical and other purposes because the repeats are ubiquitous and the technique for their detection is simple.
  • (15) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (16) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (17) With the use of these proteins as markers, phenotypes could be constructed that distinguished unstimulated, LPS-treated, primed, and fully activated macrophages.
  • (18) The construction and use of a simple and inexpensive vacuum cassette for this purpose is described.
  • (19) A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1.
  • (20) Alternatives for the selection of substantive clinical attributes, the overall structural format into which categories are organized, and construction procedures used in developing a psychopathologic taxonomy are elaborated, as are a number of criteria for evaluating the taxonomy's utility and efficacy.

Rickety


Definition:

  • (a.) Affected with rickets.
  • (a.) Feeble in the joints; imperfect; weak; shaky.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Faced with the realities of Britain's rickety finances, chancellors and shadow chancellors of all parties have frequently turned parsimonious.
  • (2) The unrepentant immigration minister, James Brokenshire, was defending in public for the first time the decision taken by the home secretary, Theresa May, to refuse to support future search and rescue operations of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rickety unseaworthy boats.
  • (3) The Grade II-listed scenic railway, devastated by an arson attack in 2008, has been rebuilt, wooden slat by wooden slat, back to its rickety, grinding glory.
  • (4) My Year Off became my rickety bridge back to the everyday world, in which I was relearning a way of life, guided by Sarah's loving care.
  • (5) Every morning Mohammed Gurdan rises early and climbs the rickety ladder to the fourth floor of his home in Kashgar's old city.
  • (6) Take the train to Lisbon for custard tarts, rickety trams and the fantastic Oceanarium ( oceanario.pt ).
  • (7) They will face the task of assembling and keeping together a rickety alliance of their own.
  • (8) Sampson was “amazed by the apparent casualness” of the rickety offices in Tudor Street, which “seemed more like a family charity or an eccentric college than a commercial newspaper”.
  • (9) One of the legacies from those pop art days is her use of brightly coloured household paint, slapped on to bits of wood that are then built into rickety scaffolds.
  • (10) In the 1980s migrants used to slip through a rickety fence but now it felt like a steel fortress with control towers, cameras and sensors.
  • (11) Many experts fear that Britain has failed to rebalance its economy over recent years, with the current recovery based on the rickety framework of consumer spending and the housing recovery.
  • (12) Thousands of migrants have risked their lives in rough winter seas in the last week as they tried to reach Italy from Libya, among them reluctant travellers who were forced into rickety boats at gunpoint.
  • (13) A business meeting in Tunisia prevented them staying to see Pope Francis celebrate a mass on the island, devoted to the migrants who made the dangerous crossing to southern Europe from Libya in cheap inflatable motorboats and rickety fishing vessels.
  • (14) Even the most rickety-looking outfit will be doling out little bites of perfection: El Taco Yucateo , for instance, where we have panuchos as brightly coloured as a Keith Haring painting: yellow taco, chicken, bright pink cebollas curtidas (pickled onion), green avocado, earthy black beans.
  • (15) Rickety stairs lead up into black bordello-inspired corridors, while the romantic rooms are individually decorated with flea market furniture, swirling frescoes and erotic photos.
  • (16) They won’t care that we are Hazara.” Me, Salim*, Hassan and Ali, along with 75 other people, had been lost at sea for four days after our rickety boat’s engine had finally given way.
  • (17) "The studios are very old and rickety," said Johannah Dyer, the chief executive of independent production company Hotbed Media, which filmed Channel 4 gameshow Win My Wage in ITV's Leeds studios.
  • (18) And even if he is on song, can Uruguay's average midfield actually get him the ball and can their rickety defence keep England at bay?
  • (19) A place of 99¢ stores and cathedrals to caffeine; rickety taco stands and gourmet cheese shops; rundown 7-Elevens and pristine organic juice bars; car repair garages and craft stores.
  • (20) Five years later, in the municipal museum in Venice, Harrington summoned the rickety old lift.