What's the difference between convent and nunnery?

Convent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A coming together; a meeting.
  • (v. i.) An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
  • (v. i.) A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.
  • (v. i.) To meet together; to concur.
  • (v. i.) To be convenient; to serve.
  • (v. t.) To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
  • (2) Clinical surveillance, repeated laboratory tests, conventional radiology, and especially ultrasonography and CT scan all contributed to the preoperative diagnosis.
  • (3) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
  • (4) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (5) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (6) A conventional liquid chromatograph with a low capacity column and a conductimetric detector is used to analyze aerosols of Cl-, Br-, NO-3 and SO=4 with good results.
  • (7) Gamma-irradiated splenic homogenates of armadillos infected with M. leprae proved sterile by conventional tests and media.
  • (8) Conventionally taken radiographs are captured by a video camera and processed by the IPS system (KONTRON).
  • (9) In one series of experiments, the animals were not treated before the tissues were conventionally fixed; in another, anesthetized animals were administered horseradish peroxidase 20 min before the tissues were fixed.
  • (10) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
  • (11) Major limitations of the conventional sperm penetration assay are the inability to assess several aspects of sperm function (zona binding and penetration) and the absence of human ovulatory products known to influence fertilization.
  • (12) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
  • (13) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
  • (14) All conventional injection and insulin pump regimens are supported.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Conventional control experiments for method and antiserum specificity were performed.
  • (17) However, valid electroacoustic evaluation of the DMHAs cannot be accomplished using the conventional hearing aid test box.
  • (18) Further, the use of food as a reinforcer has been considered taboo by those who use more conventional and restrictive management approaches with Prader-Willi syndrome individuals.
  • (19) "Monasteries and convents face greater risks than other buildings in terms of fire safety," the article said, adding that many are built with flammable materials and located far away from professional fire brigades.
  • (20) Our dynamic study indicated that: 1) a bolus injection of contrast medium with our method of CTA (CTA-B) produced an attenuation difference between liver and tumor which was about double that obtained with standard methods for CTA, and 2) marked tumor-liver attenuation differences (above 20 HU) persisted for more than 60 s in CTA-B and for not more than 20 s with conventional methods for CTA.

Nunnery


Definition:

  • (n.) A house in which nuns reside; a cloister or convent in which women reside for life, under religious vows. See Cloister, and Convent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having snapped the picture of the reverend in flagrante, the two ran off in their underpants "through a nunnery at midnight" to get the story safely into the paper.
  • (2) The state news agency Sana reported on Monday that six nuns, including the Maaloula convent's mother superior Pelagia Sayaf, were trapped in the nunnery.
  • (3) In Ireland, rebel folk endures and develops, uniquely – just listen to Lizzie Nunnery's England Loves a Poor Boy .
  • (4) In both periods food supply ensued from the central kitchen of a nunnery.
  • (5) Officials from the Tibetan government in exile in Dharamsala, India, said the 20-year-old from the Dechen Chokorling nunnery killed herself at a crossroads.
  • (6) Sure, there were elements to the Spice Girls that were very obviously contrived and "for the dads", but compared with Christina Aguilera gyrating in a puddle while wearing crotchless leather chaps, which I got to witness a few years later, they practically belonged in a nunnery.
  • (7) When her bosom flutters with love for her master she returns to the nunnery.
  • (8) We then found and bought at place called Meadow Cottage in Norfolk, it had been all matter of things from a school to a nunnery.