What's the difference between coupon and specimen?

Coupon


Definition:

  • (n.) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
  • (n.) A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accomodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, or the like.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The probability of finding a contaminated coupon in any pack after 50 weeks was 0.018.
  • (2) After disappointing performances from games group Zynga and coupon network Groupon, Facebook may prefer to avoid a fall in the weeks after it goes public by pricing at the lower end of expectations.
  • (3) Patients were asked to complete a questionnaire and given a coupon that could be exchanged for 3 regular and 3 lubricated condoms.
  • (4) For example, buy a £50 gift card at Morrisons to spend in Topshop, Next or H&M and you get a coupon for 5p off each litre of fuel.
  • (5) During two of the intervention procedures used in the additive design, the patient could earn coupon booklets from the hospital commissary if his daily average urine sugar levels were less than a set criterion.
  • (6) Children and parents in schools 1 and 2 received literature about bicycle safety and discount coupons for helmet purchase.
  • (7) "With the ability to print travel tickets, e-coupons for discounts, and even your Facebook gallery, all can be done wirelessly via smartphones and tablets if your printer has this facility."
  • (8) No significant differences were found between pigmented or clear coupons which contained moisture.
  • (9) From the above results, the inclusion of a fourth stage is suggested for further studies where the application of economy of coupons would gradually disappear until a desired behavior is maintained.
  • (10) The recent advent of new advertising campaigns for infant formulas aimed at the general public via television commercials, newspapers, free formula coupons, and lay periodicals has disrupted a comfortable symbiotic relationship between infant food manufacturers and the medical profession that has endured for more than 50 years.
  • (11) Do you want people to turn off the lights because they will get a coupon or because they have some ethical, environmental concerns?
  • (12) "My sister lives in Italy and here local supermarket has a very inviting offer on: do a big shop there on the day of an Italy match, and if Italy win the game you will be given a coupon for the amount that you spent, entitling you to free goods of the same value next time you come," warbles Peter Jenkins.
  • (13) All participants completed the AIDS Knowledge Questionnaire-Revised, the AIDS Attitude Survey, a self-report measure of condom use and received a coupon that could be exchanged for free condoms from the hospital pharmacy.
  • (14) The government will also provide around 40bn yuan in coupons to allow farmers to buy appliances, farm machinery, cars and motorbikes as part of an attempt to stimulate domestic consumption.
  • (15) The company sells coupons offering discounts, taking a cut in any money the business makes.
  • (16) A pattern was detected for all test groups of early initial bone ingrowth by two weeks, which became maximal at six to twelve weeks, followed by remodelling to a more mature lamellar bone and later resorption by 24 weeks, with fibrous tissue interfaces covering the smooth test coupons of all groups at all times.
  • (17) Seventy-six white and black low-income families were interviewed weekly during 1 month to determine how much they spent on food using Food Stamps, WIC coupons, and cash and how much additional food they obtained from different food and meals programs.
  • (18) (1.27-cm)-square stainless-steel coupons, and coupons were suspended in the centrifuge chamber, the space between the refrigeration can and the barrier ring (inner gap), and the space between the barrier ring and the vacuum ring (outer gap).
  • (19) There is no maximum spend on gift cards (redeemable at more than 50 different retailers) but the coupons last only 63 days from the date of issue.
  • (20) Coupons offering $10 off at Radioshack, a retailer that announced the closure of up to 1,100 stores last year , are still scattered about the tile floors.

Specimen


Definition:

  • (n.) A part, or small portion, of anything, or one of a number of things, intended to exhibit the kind and quality of the whole, or of what is not exhibited; a sample; as, a specimen of a man's handwriting; a specimen of painting; aspecimen of one's art.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, when first trimester specimens were analyzed, the direct-product measurements were significantly larger than the corresponding 3H2O assay results.
  • (2) The fluoride treated specimens released more fluoride than the nontreated ones.
  • (3) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
  • (4) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
  • (5) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (6) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
  • (7) Immunofluorescent staining for HLA-DR showed dermal positivity in 12 of 13 involved- and 9 of 13 uninvolved-skin biopsy specimens from scleroderma patients, compared with only 1 of 10 controls.
  • (8) A specimen of a very early ovum, 4 to 6 days old, shown in the luminal form of imbedding before any hemorrhage has taken place, confirms that the luminal form of imbedding does occur.
  • (9) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (10) From these results it was concluded that FITC-Con A staining method applied to smear specimens is more advantageous in the rapidity and the simplicity for tumor cell diagnosis than section specimen method.
  • (11) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (12) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
  • (13) However, a highly significant upward shift of the proliferating cell compartment was observed in the cancer group, resulting in a specific modification of the [3H]TDR labeling pattern in 6 of 17 specimens.
  • (14) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (15) Residual cancer was found in the radical prostatectomy specimen in 11 of the 29 stage-A1 patients (38%) and in 66 of the 86 stage-A2 patients (77%).
  • (16) Thin films (OD approximately 0.7) of glucose-embedded membranes, prepared as a control, showed virtually 100% conversion to the M state, and stacks of such thin film specimens gave very similar x-ray diffraction patterns in the bR568 and the M412 state in most experiments.
  • (17) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
  • (18) It was found to be convenient for routine laboratory use and increased the yield of positive plate cultures in specimens without antibiotics from 53 to 75% (P less than 0.01) and in specimens containing antibiotics from 24 to 38% (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) In invasive epidermoid carcinoma, the accuracy with the self-collected specimens approached the physician-scraped specimens.
  • (20) Two-thirds of the specimens tested gave positive results.