What's the difference between currency and schilling?
Currency
Definition:
(n.) A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
(n.) The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
(n.) That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(n.) Fluency; readiness of utterance.
(n.) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(2) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
(3) Because while some of these alt-currencies show promise, many aren't worth the paper they're not printed on.
(4) Gavin Andresen, formerly the chief scientist at the currency’s guiding body, the Bitcoin Foundation, had been the most important backer of the man who would be Satoshi.
(5) • Criminal sanctions should be introduced for anyone who attempts to manipulate Libor by amending the Financial Services and Market Act to allow the FSA to prosecute manipulation of the rate • The new body that oversees the administration of Libor, replacing the BBA, should introduce a "code of conduct" that requires submissions to be corroborated by trade data • Libor is set by a panel of banks asked the price at which they expect to borrow over 15 periods, from overnight to 12 months, in 10 currencies.
(6) That was what the earlier debate over “currency wars” – when emerging markets complained about being inundated by financial inflows from the US – was all about.
(7) The initial impact was felt on the local currency market where a shortage of foreign exchange caused a looming crisis.
(8) Single-currency membership has no bearing on the foreign policy post.
(9) By easing these huge flows of hundreds of billions across borders, the single currency played a material role in causing the continent's crisis.
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(12) But he added: “It’s also true that extremely low oil prices, adverse changes in currency rates, and a further decline in power prices are having a significant effect on our business.” Tony Cocker, the chief executive of E.ON UK, said milder weather and improved energy efficiency in British homes were behind the fall in power use, hitting sales.
(13) It announced that it would phase out the dual currency system.
(14) It is one of six banks involved in talks with the Financial Conduct Authority over alleged rigging in currency markets and Ross McEwan, marking a year as RBS boss, also pointed to a string of other risks in a third quarter trading update.
(15) Spain was the worst hit of the currency bloc's major economies with a 0.8% drop in industrial production.
(16) But Frank argues the disastrous attempt at curbing markets through currency reform in 2009 has shown the cost of turning back from change.
(17) The survey also found that Osborne's currency union veto made 30% more likely to vote no with only 13% more inclined to vote yes.
(18) Eurozone leaders ooze confidence that Greece’s financial collapse could be easily weathered by the rest of the currency bloc.
(19) But persistent falls in the currency’s value during December towards the previous low point has increased the cost of imported goods and forced businesses to say that price rises are in the pipeline.
(20) Updated at 2.48pm GMT 1.42pm GMT Another question riffing off Britain's EU referendum - how will Europe draw up new structures such as co-ordinated banking supervision when some members of the EU are refusing to ever join the single currency?
Schilling
Definition:
(n.) Any one of several small German and Dutch coins, worth from about one and a half cents to about five cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Evidence for malabsorption existed in 24 patients--impaired xylose absorption (n = 19) and abnormal Schilling test (n = 21).
(2) ALPh-A diminishes at a slower rate with increasing age than the left shift according to Schilling 4.
(3) There was no correlation between the (14)C-GCA test, the Schilling test, and the extent and severity of the radiological signs in the unoperated patients.
(4) It didn't affect its biological activity either in vitro in presence of solubilised receptor, or in vivo in the Schilling test.
(5) Possibly such malabsorption may also be present in many of those vegans developing overt vitamin-B12 deficiency in whom Schilling test findings have been normal.
(6) A repeat Schilling test after 4 months of therapy showed a normal VB12 absorption in the presence of IF.
(7) Although the dual isotope test gave reproducible results and was consistent with the standard Schilling test some anomalies were detected; nine patients had reduced aqueous absorption with normal protein bound absorption.
(8) With the advent of binding assays for vitamin B12 in blood, the Schilling test, which involves administration of radioactive B12 to a patient and subsequent urine collection for 24 to 48 h, fell into disuse in many laboratories.
(9) The advantages, particularly for developing countries, over the more commonly used Schilling test are discussed.
(10) Despite Schillings' letter, he knows this is about to change.
(11) These percentages were correlated with the Schilling test and with the ability of intestinal juice to degrade haptocorrin.
(12) In patients with uremia the SST was significantly more reliable than the Schilling test.
(13) Of the patients with a severely abnormal Schilling test, a pathogen was identified in 11 (79%) (including all five with cryptosporidia, and two of the patients with only moderate diarrhoea and weight loss).
(14) Indeed, because of the serious complications of vitamin B12 deficiency and the observations that deficiencies of this vitamin may occur even when the absorption of crystalline vitamin B12 is normal in the fasting state (the conventional Schilling test), some authors, such as Rygvold, have suggested that prophylactic vitamin B12 be administered to all patients with partial gastric resection.
(15) It is suggested that the augmented Schilling test may be useful in the diagnosis of the occasional patient with features of pernicious anaemia who fails to respond to conventional doses of intrinsic factor in the Schilling test.
(16) Results of the Schilling test, but not of the stool-fat estimations, are proportional to the length of ileal resection, up to 60 cm.
(17) The correlation coefficients were statistically significant for increased MPO activity with band count, toxic granulation, and the Schilling Index; however, the orders of magnitude were too low to suggest the use of MPO as a clinical parameter.
(18) The excessive granulocytic or macrophage colony growth may be an in vitro indication for an in vivo proliferation of either granulocytic or monocytic leukemic cell lines, and therefore may represent the Naegeli or Schilling variants of AMML respectively.
(19) The original Schilling formula, based on findings in a European population at the beginning of this century are still used as reference in our country.
(20) Hydroxocobalamin and cyanocobalamin have been compared as the 'flushing dose' in the Schilling test.