What's the difference between damage and deface?

Damage


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury or harm to person, property, or reputation; an inflicted loss of value; detriment; hurt; mischief.
  • (n.) The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another.
  • (n.) To ocassion damage to the soudness, goodness, or value of; to hurt; to injure; to impair.
  • (v. i.) To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in /oth damage in sunlight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The variation in thickness of the LLFL may modulate the species causing damage to the cells below it.
  • (2) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
  • (3) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (4) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (5) Moreover, in DCVC-treated cells the mitochondria could not be stained with rhodamine-123, indicating severe mitochondrial damage and loss of membrane potential.
  • (6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (7) The west Africa Ebola epidemic “Few global events match epidemics and pandemics in potential to disrupt human security and inflict loss of life and economic and social damage,” he said.
  • (8) We have not yet been honest about the implications, and some damaging myths have arisen.
  • (9) The authors conclude that H. pylori alone causes little or no effect on an intact gastric mucosa in the rat, that either intact organisms or bacteria-free filtrates cause similar prolongation and delayed healing of pre-existing ulcers with active chronic inflammation, and that the presence of predisposing factors leading to disruption of gastric mucosal integrity may be required for the H. pylori enhancement of inflammation and tissue damage in the stomach.
  • (10) At 24 or 48 hours after ischemia, 63Ni, 99TcO4, and 22Na were preferentially concentrated in the damaged striatum and hippocampus, whereas 65Zn, 59Fe, 32PO4, and 147Pm did not accumulate in irreversibly injured tissue.
  • (11) After 2 weeks the rats were sacrificed and the brain damage evaluated by comparing the weight of the lesioned and unlesioned hemispheres.
  • (12) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
  • (13) These findings suggest that aerosolization of ATP into the cystic fibrosis-affected bronchial tree might be hazardous in terms of enhancement of parenchymal damage, which would result from neutrophil elastase release, and in terms of impaired respiratory lung function.
  • (14) Damage to this innervation is often initiated by childbirth, but appears to progress during a period of many years so that the functional disorder usually presents in middle life.
  • (15) In case of isolated damage of deep flexor tendon of the II-V fingers at the level of the I zone there were made palliative operations of 12 fingers: tenodesis and arthrodesis of distal interphalangeal articulation in functionally advantageous position.
  • (16) To study these changes more thoroughly, specific monoclonal antibodies of the A and B subunits of calcineurin (protein phosphatase 2B) were raised, and regional alterations in the immunoreactivity of calcineurin in the rat hippocampus were investigated after a transient forebrain ischemic insult causing selective and delayed hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cell damage.
  • (17) Only group IV showed significant histological alterations such as glomerular sclerosis, interstitial damage, and increased glomerular area.
  • (18) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
  • (19) Damage due to overstretching is probably the main cause.
  • (20) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.

Deface


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.
  • (v. t.) To destroy; to make null.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children with multiple defacing anomalies may not be mentally retarded so that aggressive management of their visceral anomalies and hearing problems, and early educational intervention are mandatory.
  • (2) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
  • (3) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (4) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
  • (5) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
  • (6) I am devastated by this week, by our descent into defacement and boycott over discussion and debate."
  • (7) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
  • (8) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
  • (9) Sherri Iacobelli, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press Newsome and Tyson, 30, also of Charlotte, had been charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to three years, or both.
  • (10) Earlier about 150 youths defaced central Athens's Christmas tree, hanging bin liners from its branches, before clashing with riot police.
  • (11) Some see a confident, charismatic comedy talent and a welcome point of difference in a bland – and white – late-night landscape, while others see him as an unwelcome reformist who has defaced the Daily Show that Stewart built.
  • (12) Other incidents that have worried international campaigners include the arrest of four young men near the northern city of Jaffna in late November, for defacing an image of Rajapaksa, and the death of a Tamil prisoner who was a British citizen in February in the main Colombo jail.
  • (13) I just think the world is a bit better when you are willing to give people chances.” Hopkins, a columnist with MailOnline, is facing a legal bill estimated at more than £300,000 after a high court judge ruled on Friday that she had defamed Monroe in two tweets sent in May 2015, which the court found had implied that Monroe had defaced or supported defacing a war memorial.
  • (14) Monroe was awarded £24,000 in damages last week in a row over tweets suggesting the writer approved of defacing a war memorial during an anti-austerity demonstration in Whitehall.
  • (15) DI Ian Harratt of GMP’s Oldham borough, said: “In the wake of the atrocities that happened at the Manchester Arena, this man thought it was acceptable to deface and set fire to a local mosque.” “This behaviour will not be tolerated,” he went on.
  • (16) As you walk home, stopping only to deface street art and urinate on sights of natural beauty, consider what’s gone wrong enough to lead you to this point.
  • (17) I don’t think it’s ever been defaced before in that time.” Gilmore said a large group of “highly respected” Muslims had lived in the community since the 1920s.
  • (18) Brian Pannebecker knew trouble was brewing when he found one of his letters to the editor defaced with a swastika.
  • (19) I have no idea if any of those initiatives was inspired by my protest; several others also defaced the hate posters with stickers.
  • (20) It says to the people of Canning, ‘We don’t care if your main worry is law and order, and the scourge of ice.’” Hastie also used his address on Saturday to take two separate swipes at the opposition, criticising its candidate Matt Keogh and saying the Labor party has shown it will deface Australia’s national achievements with bad policy if given the opportunity.