What's the difference between deafen and permanently?
Deafen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make deaf; to deprive of the power of hearing; to render incapable of perceiving sounds distinctly.
(v. t.) To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the second experiment, intact females copulated twice with a male: once when they were able to hear and once when they were temporarily deafened with a medical ear mold.
(2) When the old BBC governors – a system of governance that essentially dated back to 1922 – was dismantled in 2006 the outcry that there might be something quickly nicknamed Ofbeeb was deafening.
(3) Adult song sparrows (Melospiza melodia) were tested for response to songs of conspecific males that had been reared in acoustic isolation or deafened early in life.
(4) Electroneural response patterns of single auditory-nerve neurons were studied in aminoglycoside-deafened squirrel monkeys.
(5) Wang, from Human Rights Watch, said that after a period of deafening silence those governments now needed to find their voice to ensure Liu Xia’s safety.
(6) The main structure will be delimited by 600 minarets, each shaped like an upraised middle finger, and housing a powerful amplifier: when synchronised, their combined sonic might will be capable of relaying the muezzin's call to prayer at such deafening volume, it will be clearly audible in the Afghan mountains, where thousands of terrorists are poised to celebrate by running around with scarves over their faces, firing AK-47s into the sky and yelling whatever the foreign word for "victory" is.
(7) If that happens, Osborne will get the blame as the hissing becomes deafening.
(8) These people stand at the edges of our avenues, of our streets, in deafening anonymity.” The passionate exhortation came hours after he addressed the United Nations , prayed at Ground Zero, visited a school in Harlem and cruised through Central Park, where 80,000 people greeted the 78-year-old Argentinean with rapture.
(9) The implantation of electrodes in neomycin-deafened cats did not result in heavy neuronal degeneration.
(10) Mobile phone messages and television advertisements urged an end to the dangerous and deafening habit of celebratory gunfire, which has caused several deaths and scores of injuries.
(11) Deafening, however, had no apparent, permanent effect on social behavior.
(12) Miliband defended his leadership on a tour round a south London market, amid criticism from colleagues that Labour has allowed a deafening silence to take hold over the parliamentary recess.
(13) One program focuses on postlingually deafened children from the ages of 10 to 17, while the other is designed for deafened children from 2 to 9 years.
(14) "We should, of course, listen to the interests associated with us, and the assortment of pressure groups banging on our door but never conflate their noise, which with social media can seem deafening, with public opinion or let them decide policy.
(15) We reexamined the effects of T on song-control nuclei in deafened birds.
(16) Etiology and genesis of the deafness are important in the sense that progressive deafened patients and patients with a post-leutic deafness have better expectations than those with a meningitic or traumatic deafness.
(17) We have also examined the effect of sinusoids on deafened implantees with tinnitus and conclude that tinnitus can be suppressed in some individuals with low frequency sine waves.
(18) Simulating a 10 micron unmyelinated termination for this model neuron produces a strength-duration curve that closely fits the single-neuron data obtained from aminoglycoside deafened animals.
(19) In the name of this suffering people, whose cries to heaven become more deafening each day, I beg you, I beseech you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression,” he said in a speech to government soldiers the day before his death.
(20) In five profoundly deafened adults, performance was better in consonant identification when additional speech patterns were present than with fundamental frequency alone; the main advantage was derived from amplitude information.
Permanently
Definition:
(adv.) In a permanent manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
(2) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(3) Though the 54-year-old designer made brief returns to the limelight after his fall from grace, designing a one-off collection for Oscar de la Renta last year , his appointment at Margiela marks a more permanent comeback.
(4) The first group was reared in complete darkness while the second one was subjected to permanent noise.
(5) Noise exposure and demographic data applicable to the United States, and procedures for predicting noise-induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) and nosocusis, were used to account for some 8.7 dB of the 13.4 dB average difference between the hearing levels at high frequencies for otologically and noise screened versus unscreened male ears; (this average difference is for the average of the hearing levels at 3000, 4000, and 6000 Hz, average for the 10th, 50th, and 90th percentiles, and ages 20-65 years).
(6) Electromagnetic interference presented as inhibition and resetting of the demand circuitry of a ventricular-inhibited temporary external pacemaker in a 70-year-old man undergoing surgical implantation of a permanent bipolar pacemaker generator and lead.
(7) A total of 27 reoperations including eight repeat PRs (5 of which were successful) was required to achieve permanent retinal reattachment.
(8) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
(9) This article presents the case of bilateral absent maxillary permanent molars with severe oligodontia and no other abnormalities.
(10) The heretofore "permanently and totally disabled versus able-bodied" principle in welfare reforms is being abbandoned.
(11) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
(12) Patients with Type 2 and Type 3 failure require permanent transfer to hemodialysis.
(13) Only two aviators were permanently removed from flying duties due to glaucoma.
(14) By parenteral nutrition, antibiotics and permanent paediatric care the authors controlled all complications and after eight and a half months the operated infant could be discharged.
(15) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
(16) After loss of permanent central incisors the treatment of choice could be either orthodontic closure or maintenance of the gap for a replacement-prosthetic, autotransplantation or implant.
(17) Thirty-three percent of patients (15 of 45) with MAC required permanent pacemaker implantation after aortic valve replacement, compared with only 10% of patients (3 of 31) without MAC (p less than 0.025).
(18) In lean rats, there were no permanent effects of this intervention except for a 25% reduction in carbohydrate intake.
(19) Perinatal brain damage produced by early zinc deficiency followed by rehabilitation with adequate zinc appears to be long term, maybe permanent.
(20) The process by which prolonged treatment at 2.2 kbar led to permanent activation of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase after release of pressure was not reflected, however, by time-dependent changes in the functional state of UDP-glucuronosyltransferase at this pressure.