What's the difference between debit and flow?

Debit


Definition:

  • (n.) A debt; an entry on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; -- mostly used adjectively; as, the debit side of an account.
  • (v. t.) To charge with debt; -- the opposite of, and correlative to, credit; as, to debit a purchaser for the goods sold.
  • (v. t.) To enter on the debtor (Dr.) side of an account; as, to debit the amount of goods sold.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The debit card doubles as a Clubcard, and customers will be able to earn points wherever they use it.
  • (2) Target’s data breach in 2013 exposed details of as many as 40m credit and debit card accounts and hurt its holiday sales that year.
  • (3) Ensuring residents have multiple ways to pay (such as via a text message or through a smartphone app) will also be important as they offer residents the control they feel they have with cash and can be used to top up a direct debit.
  • (4) It comes with a full banking service including a cash card but no debit card, chequebook or overdraft.
  • (5) CPAs are similar to direct debits in that they enable a company to control the size and frequency of payments from the customer's account.
  • (6) The Tesco Bank current account offers 3% interest on credit balances, Clubcard points on all debit card spending, and a "simple and transparent" fees and charges structure.
  • (7) JD, Oxford More than three months to get a replacement debit card is ridiculous, and we agree that you have been more than patient.
  • (8) Hours after Greece’s bailout programme with its creditors expired and the country became the first in the developed world to miss an IMF loan repayment, Greek pensioners without debit cards were at last able to withdraw some cash.
  • (9) The second debit sent him overdrawn leaving him unable to access any funds.
  • (10) In 2014, hackers stole information on an estimated 56 million debit and credit card customers from Home Depot .
  • (11) Pay by direct debit This can save consumers up to 10% or about £100 a year, according to Citizens Advice .
  • (12) As part of an ongoing investigation into credit brokers, the company was found to have used high-pressure sales tactics to persuade consumers to provide their debit or credit card details on the false premise that they were needed for an identity or security check.
  • (13) The £5 a month is to ensure that customers do not face further banking charges when payments are returned unpaid for direct debits and standing orders.
  • (14) The average debit card was used to make 94 purchases in 2013, with the total amount spent per card typically coming in at just over £4,000.
  • (15) However, hyperimmunoglobulinemia tends to show elevated hydrochloric acid debit.
  • (16) As students across Britain began closing accounts at the bank, HSBC reacted by freezing interest on overdrafts Letter chain Millions of template letters downloaded from internet sites - including theguardian.com - forced the banks into this week's court case to clarify the legal basis of charges such as those for bounced cheques and direct debits.
  • (17) He said he was considering requiring energy companies to put some direct debit customers on low tariffs with a customer's right to opt out.
  • (18) Allowing tenants to set the date the direct debit leaves their account also boosts take-up.
  • (19) The results point out that the phase of cell-specific function is distinctly lengthened to the debit of a reduced rate of mitosis.
  • (20) Choose an online tariff Scottish Power, British Gas and npower are among the providers which offer their best deals to customers willing to pay by direct debit and manage their account online.

Flow


Definition:

  • () imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
  • (v. i.) To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.
  • (v. i.) To become liquid; to melt.
  • (v. i.) To proceed; to issue forth; as, wealth flows from industry and economy.
  • (v. i.) To glide along smoothly, without harshness or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily.
  • (v. i.) To have or be in abundance; to abound; to full, so as to run or flow over; to be copious.
  • (v. i.) To hang loose and waving; as, a flowing mantle; flowing locks.
  • (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
  • (v. i.) To discharge blood in excess from the uterus.
  • (v. t.) To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
  • (v. t.) To cover with varnish.
  • (n.) A stream of water or other fluid; a current; as, a flow of water; a flow of blood.
  • (n.) A continuous movement of something abundant; as, a flow of words.
  • (n.) Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought, diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream.
  • (n.) The tidal setting in of the water from the ocean to the shore. See Ebb and flow, under Ebb.
  • (n.) A low-lying piece of watery land; -- called also flow moss and flow bog.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An automated continuous flow sample cleanup system intended for rapid screening of foods for pesticide residues in fresh and processed vegetables has been developed.
  • (2) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (3) Both lymph flow from cannulated pancreatico-duodenal lymphatics and intralymphatic pressure in the non-transected ones increased significantly.
  • (4) Increased infusion flow rate did not increase the limiting frequency.
  • (5) Hepatic lymph flow increased only after ethacrynic acid and mannitol administration.
  • (6) Blood flow decreased immediately after skin expansion in areas over the tissue expander on days 0 and 1 and returned to baseline levels within 24 hours.
  • (7) These results could be explained by altered tissue blood flow and a decreased metabolic capacity of the liver in obese subjects.
  • (8) Arginine vasopressin further reduced papillary flow in kidneys perfused with high viscosity artificial plasma.
  • (9) Peak Expiratory Flow and Forced Expiratory Mean Flows in the ranges 0-25%, 25-50% and 50-75% of Forced Vital Capacity were significantly reduced in animals exposed to gasoline exhaust fumes, whereas the group exposed to ethanol exhaust fumes did not differ from the control group.
  • (10) 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).
  • (11) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
  • (12) Blood flow was measured in leg and torso skin of conscious or anesthetized sheep by using 15-micron radioactive microspheres (Qm) and the 133Xe washout method (QXe).
  • (13) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (14) Using an in vitro culture system, light scatter analyses, and two-color flow cytometry, we provide evidence that the interleukin-2 (IL-2) and transferrin receptors can be induced within 48 hr on nonproliferating immature thymocytes.
  • (15) These findings may not indicate a redistribution of renal blood flow through resistance changes in specific parts of the renal vasculature but may represent the consequences of focal cortical ischaemia, most prominent in the outer cortex.
  • (16) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (17) YM infused at 0.01 pmol.kg-1.min-1 did not cause any changes in urinary flow rate or Na excretion.
  • (18) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (19) The effect of these drugs was estimated from the cell growth curve and DNA histogram determined by flow cytometry.
  • (20) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.