What's the difference between deem and deer?

Deem


Definition:

  • (v.) To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
  • (v.) To account; to esteem; to think; to judge; to hold in opinion; to regard.
  • (v. i.) To be of opinion; to think; to estimate; to opine; to suppose.
  • (v. i.) To pass judgment.
  • (n.) Opinion; judgment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (3) Various protocols were employed to induce LTP and were deemed successful as evaluated by recording sustained enhancement of the mean peak amplitude of conventionally elicited large compound EPSPs and extracellular field potentials.
  • (4) And this was always the thing with the British player, they were always deemed never to be intelligent, not to have good decision-making skills but could fight like hell for the ball.
  • (5) Reasons for stopping treatment early included progressive disease, stable disease without symptomatic improvement, or severe toxicity deemed intolerable by either the patient or physician.
  • (6) Results of crosses were consistent with the hypothesis that a single, incompletely dominant gene was acting, but further study of both the anatomy and heredity of the defect was deemed necessary.
  • (7) These late paintings were deemed too perfect, not "badly done" enough, perhaps, and unchallenging: there was in them a marked absence of painterly lavishness.
  • (8) Items deemed inappropriate now extended to Soviet writings on sexuality from the previous decade, when abortion was legalised and Alexandra Kollontai, the most famous woman in the Bolshevik government, called for the destruction of the traditional family — a movement reversed under Stalin.
  • (9) This approach to a difficult and unusual problem is recommended as a first line of therapy rather than surgical resection if it is deemed that the patient can tolerate a combination of chemo and radiation therapy and the patient will be able to participate in a long-term follow-up.
  • (10) When we reached our summit, or whatever spot was deemed by my father to be of adequately punishing distance from the car to deserve lunch, Dad would invariably find he had forgotten his Swiss army knife (looking back, I begin to doubt he ever had one) and instead would cut cheese into slices with the edge of his credit card.
  • (11) Approximately half the cases in the past were deemed "primary" or "idiopathic."
  • (12) He was first deemed medically unfit to be detained in October, but has remained in custody.
  • (13) Two kidneys (Group 3), deemed unsuitable for transplantation, were perfused for 24 hours with perfusate swished with unwashed sterile gloves.
  • (14) Letters were sent to 259 members of the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) asking them to list representative cases where requests for equipment deemed necessary were denied.
  • (15) The Ulster Unionist health spokesman added: "I am concerned that a high court judge has deemed that the minister of health has breached the ministerial code.
  • (16) Then you happen on a large notice board festooned with flyers and cards, many offering help, companionship and solidarity to those who have been deemed surplus to the requirements of consumerism.
  • (17) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
  • (18) The first African country to gain independence in 1957 following 83 years of colonial rule by the British, it is now a stable democracy whose last five elections have been deemed free and fair.
  • (19) According to Sussex police, explosives experts investigated what was initially deemed a suspicious item discarded by the man and carried out a small controlled explosion.
  • (20) These had such a chilling effect on the provision of abortion that the number carried out by medical staff collapsed in the face of warnings about long terms of imprisonment for those deemed to have broken the law .

Deer


Definition:

  • (n. sing. & pl.) Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A ruminant of the genus Cervus, of many species, and of related genera of the family Cervidae. The males, and in some species the females, have solid antlers, often much branched, which are shed annually. Their flesh, for which they are hunted, is called venison.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (2) An experimental Anaplasma marginale infection was induced in a splenectomized mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) which persisted subclinically at least 376 days as detected by subinoculation into susceptible cattle.
  • (3) No cross reactions were found between bluetongue and epizootic haemorrhagic disease of deer viruses.
  • (4) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (5) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
  • (6) We conclude from this study that there is little or no seasonal photoperiodic entrainment of the antler and testicular cycles of males in this population of axis deer.
  • (7) Specimens of human bone from the site exhibited lower strontium levels and strontium-to-calcium ratios than deer specimens from the same site, reinforcing paleodemographic evidence that the human populations that inhabited this site included substantial amounts of meat in their diets.
  • (8) Although approximately 29% of the inoculum was recovered from the hepatic parenchyma of the sheep, F. hepatica was found in only one of six inoculated deer.
  • (9) Thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3), and alkaline phosphatase (AP) were assayed monthly in white-tailed deer plasma obtained from the antler (A), jugular (J), and the saphenous (S) veins during the period of antler growth and the period of mineralization.
  • (10) Naturally occurring transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have been recognised in sheep, man, mink, captive deer and cattle.
  • (11) Seasonal levels of androstenedione and testosterone were investigated in plasma of mature intact and castrated male white-tailed deer.
  • (12) Rabbits were hyperimmunized using erythrocytes from either normal or Theileria infected deer.
  • (13) Adult F hepatica flukes were recovered from experimentally infected sheep and ESP obtained from the flukes; portions of liver were cut and frozen at -70 C. Fascioloides magna adults were collected from naturally infected white-tailed deer and ESP obtained; portions of liver were collected from noninfected white-tailed deer.
  • (14) Père David's deer hinds were treated with GnRH, administered as intermittent i.v.
  • (15) A technique for removing the pineal gland in adult and young male deer is described.
  • (16) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
  • (17) The aim of this work was to determine whether a herpesvirus serologically related to bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) may occur in a stressed white-tailed deer population.
  • (18) Our results indicated that analyses of helminth communities of deer from this geographical area do not provide a useful quantification technique for determining deer condition, degree of hybridization, or levels of intraspecific competition.
  • (19) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
  • (20) Unusual to see one around here until just recently.” More deer vaulted in front of my car on Yubari’s main street the following day, forcing a swerve.