What's the difference between depauperate and stunt?
Depauperate
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To make poor; to impoverish.
(a.) Falling short of the natural size, from being impoverished or starved.
Example Sentences:
(1) These linkage results and chromosomal observations of other investigators suggest that Sex-1 lies on an information-depauperate arm.
(2) Treatment with LHRH-anta produced a significant decrease in thymus wt, an alteration of the maturational pattern characterized by a cellular monomorphism, reduced thymocyte volume, reduction of the cortical area, and depauperation of the epithelial microenvironment.
(3) When genetic distance between species is a function of time, mean genetic distances in speciose and depauperate phylads of equal evolutionary age are very similar.
(4) Evaluation of benthos revealed a relatively depauperate community, particularly at the lower Fox River sites.
(5) Third, whatever morphological specializations are present, particularly in Cebus, are probably favored by diet at the most food-depauperate time of year.
(6) These results confirm the genetically depauperate character of the African cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus, and the Asiatic lion, Panthera leo persica; further, they support the use of class I MHC molecular reagents in estimating the extent and character of genetic diversity in natural populations.
(7) For this purpose genetic distances need to be measured in speciose and depauperate phylads of equal evolutionary age.
(8) On the contrary, when genetic distance is a function of the number of speciations in the history of a phylad, the ratio of mean genetic distances separating species in speciose versus depauperate phylads is greater than one, and increases rapidly as the frequency of speciations in one group relative to the other increases.
(9) Allogenic helminths with indirect life cycles predominate in the depauperate helminth fauna of dace.
(10) Infracommunities were depauperate, with double patent infections observed in only 7 of 1,485 infected snails; a total of 4,899 was examined.
Stunt
Definition:
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
(n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
(n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.
Example Sentences:
(1) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
(2) The more frequent causes of a stunted growth were ruled out previously (systemic and chronic diseases, metabolic disorders, genetic alterations, etc.).
(3) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(4) Uptake was also investigated in 17 children with right-to-left cardiac stunts and 18 children with left-to-right shunts undergoing corrective or palliative cardiac surgery.
(5) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
(6) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
(7) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
(8) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
(9) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
(10) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
(11) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
(12) Stunted children were randomly assigned to supplementation or not.
(13) The aim of this study is to identify fetal organs and developmental periods sensitive to stunting induced by maternal exposure to dexamethasone (DEX).
(14) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
(15) An editorial in the Saturday edition of the English language Global Times, which is run by the Communist party, said the students’ travel plans were little more than a publicity stunt.
(16) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
(17) A performance art group called the Centre for Political Beauty claimed to have organised the stunt.
(18) A recent multi-country study showed that for every 10% increase in levels of stunting among children, the proportion of children reaching the final grade of school dropped by almost 8%.
(19) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
(20) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.