What's the difference between devising and fashioning?

Devising


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Devise

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
  • (2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (3) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
  • (4) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
  • (5) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
  • (6) Adaequate and reliable testing techniques had to be devised.
  • (7) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
  • (8) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
  • (9) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
  • (10) The clinical and laboratory features are reviewed and the results of recently devised strategies aimed at characterizing the primary molecular and genetic abnormalities are presented.
  • (11) The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II classification, a measure of severity of illness in patients requiring intensive care, was devised before the rapid expansion of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
  • (12) The increase in Con A fiber-binding seems to be specific for EGF, since it was not observed in response to insulin, prostaglandin F2alpha or a higher serum concentration, which also initiate cell devision of confluent quiescent 3T3 cells.
  • (13) Many modern cancer drugs are of very little benefit to patients, according to a group of leading European experts, who have devised a way to score them.
  • (14) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
  • (15) An experimental murine malarial model was devised using the highly synchronous species Plasmodium vinckei petteri to test this rationale.
  • (16) In order to attain these objectives, a new scanning method involving Target Volume Scan for the pancreas as a routine CT scanning modality has been devised.
  • (17) Banks are now attempting to devise ways of avoiding the cap.
  • (18) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
  • (19) The proposed estimator (Z) was devised for pseudorandom excitation and is based on time-domain signal averaging before frequency analysis.
  • (20) A scoring system has been devised to rate 12 easily measured clinical and pathological parameters, and a regression analysis used to measure the contribution made by each parameter to hospital morbidity and mortality and to later mortality over a 5 year period.

Fashioning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fashion

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (2) Brilliant, old-fashioned speech, from the days before teleprompters became all-dominant.
  • (3) Our findings demonstrate that interleukin-2 (IL-2), but not interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) or interleukin-1 (IL-1), is able to inhibit the induction of T-cell unresponsiveness in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (4) L-NAME abolished B contractions in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (5) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (6) From this proliferating layer, precursor cells migrate outwards to reach the developing neostriatum in a sequential fashion according to two gradients of histogenesis.
  • (7) He fashioned alliances with France in the 1950s, and planted the seeds for Israel’s embryonic electronics and aircraft industries.
  • (8) Ruminal digestion (% of intake) of neutral detergent fiber (NDF) and hemicellulose decreased linearly (P less than .05), whereas acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestion responded in a cubic (P less than .05) fashion to increasing concentrate level; NaHCO3 improved ruminal digestion of NDF (P less than .10) and ADF (P less than .05), but not hemicellulose.
  • (9) The latter are located within the antigen combining site, since antiidiotypic antisera specifically inhibited the binding of the corresponding immunizing anti-human high-molecular-weight melanoma-associated antigen monoclonal antibody to cultured human melanoma cells Colo 38 in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (10) Cholera toxin reduced absorption of water and electrolytes progressively over four hours and induced secretion in a dose dependent fashion.
  • (11) It is released into the urine in large quantities and thus represents a potential candidate for a protein secreted in a polarized fashion from the apical plasma membrane of epithelial cells in vivo.
  • (12) It appears that tricyclic antidepressants act in a fashion different from opiate drugs that alter the sensory discriminative component of pain.
  • (13) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
  • (14) The molecule uncoils above pH 11.5 in a time-dependent fashion.
  • (15) Isomers and epimers of glucose influence insulin and cAMP in a parallel fashion as do sulfonylurea compounds (tolbutamide and glibenclamide).
  • (16) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
  • (17) Platelets treated with varying concentrations of collagen and thrombin released osteonectin in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (18) If added prior to cellular alignment, immunoglobulins from this serum inhibited fusion of both rat (L6) and mouse (C2) myoblasts in a dose-dependent fashion.
  • (19) Only centralised nation states had the capacity to collect data across large populations in a standardised fashion and only states had any need for such data in the first place.
  • (20) However, as already noted by Albert (1979) this is questionable, as average disease duration and survival have increased in a linear fashion related to the number of publications devoted to this subject from 1950 on.

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