(a.) Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different shapes; different degrees of excellence.
Example Sentences:
(1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(4) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(5) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(6) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(7) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(8) Phospholipid methylation in human EGMs is distinctly different from that in rat EGMs (Hirata and Axelrod 1980) in that the human activity is not Mg++-dependent, and apparent methyltransferase I activity is located in the external membrane surface.
(9) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(10) The outward currents are sensitive to TEA and their reversal potentials differ.
(11) During control, no significant difference between systolic fluctuation (delta Pa) and pleural swings (delta Ppl) was found.
(12) This difference was not due to ATPase activity in the assay.
(13) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
(14) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
(15) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(16) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(17) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(18) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(19) Snooker, which became and remains a fixture in the BBC2 schedules, was chosen for showing because it is the sport in which different shades are most significant.
(20) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
Sundry
Definition:
(v. t.) Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
(v. t.) Separate; diverse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The editor of the Spectator stalks the corridors reminding all and sundry that the national debt will have risen far faster and higher under Cameron than under Labour in 13 years.
(2) Try the provolone com cebola (provolone cheese and onion), Italiano (gorgonzola, sundried tomato and arugula), or the brie with shiitake.
(3) At the time of publishing the list stands at 244, including, but certainly not limited to: disturbed balance; blurred vision; cataracts; mass bee extinction; unexplained deaths of cattle, goats, dolphins, worms and sundry other animals; family discord; disoriented echidnas; social problems among peacocks; and eggs without yolks.
(4) We have evaluated the carcinogenicity of different preparations of areca nut: ripe-unprocessed-sundried nut (R-UP-SD), ripe-processed-sundried nut (R-P-SD), unripe-processed-sundried nut (UR-P-SD), ripe-unprocessed-sundried-water-soaked nut (R-UP-SD-WS) and ripe-unprocessed-undried-water-soaked nut (R-UP-UD-WS) in mice following diet-feeding or oral feeding for 12 months.
(5) Selective ligation of sundry hepatic arteries in patients with hepatic trauma obviated death from hepatic bleeding in 59 of 60 patients treated with this method of hemostasis.
(6) The study examines the relative influence of sundry psychological risk factors on the various forms of angina pectoris found in two groups of women with classic angina pains attributable in one group to critical organic lesions of the coronary arteries and in the other to functional spasm.
(7) SUNDRIES QUEEN’S POLICE MEDAL (QPM) ENGLAND AND WALES Simon John Alcock.
(8) Politicians bear a heavy responsibility for this, notably Thatcher, who assaulted unions and vested interests with the conspicuous exception of the police: she needed their support in sundry industrial conflicts.
(9) Gay viewers seeking mainstream self-identification in the cinema have usually had to settle for winking nuances and allusions, or at worst, the more oblivious homoeroticism of sundry Michael Bay-style brawnfests.
(10) The nuts are chewed as such or processed by roasting, sundrying, soaking or boiling prior to chewing.
(11) The annual fee is around £700,000 plus food and sundries.
(12) Lauded by his equals, feared by his rivals, loathed by all and sundry.
(13) Iam quite taken aback by the furore over Tyson Fury , with calls for him to be put in the stocks from all and sundry.
(14) In April 2005, she claimed £535 for a television and set-top box and in February 2006, she claimed £1,098 for a Samsung television and various "sundries" including an outdoor wall heater.
(15) I therefore suggest to all and sundry across the party and the government that we unite in ensuring Tony Abbott does not simply treat the Lodge as if it’s his own personal property.
(16) Solunarians In Daniel Defoe's The Consolidator, or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon , we find that the lunar satellite is populated by the Solunarians, who are endlessly scrapping with their enemies.
(17) In a statement that seems little short of putting two fingers up at all and sundry, the company said that this amount was not "conducive to private sector involvement" in the refurbishment of the tube, and then it goes on to emphasise that London Underground is a "difficult" client.
(18) They insist on the possibilities of these languages that go from the simple notation of information to the taking of these sundries modalities in account.
(19) So Miranda's dress gets stuck in a cab, revealing her bra and big knickers to all and sundry.
(20) Estimation of the active chemical constituents in the nuts namely arecoline and polyphenols following nut treatments by sundrying, roasting, soaking and boiling, revealed reduction in these chemical contents.