What's the difference between dispense and mete?

Dispense


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
  • (v. t.) To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
  • (v. t.) To pay for; to atone for.
  • (v. t.) To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
  • (v. i.) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
  • (v. i.) To give dispensation.
  • (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
  • (n.) Expense; profusion; outlay.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
  • (3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
  • (4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
  • (5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
  • (6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
  • (7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
  • (8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
  • (9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
  • (10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
  • (11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
  • (12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
  • (13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
  • (14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
  • (15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
  • (16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
  • (17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
  • (18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
  • (19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
  • (20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.

Mete


Definition:

  • (n.) Meat.
  • (v. t. & i.) To meet.
  • (v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.
  • (a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.
  • (v. i.) To measure.
  • (n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although B12 supplementation results in a 10-fold repression of metE-lacZ expression, homocysteine addition to the growth medium overrides the B12-mediated repression.
  • (2) The deputy prime minister branded the treatment meted out to the four-year-old by his mother, Magdelena Luczak, and stepfather, Mariusz Krezolek, as evil and vile, but suggested it was up to the whole of society to stop such tragedies.
  • (3) This raises two issues: first, the treatment being meted out to thousands of people should be a moral offence to all of us; and second, our flexible labour market and increasingly brutal welfare system are now so constructed that even if you are doing well, it is perfectly possible that you could fall ill, and then find yourself just as terrified as the thousands who are currently being herded through the WCA process.
  • (4) The vitamin B12 (B12)-mediated repression of the metE gene in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium requires the B12-dependent transmethylase, the metH gene product.
  • (5) The ubiE gene was shown to be cotransducible with metE (minute 75) and close to two other genes concerned with ubiquinone biosynthesis.
  • (6) When this plasmid was used to transform either wild-type E. coli, metE mutant, or metR mutant, MetE enzyme activity increased 5- to 7-fold over wild-type levels.
  • (7) This conserved sequence shows homology to a sequence preceding the S. typhimurium metE gene determined to bind the MetR regulatory protein.
  • (8) Eight metH mutants in Salmonella typhimurium with closely linked sites of mutation which could grow only on methionine were isolated from a metE mutant deficient in N(5)-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate-homocysteine transmethylase; their deficiency in cobalamin-dependent N(5)-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine transmethylase was supported by the results of enzyme studies of one of them.
  • (9) The data of conjugational and transductional experiments presented in this report demonstrate that the udpPf1 inversion covers a chromosomal segment extending over 12 min of the E. coli genetic map and including the rpsE, crp and metE::Tn5 markers.
  • (10) For vitamin B12 and methionine to act as regulatory effectors in metE control, functional metH and metJ genes are required, respectively.
  • (11) Helena Smith in Athens says head of state president Carolos Papoulias has launched an attack on the fiscal policies being meted out by the country's creditors.
  • (12) Although the transformed cells produced large amounts of the metE protein in vivo, in vitro studies using pJ19 as template showed low synthesis of the metE protein.
  • (13) It is the latest sorry chapter in what has been a bad year for London's Square Mile, which is still digesting the record fine meted out to Barclays for attempting to rig Libor and the fulsome apology from HSBC, which admitted helping Mexican drug barons launder money.
  • (14) The former mutation lies near metE at min 75 and has been designated as bioP.
  • (15) Golovkin, without so much as a blemish on his cherubic visage, continued to mete out punishment.
  • (16) We used a metE-lacZ fusion phage (lambda Elac) to select for mutants with operator-constitutive mutations in the Salmonella typhimurium metE control region.
  • (17) Finally, it is known that vitamin B12 can repress expression of the metE gene.
  • (18) In transduction, the mutation mapped close to genes ilvD and metE at minute 84.
  • (19) This plasmid, pJ19, was used to transform Escherichia coli strain 2276, a metE mutant, and restore the MetE+ phenotype.
  • (20) Far from bridging the gap between Greece and its partners, the medicine meted out by international creditors has exacerbated the country’s decline.