What's the difference between disposable and portable?

Disposable


Definition:

  • (a.) Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (2) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
  • (3) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
  • (4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
  • (5) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
  • (6) Microsequencing of the peptides resolved by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicates that the amino terminus of the protein is disposed at or near the cytoplasmic surface of the gap junction, and that this surface also contains a protease-hypersensitive hydrophilic sequence between residues 109 and 123, presumably connecting the second and third transmembrane segments.
  • (7) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
  • (8) These studies demonstrated that in normal subjects at both physiological and maximally stimulating plasma insulin concentrations, glucose storage is a major factor in distinguishing between those with low or high rates of insulin-mediated glucose disposal.
  • (9) • Regulations requiring manufacturers of electrical goods and batteries to take financial responsibility for their safe disposal will be liberalised or improved.
  • (10) Soft lenses also provide the options of disposability and of iris color change.
  • (11) In the microfibrillar phase, there were two layers; an outer, thicker layer of randomly disposed microfibrils and an inner, thin layer of microfibrils oriented parallel to the hyphal axis.
  • (12) Current evidence supports the view that the ubiquitin system is responsible for the disposal of aberrant proteins formed by stress.
  • (13) Attention is given to the poor design of a disposable cellulose sponge that results in frequent hooking of sutures during microsurgical procedures.
  • (14) If the pants did become available in clinics, Dukelow said costs might be around a few hundred dollars (around £125) for the basic equipment plus a few tens of dollars per month for the disposable electrodes.
  • (15) The records of visits of children and adolescents to the emergency department of the Vancouver General Hospital were reviewed during the period July 1, 1965, to June 30, 1966, and the diagnostic and disposal data recorded.
  • (16) The disposal of ADP level in liver is similar to the disposal of ATP.
  • (17) You will also need to find alternative disposable bags for shops to stock while people get into the habit of bringing their own bag, however, and for when they forget.
  • (18) XUBF is a Xenopus ribosomal transcription factor of the HMG-box family which contains five tandemly disposed homologies to the HMG1 & 2 DNA binding domains.
  • (19) For most communities embarking on such a program a programmable infusion system will be more cost-effective than a disposable system.
  • (20) We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.

Portable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being borne or carried; easily transported; conveyed without difficulty; as, a portable bed, desk, engine.
  • (a.) Possible to be endured; supportable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pono – a portable music player with its own digital store selling high-resolution downloads – has raised $6.1m on Kickstarter , in a campaign that ends later today (15 April).
  • (2) There is good evidence in favor of the use of oxygen savers in patients with portable oxygen, but not for their use in conjunction with fixed oxygen installations in the home.
  • (3) A new portable model of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) instrumented clinical knee testing apparatus and the KT-1000 knee arthrometer were used to measure anterior laxity in normal and anterior cruciate absent knees.
  • (4) An investigation was made of the accuracy of a portable hematocrit measurement device (Stat-Crit) on the infusate of an autologous blood transfusion system.
  • (5) Fifty-nine chronic peritoneal catheters made of polyethylene covered with silastic were used to treat 43 IDDM patients peritoneally for 3-34 mo (mean 14 mo) with portable peristaltic pumps and U40 acidic insulin.
  • (6) Complete data were gathered on 124 pregnancies using a portable real-time ultrasound machine.
  • (7) With the use of tritiated ara-C and this portable system, pharmacologic studies were performed in 8 patients.
  • (8) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (9) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (10) A portable stereocamera linked to a computer has been developed capable of taking photographs in the clinical situation.
  • (11) A portable device equipped with a transmitted infrared photoelectric plethysmograph (TIPP) and compression cuff was designed for indirect estimation of elastic properties of the arteries.
  • (12) The 133Xe wash-out technique, portable CdTe(Cl) detectors and a portable data storage unit were used.
  • (13) A new portable device (measuring 14 X 11 X 5 cm, weighing 600 g) has been developed for recording ambulatory intra-arterial blood pressure (BP) and R-R intervals on the electrocardiogram at 10 sec intervals throughout a 24 hour period and a computer system for analysis of the 8,640 digital recordings of systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and heart rate (HR).
  • (14) To further these ambitions, there will be key announcements: a fresh approach to information and advice for families, new rights for carers, a minimum level of care, "portable" needs assessments so people may move without having to be reviewed, extra funding for supported housing and trials of free care at home for people with terminal illness.
  • (15) The Pain-Track system includes portable data loggers carried by the patients, a personal computer with a software package for storage and analysis of the data and a terminal unit to connect the loggers and computer.
  • (16) The stability of fentanyl citrate and bupivacaine hydrochloride in an admixture with 0.9% sodium chloride injection in portable pump reservoirs with or without overwraps was investigated.
  • (17) Subsequent treatments are given using skin tattoos and laser alignment for target placement within the isocenter of the linear accelerator, and a modified portable halo-ring device is used for skull immobilization.
  • (18) In that time Beats launched a new range of headphones and portable speakers, designed and manufactured in house, and then in January 2014 the company launched Beats Music – a music streaming subscription service built upon the company’s acquisition of a similar service called MOG in 2012.
  • (19) 170 patients were treated with continuous infusion of epirubicin, mitoxantrone, carboplatin or 5-fluorouracil through an implanted venous access port with a portable infusion pump.
  • (20) These elevated levels were observed before the PaO2, the portable chest roentgenograms and the other test results changed following surgery.