What's the difference between distant and yon?

Distant


Definition:

  • (a.) Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
  • (a.) Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives.
  • (a.) Reserved or repelling in manners; cold; not cordial; somewhat haughty; as, a distant manner.
  • (a.) Indistinct; faint; obscure, as from distance.
  • (a.) Not conformable; discrepant; repugnant; as, a practice so widely distant from Christianity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
  • (2) Distant ischemia was distinguished from peri-infarctional ischemia by the presence of transient thallium defects in, or slow thallium washout from myocardium not supplied by the infarct-related coronary artery.
  • (3) Whereas the tight junctions of endoneurial capillaries are known to prevent certain blood-borne substances from entering the endoneurium, it was not clear whether the permeability of the pulpal capillaries, which are distant from the nerve fibres, could affect the nerve fibre environment.
  • (4) The stage of a given malignancy, representing the degree of spread of the tumor to its local surroundings or distant sites, is the best predictor of long-term survival.
  • (5) Seven patients died, six because of distant metastases within one year.
  • (6) Local or distant metastases presented in 6 patients.
  • (7) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (8) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (9) Using the Italian I distantly remember from my year abroad in Florence as a student (mi chiama Hadley!
  • (10) The national study accrued 216 patients with measurable or evaluable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with either unresectable stage III, or distant metastasis (stage IV).
  • (11) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
  • (12) Although a high rate of local control can be expected, distant metastases continue to be a problem.
  • (13) Indeed, the geographical nature of the division also keeps a check on the club's carbon footprint – Dartford rarely have to travel far outside the M25, with the trips to Bognor Regis and Margate about as distant as they get.
  • (14) Concomitant immunity (CI) is defined as the lack or retardation or proliferation of a secondary tumor implant at a distant site; it has been given an immunological interpretation.
  • (15) Children with osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma rarely have bone disease distant from the site of their primary bone lesion at presentation.
  • (16) The effect of combined treatment was studied in 97 patients with nonseminomatous testicular tumors with regional and distant metastases with regard to the blood serum levels of alpha-fetoprotein and chorionic gonadotropin.
  • (17) At diagnosis, 15 (16.5%) patients had regional metastases and six (7%) had distant metastases.
  • (18) The PPi-dependent Pfk of potato is only distantly related to the ATP-dependent enzymes.
  • (19) Sequences homologous to Inp are present in multiple copies in the N. plumbaginifolia and the N. tabacum genome but not in more distant species.
  • (20) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.

Yon


Definition:

  • (a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder.
  • (adv.) Yonder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hb La Roche-sur-Yon [beta 81 (EF5) Leu----His] is an unstable hemoglobin variant displaying a moderately increased oxygen affinity.
  • (2) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (3) 8.40pm BST 39 min: Scotland give the old tiki-taka a go, passing it hither and yon across the back like, and pinging a couple of little triangles down either flank.
  • (4) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (5) The same conclusion has been drawn in a comparison of reactive histidine residues in the two enzymes [Cole & Yon (1986) Biochemistry 25, 7168-7174].
  • (6) Everyone knows the best players stand for the entire match in the centre circle dictating play, walking no more than five yards hither and yon, with a massive beer belly hanging over the belt of their shorts.
  • (7) The purification scheme includes the use of biospecific "imphilyte" chromatography as described by Yon [Biochem.J.
  • (8) She had a reputation for being a skinflint and Burns wrote on her death: Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation!
  • (9) Each of their political broadcasts would have a wee meme video at the end with yon big pair of bare-chested, kilted yoga boys doing handstands in a Highland pine forest with Mesdames Sturgeon, Dugdale and Davidson doing a cheesy thumbs-up.
  • (10) Bounced around, pushed hither and yon by a hand she could neither see nor control, the victim of a hidden player who saw her as little more than a figure on a digital screen.
  • (11) 3, 55-60; Missiakas, D., Betton, J.M., Minard, P., & Yon, J.M., 1990, Biochemistry 29, 8683-8689).
  • (12) "I think our might of single-hearted unity around the headquarters of revolution is demonstrated to the full through the ceremony today," said Kim Song-yon, another participant.
  • (13) Although this evidence of positive cooperativity in the enzyme-matrix interaction points to a deficiency in quantitative affinity chromatography theory based on equivalence and independence of these interactions [L. W. Nichol, L. D. Ward, and D. J. Winzor (1981) Biochemistry 20, 4856-4860], it is shown that such treatment leads to a much better description of the experimental situation than that provided by an alternative analysis based on cooperativity of enzyme-matrix interactions to the extent that only a single enzyme-matrix complex exists [P. Kyprianou and R. J. Yon (1982) Biochem.
  • (14) One verse says: Ye see yon birkie, ca’d a lord, Wha struts, an’ stares, an’ a’ that; Tho’ hundreds worship at his word, He’s but a coof for a’ that: For a’ that, an’ a’ that, His ribband, star, an’ a’ that: The man o’ independent mind He looks an’ laughs at a’ that.
  • (15) The idea that that would be subject to tariffs hither and yon is really very scary.” The production of many baked goods could similarly be vulnerable to disruption as raw ingredients such as flour cross EU borders several times before cakes and confectionery appear on supermarket shelves.
  • (16) Korean pop culture's first foray into Japan was led almost a decade ago by Bae Yong-joon , an actor whose mainly middle-aged, female devotees nicknamed him Yon-sama, or the Honourable Yon.
  • (17) Another on the new sanctions list, Cho Yon Jun of the powerful organization and guidance department, is in charge of enforcing loyalty to Kim, including executing those who defy his will, the senior US official said.

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