(v. t.) Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
(v. t.) To separate by definition of terms or logical division of a subject with regard to difference; as, to distinguish sounds into high and low.
(v. t.) To recognize or discern by marks, signs, or characteristic quality or qualities; to know and discriminate (anything) from other things with which it might be confounded; as, to distinguish the sound of a drum.
(v. t.) To constitute a difference; to make to differ.
(v. t.) To separate from others by a mark of honor; to make eminent or known; to confer distinction upon; -- with by or for.
(v. i.) To make distinctions; to perceive the difference; to exercise discrimination; -- with between; as, a judge distinguishes between cases apparently similar, but differing in principle.
(v. i.) To become distinguished or distinctive; to make one's self or itself discernible.
Example Sentences:
(1) We determined whether serological investigations can assist to distinguish between chronic idiopathic autoimmune thrombocytopenia (cAITP) and immune-mediated thrombocytopenia in patients at risk to develop systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE); 82 patients were seen in this institution for the evaluation of immune thrombocytopenia.
(2) The secondary leukemia that occurred in these patients could be distinguished from the secondary leukemia that occurs after treatment with alkylating agents by the following: a shorter latency period; a predominance of monocytic or myelomonocytic features; and frequent cytogenetic abnormalities involving 11q23.
(3) The "rehabilitation" and "institutional" meanings of the patient's admission to the clinic have been distinguished.
(4) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
(5) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
(6) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(7) To distinguish the various types, we designated the 90 kd types from CBA and AKR mice C6A1 and C6A2, respectively, and the corresponding 100 kd types C6B1 and C6B2, respectively.
(8) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(9) A nonspecific reaction of the marrow against extramedullary lymphogranulomatosis closely resembling to the so-called tumor myeopathy has to be distinguished from the localized marrow changes due to the tumor itself.
(10) 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.
(11) MAb Q-1 distinguishes between Sendai virus-coated and uncoated lymphocytes only cells with low-affinity binding.
(12) Three types of plasminogen activator could be distinguished in extracts from human uterine tissue.
(13) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
(14) Our studies have shown that infarcted dogs which exhibit inducible sustained ventricular tachycardia had late potentials and could be distinguished from those with no arrhythmias by the following QRS characteristics.
(15) Plasmid profiling was used to distinguish strains of lactobacilli inhabiting the digestive tract of piglets and the feces of sows.
(16) The 3C protease of poliovirus is distinguished from that of all other picornaviruses in that it only cleaves at Gln-Gly amino acid pairs within the viral polyprotein.
(17) The distinguishing feature of this study is the simultaneous measurement of sympathetic firing and norepinephrine spillover in the same organ, the kidney, under conditions of intact sympathetic impulse traffic.
(18) 4 types of differentiated cells are distinguished and changes connected with the processes of structural-functional restructuration are described.
(19) The "Mg(2+)-Sarkosyl crystals" (M band) technique distinguishes between membrane-bound and free intracellular DNA.
(20) With the use of these proteins as markers, phenotypes could be constructed that distinguished unstimulated, LPS-treated, primed, and fully activated macrophages.
Unisex
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Doumar, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled that Gloucester high school could force Grimm to use unisex bathrooms because Title IX “allows schools to maintain separate bathrooms based on sex as long as the bathrooms for each sex are comparable”, he wrote.
(2) Animals, transport and building-simulation were unisex, and if you really wanted to test the limits of female objectification, you could get a severed head with retractable hair.
(3) When identical (unisex) BMI cutpoints were used, results were the same; (RR = 2.4, P less than 0.05 for men; RR = 3.1, P less than 0.01 for women).
(4) At the start of his junior year, the school forced him to use standalone unisex bathrooms installed specifically for him .
(5) The appropriate physical assessment and anticipatory counseling relative to competitive sports, the age mix and the appropriateness of mixed sex and unisex participation are reviewed.
(6) In many newspapers, the checks and balances on owners and executives are weak – readers identify with their papers so strongly that, for instance, even Friday's publication of 12 pages of yellow journalism about obscure do-gooders who use unisex loos will not be enough to dent the Mail's sales.
(7) Vic Goddard washes his hands in Passmores' open-plan unisex toilet facilities.
(8) With the T-shirts, Hamnett showed padded white silk decontamination suits, generously cut, beautifully detailed parkas and trench coats, cropped jackets in heavy cotton, skirts that were straight and short or long, narrow and flared from round about knee level, unisex baggy slept-in trouser suits in dark denim.
(9) The primary sources of inconsistency are variation in the prevalence of heartworm infection among populations of dogs and the sensitivity of immunodiagnostic tests to various categories of heartworm infections (ie, patent, immune-mediated occult, unisex occult, and immature occult).
(10) He became editor in 2000 when Heat was struggling immediately after its launch and reinvented it as a unisex entertainment title and women's celebrity weekly that became a publishing sensation.
(11) Mixed sex twins tended to be lighter than unisex twins.
(12) Fundamental assumptions of the model are (1) that data treated in unisex fashion have the normal distribution required of Z-type statistics throughout the period of growth, and (2) that it is reasonable to consider anthropometric measurements in all populations (regardless of ultimate size) as growing toward the common height chosen for the phantom.
(13) These data indicate that unisex and sex-specific cutpoints for BMI identify the same sex-specific patterns of association between obesity and risk of NIDDM.
(14) A spokesperson for Next said its toy range, some of which was labelled "boys' stuff", had this year been branded under one unisex title, The Little Gift Co. "Our packaging designs, labelling and in-store signage was intended to help customers choose appropriate gifts last year; however, we realise that these classifications could be misleading," said the spokesperson.
(15) It's essentially unisex: the women's suits are simply men's in smaller sizes.
(16) Paoletti writes that during the heyday of unisex parenting, which lasted from 1965 to 1985, "pink was so strongly associated with traditional femininity that it was vehemently rejected by feminist parents for their daughters' clothing.
(17) They won’t even consider it a problem, lest it hamper the future careers of their children, Madison (unisex), Avery (unisex) or Hunter (also unisex).
(18) Newly developed "unisex" regression equations were developed with "dummy" coding of gender (i.e., 0 = female; 1 = male), age, height, weight, and various interactions.
(19) Moreover, application of the unisex phantom procedure to the Trois Rivières sample does little to clarify anticipated sex-related differences in regional growth, and it is argued that univariate standardization against a power function of an arbitrary adult height may not provide the best method of examining the multivariate problem of growth.
(20) The site contained information on subjects such as penis tucking, chest-binding and unisex school toilets, Shelton said, and until those references were removed parents would continue to be “misinformed” about Safe Schools by thinking it was purely about anti-bullying.