What's the difference between disused and unused?

Disused


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disuse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
  • (3) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (4) Hope was living in a disused council building in Tower Hamlets, east London, and, by maintaining a physical presence on site, providing services for a property guardian company called Newbould Guardians.
  • (5) To reduce the risks posed by the hazard, the report recommends that a management plan be created to determine the level of soil contamination and for managing excavated soil, and to decommission disused septic tanks to prevent the spread of contamination.
  • (6) Bone plates allow early weight-bearing, but substitute the problem of stress protection for disuse atrophy.
  • (7) In this study, we test the hypothesis that monosynaptic connections between la afferents and spinal motoneurons are strengthened by chronic disuse.
  • (8) In net-curtained rooms above a disused kebab shop on Cricklewood Broadway, a small group of middle-aged men were at work as usual when they found themselves at the centre of a national terror warning.
  • (9) Two weeks of disuse resulted in 40% muscle weight loss.
  • (10) In this study, by use of technique that was modified from Morey method, we discussed the histological influence on the soleus muscle of the rats caused by disuse.
  • (11) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
  • (12) With the advent of binding assays for vitamin B12 in blood, the Schilling test, which involves administration of radioactive B12 to a patient and subsequent urine collection for 24 to 48 h, fell into disuse in many laboratories.
  • (13) The results were analyzed with references to the different muscle functions in disuse atrophy.
  • (14) However, at this time, rates of protein synthesis (measured in vitro) and nucleic acid concentrations were also higher in the denervated tissue, changes more usually associated with an active muscle rather than a disused one.
  • (15) Chronic muscle disuse decreases the sensitivity of skeletal muscle to nondepolarizing relaxants, such as metocurine (MTC).
  • (16) This concept has been substantiated by the study of standard fatigue tests performed in control, trained, and disused human muscles, as reviewed in this paper.
  • (17) Disuse was caused by diverting the flow of urine from the lower urinary tract.
  • (18) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.
  • (19) Before effective countermeasures can be devised, a thorough knowledge of the extent, location, and rate of bone loss during weightlessness is needed from actual space flight data or ground-based disuse models.
  • (20) In animals, nigrostriatal neurons respond to the blockade of DA synapses by treatment with antipsychotic agents in several ways, including acute and transient increases in the turnover of DA, and more slowly evolving "disuse" supersensitivity, possibly of postsynaptic receptors.

Unused


Definition:

  • (a.) Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment.
  • (a.) Not habituated; unaccustomed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors present a quite unused technique that helps to simplify the cavity preparation in Operative Dentistry.
  • (2) After elution of the complex from the beads a new cycle of capture, washing and release of the target-capture-reporter-probe complex is initiated by the additions of unused (dT)-tailed beads.
  • (3) A total of 20 deep-frying fat samples and 2 unused control fat samples was tested.
  • (4) Filtration of spent medium, adjustment of pH, addition of urea, and reinoculation permitted growth at the same rate and to the same titer as that observed in unused medium.
  • (5) We haven’t ascertained how much of the forests it has taken over, but a significant portion may in reality be unpalatable weeds and effectively unusable from an elephant’s perspective.
  • (6) Graham Greene’s American agent, Alden Pyle, has an “unused face” and a “wide campus gaze”.
  • (7) Each of these devices had around five large nails sticking through a piece of wood and rendered the police vehicles unusable on what is traditionally one of the busiest nights of the year.
  • (8) All patients showed clinical signs of infection (loss of red reflex, diminished visual acuity, and intraocular lens coagulum) and P. aeruginosa was isolated from vitreous aspirates and unused lenses of the same lot.
  • (9) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
  • (10) (ii) No messages contain internal, unused polyadenylation signals.
  • (11) The procedure is offered as a satisfactory solution to the problem of transferring free flaps in cases where recipient site vessels are absent or unusable.
  • (12) Five unused containers of ACS were obtained as controls.
  • (13) Therapy after the reservoir was unusable, particularly with arterial obstruction by catheter, was restricted because arterial infusion therapy was impossible.
  • (14) Furthermore, when this promoter region was removed, Tn5 was able to transpose into previously unused upstream target sequences.
  • (15) The protest, one of the biggest liberal opposition demonstrations in years, is certain to worry a state that looks down on opposition and is long unused to a politically conscious public.
  • (16) Ill-equipped, ill-trained and unused to the tough conditions, these “Afghan Arabs”, as they were known, were seen more as a nuisance than an aid by the local men who constituted 95% or more of the fighters.
  • (17) The speed of anastomosis is at least as rapid as the posterior wall technique on which it is based, and it has the advantage of having fewer unused penetrations of the vessel wall and better eversion of the edges.
  • (18) Peritoneal macrophages and polymorphonuclear leucocytes were incubated in unused peritoneal dialysis fluid.
  • (19) If it can only launch its weapons on receiving orders from the top, they risk being rendered unusable by a surprise “decapitation” strike on the Chinese leadership.
  • (20) Seromuscular layers were normal at both ends of the lesion; there was some flattening of villi at the proximal, dilated end, and hyperplasia with apparently lengthened, branched villi at the distal, unused one.

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