What's the difference between doubly and twice?

Doubly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In twice the quantity; to twice the degree; as, doubly wise or good; to be doubly sensible of an obligation.
  • (adv.) Deceitfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acute effects of insulin on protein metabolism (whole body and forearm muscle) were simultaneously assessed using doubly labelled (13C15N) leucine in post-absorptive Type I diabetic patients.
  • (2) Which must make yesterday's jobs figures doubly alarming for the coalition.
  • (3) Synchronized cells (doubly arrested by serum starvation and aphidicolin) displayed a biphasic distribution of the number of cruciforms over the first 6 h after release from synchrony with maxima at 0 and 4 h after release.
  • (4) Patients doubly heterozygous for type 2 and beta zero or delta beta zero thalassaemia variants had no detectable Hb A, indicating that the type 2 normal A2 beta thalassaemia is primarily the result of a beta zero gene.
  • (5) This indicates that the residual kinase in the doubly infected cells leads to a limitation in functional (nonsequestered) eIF-2B and hence functional (GTP-containing) eIF-2 and that under these conditions influenza viral mRNAs are selectively translated over adenoviral mRNAs.
  • (6) In both cases first trimester chorionic villus sampling and DNA haplotype analysis predicted that the fetus is a carrier for CF, and in the doubly affected family a carrier for beta-thalassaemia as well.
  • (7) Observation of doubly immunostained sections evidenced that both peptides were located in one and the same nerve fibers.
  • (8) With emphasis on individual therapeutic treatment, this paper provides a critical introduction to the concept and discusses the applicability of this therapeutic approach for extremely lower-lower class patients: patients doubly stigmatized by psychological illness and criminality who are treated in a forensic-psychiatric clinic.
  • (9) Both singly and doubly tuned versions have been constructed.
  • (10) The conversion of the doubly labeled ceramide to 3-keto derivative is also described.
  • (11) However, all 22 are severely handicapped; all are paraplegic, doubly incontinent and have some degree of mental handicap.
  • (12) 2-Acyl-lysophosphatidylcholines were taken up without prior hydrolysis and reacylated into doubly labeled phosphatidylcholine, which was the most labeled lipid class, whereas lipid distribution of the unesterified fatty acid was more diversified.
  • (13) Doubly immunized guinea pigs may be desensitized with respect to delayed hypersensitivity reactions against both antigens (anergy) by injection of large doses of either one.
  • (14) Previous study of cross-innervated and doubly innervated fish eye muscles revealed only structurally normal neuromuscular junctions.
  • (15) This means that the double innervated slow-twitch muscle fibres retained their original neuromuscular junction type, whereas the doubly-innervated fast-twitch muscle fibres underwent a dramatic transformation of their neuromuscular junction from the fast-muscle to the slow-muscle type.
  • (16) These values are interpreted with the aid of additional NMR data as the binding constant for formation of the doubly occupied channel state and the rate constant for an ion leaving the doubly occupied state.
  • (17) This identification was supported by experiments in which doubly stained chromosomes were counterstained with either netropsin or distamycin A, resulting in a relative increase in the 33258 Hoechst fluorescence intensity of the structurally abnormal #15 chromosomes, compared with the other chromosomes, as predicted by cytological studies.
  • (18) Combined retrograde tracing and fluorescence immunohistochemistry revealed few somatostatin-immunoreactive neurons doubly labelled following injections of Fluorogold in the basal hypothalamus.
  • (19) To examine the effect of concomitant polymerization on the RNase H activity, the substrate was doubly 5' end labeled on the RNA and DNA.
  • (20) Total daily energy expenditure (TEE) by the doubly-labelled (2H218O) water method and basal metabolic rate (BMR) by indirect calorimetry were measured in thirty-two healty free-living adults in Northern Ireland.

Twice


Definition:

  • (adv.) Two times; once and again.
  • (adv.) Doubly; in twofold quantity or degree; as, twice the sum; he is twice as fortunate as his neighbor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (2) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
  • (3) With the stimulated liver being irradiated, the number of cells synthetizing DNA and entering into mitosis was seen reduced almost twice, whereas DNA synthesis and entering into mitosis were delayed, resp., by 4 and 6 hours.
  • (4) Lead levels in contents and shells of eggs laid by hens dosed with all-lead shot were about twice those in eggs laid by hens dosed with lead-iron shot.
  • (5) The overall incidence in patients over 50 years of age was 8.5%; it was more than twice as high in women (11.5%) as in men (4.5%) and rose sharply with age.
  • (6) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
  • (7) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (8) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
  • (9) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
  • (10) Blinded outcomes of depression and cognition were measured initially and twice in each phase.
  • (11) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
  • (12) Calves were fed milk replacer twice daily while housed indoors in wooden-slatted floor box crates (metabolism cages).
  • (13) Administration of 800 mg cimetidine every evening is, consequently, at least as effective as a twice-daily regimen.
  • (14) In liver, P-450 2E2 mRNA is detectable immediately after birth and reaches slightly greater than the adult level at 2 weeks of age; in contrast, P-450 2E1 mRNA is not detectable until day 14 and increases rapidly to approximately twice the adult level at 5 weeks of age.
  • (15) The best fertility was obtained by inseminating twice a week with 0.05 ml.
  • (16) She said that in February 2013 she was asked to assist Pistorius in his first court appearance when applying for bail and sat with him in the cells, where he vomited twice.
  • (17) In another protocol, fourteen volunteers received calcitriol 0.25 microgram, 0.5 microgram, and 1.0 microgram twice a day each for 14 days with intervening control periods of 2 weeks.
  • (18) On Days 12-14 each gilt received twice daily infusions of Day 15 pCSP in one uterine horn and SP in the other uterine horn.
  • (19) After 96 h cells, cultured with 20 and 50 microM-desferrioxamine accumulated 59Fe from bovine transferrin at over twice the rate found with control cells, reflecting the increase in transferrin receptors.
  • (20) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.

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