What's the difference between eliminate and minimize?

Eliminate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To put out of doors; to expel; to discharge; to release; to set at liberty.
  • (v. t.) To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity.
  • (v. t.) To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration.
  • (v. t.) To obtain by separating, as from foreign matters; to deduce; as, to eliminate an idea or a conclusion.
  • (v. t.) To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It has been conformed that catalase from bovine liver eliminates only the pro R hydrogen atom from ethanol.
  • (2) Surprisingly, the clonal elimination of V beta 6+ cells is preceded by marked expansion of these cells.
  • (3) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
  • (4) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
  • (5) In the cannulated group, significant decreases (P less than 0.05) in the area under the elimination curve (AUC), the volume of distribution at steady-state (Vdss) and the mean residence time (MRT) were observed.
  • (6) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
  • (7) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
  • (8) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
  • (9) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (10) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
  • (11) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (12) The process of integrating the two banks is expected to take three years, with predictions that up to 25,000 roles could eventually be eliminated.
  • (13) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (14) The elimination half-life of most beta-agonists is relatively short, and pharmacokinetics are independent of dose and duration of treatment.
  • (15) Removal of T cells with anti-T-cell serum eliminated LIF activity, indicating that in humans it is probably the T cell that produces LIF.
  • (16) (The scintillation medium is preheated with ethanolamine to eliminate chemiluminescence.)
  • (17) Utilizing a range of operative Michaelis-Menten parameters that characterize phenytoin elimination via a single capacity-limited pathway, a situation assuming instantaneous absorption (case I) is compared with the situation in which continuous constant-rate absorption occurs (case II).
  • (18) "As part of this de-leveraging process, the group will also focus on eliminating any loss-making businesses."
  • (19) The duration of action correlated with the elimination half-life of the drug (r = 0.87; P less than 0.003) and area under the plasma concentration curve (r = 0.72; P less than 0.03).
  • (20) 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.

Minimize


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (2) In the absence of atrial dilatation there was minimal stimulus for ANF secretion.
  • (3) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (4) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
  • (5) Using serial section electron microscopic reconstructions as a reference, we have chosen as our standard procedure a method that maximizes both the preservation of the cytoskeleton and the proportion of cells staining, while minimizing the degree of nonspecific staining.
  • (6) The minimal change in gel fiber size caused by slow A release implies that fibrin fiber size is primarily a function of ionic environment and not of the sequence of peptide release.
  • (7) Methods to minimize bias in the design and implementation of consultation-liaison research are suggested.
  • (8) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
  • (9) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (10) In the last 2 years at our department we have developed a new technique in which the resorption has up to now been minimal.
  • (11) In this paper the domain of validity of the unlabelled and labelled minimal models of glucose disappearance is studied.
  • (12) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (13) In minimal-glucose-aminoacids at 37 C after an initial growth, cellular lysis occurred.
  • (14) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (15) At 10(-7) M, Iso produced approximately maximal responses at all ages in the ECH but elicited only minimal responses at all ages in the ERH, approximately ten times this concentration being required to produce maximal responses in the ERH.
  • (16) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
  • (17) The patient had experienced repeated spontaneous fractures for 1.5 years such as serial rib fractures, fractures of the sternum and most recently fracture of the neck of the femur after a minimal trauma.
  • (18) Repeated transient ischemic attacks in the same territory with minimal lesions on arteriography and non-homogeneous plaque on duplex scan; 2.
  • (19) Defects in the posterior one-half of the trachea, up to 5 rings long, were repaired, with minimal stenosis.
  • (20) A plasmid carrying this mutation, along with wild-type genes encoding the c and b subunits, was unusual in that it failed to complement a chromosomal c-subunit mutation on succinate minimal medium.