What's the difference between encage and immure?

Encage


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To confine in a cage; to coop up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Depending on the encagement conditions, residual activities were in the range of 18% to 96% with higher values in the presence of cofactors.
  • (2) The fast relaxing protons are attributed to water molecules encaged within two or more haemoglobin molecules which associate for times long enough on the PMR time-scale.
  • (3) A feasibility study aimed at stabilization of L-lactate-dehydrogenase, L-malate-dehydrogenase, alcohol-dehydrogenase and diaphorase by the recently described method of enzyme 'encagement' was conducted.
  • (4) At the end of the treatment, the mice were encaged with males and their reproductive capacity was recorded over a 19-week period.
  • (5) In turn each CAB was encaged by a discontinuous rim that costained with antibodies to vinculin and talin.
  • (6) They, like other vertebrates have highly sensitive sensory organs which react to stress through transport, encaging, pollution, and other similar factors.
  • (7) The charity has over the years taken a strong position against Israel's illegal settlement construction at the same time as it has worked to deliver much-needed goods and services to the encaged population in the occupied Palestinian territories .
  • (8) Encagement conditions were optimized for each of the four enzymes, so as to achieve the highest thermal stability combined with highest catalytic activity.
  • (9) That is the view of every Assange defender with a platform that I know of, including me (one can certainly find anonymous internet commenters, or the occasional named one, making actual, horrific rape apologist claims, but one can find stray advocates saying anything; imputing those views to Assange defenders generally would be like claiming that all Assange critics want to see him illegally shot in the head or encaged for life because some prominent American and other commentators have called for this ).

Immure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To wall around; to surround with walls.
  • (v. t.) To inclose whithin walls, or as within walls; hence, to shut up; to imprison; to incarcerate.
  • (n.) A wall; an inclosure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Capillaries and cells were "immured" with fibrillary substance which was produced by the tumour cells themselves.
  • (2) At the same time, the Observer believes Mr Cameron's renowned lack of attention to detail, and a casual disregard for consequences (perhaps his wealth has immured him from the habit), means that the very values that the big society is intended to inculcate and cherish are being rapidly undermined, widening inequality and accelerating social injustice.
  • (3) It is literally an immuring within prison walls – on the grounds, not of credible public danger, but of imputed morality, or revenge (“a just desert”).
  • (4) The locally ill-defined tumor in the fatty tissue of the renal pelvis immured small arteries and veins as well as an interlobar artery, and caused damage to the vascular walls accompanied by the development of aneurysm, perforation and fistulation into the renal pelvis, by mechanisms open to various pathogenetic interpretations.
  • (5) For the cases when granulation does not lead to the formation of a membrane or when the membrane growth is too slow, the present author developed a method of immuring a foreign body - a silk thread - into the granulation layer for as long as 6 to 8 days.
  • (6) Nevertheless, progressing fibrosis has a considerable influence on cell shape as the surrounded cell complexes are quasi immured, and their supply and transport procedures impaired.
  • (7) Almost all of his work was painted for king and court and stayed exactly where it was made, long after his death in 1660, immured in the Spanish royal palaces.
  • (8) After the sprays become immured in dentine matrix, the stems are removed.
  • (9) The much-doubted goalkeeper Paul Robinson then organised a defensive wall before, in effect, leaving himself immured by standing unsighted directly behind it.
  • (10) (c) The recent integrative position in which instead of the systems' self-immured isolation or the nonspecifics' paralyzing equivalence of all therapies, a synthesis of specific approaches within a larger nonspecific theory or practical strategy is attempted.

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