What's the difference between ensure and slump?

Ensure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make sure. See Insure.
  • (v. t.) To betroth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
  • (3) Early stabilisation may not ensure normal development but even early splinting carries a small risk of avascular necrosis.
  • (4) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
  • (5) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (6) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (7) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (8) The method of preparative isotachophoresis in acrylamide gel ensuring a high yield of IgD and IgE with insignificant admixtures of IgG, etc.
  • (9) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (10) Since the employment of microwave energy for defrosting biological tissues and for microwave-aided diagnosis in cryosurgery is very promising, the problem of ensuring the match between the contact antennas (applicators) and the frozen biological object has become a pressing one.
  • (11) The different hydrolytic, fermentative and methanogenic activities of these populations ensure the efficient degradation of cell wall constituent in forages (cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin) ingested by ruminants.
  • (12) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (13) For some proteins, properly folded protein may be obtained by secretion from E. coli; however, secretion does not ensure correct folding and protection from proteolytic degradation.
  • (14) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
  • (15) Labelling of the albumin with 99mTc ensured an accuracy of measurements only limited by the precision of the weighing.
  • (16) The following 10 products were tested: Ensure Plus, Ensure, Enrich, Osmolite, Pulmocare, Citrotein, Resource, Vivonex TEN, Vital, and Hepatic Acid II.
  • (17) Mal’s age alone was enough to earn him a significant amount of street cred in our misfit group of teenage boys, yet it was his history of extreme violence that ensured his approval rating was sky high.
  • (18) It will be a slow process to ensure everything is in place, such as ensuring there is consistent fresh drinking water and a sewerage system, but they lived there very happily before.
  • (19) The different distribution and release of initiating enzymes for all these radical processes ensures the spatial and temporal control of their reactions.
  • (20) Santander's new mortgage range complements this, putting our relationship with our customers at the heart of our business and ensuring they get the right mortgage for them – one they can afford and which meets their needs."

Slump


Definition:

  • (n.) The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • (v. t.) To lump; to throw into a mess.
  • (v. i.) To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, partly frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person.
  • (n.) A boggy place.
  • (n.) The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (2) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (3) Shaky phone footage of the raid that circulated online showed the vigilantes kicking, slapping and insulting the men, with one of them slumped naked on the ground during the attack.
  • (4) If the government reduces its spending at the same time, this will make the slump worse, not better.
  • (5) Household spending has slumped to its lowest rate in nearly two years, underlining the sluggishness of Britain's economy.
  • (6) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
  • (7) A leading academic, Prof Robert Bea, from the engineering faculty at the University of California in Berkeley, who made a special study of the Deepwater Horizon accident , has raised new concerns that the recent slump in oil prices could compromise safety across the industry as oil producers strive to cut costs.
  • (8) The schemes will be scrutinised for evidence that the government has accepted criticism that it is not acting fast or hard enough to reverse the continuing slump in the economy, with ministers braced for further bad news on jobs and investment over the summer.
  • (9) Branson also has a stake in Virgin Money, which has suffered a 40% slump in its shares since the referendum.
  • (10) The austerity drive and recession meant some big construction projects being shelved, while in many regions housing market activity slumped.
  • (11) However, Leroy warned that a slump will hit the industry this year, with pan-European sales expected to fall 5%.
  • (12) House prices have slumped by 14.6% since last October after 12 consecutive months of falls, Nationwide Building Society said today.
  • (13) But Nel said that for Steenkamp to have fallen on to the rack, given she was found with her head slumped over the toilet, she would have had to have got up.
  • (14) Newspaper sales slumped in Spain during the financial crisis.
  • (15) Despite a near monopoly in many towns, HMV stores were seeing sales slump year after year, even at paper-thin margins.
  • (16) She looks at me, slumped and sweating at her kitchen table.
  • (17) Wetherspoon said it was trying to help those caught in the economic slump.
  • (18) The government has declared an end to the half-decade slump in housebuilding after cheap borrowing and the Help to Buy scheme prompted a 6% increase in the start of work on new homes in the three months to June.
  • (19) More than 8,000 jobs at Clinton Cards were on the line after the group became the latest casualty of the high street spending slump.
  • (20) A worse slump than expected means many more unemployed and thousands more homes repossessed.