What's the difference between envision and prevision?

Envision


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A porous structure, possibly involving a capsid and RNA complex, is envisioned.
  • (2) To develop this, longer-acting injectables or implants utilizing testosterone cybutanate (20AET-1), or other combinations of testosterone with a progestin or a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist are envisioned.
  • (3) Applications in magnetic resonance and nuclear imaging are envisioned.
  • (4) Bowie was presented at the centre of German youth culture, while the city of Berlin was re-envisioned by the use of a soundtrack that included the ambient instrumentals from Low and Heroes .
  • (5) We find it to be a valuable adjunct for envisioning three-dimensional relationships.
  • (6) Thank God, then, for The Execution Of Gary Glitter (Mon, 9pm, Channel 4), which vividly envisions the trial and subsequent capital punishment of pop's most reviled sex offender so you don't have to.
  • (7) This represents a substantial cost to the patient, from which no benefit can be envisioned.
  • (8) In the coming year the halving of maternal mortality is envisioned through prevention of anemia, tetanus, and extensive contraceptive use.
  • (9) We conducted a retrospective assessment of the fitting characteristics obtained with the Boston Envision rigid gas permeable contact lens to determine the best parameter for selecting an initial base curve.
  • (10) "[Kerry] was talking about the kind of future Israel wants and the kind of future both Israelis and Palestinians would want to envision.
  • (11) However, a more negative future for the speciality can be envisioned, as well.
  • (12) We examined the mechanism underlying the rapid (15-120 min) glucocorticoid-mediated increase in the synthesis of proteins envisioned as mediators of the initial steroid effects in thymic lymphocytes.
  • (13) His sexist commentary and anti-woman statements, coupled with the Republican policy positions he espouses, make it virtually impossible to envision any scenario whereby 50% of female voters would cast their ballots for him.
  • (14) It is difficult to envision how serious underrepresentation of minorities in allied health will be affected by this legislation.
  • (15) As envisioned during the infant years, this application has fallen considerably short of expectations, especially regarding instructional applications.
  • (16) A three-point attachment of sn-1,2-diacylglycerol to the surface-bound protein kinase C-phosphatidylserine-Ca2+ complex is envisioned to cause activation.
  • (17) This structure, while not easy to envision, is nonetheless as plausible a basis for theory as any science requires.
  • (18) One class of hypotheses proposed to explain the anterior to posterior sequence of chick somite formation envisions the movement of morphogenetic substances or processes along the segmental plate prior to somite formation.
  • (19) He showed his true political colours when he wrote that "the class issue has actually been successfully resolved in the west … the egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx."
  • (20) We do not envision this as the full measure of de-escalation."

Prevision


Definition:

  • (n.) Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The standard metabolism of Aotus trivirgatus (Night monkey, Owl monkey) is 22.5 to 46.2 per cent below Kleiber's prevision curve for mammals, which applies to other cebid monkeys like Saimiri sciureus and Alouatta.
  • (2) The level of specific herd immunity towards epidemic strains is an important factor of prevision.
  • (3) The other 32 patients were not submitted to renal biopsy; in sediment and band test, may be of value in the prevision of patients with higher probability of developing more serious renal lesions.
  • (4) Furthermore, it is obvious that it is necessary to use a "multivariable" method for a better prevision of the cutaneous changes after facial osteotomies, specially for the lips.
  • (5) The behaviour pattern which arises from this reaction depends on the species, but varies according to the possibilities of prevision and control of the aggression.
  • (6) 3) The PBA is easy to handle on a large scale, using multiple peptide and several MHC molecules, so that it can be used as a routine method for prevision of possibly epitopic sequences.
  • (7) It is necessary to have these equipment in all hospitals and health centers in the area of a previsible disaster.
  • (8) Choice of sex in children with ambiguous genitalia requires morphological evaluation of external and internal genitalia together with prevision of the kind of pubertal and psychosexual development.
  • (9) The results are compared to the initial situation and to a prevision of growth without treatment.
  • (10) We conclude that data concerning the influence of a drug (in our case, allopurinol) on the metabolism of another drug cannot always authorize general deduction and previsions regarding the metabolic interferences on the pharmacokinetics of other substances.
  • (11) With a few examples the author describes briefly the role of epidemiological models to produce reliable previsions, the principles ruling their construction, their use on computer to simulate known epidemiological situations as well as the impact of interventions on the disease dynamics.
  • (12) As previsously demonstrated for 1'-acetoxysafrole, 1'-acetoxyestragole and 1'-acetoxy-1-allyl-4-methoxynaphthalene reacted nonenzymatically with guanosine and inosine to form adducts.
  • (13) Such modified criteria have improved the accuracy of LVH prevision.
  • (14) The neuropsychological study of three cases of FFI showed: (1) a progressive disturbance of attention and vigilance, (2) a memory deficit with lability of mnesic traces and difficulty in manipulation and ordering of events, suggesting an alteration of working memory and (3) a deficit of frontal abilities with impairment in planning and prevision of events but preservation of general intelligence.
  • (15) The authors believe that it is expedient to study bronchial hyperreactivity in patients with hay fever and rhinitis vasomotorica nonallergica in that it affords possibilities for the prevision of the conceivable unfavourable evolution of the disease towards the atopic or non-atopic bronchial asthma, as well as for the taking of adequate preventive and therapeutic measures.
  • (16) This leads to the prevision of very low barriers and amounts for the CNDO method to the failure in the prevision of some minima.
  • (17) The lung cancer is one of the lesser prevised cancer and the five year relative survival rate is 6.5% for both sexes in 1982-1983.
  • (18) Particularly, punctual time predictability of radon concentration would no longer be possible, but a new prevision strategy would be necessary, considering the chaotic behavior of the phenomenon.
  • (19) The Oslo declaration, he argued, was weighted unfairly towards Israel; the scenario, previsioning an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho in advance of the other territories and agreement on the final status of Jerusalem, amounted to "an instrument of Palestinian surrender, a Palestinian Versailles".