What's the difference between errant and standard?

Errant


Definition:

  • (a.) Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
  • (a.) Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
  • (a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
  • (n.) One who wanders about.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
  • (2) To do that, it needed to stamp down on errant food industry practices.
  • (3) "Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."
  • (4) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.
  • (5) The lead stood at two goals before Andre Marriner's errant judgment.
  • (6) That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
  • (7) Fisher was forgiven and is busy organising for Momentum , the grassroots Corbyn campaign to bring errant MPs to heel.
  • (8) Being sutureless, no tension is placed on any layer; there is no damage to tissues from an errant suturing technique.
  • (9) Neonatal patients received the lowest rate of errant orders.
  • (10) The next few days will be critical as Beijing weighs up its options, but for now the likelihood is that China will chose cautious diplomatic hedging rather than decisive action against its errant North Korean ally.
  • (11) 49 min: Another half-hearted Paraguay attack ends in failure, when an errant pass is played straight to the feet of one of New Zealand's very well organised back three.
  • (12) Ministers are to revive shelved plans for laws to be introduced before 2015 to regulate lobbyists and recall errant MPs following days of sleaze allegations which may well have damaged the standing of parliament.
  • (13) Can he get these errant types – known disparagingly as à la carte or cafeteria Catholics – to dine from the fixed menu?
  • (14) The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at two large pediatric hospitals.
  • (15) Mr Holder is also pressing voting rights lawsuits across the county that directly challenge Chief Justice John Roberts’s errant view that the era of racial discrimination in the United States is over.
  • (16) One of my clients waited until midnight for his errant son to visit to play Scrabble with him – the son never arrived.
  • (17) He was prevented from giving Liverpool the first major Premier League win of the Brendan Rodgers' era only by an assistant referee's errant flag for offside in stoppage time.
  • (18) Vickers said Ipso would have an investigative arm and would impose tough sanctions on errant publishers, including fines of up to £1m for systemic wrongdoing, giving it "absolute teeth, very real teeth".
  • (19) As far as much of the audience is concerned, these errant former child stars seem like exotic commodities to be traded on the scandal market, although they are also clearly just young people living under abnormal levels of scrutiny.
  • (20) The combined results of the mutation and adduct characterizations suggest that there are basic differences in the structural configuration of each adduct species which are recognized during errant DNA repair and as a result lead to base changes at a frequency which is relatable to the configuration of the original adduct lesion.

Standard


Definition:

  • (n.) A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
  • (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality; esp., the original specimen weight or measure sanctioned by government, as the standard pound, gallon, or yard.
  • (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent; criterion; test.
  • (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority.
  • (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis.
  • (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla.
  • (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold; any upright in framing.
  • (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
  • (n.) The sheth of a plow.
  • (n.) A large drinking cup.
  • (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment; as, standard time; standard weights and measures; a standard authority as to nautical terms; standard gold or silver.
  • (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value; as, standard works in history; standard authors.
  • (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall; as, standard fruit trees.
  • (a.) Not of the dwarf kind; as, a standard pear tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
  • (4) The cumulative incidence of grade II and III acute GVHD in the 'low dose' cyclosporin group was 42% compared to 51% in the 'standard dose' group (P = 0.60).
  • (5) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) Standard nerve conduction techniques using constant measured distances were applied to evaluate the median, ulnar and radial nerves.
  • (8) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
  • (9) Lysis of EAC4b,3b cellular intermediates formed to contain a low surface amount of C3b was more inhibited than was lysis of cells formed with a standard amount of C3b on the surface.
  • (10) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
  • (11) We have compared two new methods (a solvent extraction technique and a method involving a disposable, pre-packed reverse phase chromatography cartridge) with the standard method for determining the radiochemical purity of 99Tcm-HMPAO.
  • (12) The enzyme was quantitated by incubation of 16-micron-thick brain sections with 0.07-2 nM of the converting enzyme inhibitor 125I-351A and comparison to 125I-standards.
  • (13) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
  • (14) The examination of the standard waves' amplitude and latency of the brain stem auditory evoked response (BAEP) was performed in 20 guinea pigs (males and females, weighing 250 to 300 g).
  • (15) This suggests that molars do not maintain a fixed relationship to incisors over time, and extreme care must be taken to standardize an experiment to a specific body weight when using this method.
  • (16) 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.
  • (17) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (18) The standard varies from modest to lavish – choose carefully and you could be staying in an antique-filled room with your host's paintings on the walls, and breakfasting on the veranda of a tropical garden.
  • (19) A technique, using Nuclepore polycarbonate membrane filters as a containing medium for very small volumes of ionic standard solutions, to produce homogeneous ice standards is described.
  • (20) A number of variables which could influence the test has been evaluated and standardized in a way suitable for the routinary use of the technique described.