What's the difference between example and exemplify?

Example


Definition:

  • (n.) One or a portion taken to show the character or quality of the whole; a sample; a specimen.
  • (n.) That which is to be followed or imitated as a model; a pattern or copy.
  • (n.) That which resembles or corresponds with something else; a precedent; a model.
  • (n.) That which is to be avoided; one selected for punishment and to serve as a warning; a warning.
  • (n.) An instance serving for illustration of a rule or precept, especially a problem to be solved, or a case to be determined, as an exercise in the application of the rules of any study or branch of science; as, in trigonometry and grammar, the principles and rules are illustrated by examples.
  • (v. t.) To set an example for; to give a precedent for; to exemplify; to give an instance of; to instance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
  • (2) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (3) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
  • (4) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
  • (5) New indications are still being investigated, for example in focal tremors and spasticity.
  • (6) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (7) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
  • (8) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
  • (9) Increased iron levels in basal ganglia were generally associated with normal or elevated levels of ferritin immunoreactivity, for example, the substantia nigra in PSP and possibly MSA, and in putamen in MSA.
  • (10) This is the first clear example of activation of the K-ras gene by ethylating agents in a rodent lung tumor system.
  • (11) Many examples are given to demonstrate the applications of these programs, and special emphasis has been laid on the problem of treating a point in tissue with different doses per fraction on alternate treatment days.
  • (12) For example, lysine is preferably encoded by the AAA codon if guanosine is 3' to the lysine codon (AAA-G, P less than 10(-9)).
  • (13) For example, 75% of them were asked about their family life, marital status and children in interviews.
  • (14) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
  • (15) A good example is Apple TV: Can it possibly generate real money at $100 a puck?
  • (16) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
  • (17) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
  • (18) Individual play techniques are explored, and two case histories are given as examples of how the occupational therapist works with the child, the family, and other practitioners.
  • (19) For example, stem pairing with a sequence other than wild-type resulted in normal protein binding in vitro but derepression of protein synthesis in vivo.
  • (20) One example of this increased data generation is the emergence of genomic selection, which uses statistical modeling to predict how a plant will perform before field testing.

Exemplify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To show or illustrate by example.
  • (v. t.) To copy; to transcribe; to make an attested copy or transcript of, under seal, as of a record.
  • (v. t.) To prove or show by an attested copy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is exemplified in lymphoma cells (chronic lymphocytic leukemia of B or T type, Sezary Syndrome, immunocytoma) that resemble mature and immunocompetent T and B cells, in T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) (equivalent to thymus cells) and in non-T ALL (corresponding to lymphoid progenitor cells in the bone marrow).
  • (2) Hepatitis B virus is used here to exemplify the application of recombinant DNA technology to the development of subunit vaccines and to illustrate their value in studies of other viral proteins with particular emphasis on the role of the core antigen in providing protection against viral infection and hence its potential in vaccine development.
  • (3) These results show for the first time the role of a specific pilus structure in colonization of the human intestine by V. cholerae O1 and exemplify the significance of a genetic regulon in pathogenesis.
  • (4) The method is exemplified by autoradiographs of human brain hemisphere ([ 3H]quinuclidinylbenzilate) and whole biceps muscle ([ 3H]alpha-bungarotoxin).
  • (5) It was thus found that the predictive efficacy of CASE was increased when it employed a combination of human and artificial intelligence, as exemplified by the CASE analysis of 'structural alerts.
  • (6) A comprehensive review of the world literature reveals that the systematic study of severe gender disorders--as exemplified by transsexualism--is relatively new, consisting of just over 25 years of collective experience.
  • (7) The disease exemplifies the validity of the Royal Veterinary College motto Venienti occurrite morbo (treat the disease at its first appearance).
  • (8) Further indications of the potential value of microbial metabolites are exemplified by the discovery and development of cyclosporin, to treat organ rejection, and mevinolin, a cholesterol-lowering drug.
  • (9) Salmonella contamination of swine and morbidity rates among the workers of swine-breeding complexes and the members of their families, as well as among the population inhabiting the zone of possible influence rendered by such complexes on the environment, have been studied as exemplified by 4 complexes for large-scale swine breeding, differing in their technology of swine raising and fattening, their systems of the purification and utilization of manure-containing sewage.
  • (10) Noradrenaline-beta-adrenoceptor-mediated neural plasticity in cat visual cortex exemplifies clearly established roles of the locus coeruleus system in brain function.
  • (11) It is argued that Western science reductionist approaches to the classification of "mass hysteria" treat it as an entity to be discovered transculturally, and in their self-fulfilling search for universals systematically exclude what does not fit within the autonomous parameters of its Western-biased culture model, exemplifying what Kleinman (1977) terms a "category fallacy."
  • (12) Instead we have injected vast sums of our own money to improve the playing squad and modernize LFC’s infrastructure-exemplified by the £120m advance from FSG to build the new Main Stand.
  • (13) The data exemplify the difficulty in reaching firm conclusions concerning associations with radiation exposure when the dependent variable exhibits a large degree of interindividual and day-of-assay variability.
  • (14) The paper deals with peculiarities of antioxidative activity of natural antioxidants (exemplified by ubiquinones) which permit their participation in the control of peroxidation intensity of membrane lipids.
  • (15) We therefore investigated the humoral and cell-mediated immune responses to mBSA in resistant mice (CBA) and susceptible mice (exemplified by C57BL) to determine whether these were associated with susceptibility to arthritis.
  • (16) Contamination by industrial chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls; heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury; and pesticides such as dieldrin and chlordane exemplify the problem in feeds and the resulting problem of tissue residues in human foods.
  • (17) Several of these, exemplified by beta-bungarotoxin, show phospholipase A2 activity (phosphatide 2-acylhydrolase, EC 3.1.1.4) when tested in the presence of detergents.
  • (18) Three cases of blunt abdominal trauma are presented to exemplify the mechanism of trauma and the problems of diagnosis associated with any linear blow to the abdomen.
  • (19) incidence rate, absolute and relative increment of this value and the significance of a 1% increment as exemplified by this region.
  • (20) There are severe constraints that limit the combinations consistent with function, but the number of functionally consistent combinations observed exemplifies the plasticity of proteins.