What's the difference between example and rule?

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.

Rule


Definition:

  • (a.) That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
  • (a.) Uniform or established course of things.
  • (a.) Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o'clock.
  • (a.) Ordibary course of procedure; usual way; comon state or condition of things; as, it is a rule to which there are many exeptions.
  • (a.) Conduct in general; behavior.
  • (a.) The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
  • (a.) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
  • (a.) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result; as, a rule for extracting the cube root.
  • (a.) A general principle concerning the formation or use of words, or a concise statement thereof; thus, it is a rule in England, that s or es , added to a noun in the singular number, forms the plural of that noun; but "man" forms its plural "men", and is an exception to the rule.
  • (a.) A straight strip of wood, metal, or the like, which serves as a guide in drawing a straight line; a ruler.
  • (a.) A measuring instrument consisting of a graduated bar of wood, ivory, metal, or the like, which is usually marked so as to show inches and fractions of an inch, and jointed so that it may be folded compactly.
  • (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
  • (a.) A composing rule. See under Conposing.
  • (n.) To control the will and actions of; to exercise authority or dominion over; to govern; to manage.
  • (n.) To control or direct by influence, counsel, or persuasion; to guide; -- used chiefly in the passive.
  • (n.) To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
  • (n.) To require or command by rule; to give as a direction or order of court.
  • (n.) To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
  • (v. i.) To have power or command; to exercise supreme authority; -- often followed by over.
  • (v. i.) To lay down and settle a rule or order of court; to decide an incidental point; to enter a rule.
  • (v. i.) To keep within a (certain) range for a time; to be in general, or as a rule; as, prices ruled lower yesterday than the day before.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (2) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (3) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (4) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
  • (5) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
  • (6) Former lawmaker and historian Faraj Najm said the ruling resets Libya “back to square one” and that the choice now faced by the Tobruk-based parliament is “between bad and worse”.
  • (7) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
  • (8) This situation should lead to discuss preventive rules.
  • (9) Cas reduced it further to four, but the decision effectively ends Platini’s career as a football administrator because – as he pointedly noted – it rules him out of standing for the Fifa presidency in 2019.
  • (10) Paul Johnson, the IFS director, said: “Osborne’s new fiscal charter is much more constraining than his previous fiscal rules.
  • (11) Models with a C8-symmetry and D4-symmetry can be ruled out.
  • (12) CEA and bacterial antigens were not detected in the material, and the presence of alpha-fetoprotein, HLA and blood-group antigens may be ruled out on account of their respective molecular weights.
  • (13) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
  • (14) In fact, if the roundtable operated by the rules it publishes, most of its members might have been thrown out.
  • (15) Injections of l-amphetamine were not effective, ruling out non-specific effects of pH, osmolarity and the like and also ruling out noradrenergic actions as explanations of the behavioral effects.
  • (16) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
  • (17) The prediction rule performed well when used on a test set of data (area, 0.76).
  • (18) Analysts say Zuma's lawyers may try to reach agreement with the prosecutors, while he can also appeal against yesterday's ruling before the constitutional court.
  • (19) The ruling centre-right coalition government of Angela Merkel was dealt a blow by voters in a critical regional election on Sunday after the centre-left opposition secured a wafer-thin victory, setting the scene for a tension-filled national election in the autumn when everything will be up for grabs.
  • (20) But employers who have followed a fair procedure may have the right to discipline or finally dismiss any smoker who refuses to accept the new rules.