What's the difference between excess and guzzle?

Excess


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light.
  • (n.) An undue indulgence of the appetite; transgression of proper moderation in natural gratifications; intemperance; dissipation.
  • (n.) The degree or amount by which one thing or number exceeds another; remainder; as, the difference between two numbers is the excess of one over the other.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (2) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (3) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (4) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
  • (5) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
  • (6) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (7) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
  • (8) Preliminary studies of different systems suggest several of them may have sensitivity to detect intraepithelial abnormalities in excess of 95%.
  • (9) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
  • (10) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
  • (11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (12) Addition of methacholine to the substance-P-treated cells caused a rapid increase in [3H]IP3, whereas a second addition of a 10-fold excess of substance P had no effect.
  • (13) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (14) Using the intersection point of these pH-logPCO2 lines as a point of equal hemoglobin-independent "base excess" for each condition, values for true base excess were plotted.
  • (15) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
  • (16) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (17) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (18) The technique did not compromise cancer resection, excessively prolong operating time, or alter postoperative management.
  • (19) The temperature-activated 4 to 5 S EBP transformation is found to be highly reproducible without loss of [3H]estradiol-binding activity in a buffer containing an excess of [3H]estradiol, 40 mM Tris, 1 mM dithiothreitol, and 1 M urea at pH 7.4.
  • (20) The amount of cleavage products depends on the excess of H2O2 used.

Guzzle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To swallow liquor greedily; to drink much or frequently.
  • (v. t.) To swallow much or often; to swallow with immoderate gust; to drink greedily or continually; as, one who guzzles beer.
  • (n.) An insatiable thing or person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost half of those tested so far have received an energy efficiency rating of E, F or G, the lowest possible and the equivalent of a gas guzzling car.
  • (2) The near-freebie prices amount to an especially generous giveaway to Venezuelans fond of large SUVs and gas-guzzling jalopies from the 1970s and 80s.
  • (3) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
  • (4) There are legitimate reasons around the world for this – one is to stop the guzzling of a scarce resource.
  • (5) Peruse the aisles of manga, play PlayStation and online games, charge your mobile, sleep, and guzzle as much free fizzy melon soda as you like.
  • (6) Convincing viewers that Don and his colleagues aren't actually guzzling back booze might be the hardest sell of all.
  • (7) But in the face of the first oil shock – and in an age where shared wartime sacrifices for the common good were recalled more vividly than today – by banning gas-guzzling speeds, Washington put the security of supply to the collective ahead of individuals' desire to push the pedal to the metal.
  • (8) We’d also need to build exercise into daily living, and curtail out of town supermarkets which can only be reached by gas-guzzling obesity-inducing car culture.
  • (9) In Guzzle Hole cave, the sharp-eared will catch the sound of an underground river.
  • (10) A new generation of technologies designed to reduce our carbon footprints, energy monitoring takes our electricity usage into the light via wireless handheld displays, web pages and electronic flowers that wilt as we guzzle power.
  • (11) The firms warned in a statement that calm winter days with no wind could result in "large-scale supply disruptions", particularly in Germany's affluent and industry-heavy south, which guzzles much of the country's electricity.
  • (12) The military accounts for nearly 80% of the US government's energy consumption and the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have made strategists acutely conscious of both the massive cost and serious security risks of the gas-guzzling ways of the past.
  • (13) John Alker, public affairs manager of the UK Green Building Council, said: "Many of our public sector offices, schools and hospitals are the building equivalent of gas-guzzling cars.
  • (14) Stop the car’s battery recharging, perhaps, to save energy; test at unrealistically high temperatures and on super-slick test-tracks; switch off all the energy-guzzling accessories like heated seats, and air-conditioning, navigation and media systems; test cars at altitude.
  • (15) As a fast-food option, which is how people treat them in countries such as Thailand , insects are greatly preferable to the water-guzzling, rainforest-destroying, methane-spewing beefburger.
  • (16) Waiting at the hotel, we watched a minister guzzling champagne at the bar before being told we must meet the prime minister, Ignacio Milam Tang, first.
  • (17) As the Guardian has reported, new measures were pitched to put an electric car charging point in every new home , to redesign some energy-guzzling products and to remove new wind and solar power plants from the EU’s priority dispatch system .
  • (18) A child guzzles thirstily from a jerrycan lid before darting back into the crowd.
  • (19) Additional cuts also come from changes in their behaviour; shopping locally, holidaying in the UK and travelling by train, only putting the washing machine on when the wind is blowing and Postlethwaite forsaking his beloved gas-guzzling Saab convertible in favour of the their more fuel efficient VW Touran.
  • (20) Growth is not the answer to inequality Read more In this narrative, the biggest change you might have to make is to buy British lamb chops, not ones from New Zealand, exchange your gas-guzzling car for a Prius and, above all, remember to do your recycling.