What's the difference between expedition and expeditionary?
Expedition
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.
(n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.
(n.) An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.
Example Sentences:
(1) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
(2) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(3) An ice axe, assumed to belong to Irvine, had been discovered in 1933 by the fourth British expedition to the mountain.
(4) The goal of the expedition, led by Prof Ken Takai of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was to study the limits of life at deep-sea vents in the Cayman Trough as part of a round-the-world voyage of discovery by the research ship RV Yokosuka .
(5) The local inanimate environment, including mess hut, sleeping huts and sleeping bags used on expeditions, was searched for contamination by S. aureus but none was detected.
(6) During his first expedition as a private lecturer together with von Prowazek in Samoa (1910-1911), he discovered the involvement of the eye in filarial infections with Wuchereria bancrofti (Lebers fundus).
(7) The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-governmental body that oversees the hunts, had hoped to use sales from the meat to cover the costs of the whaling fleet's expeditions, she said.
(8) This could be of important use in expediting root-knot nematode resistance (based on the Aps 1-linked resistance gene Mi) screening for breeding programs, or F1 testing for seed production purposes.
(9) I accompanied the Mountain Institute and 32 scientists and engineers from more than 13 countries on an expedition looking into some of the new hazards.
(10) Wada had asked a series of questions to the Kenyan authorities and stressed that we needed the Kenyan government to expedite, and show commitment to, the national anti-doping organisation’s development.
(11) To expedite the development of a personal library data base by medical students, we created MEDFILE, a preprinted, cross-indexed file folder system for organizing the medical literature.
(12) But many have tried similar expeditions - and many too have failed.
(13) Simon Harris-Ward, the survey's director of operations, said no one should underestimate how challenging the expedition had been so far.
(14) The acrophase of the rhythms followed the changes in activity patterns on both expeditions although there was a dissociation between the cortisol and testosterone following an acute 8 hr phase shift in Spitzbergen.
(15) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(16) The subjects were 11 climbing members (aged 21 to 43 years) of the Kyoto University Medical Research Expedition of Xixabangma (8,027 m) in 1990.
(17) I took a group of army cadets out into the middle of West Sussex from central London on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition and it was the first time they had really seen a cow and had to cross a field with a cow [in it].
(18) Four fit young men participating in a high altitude mountaineering expedition took part in a 15-day trial of two high-calorie dietary supplements.
(19) Progressive body weight loss occurs during high mountain expeditions, but whether it is due to hypoxia, inadequate diet, malabsorption, or the multiple stresses of the harsh environment is unknown.
(20) Her body has now been brought to Kathmandu from the mountain,” said Phu Tenzi Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks, which organised her expedition.
Expeditionary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook wouldn’t confirm the capture, but said the goals of the new expeditionary targeting force include capturing Islamic State leaders.
(2) In September 1918, as senior consultant to the American Expeditionary Force, Cushing was in charge of organizing the neurosurgical care for the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives.
(3) The Pentagon announced Tuesday a new “expeditionary force” (a propaganda term to avoid saying “ground troops”) that will apparently operate apart from any Iraqi or Syrian rebel allied fighters and be able to conduct cross-border raids in either country.
(4) • A 50,000-strong expeditionary force will be formed by 2025 for deployment in crisis spots such as the Middle East.
(5) Read more Meanwhile, the US defence secretary, Ash Carter, announced that a permanent new US “expeditionary” force would operate independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time.
(6) UA air force colonel Johnny Barnes, the vice commander of the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing, told reporters Russian fighters in Syria haven’t impeded US airstrikes.
(7) That includes the Camp Lejeune marines now serving with – or soon joining – the second marine expeditionary force in Iraq; those with special purpose marine air ground task force in Afghanistan; and those among the 8,000 marines who are preparing to deploy to Afghanistan.
(8) The Turks prepared to send an expeditionary force to Mecca, to crush the revolt at its source, moving an army corps to Medina by rail.
(9) So we have to expect there will be attacks.” After acknowledging Cardin’s death on Saturday, the US command in Iraq revealed on Sunday that a detachment of marines from the 26th marine expeditionary unit (MEU) has been deployed to “support … Iraqi Security Force and Coalition ground operations”.
(10) Belgium invaded and broken down - our own fine expeditionary force which King Leopold called to his rescue cut off and captured, escaping as it seemed only by a miracle and with the loss of all its equipment; our ally France out; Italy in against us; all France in the power of the enemy, all its arsenals and vast masses of military material converted to the enemy's use.
(11) The officials would not identify the militant by name or provide other details, but the raid appears to be the first major success by the Pentagon’s new expeditionary targeting force that recently began operating in Iraq.
(12) He served with the 606 Air Control Squadron in Germany and the 73rd Expeditionary Air Control Squadron in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
(13) The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit is based at Camp Pendleton in California and is in Hawaii for about a week for training.
(14) Corbyn is right: of course Manchester was linked to British foreign policy | Simon Jenkins Read more The “blowback theory”, which blames Islamist terrorism directly on western expeditionary warfare, is both facile and irrelevant in this case.
(15) ", the famous poster featuring Britain's secretary of state for war, Lord Kitchener, encouraged more than a million men to enlist to bolster the original expeditionary force deployed to France hopelessly unprepared and unfit for a European war.
(16) The detected differences require the development of a basically new organizational model for the provision of medical care to persons engaged in expeditionary-watch labour including mobile medical facilities (physician's ambulatory office, sanatorium department with a unit of psychophysiological relief) subordination of public health institutions to the single management cycle, introduction of a document such as "Healthbook of a watch-keeper", reorientation of northern health units to a certain volume of follow-up measures for securing continuity of observation during watch, inter-watch (home) periods, carrying out of medical examinations before and after the flights.
(17) The tilt-rotor MV-22 Osprey, which can take off and land like a helicopter but has wings to fly like an airplane, had a “hard-landing mishap” about 11 am, the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit said.
(18) Trauma may cause morbidity or mortality in expeditionary spaceflight settings.
(19) A permanent new US “expeditionary force” will target Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, operating independently of local troops in Iraq and Syria for the first time, defense secretary Ash Carter has revealed, in a significant escalation of the frontline use of American ground troops in the region.
(20) Though defence chiefs said today they will still have significant expeditionary forces, they will not be able to intervene on the scale of recent years.