What's the difference between expend and expense?

Expend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.
  • (v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.
  • (v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (2) The increase in membrane resistance at low pH allowed S. bovis to maintain its membrane potential and expend less energy when its ability to ferment glucose was impaired.
  • (3) Approximately 76.5 percent of the funds was expended for treatment services, 12.6 percent for prevention services, and 10.9 percent for other services (for example, administration, research, training).
  • (4) Total hydraulic power expended per unit of forward flow was computed as an index of right ventricular-pulmonary artery coupling.
  • (5) Intuitively, weight lost should be determined by the difference between the total energy consumed and the total energy expended.
  • (6) We conclude that a greater effort should be expended to encourage and even direct patients toward this form of therapy.
  • (7) However, the shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander , is adamant Labour could not afford to spend the first two years of government wrestling with a referendum on Europe, pointing to the energy it had expended on the near-disastrous no campaign for the Scotland independence vote.
  • (8) Both required regions are near the carboxyl terminus, and they are separated by a region which is expendable for binding (K. W. Ryan and A. Portner, 1990, Virology 174, 515-521).
  • (9) The full duplex of tetramer d(G4).d(C4) was prepared by expending about a month.
  • (10) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
  • (11) The FSB expends enormous effort on keeping track of its targets.
  • (12) For a club of such means, with fortunes expended already, the focus on Carlos Tevez alone in attack should be troubling.
  • (13) Portions of the carbon of methane expended for synthesis of the biomass, carbon dioxide, and exometabolites was different among methanotrophic cultures belonging to different genera.
  • (14) The percentage of individuals expending 2000 kcal or more per week in LTPA was significantly lower in black men than white men (25 vs. 35%; p = .01) but was not different in black versus white women (18 vs. 17%).
  • (15) "When it became clear that they wouldn't help themselves, Nick wasn't going to expend political capital defending them.
  • (16) This scheme not only maximizes the size of the coated vesicle generated, but also minimizes the number of transformations, thus minimizing the energy expended.
  • (17) It has stoked an existing paranoia that the lives of ordinary Africans are expendable.
  • (18) But on the strength of the effort expended on the right royal cover-up thus far, it seems a fair guess that officials and ministers will have given the prince’s letters rather more favourable attention than routine correspondence with a member of the public.
  • (19) This is probably because the grafted cell clone, reactive to mouse antigens, is small and has to be expended in order to be effective.
  • (20) Effects of levels-of-processing on retention of visually presented target and nontarget letter words were studied in relation to the amount of processing resources expended on the attended task.

Expense


Definition:

  • (n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
  • (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.
  • (n.) Loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Schistosomiasis control currently relies primarily on chemotherapy which is both expensive and temporary.
  • (2) Their disadvantages - the expensive equipment and the time-consuming procedure respectively - limit their widespread use.
  • (3) But that gross margin only includes the cost of paying drivers as a cost of revenue, classifying everything else, such as operations, R&D, and sales and marketing, as “operating expenses”.
  • (4) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
  • (5) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
  • (6) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (7) These preliminary results suggest that IGIV may be more beneficial and less expensive than plasmapheresis in treatment of GBS.
  • (8) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (9) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
  • (10) A ­senior shadow minister, who has not been named by the Telegraph in its exposé of MPs' expenses , was yesterday asked by county councillors not to campaign for next month's local elections.
  • (11) Three Labour MPs and a Tory peer will be charged with false accounting in relation to their parliamentary expenses, it was announced today.
  • (12) Its use is economical of tissue, time, and expense to the patient.
  • (13) "Android’s gain came mainly at the expense of BlackBerry, which saw its global smartphone share dip from 4 percent to 1 percent in the past year due to a weak line-up of BB10 devices," said Strategy Analytics' senior analyst Scott Bicheno.
  • (14) Domino’s had been in touch with Driscoll on Thursday morning and was “working to make it up to him ... and to ensure he is not out of pocket for any expenses incurred”.
  • (15) As the older people have died, younger people have come into the more expensive houses,” he said.
  • (16) It increases the duration and quality of life without prolonging the time spent in hospital, and it reduces health expenses by 50 to 70%.
  • (17) The resulting medium is less complicated to maintain, less expensive and supports the growth of human bladder tumor cell lines better than the standard clonogenic assay.
  • (18) In the muscular bioptates of patients with Duchenne's myopathy as the disease progresses there is a gradual smoothening of the diameter of preserved elements at the expense of almost complete disappearance of hypertrophysed filaments.
  • (19) Her family paid the [hospital] expenses until she got well," said her friend, Lisa Moussa, 17.
  • (20) Simultaneously, bone ingrowth at the expense of the ceramic is observed.