What's the difference between expressly and specifically?

Expressly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In an express manner; in direct terms; with distinct purpose; particularly; as, a book written expressly for the young.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These limitations expressly declared in the ISO 2631 guide are also implicit in the other regulations proposed.
  • (2) GNM accepts no responsibility for any costs associated with the prize that are not expressly included in the prize.
  • (3) The document was expressly designed to be shared with legislators who did not serve on the panel; it appears that a corresponding document for the Senate in 2011 was made available to all senators.
  • (4) This method of quantitative DNase I footprinting is demonstrated to be a useful technique for the measurement of drug affinities to specific binding sites on DNA oligomers which are designed and synthesized expressly for this purpose.
  • (5) Cameron says the Bank of England said expressly last week that there isn't a housing bubble.
  • (6) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
  • (7) Mass killings of Tutsis, expressly ordered by the Congolese president, Laurent Kabila, have occurred in western and eastern Congo.
  • (8) The amendment expressly excludes people who have been given adverse security assessments by ASIO from receiving protection visas.
  • (9) Misunderstandings about these and other terms arise when they are implied; therefore, they should be defined expressly.
  • (10) During the proceedings at the International Court of Justice relating to the seizure of the documents, the Australian solicitor general, Justin Gleeson, expressly flagged the possibility that Witness K and others involved in the case could be prosecuted under section 91.1.
  • (11) Informed consent of the person involved is the most important justification; as a rule the consent must be signified specifically and expressly both for tests and for the breach of confidentiality.
  • (12) Furthermore, I was expressly forbidden, by the BCF from riding in the senior women's Championship event.
  • (13) It expressly says it is imposing no such requirements.
  • (14) It was only done - indeed expressly done - on the basis that Labor might do better at the election.
  • (15) Blair expressly denied saying this, but Chilcot subsequently referred to "the sort of language that Rawnsley cites or that we have seen in the note you sent to President Bush", as if they amount to the same thing.
  • (16) The decision to ban a whole class of substances, then specify which ones are permitted, is contrary to centuries of British common law under which citizens have been allowed to do or consume anything unless expressly forbidden.
  • (17) The examinations they effect in this framework cannot be based on a holistic medical orientation, because our constitution has expressly excluded the private sphere of the individual (self-management domain).
  • (18) By using programs written expressly for this data base, we can display a birth weight frequency plot of the entire data set in under 65 seconds on an IBM-compatible PC-AT.
  • (19) Uefa says there is “little doubt” the funds influence transfer policy even though third-party influence is expressly forbidden by Fifa rules.
  • (20) A new slide-making instrument, developed expressly to enhance the spreading of chromosomes from metaphases released from small tissue pieces, is responsible for the increase yield of analysable metaphases in this protocol.

Specifically


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a specific manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of the S100 alpha-binding protein profiles in fast- and slow-twitch fibers of various species revealed few, if any, species- or fiber type-specific S100 binding proteins.
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) Anti-Leu 7 could not be considered as a specific marker for oligodendroglioma.
  • (4) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (5) The nuclear origin of the Ha antigen was confirmed by the speckled nuclear immunofluorescence staining pattern given by purified antibody to Ha obtained from a specific immune precipitate.
  • (6) The role of Ca2+ in cell agglutination may be either to activate the cell-surface dextran receptor or to form specific intercellular Ca2+ bridges.
  • (7) The Cole-Moore effect, which was found here only under a specific set of conditions, thus may be a special case rather than the general property of the membrane.
  • (8) Although solely nociresponsive neurons are clearly likely to fill a role in the processing and signalling of pain in the conscious central nervous system, the way in which such useful specificity could be conveyed by multireceptive neurons is difficult to appreciate.
  • (9) On the other hand, after exposure to BrdUrd, neuron specific enolase decreased in NB-1 and SK-N-DZ and increased in GOTO.
  • (10) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
  • (11) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
  • (12) The specific activities of extracts from cells grown under phototrophic and aerobic conditions were similar and not affected by the concentration of iron in the growth media.
  • (13) Proliferation assays using F3 showed that 15 (14 CD4+ and 1 CD8+) of the 18 isolated clones were specific for T. gondii.
  • (14) We have developed a new procedure for the rapid preparation of undegraded total RNA from cultured cells for specific quantitation by dot blotting analysis.
  • (15) Further studies are required to elucidate specific roles of the steroid-induced proteins in the effects of glucocorticoids on HTM and HS cells.
  • (16) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (17) Four other independent LCMV-GP2(275-289) specific H-2Db-restricted CTL clones also expressed V alpha 4 and V beta 10 gene elements.
  • (18) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (19) When compared with self-reported exposures, the sensitivity of both job-exposure matrices was low (on average, below 0.51), while the specificity was generally high (on average, above 0.90).
  • (20) The specific limited trypsinolysis of bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase (T7RP) was performed in the presence of various components of the polymerase reaction and some GTP-analogs--irreversible inhibitors of the enzyme.