What's the difference between farthest and greatest?

Farthest


Definition:

  • (Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.
  • (adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two of them, extending farthest into the 5' and 3' direction respectively, were characterized by restriction mapping and Southern hybridization as well as by electron microscopic analysis of hybrids between the cloned DNA and ovomucoid mRNA.
  • (2) In the outer stripe only those proximal straight tubules (P3 segments) farthest from the vascular bundles were damaged.
  • (3) Dissection of the femoral nerve below the inguinal ligament and its branch(es) to an uninvolved area of the quadricepts the farthest from the location of the tumor is essential.
  • (4) First and farthest to spread was gas-light iodine 131, which tends to accumulate in the thyroid gland – it was quickly detected as far away as Tokyo.
  • (5) In the inner stripe only those thick ascending loops of Henle at the periphery of the vascular bundles escaped damage; all thick ascending loops of Henle lying farthest from the bundles were severely damaged.
  • (6) The interior of the molecule has extensive base-paired regions which connect distant regions of the molecule; the farthest being 2500 nucleotides apart.
  • (7) The farthest reaching proposals in more than a decade for the funding of long-term care for the elderly and disabled have met with a cautious government response , amid fears in Whitehall over the £1.7bn cost of the scheme.
  • (8) Visual fatigue was determined by the changes of visuognosis persistent time, nearest and farthest point in nearvision, and accommodation from before to after classes.
  • (9) These intermediates accumulated during excision of RNA primers in the presence of adenine 9-beta-D-arabinoside 5'-triphosphate, and those Okazaki fragments blocked by RNA primers (class III) were found to have originated the farthest from the 5' ends of long nascent DNA strands.
  • (10) It was assumed that items that maximally instantiated the rule were those farthest from the category boundary that separated small and large stimuli.
  • (11) In fact, observations established that older pedestrians were the safest age group, standing the farthest away from traffic.
  • (12) The compressive method was practiced instinctively in farthest antiquity.
  • (13) The general law of local regulation of the circulation and the "law of behaviour" of vascular smooth muscle are proposed on the basis of precise definition of hierarchically interrelated aims of the circulation: 1) stabilization of substances and heat fluxes through the tissue, 2) stabilization of the tissue environment at farthest points from the supplying vessels, and 3) minimization of circulating blood volume.
  • (14) The various experimental conditions incorporated binaural and monaural listening with the latter utilizing the ear nearest or ear farthest from the sound source.
  • (15) Muscles located farthest from the spine also played an important role as the trunk became more asymmetric.
  • (16) Nodes nearest to tumor showed least reaction; nodes at intermediate distances from tumor were most reactive, while those farthest away showed mostly little reaction.
  • (17) Le Guin won a national book award for The Farthest Shore in 1973, and on Wednesday reflected on the industry, which has undergone profound change in the more than four decades between these literary achievements.
  • (18) Similarly, the human gamma-globin gene is silenced earlier when present farthest from the LCR.
  • (19) This week, 40 years after the third Earthsea book, The Farthest Shore , won the National Book award in children’s literature, Le Guin has been awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, presented to her by Neil Gaiman in New York.
  • (20) With a mean of 6.9 mm, the apices of the mesial roots of the first molars were farthest from the canal.

Greatest


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Trans-Siberian railway , the greatest train journey in the world, is where our love story began.
  • (2) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
  • (3) Both gp175 and gp250 showed the greatest increase in fucosylation at 10(-5) M, which was also the dose at which RA induced laminin maximally, while the fucosylation of gp400 was greatest at 10(-8) M RA and declined at higher concentrations.
  • (4) This study concludes that grade is the greatest predictor of survival, with only 37% of grade 3 patients surviving at 5 years.
  • (5) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
  • (6) Thallium-201, a radiopharmaceutical that possesses many of the characteristics of potassium analogues, at present is receiving the greatest attention as a regional blood flow indicator.
  • (7) The greatest advantages of spinal QCT for noninvasive bone mineral measurement lie in the high precision of the technique, the high sensitivity of the vertebral trabecular measurement site, and the potential for widespread application.
  • (8) The greatest changes were revealed in the mitochondria.
  • (9) The column eluate with the greatest RAST inhibition activity was associated with a protein peak having a molecular weight greater than 341 kilodaltons; however, all peaks demonstrated inhibitory activity.
  • (10) The greatest stars who emerged from the early talent shows – Frank Sinatra, Gladys Knight, Tony Bennett – were artists with long careers.
  • (11) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (12) The procedure includes identifying "critical individuals," i.e., those who would have the greatest impact on the lod scores, should their diagnostic status in fact change.
  • (13) The sequence of the algal thioredoxin Ch2 has been compared to that of thioredoxins from other sources and has the greatest similarity (67%) with the thioredoxin from Anabaena 7119.
  • (14) and Isc was greatest in the most distal segment and less in each of the successive more proximal segments.
  • (15) Guinea pigs exposed to 200 and 400 H. truncatum larvae elicited the greatest change in feeding efficiency during the fourth infestation.
  • (16) Although each of the adenosine agonists reduced total peripheral resistance, the greatest change was produced by CGS 21680C.
  • (17) The greatest increase in spontaneous IgG secretion is seen with ulcerative colitis intestinal MNC, due to the secretion of large amounts of IgG subclass 1.
  • (18) "The role of leader is one of the greatest honours imaginable – but it is not a bauble to aspire for.
  • (19) Hemeselect was shown to have a higher sensitivity for colorectal carcinoma (94.0% compared with 58.0%), the greatest difference in sensitivity between the two tests being for rectal cancers.
  • (20) Most cases of typhoid fever in the United States occur in international travelers, with the greatest risk associated with travel to Peru, India, Pakistan, and Chile.