What's the difference between folder and index?

Folder


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, folds; esp., a flat, knifelike instrument used for folding paper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Leafing anxiously through a folder thick with court documentation and witness statements, Painter said he wanted his children returned to his care so they could go back to their old school and the home in which they had grown up.
  • (3) The Faulkner folder has proved to be optimal, allowing for easy and atraumatic folding and insertion.
  • (4) Yet to judge by the howls when Apple made the latest album free to download to all of the 800m or so iTunes account holders (by automatically adding it to their “Purchased” folder), there’s nothing the internet hates more than getting music for free.
  • (5) "7-Zip doesn't place files [inside folders] that were not specified by the user," said Pavlov.
  • (6) We need to help children in care treasure the objects that tell their life story Read more These books, a cross between photo album, scrapbook and folder, are a statutory requirement for all children going into adoption placements .
  • (7) This information was then used to design appropriate educational materials, including folders, photographs, flip-charts, and posters.
  • (8) But Pavlov stressed that it is highly unlikely anyone other than the perpetrator - the person who holds the folder's "passphrase" , or password - will be able to force their way into the encrypted "All7z" folder.
  • (9) Conversion to A4 folders in the practice provided an opportunity to develop a diagramatic representation of family structure and thus create for each patient a family ;portrait.'
  • (10) In the runup to the 2001 election campaign he and I spent several anxious hours searching for a mislaid folder containing the entire Labour advertising campaign.
  • (11) A new concept for filing medical records in general practice is described, based on an A4-size folder; in experimental use in 40 practices doctors were generally in favour of the new system.
  • (12) Each patient's family is provided with a folder containing detailed information about the patient's current treatment.
  • (13) Maybe it was back last December, on a trip to Afghanistan, when I saw that the young army officer briefing us had a snapshot of a small boy paper-clipped to his folder.
  • (14) The ocular lenses were foldable with a forcep (Faulker Folder) and inserted into the eye through a 4 mm incision.
  • (15) In simple terms, instead of having to create multiple folders to organise documents, users will be able to assign files with multiple tags, which can later be used to search.
  • (16) But it ended up in the company’s spam folder, so the breach was not discovered until the company was contacted by the Financial Times on Monday, the paper said (£).
  • (17) These folder variables ranged in nature from quantitative measures of academic performance to demographic information and types of extracurricular activity.
  • (18) A mysterious encrypted folder released online last week containing a further 220,245 private emails exchanged between climate scientists includes another message from the perpetrator, the Guardian has learned.
  • (19) She says she keeps the hate mail she's received in an email folder entitled "Do not look", and as a new round has started coming in, she has stuck to this rule.
  • (20) A procedure for converting the medical record envelopes now used in general practice to an A4-sized record folder is described.

Index


Definition:

  • (n.) That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
  • (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.
  • (n.) A table for facilitating reference to topics, names, and the like, in a book; -- usually alphabetical in arrangement, and printed at the end of the volume.
  • (n.) A prologue indicating what follows.
  • (n.) The second digit, that next pollex, in the manus, or hand; the forefinger; index finger.
  • (n.) The figure or letter which shows the power or root of a quantity; the exponent.
  • (v. t.) To provide with an index or table of references; to put into an index; as, to index a book, or its contents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study, the role of psychological make-up was assessed as a risk factor in the etiology of vasospasm in variant angina (VA) using the Cornell Medical Index (CMI).
  • (2) Concentrations of alpha-lactalbumin and alpha s1-casein were measured in media and explant homogenates by radioimmunoassay, as an index of lactogenesis.
  • (3) Using multiple regression, a linear correlation was established between the cardiac index and the arterial-venous pH and PCO2 differences throughout shock and resuscitation (r2 = .91).
  • (4) In all groups, there was a fall in labeling index with time reflecting increasing tumor size.
  • (5) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (6) The groups were matched with regard to sex, age and body mass index.
  • (7) Peaks in the sperm index were preceded by 6 days with peaks in the serum testosterone concentration.
  • (8) The time for 90% of this change in VelCO2 to occur (T90) was measured as an index of the rate of correction of body CO2 imbalance.
  • (9) Results suggest that these resins should be used with some method to compensate for the shrinkage, when used as index material.
  • (10) The labeling index of the treated groups was significantly reduced when compared to that of control group in both tumors.
  • (11) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
  • (12) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
  • (13) In the kidneys the index of incorporation inthe epithelial cells of the renal cortex was 7.5-fold and in the brain cortex epithelium 15-fold as increased, respectively.
  • (14) The index estimated the probability of infection more accurately (p less than 0.01) than did clinicians, performed well in each site, and remained accurate when C. trachomatis and N. gonorrhoeae were considered separately.
  • (15) (2) A close correlation between the obesity index and serum GPT was recognized by elevation of the standard partial regression coefficient of serum GPT to obesity index and that of obesity index to serum GPT when the data from all 617 students was analysed in one group.
  • (16) Patients were divided into two groups: poor outcome, defined by the death or a post-operative Karnofsky index less than or equal to 70 (n = 36), and good outcome defined by a Karnofsky index of 80 or more (n = 60).
  • (17) The IgG index (formula: see text) corrects for the influence of serum protein abnormalities as well as a bloodbrain barrier damage and is, therefore, a better measure for the presence of an IgG elevation in CSF due to IgG synthesis, when compared with other IgG quotients commonly used.
  • (18) A quantitative index of duodenogastric reflux was obtained in each case by determining the percentage of the injected dose of 99mTechnetium-DISIDA that was recovered by continuous aspiration of gastric juice in fasting subjects.
  • (19) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
  • (20) Then, the delta Fract (coronary flow reserve index) map was obtained for each subject.