What's the difference between greatest and hyphen?

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.

Hyphen


Definition:

  • (n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words.
  • (v. t.) To connect with, or separate by, a hyphen, as two words or the parts of a word.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 3' end of the cell cycle regulated mRNA terminates immediately following the region of hyphenated dyad symmetry typical of most histone mRNAs, whereas the constitutively expressed mRNA has a 1798 nt non-translated trailer that contains the same region of hyphenated dyad symmetry but is polyadenylated.
  • (2) Termination of sar RNA synthesis occurs after transcription of the first and second Ts of a TTTA sequence following a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry.
  • (3) The H2B protein coding region of HHC289 is flanked at the 3' end by a 1798-nt nontranslated trailer that contains a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry and a poly(A) addition sequence, followed by a poly(A) tail.
  • (4) Her relations address letters to our children using an invented hyphenated surname.
  • (5) It was possible to classify the patients into three groups with focal, hyphenated and linear attachment, respectively.
  • (6) Between these extremes were cases in which hyphenations along a locus of linear attachment allowed additional communications between the ventricular compartments.
  • (7) Features of the sequence involved in recognition by the T7 RNA polymerase are discussed and include the following region of hyphenated 2-fold symmetry (boxed regions are related through a 2-fold axis of symmetry at the center of the sequence shown).
  • (8) Size, ejection and displacement indexes of the functional right ventricle measured from the angiograms suggested that the severity of the malformation increased from focal attachment through hyphenated to linear attachment.
  • (9) Its vague and fluid nature allowed space for a range of options, hyphens and elisions.
  • (10) There has been rather a lot of talk recently of hard work: the mythical individuals who are thus wired – from politicians to Hollywood stars , households of folks so hard-working they sometimes have to drop the hyphen for efficiency .
  • (11) This binding region of the beta-actin enhancer contained a hyphenated dyad symmetry and an enhancer core-like sequence.
  • (12) She is clearly not an activist of the old school.” One way to understand Watson’s very 21st-century celebrity activism is to see her as a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur in the vein of Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow .
  • (13) The Sunday crossword puzzle had the following cue for 4 down: "Places for day-care" (spelled, with the purist's uncertainty, with a hyphen).
  • (14) Alterations of specific bases in a region of hyphenated dyad symmetry located in the leader established that base pairing in the 5' terminal region of the pyrC leader transcript is required for normal regulation of dihydroorotase synthesis.
  • (15) The ends of the region of homology between pIM13 and pE194 were associated with hyphenated dyad symmetries.
  • (16) Footprints containing hyphenated palindrome sequences, found in the promoter regions of both genes, suggest the possible involvement of other classes of transcription factor.
  • (17) In the sequence alignments, identity between residues is indicated by a hyphen (-).
  • (18) The gene contains sequences that strongly resemble those found in E. coli promoters, an E. coli type of ribosomal binding site, and a hyphenated dyad sequence at the 3' end of the gene which resembles the rho-independent terminators found in some E. coli genes.
  • (19) The 24 base pair hyphenated palindrome at the 3' end of the HKB gene may be a site for termination of transcription of this gene.
  • (20) But apparently, yes – while hyphenations of both surnames are becoming more common, it is still rare for a woman to pass on her surname when it is different from the father's.