What's the difference between guilder and unit?

Guilder


Definition:

  • (n.) A Dutch silver coin worth about forty cents; -- called also florin and gulden.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition the costs per gained woman-year are about 5,000 guilders (1 US $ = 3.60 guilders).
  • (2) The average cow showing clinical symptoms of paratuberculosis, which was disposed of, caused a total loss of 2,250 guilders, whereas the average cow with a non-clinical form of Johne's disease was estimated to cause a loss of 1,800 guilders.
  • (3) Over 250,000 jobs, roughly 9,600 million guilders' worth of exports in 1977 and roughly 11,000 million guilders' worth of annual sales to home consumers.
  • (4) For simvastatin, cost-effectiveness ratios range from 50,000 to 110,000 guilders per year of life saved among this group of men.
  • (5) The losses at slaughter from inflammation of the tail in the Netherlands are estimated at 3-4 million guilders per annum.
  • (6) The economic loss resulting from the skinning and trimming of pig carcases is estimated at from 2.5 to 3 million Netherlands guilders per annum.
  • (7) Riding a white bike was no longer free of charge; it cost one guilder per trip and payment was made with a chip card developed by Postbank, a Dutch bank.
  • (8) However, if the greying of the patient population is taken into account (the elderly on average stay long in hospital), together with the devaluation of the guilder, a clear rise of the mean costs per hospitalization is no longer demonstrable.
  • (9) It is calculated that the public costs of 'care' will increase with 1.4 billion guilders in the next four years due to the aging of the population.
  • (10) The financial profit of a completely cured instead of an ultimately fatal cancer can be roughly estimated at 55,000 guilders.
  • (11) We classified estimated direct costs of illness (39.8 thousand million guilders) by type of care, sex, age and 48 diagnostic categories for 1988.
  • (12) A new study of Keynes’s attempts to make money out of movements in the pound against five major currencies of his day – the dollar, French franc, German mark, Italian lire and Dutch guilder – comes to a stark conclusion.

Unit


Definition:

  • (n.) A single thing or person.
  • (n.) The least whole number; one.
  • (n.) A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings.
  • (n.) Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, value) adopted as a standard of measurement for other amounts or quantities of the same kind.
  • (n.) A single thing, as a magnitude or number, regarded as an undivided whole.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (3) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (4) The Frenchman’s 65th-minute goal was a fifth for United and redemptive after he conceded the penalty from which CSKA Moscow took a first-half lead.
  • (5) This article describes a number of syndromes affecting the nail unit.
  • (6) The small units described here could be inhibitory interneurons which convert the excitatory response of large units into inhibition.
  • (7) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (8) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (9) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
  • (10) Twitch-tetanus ratios were calculated and found not to be related to unit contraction time.6.
  • (11) The hospital whose A&E unit has been threatened with closure on safety grounds has admitted that four patients died after errors by staff in the emergency department and other areas.
  • (12) High-grade and low-grade candidemia were defined as 25 colony-forming units or more per 10 ml and 10 colony-forming units or fewer per 10 ml of blood, respectively.
  • (13) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
  • (14) The level of significance of the statistical estimate of the change in the number of phonoreactive units (its increase due to deprivation) amounts to 92%.
  • (15) the class- and specificity-restricted antigen-sensitive units.
  • (16) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
  • (17) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
  • (18) Asthma is probably the commonest chronic disease in the United Kingdom, and its attendant morbidity extends outside the possible scope of the hospital sector.
  • (19) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (20) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.

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