What's the difference between hasten and postpone?

Hasten


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate; to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.
  • (v. i.) To move celerity; to be rapid in motion; to act speedily or quickly; to go quickly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Increasing the pH of local anesthetics with sodium bicarbonate has been reported to hasten their onset of action.
  • (2) Rapid, on-site detection of chlamydial antigen in male FVU would shorten the infectious period by hastening diagnosis and treatment.
  • (3) The decomposition of nafcillin and penicillin G solutions was hastened significantly by magnesium sulphate due to effect on the pH values of the solutions.
  • (4) Tetrodotoxin (1.6 x 10(-6) M) delayed the onset, whereas monensin (10(-5) M) hastened it.
  • (5) Doctors fear being sued if morphine given to relieve terminally ill patients' pain hastens their death.
  • (6) Even if injected at 15 days 8 hrs, exogenous androgens do not hasten or anticipate the formation of Wolfian derivatives (epididymides and seminal vesicles) in males or in females.
  • (7) Analysis of the temperature effect on FeCN-supported O2 evolution by spheroplasts suggests that catechol shifts the temperature maxima to a lower temperature and thereby hastens the decay of O2 evolution capacity by heat as compared to the normal spheroplasts.
  • (8) It is possible, however, that neither drug can alter the natural course of this disease and may just hasten its expected inconsequential resolution.
  • (9) Tell us what you will do to hasten it, and what you need from government to do it faster.
  • (10) BP management says it supports the resolution but ultimately believes that politicians must take primary responsibility for tackling global warming and hastening in a low-carbon future.
  • (11) Peripheral blood stem cells (PBSC) reinfusion appears to hasten hematologic reconstitution following myeloablative therapy.
  • (12) However, when compared with posterior instrumentation alone, it does help ensure canal reduction and alignment, which may aid recovery and hasten rehabilitation.
  • (13) When step-ramp stimuli were presented in the normal field, the monkeys delayed the initiation of saccades to targets moving towards the central fixation point, and hastened the initiation of saccades to targets moving away from the central fixation point.
  • (14) Light was found to exert a greater influence than heat, and yeasts growth hastened colour degradation.
  • (15) The use of synthetic cuffs to simplify and hasten microvascular anastomoses is offered as an alternative to conventional methods.
  • (16) But there are steps we can take to save lives, hasten an end to the war, reduce the risks to the region and protect American interests as well.
  • (17) In the end, it was probably Thatcher's dependence on him which hastened Whitelaw's death.
  • (18) We would hasten to add that the other initiatives announced last week in the 2016-17 plan will remain.
  • (19) Finally increasing the general awareness of this problem should hasten the development of improved management strategies.
  • (20) In anaerobic cells, the I-D decline is hastened almost equally by absorption of either 705 or 650 nm background light.

Postpone


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely.
  • (v. t.) To place after, behind, or below something, in respect to precedence, preference, value, or importance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The purpose was to show whether or not the methylene-blue test can be postponed to the second day.
  • (2) Amid all of the worry about her health, the difficult decisions around the surgery, and how to explain everything to the children, the practicalities of postponing the holiday was a relatively minor consideration.
  • (3) He also challenged Lord Mandelson's claim this morning that a controversial vote on Royal Mail would have to be postponed due to lack of parliamentary time.
  • (4) Two additional patients became asymptomatic after ECA endarterectomy only and their proposed STA-MCA bypass has been postponed.
  • (5) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (6) Squirrel monkeys trained to respond under a schedule in which each response postponed the delivery of electric shock developed a steady rate of responding.
  • (7) When dose 3 of antigen (BSA or EA) was postponed to day +21, all mouse strains sensitized by the multiple-dose procedure were found to be susceptible to shock.
  • (8) Thus, the clinical threshold where functions disappear is postponed for longer periods of time.
  • (9) He was due to unveil the plan next week but the announcement was postponed when one of his deputies, Ray Lewis, was forced to stand down on Friday, following allegations of financial irregularities and inappropriate behaviour.
  • (10) MPs have voted to abandon the controversial badger cull in England entirely, inflicting an embarrassing defeat on ministers who had already been forced to postpone the start of the killing until next summer.
  • (11) Every time we have a negotiation, the bidding process (for the project) slows and postpones things.” Water quality has become a hot-button issue as the Olympics draw closer with little sign of progress in cleaning up the fetid bay, as well as the lagoon system in western Rio that hugs the sites of the Olympic park, the very heart of the games.
  • (12) Its consequences are extensive, damaging procedures and a postponement of a diagnosis which integrates somatic, psychic and social components by seven to eight years.
  • (13) As for Halloween : The big parade in Greenwich Village has been postponed until next week.
  • (14) Pretreatment with nifedipine postponed EMD until 120-150 seconds and was not observed in dogs on CPB.
  • (15) The French president, François Hollande, summoned key ministers to a crisis meeting on Thursday afternoon, postponing a planned visit to France's Indian Ocean territories.
  • (16) Gerrard genuinely has postponed the issue while he pours his life into this tournament.
  • (17) The Nepalese government has announced that it has postponed a return to classes for schoolchildren across the country by two weeks, to 29 May.
  • (18) It is believed that support for Bernstein's attempt to postpone the election came from these areas, in reaction to the process that led to Bin Hammam's exclusion from football activity, rather than being a demonstration of anger at the effect of recent corruption allegations.
  • (19) The basic enviromental causes of enteric disease are clear, current conditions have been aggravated by rapid population growth and urbanization, and basic corrective measures have already been postponed long enough.
  • (20) "Had Obama even an iota of ethics and morality, he should have postponed or shelved his trip," it said.