What's the difference between heft and ponderosity?
Heft
Definition:
(n.) Same as Haft, n.
(n.) The act or effort of heaving/ violent strain or exertion.
(n.) Weight; ponderousness.
(n.) The greater part or bulk of anything; as, the heft of the crop was spoiled.
() of Heft
(v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.
(v. t.) To prove or try the weight of by raising.
Example Sentences:
(1) V-HeFT, the first mortality trial in patients with heart failure, has provided important insights regarding trial design, including patient selection and efficacy criteria.
(2) It’s the failure of an over-centralised prime ministerial office, too small to have real intellectual and research heft yet arrogant enough to overrule FCO advisers.
(3) Maybe the broader movie-going public that adds heft to a blockbuster's box office has grown tired of Middle Earth after all these years.
(4) The reduction of mortality in patients with chronic congestive heart failure treated with the vasodilator regimen hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate compared to those treated with placebo or prazosin in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study (V-HeFT) was examined in order to explore the possible mechanism of the favourable effect.
(5) The 5S will cost $649 (£549) without a contract, and also comes with a 10cm (4in) screen and an 8 megapixel camera – the same as the iPhone 5 – with double the processing heft of its predecessor.
(6) Outside parliament, Lib Dem party circles and his Kingston constituency, he was barely known, and he lacks both the smooth, television-friendly manners of a Cameron or Clegg, and the heft brought to parliament by those with a previous career (Davey got a job with the Liberal Democrats a few months after leaving university).
(7) That's a job for parents and teachers, the authorities with the heft and reach to alter public perceptions.
(8) Thick hunks of Heft Co sourdough are served with jam from cult LA restaurant Sqirl .
(9) The Australian Industry Group’s chief executive, Innes Willox, said the inquiry should consider “various funds established by unions and heft commissions paid to unions from insurance products purchased during bargaining” but improper behaviour by employers should also be dealt with.
(10) They spoke as one, both showing their commitment to Grangemouth and both putting their respective governmental heft behind the attempt to restart the plant.
(11) Photograph: National Trust What do you do if you hanker after a dose of solitude somewhere scenic and remote, but can no longer heft a heavy rucksack because of a dodgy back?
(12) The angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEI) are now the cornerstone of heart failure treatment, reducing mortality in severe heart failure (CONSENSUS) and superior to standard vasodilator therapy (V-HeFT-2) at improving the survival of patients with mild to moderate heart failure.
(13) More than 100 organizations have lent their support, including the institutional heft of the American Association for the Advancement of Science , the world’s largest general scientific organization, and the American Geophysical Union.
(14) This situation highlights the challenges facing a country still recovering from the global financial crisis that began on its own soil, with fractured domestic politics that not only jeopardise its ability to govern at home but also cast doubt on its economic heft abroad.
(15) The overwhelming impression is one of tasteful reserve, of glistening cream paint and shining green and black railings – until you pause to examine the enormous heft of the houses: vast, detached palaces, with too many windows to count, on a scale dwarfing other private homes in London .
(16) As the Liberal Democrat elder statesman with most economic heft, it was for him on Monday to express the peril we stand in – and, were he free to do so, to warn of Conservative policies that gravely worsen the danger.
(17) Michael Gove will bring to their cause some intellectual heft and a talent for making a fluent case, though it is not yet clear how actively the justice secretary will campaign when he knows that an Out success would mean the destruction of his friends in Downing Street.
(18) Samsung's colossal market share in smartphones and mobile phones, for instance, is reflected in installed base figures – and also in its profits and heft in the business world.
(19) This result corresponded to an optimal relation at peak kinetic energy for the hefting.
(20) Again a number of ongoing major trials are set to establish whether these drugs reduce death in patients with chronic heart failure (V-HeFT II, SOLVD) and in patients immediately after myocardial infarction (CONSENSUS II, SAVE,.
Ponderosity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being ponderous; weight; gravity; heaviness, ponderousness; as, the ponderosity of gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blood pressure reduction was associated with decreased ponderosity and improved fitness, and increased HDL cholesterol was associated with decreased ponderosity.
(2) Increasing ponderosity was associated with an increased prolactin level as was a DY compared to an N1 mammographic pattern.
(3) In this study the authors examined systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), height, weight, ponderosity index and family history of hypertension, in 261 3-year-old children, 139 boys and 122 girls.
(4) Levels of body mass index in the mothers, fathers, and siblings cluster with the levels in the probands, and genetic differences among persons explain 36-52 per cent of the variability in body mass index across the range of ponderosity represented by the probands and their relatives.
(5) The median ponderosity (weight divided by the cubed height) decreased with increasing heigth for the four race-sex groups, and a skewed distribution of ponderosity indicated an excess of heavy children among the tall.
(6) Our study suggests that in medicated hypertensives blood pressure and blood lipid levels can be present in the very lean and unrelated to body size, or they can be strongly associated with ponderosity and fat distribution.
(7) The strong positive relation of ponderosity to low-density lipoprotein cholesterol was indicated in the older age groups with correlation coefficients ranging from r = -.09 in the youngest black males to r = .47 in white males aged 17 to 22 years.
(8) In contrast, only 21% (11 of 52) of white children identified as being in the highest quintile for both diastolic blood pressure and ponderosity (obese group) at Year 1 were in the upper diastolic blood pressure quintile at Year 4.
(9) The procedure may be useful in assessing ponderosity or anorexia over intervals of six months or more with growing children or difference between actual and normed weight over shorter intervals.
(10) These conclusions were strengthened by standardizing the data with relative ponderosity.
(11) Initially the variables in the statistical model were age at menarche, ages at first and last baby, parity, ponderosity (Quetelet Index), mammographic pattern (as graded by Wolfe), family history of breast cancer, age, menstrual cycle status, time of day of blood sampling, oral contraceptive use, history of breast feeding and methodological changes in the laboratory measurement of prolactin.
(12) Subjects were eligible at baseline and at one-year follow-up for participation in a medical examination in which the following target risk factors were measured: systolic and diastolic blood pressures, plasma total and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, serum thiocyanate, ponderosity index, triceps skinfold thickness, and postexercise pulse recovery rate.
(13) With increasing relative ponderosity, there were, however, increasing levels of total triglycerides and VLDL triglyceride.
(14) The study shows that change in ponderosity is associated with change in blood pressures; children whose ponderosity decreases relative to their peers usually exhibit a similar drop in their systolic and diastolic blood pressures, while children who gain in ponderosity show a similar gain in their blood pressures.
(15) These observations suggest that strategies to prevent the acquisition of excess ponderosity during adolescence may be useful in preventing adult hypertension.
(16) We conclude that the prediction of ponderosity in middle age from BMIs early in life is more reliable for males than for females.
(17) A family study was conducted in Muscatine, Iowa in 1984-1985 to evaluate the relation between ponderosity in children and coronary risk factor levels in these children and in their family members, and the genetic contribution to familial clustering of levels of ponderosity (body weight relative to height).
(18) At baseline, 1,234 students were eligible for the screening in which the following target risk factors were measured: systolic and diastolic blood pressures, ponderosity index, triceps skinfold thickness, postexercise pulse recovery rate, serum total and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, and serum thiocyanate.
(19) Coefficients of linear regression and correlation for any pair of the different parameters (SBP-DBP and weight, SBP-DBP and height, SBP-DPB and ponderosity index) were all significantly positive for males, but not for females.
(20) This paper describes the association between longitudinal changes in blood pressure and changes in measures of ponderosity.