What's the difference between identify and single?

Identify


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make to be the same; to unite or combine in such a manner as to make one; to treat as being one or having the same purpose or effect; to consider as the same in any relation.
  • (v. t.) To establish the identity of; to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.
  • (v. i.) To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use, effect, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A group of interested medical personnel has been identified which has begun to work together.
  • (2) Three categories of UV response have been identified.
  • (3) The combined analysis of pathogenesis and genetics associated with the salmonella virulence plasmids may identify new systems of bacterial virulence and the genetic basis for this virulence.
  • (4) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
  • (5) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (6) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (7) The histological pattern of tumor was identified in 28 cases.
  • (8) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (9) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (10) The tumors were identified by magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
  • (11) Type 1 changes (decreased signal intensity on T1-weighted spin-echo images and increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) were identified in 20 patients (4%) and type 2 (increased signal intensity on T1-weighted images and isointense or slightly increased signal intensity on T2-weighted images) in 77 patients (16%).
  • (12) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
  • (13) During enzyme purification two nucleases were identified.
  • (14) 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).
  • (15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (16) The agent present in the serum which causes dissolution of the fibrin clot was isolated and identified as pepsinogen.
  • (17) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (18) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (19) Various metabolites of etoposide and teniposide have been identified but their detection and quantitation are disputed.
  • (20) The purpose of this paper is to discuss the potential for integrating surveillance techniques in reproductive epidemiology with geographic information system technology in order to identify populations at risk around hazardous waste sites.

Single


Definition:

  • (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
  • (a.) Alone; having no companion.
  • (a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
  • (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
  • (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
  • (a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
  • (a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
  • (a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
  • (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
  • (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
  • (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.
  • (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
  • (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.
  • (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
  • (n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
  • (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
  • (7) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
  • (8) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (9) 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.
  • (10) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (11) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (12) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
  • (13) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
  • (14) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
  • (15) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (16) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
  • (17) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (18) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (19) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
  • (20) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.