What's the difference between immense and mense?

Immense


Definition:

  • (a.) Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Immense amounts of data about cancer-associated chromosome aberrations have been collected during the last 10 years, and the systematic evaluation of these data has disclosed a number of correlations between chromosome change and neoplastic disease.
  • (2) "It's immensely frustrating and I've got to the point now where I can't do internships," he said.
  • (3) The referendum vote has immense political implications but no direct legal effect.
  • (4) Resentment towards the political elite, the widening gap between the immensely rich and the poor, the deteriorating social security system, the collapse in oil prices and what Forbes has called "a stampede" of investors out of Russia – an outflow of $42bn in the first four months of 2012 – means the economy is flagging.
  • (5) The strain and expense of all these moves has been immense.
  • (6) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
  • (7) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
  • (8) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
  • (9) After 14 years of great lovemaking, an erection causes him immense pain and has terminated our sex life.
  • (10) Despite the "immense challenges" which Yves Mersch cited today , BNP reckons the ECB will have to take unconventional action to fight off weak inflation and to stimulate growth.
  • (11) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
  • (12) Immense occupancy and porta hepatis proximity of the cysts were triggers for developing jaundice.
  • (13) An immensely cerebral man, who trained himself to need only six hours of sleep - believing that a woman should have seven and only a fool eight - Mishcon was not a man given to small talk, nor one who would tolerate prattle for the sake of it.
  • (14) During the last years of her life, Shearer wrote book reviews (not just of dance books) for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, which were immensely readable though not celebrated for their generosity towards authors.
  • (15) Global policymakers know well the immense value of forests – so why have development interventions largely failed to harness the positive contributions of forested landscapes?
  • (16) Thanet suffers from immense shortages of housing and jobs.
  • (17) The kinds of skills graduates bring can be immensely valuable.
  • (18) At such levels, public outrage would be immense, but we are prepared to tolerate such risks from the climate because the prospects of catastrophic levels of warming are still regarded by many as remote, the study suggested, and we are poor at calculating risk.
  • (19) A case is reported in which an immense cranial vault was reduced as part of the rehabilitation of a patient with severe hydrocephalus who had preservation of the intellect.
  • (20) Meanwhile volumes two and three of The Gulag Archipelago appeared to less public acclaim than volume one, but confirmed the uniqueness and immensity of that vast enterprise.

Mense


Definition:

  • (n.) Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.
  • (v. t.) To grace.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Extrapolation of gestational age from early crown-rump lengths (CRLs) has been difficult because previously established tables of CRL versus gestational age have contained few measurements at less than seven to eight weeks from the first day of the last menses.
  • (2) Menses resumed in all 6 women 7 to 41 days after the injection, galactorrhea disappeared in all 4 patients, and libido and potency become normal in both men with microprolactinomas.
  • (3) All eight girls with menarche before therapy had no further menses.
  • (4) We obtained blood samples from 88 women 45-58 yr old who were having cyclic menses every 1-2 mth (37 women, 133 samples) or were amenorrheic for greater than 3 mth (51 women, 310 samples).
  • (5) Women stopped using these 2 methods mainly because of the desire for a future pregnancy, menstrual spotting, and absence of menses.
  • (6) Users of the minipills often reported irregular menses.
  • (7) With corticosteroid therapy, the percentage decreased to 2 percent and menses resumed after secondary amenorrhea of two years' duration.
  • (8) These errors include losses of food on cooking and eating utensils and dishware, losses of feces or urine on toilet paper or in collection containers, and losses through sweat, exfoliated skin, hair and nail growth, saliva, menses, blood sampling, toothbrushing, semen, and, for nitrogen, from flatus and respiration.
  • (9) During both menses and the premenstrual week of the low fat dietary period there were significant decreases in self-reported symptoms associated with water retention.
  • (10) It has been used traditionally to treat bronchitis and to induce abortion and menses, but was only recognized as a male antifertility agent in the 1970s.
  • (11) Studies on the mechanism of action of Mifepristone as a luteolytic have shown that menses will occur even if exogenous hCG is given to sustain progesterone levels.
  • (12) After 8 months, she continued to experience normal menses.
  • (13) The complement of protected time--viz., "ovulatory age," the period between menarche and diagnosis of ovarian cancer (or cessation of menses) minus "protected time"--was strongly related to risk of ovarian cancer.
  • (14) The midluteal phase, characterized by high levels of estradiol and progesterone, was associated with improved performance on tests of speeded motor coordination and impaired performance on a perceptual-spatial test, relative to performance during menses.
  • (15) Mean CA-125 levels were significantly increased in both groups during menses.
  • (16) We conclude that inconsistent findings on the effect of menopausal status in the association of breast cancer with some reproductive factors are partly due to statistical imprecision and differential misclassification bias associated with different age-based or menses-based definitions of menopause.
  • (17) The magnitude of the variation was not affected by whether the biopsy specimen was obtained in the mid or late luteal phase, the degree of lag between the dating and subsequent menses, or the presence of an LPD.
  • (18) On day 5 after the onset of induced menses, all women had baseline blood samples obtained at 10-minute intervals for 4 hours.
  • (19) A 13-year-old girl with signs and symptoms of an acute abdomen was found to have uterus didelphys, unilateral hematocolpos, ipsilateral renal agenesis and menses.
  • (20) 24 women received 400 mg of RU 486 and the remaining 115 women received 600 mg on the day before the expected menses.

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