What's the difference between individual and people?

Individual


Definition:

  • (a.) Not divided, or not to be divided; existing as one entity, or distinct being or object; single; one; as, an individual man, animal, or city.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to one only; peculiar to, or characteristic of, a single person or thing; distinctive; as, individual traits of character; individual exertions; individual peculiarities.
  • (n.) A single person, animal, or thing of any kind; a thing or being incapable of separation or division, without losing its identity; especially, a human being; a person.
  • (n.) An independent, or partially independent, zooid of a compound animal.
  • (n.) The product of a single egg, whether it remains a single animal or becomes compound by budding or fission.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (10) 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).
  • (11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
  • (20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.

People


Definition:

  • (n.) The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.
  • (n.) Persons, generally; an indefinite number of men and women; folks; population, or part of population; as, country people; -- sometimes used as an indefinite subject or verb, like on in French, and man in German; as, people in adversity.
  • (n.) The mass of comunity as distinguished from a special class; the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; as, nobles and people.
  • (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.
  • (n.) One's subjects; fellow citizens; companions; followers.
  • (v. t.) To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
  • (3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
  • (4) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
  • (5) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (6) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (7) Then a handful of organisers took a major bet on the power of people – calling for the largest climate change mobilisation in history to kick-start political momentum.
  • (8) People should ask their MP to press the government for a speedier response.
  • (9) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (10) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (11) People have grown very fond of the first and fifth amendments,” she reports.
  • (12) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
  • (13) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
  • (14) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (15) Suggested is a carefully prepared system of cycling videocassettes, to effect the dissemination of current medical information from leading medical centers to medical and paramedical people in the "bush".
  • (16) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (17) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (18) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
  • (19) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (20) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.