What's the difference between inflame and tend?

Inflame


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To set on fire; to kindle; to cause to burn, flame, or glow.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To kindle or intensify, as passion or appetite; to excite to an excessive or unnatural action or heat; as, to inflame desire.
  • (v. t.) To provoke to anger or rage; to exasperate; to irritate; to incense; to enrage.
  • (v. t.) To put in a state of inflammation; to produce morbid heat, congestion, or swelling, of; as, to inflame the eyes by overwork.
  • (v. t.) To exaggerate; to enlarge upon.
  • (v. i.) To grow morbidly hot, congested, or painful; to become angry or incensed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sepsis resulted from intravenous absorption through inflamed or disrupted urothelium.
  • (2) The aim of our experiments was to investigate firstly whether during an acute inflammatory process platelets accumulate in the inflamed area and secondly whether the inflammation has an effect on the properties of the platelets.
  • (3) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.
  • (4) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
  • (5) "On the contrary, they often serve to inflame rather than mollify the feelings of those involved."
  • (6) More seriously, but no less predictably, the inflaming of sectarianism will have knock-on effects in Syria and Iraq.
  • (7) At both 24 h and 1 week, the inflamed paw showed pronounced supersensitivity to the antinociceptive action of morphine against noxious pressure.
  • (8) When given 30 min after acetic acid instillation SC-41930 prevented the rise in myeloperoxidase and dye extravasation observed in the acetic acid inflammed tissue.
  • (9) This functions is disturbed in inflamed joints by the decrease in the HA concentration and possibly by its depolymerization.
  • (10) Uptake in inflamed tissue of three cholesterol-rich liposome preparations was always significantly greater than the uptake noted in normal tissue.
  • (11) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
  • (12) Any unilateral action by the president seemed sure to inflame gun advocates, who argue that gun sales are protected under the second amendment and who equate gun control with tyranny.
  • (13) These findings suggest that H pylori may add to the local production of paf in inflamed gastric mucosa.
  • (14) Sodium fluorescein and fluorescinated dextrans (FD) of selected molecular weights were combined and perfused into the anterior chamber of normal and inflamed eyes of cynomolgus monkeys.
  • (15) Overgrowth of cartilage by inflamed synovium was seen within 3-6 days of induction of arthritis and by day 12 the interface between these two tissues was largely indistinguishable.
  • (16) Whereas NS of allergic and inflamed noses extracted allergens very rapidly, NS of normal noses showed no extraction activity.
  • (17) Of 22 selected gingival areas, an average of 5.4 was inflamed, and 2.9 were severely inflamed.
  • (18) Tight junctions only occur in inflamed tissue between the most superficial cells usually as part of a lateral intercellular junctional complex that also contains belt desmosomes.
  • (19) While arguments will persist over the rights and wrongs of publishing, what seems certain is that the incident will inflame already tense relations between Buckingham Palace and the European media.
  • (20) The fascia was inflamed and fibrotic, and adjacent skeletal muscle often showed perifascicular inflammation.

Tend


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to.
  • (v. t.) To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
  • (v. t.) To accompany as an assistant or protector; to care for the wants of; to look after; to watch; to guard; as, shepherds tend their flocks.
  • (v. i.) To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
  • (v. i.) To await; to expect.
  • (a.) To move in a certain direction; -- usually with to or towards.
  • (a.) To be directed, as to any end, object, or purpose; to aim; to have or give a leaning; to exert activity or influence; to serve as a means; to contribute; as, our petitions, if granted, might tend to our destruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (2) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
  • (3) In this study, a potassium nitrate-polycarboxylate cement was used as a liner and was found clinically to tend to preserve pulpal vitality and significantly eliminate or decrease postoperative pain.
  • (4) Current recommendations regarding contraception in patients with diabetes are not appropriate for the adolescent population and therefore tend to support this phenomenon rather than relieve it.
  • (5) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
  • (6) Ad-infected infants tended to have earlier gestations and lower birth weights.
  • (7) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
  • (8) Fibrinolysis tended to be depressed in resting ANO patients.
  • (9) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.
  • (10) Furthermore, [K+] tended to be the highest in the first sweat sample after MCh stimulation, reaching as high as 9 mM.
  • (11) Historically, councils and housing associations have tended to build three-bedroom houses, because that has always been seen as a sensible size for a family home.
  • (12) Triglyceride (Trigly) in female dogs, glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (GPT) and urea nitrogen (Urea-N) in male dogs tended to increase.
  • (13) The percentage of energy from fat and added sugars and the amount of sodium and fibre in the diet tended to increase with energy intake.
  • (14) From the third day to the fourth week after this treatment, there was some recovery of the SF rate, and the SCR tended to reappear with a marked slowing down of its habituation.
  • (15) Urinary Hg excretion was variable during the first 24 h after HgCl2 injection and tended to be higher with higher dosage unless the animals became anuric early on.
  • (16) In analyzing the results with any regimen it is important to have long follow-up since late relapses do occur and initial very positive results tend to decay with greater numbers of patients treated.
  • (17) The more the OKT8+ and B1+ lymphocytes infiltrated, the longer the survival (rate obtained) whereas, the infiltration of some kinds of plasma cells tended to have a negative correlation with the prognosis of the case.
  • (18) This fact is due to the characteristic of IgE which tends to fix itself to basophil membrane.
  • (19) SHR control and in-fostered animals responded similarly in the open field; however, SHR cross-fostered rats (particularly females) tended to be more active than controls.
  • (20) In contrast, mean diameter of normal epicardial coronary artery tended to decrease and that of irregular epicardial coronary artery decreased significantly after intracoronary injection of acetylcholine.