What's the difference between ingredient and portion?

Ingredient


Definition:

  • (n.) That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.
  • (a.) Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reduction is believed due to the currently used pre-prepared disposable or reusable capsules containing the amalgam versus formerly mixing the ingredients manually.
  • (2) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (3) A method of TLC densitometry was developed to determine the active ingredients (Wuweizisu A, B, C; Wuweizichun A, B; Wuweizi ester and schisanhenol) in Schisandra kernels.
  • (4) Experiments were conducted with young chicks to investigate the effect of various feed ingredients on manganese (Mn) bioavailability.
  • (5) A modified rapid presumptive test to detect salmonellae in food and food ingredients was described by Hoben et al.
  • (6) The microbiological quality of 4 feed ingredients and 29 hospital-prepared non-sterile enteral feeds were determined.
  • (7) Because responses of the five parasitoids to the different insecticides varied considerably, general conclusions about parasitoid susceptibility to active ingredients, insecticide class, or method of application were not possible.
  • (8) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
  • (9) They received an oral prophylaxis and were assigned to the use of either the dentifrice containing soluble pyrophosphate and the copolymer, or to the dentifrice containing soluble pyrophosphate but without the copolymer, or to a placebo dentifrice that did not contain an anticalculus ingredient.
  • (10) Alcohol use appeared to be a significant ingredient in the production of the assaultive behavior in the majority of the cases.
  • (11) This is not true for irritant dermatitis, or for possible (skin) irritant substances; moreover, cosmetics commonly do not contain acutely harmful ingredients.
  • (12) Chinese drugs constitute a unique medicinal system that features the following three subsystems: subsystem of medicinal substances consisting of traditional theories such as "four properties and five tastes of drugs" and "the principal, adjuvant, auxiliary and conduct ingredients in a prescription' , etc; subsystem of pharmacological actions comprising the theory of "ascending, descending, floating and sinking", etc; Subsystem of human body's functions incorporating the theory of "drugs to act on the channels".
  • (13) A patient, empathetic, and available physician is one of the most important ingredients in the treatment regimen.
  • (14) Moving away from home and discovering oats (not a common ingredient in Transylvanian food), I thought about mixing the cultures and came up with this savoury breakfast or lunch dish.
  • (15) A study of the dietary ingredients indicated that there was an interaction between the mineral and nonmineral components which modulated the severity of the disease.
  • (16) This blank effect owes its regressive nature to the consumption of the active reagent ingredient by the protein reactive species, variably and sometimes, with certain reactants, nonlinearly in the presence of increasing protein concentrations.
  • (17) We report contact dermatitis due to Madecassol and a control study with its individual ingredients.
  • (18) He gave a recipe for a bomb he used to make as a kid, the ingredients of which could be smuggled in.
  • (19) Whilst we have yet to make a commercial discovery we remain encouraged that all of the ingredients for success are in evidence," Thomson said.
  • (20) An untreated group, a water group and a formulation ingredient group, at the concentration present in the 1.2% maneb group, ensured control in the study.

Portion


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is divided off or separated, as a part from a whole; a separated part of anything.
  • (n.) A part considered by itself, though not actually cut off or separated from the whole.
  • (n.) A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
  • (n.) The part of an estate given to a child or heir, or descending to him by law, and distributed to him in the settlement of the estate; an inheritance.
  • (n.) A wife's fortune; a dowry.
  • (v. t.) To separate or divide into portions or shares; to parcel; to distribute.
  • (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The patterns observed were: clusters of granules related to the cell membrane; positive staining localized to portions of the cell membrane, and, less commonly, the whole cell circumference.
  • (2) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (3) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
  • (4) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (5) The cis isomer was retained longer in liver, particularly in mitochondria, but had low retention in that portion of the endoplasmic reticulum isolated as the rough membrane fraction.
  • (6) The supravesical portion showed a cystic appearance with a capsule in the space of Retzius.
  • (7) In addition, lightly immunostained cells were distinguished in the caudal portion of the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus, area of tuber cinereum, retrochiasmatic area, and rostral portion of the paraventricular thalamic nucleus after colchicine treatment.
  • (8) A few free-floating cells could be observed in the lumen of this intermediate portion, most of which were macrophages.
  • (9) A 68 year-old man with a history of right thalamic hemorrhage demonstrated radiologically in the pulvinar and posterior portion of the dorsomedian nucleus developed a clinical picture of severe physical sequelae associated with major affective, behavioral and psychic disorders.
  • (10) It may, however, be useful to compare local wall dynamics in the more isometrically-contracting basal segment with those in the middle portion which brings about most of the emptying of the ventricle.
  • (11) Thus, the estrogen-sensitive phase was confined to the early portion of FPH stimulation.
  • (12) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (13) The horizontal portion of the intracavernous ICA as well as the whole aspect of the aneurysm could be exposed as a result of the extended opening of the cavernous roof anterior to the posterior clinoid process.
  • (14) Three animals received unilateral lesions which included both the inferior parietal lobule and a portion of adjacent dorsal prestriate cortex (IPL-PS).
  • (15) Heparitinase I (EC 4.2.2.8), an enzyme with specificity restricted to the heparan sulfate portion of the polysaccharide, releases fragments with the electrophoretic mobility and the structure of heparin.
  • (16) These animals spent a much greater portion of their SWS in the lighter SWS I, as compared to the control group which showed a predominance of the deeper SWS II.
  • (17) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
  • (18) Studies using serum from mice that had been immunized with synthetic peptides from the HIV envelope region suggested that this response is directed, at least in part, at several determinants of the transmembrane portion of the HIV envelope glycoprotein.
  • (19) We propose a model in which BvgB and the N-terminal portion of BvgC are localized in the periplasm.
  • (20) We report the case of a premature infant, small for gestational age, who experienced rostral herniation of a portion of frontal lobe through the anterior fontanel as the result of a hemorrhagic cerebellar infarction followed by a large parieto-occipital intracerebral hemorrhage.