What's the difference between instead and stead?

Instead


Definition:

  • (adv.) In the place or room; -- usually followed by of.
  • (adv.) Equivalent; equal to; -- usually with of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (2) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
  • (3) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (4) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (5) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (6) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
  • (7) The size of Florida makes the kind of face-to-face politics of the earlier contests impossible, requiring instead huge ad spending.
  • (8) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (9) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
  • (10) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (11) Furthermore, even the action of Lys-5 on the Pseudomonas OM was abolished when the assays were performed in the presence of 150 mM NaCl instead of the low-ionic strength buffer earlier used by investigators studying the effect of polycations on the Pseudomonas OM.
  • (12) Instead, we suffer sporadic exhibitions, which they call consultation.
  • (13) Instead of healing the nation after a fractious referendum he inflamed the situation.
  • (14) Instead, an antiarrhythmic drug should be administered and another shock of the same intensity that defibrillated the first time should be applied.
  • (15) When rabbit and horse sera were used instead of human serum for cultivation, in both groups the share of positive cultures increased and more large forms of B. hominis cells were observed.
  • (16) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (17) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
  • (18) She said the rise in fees was not part of the effort to tackle the deficit, but was instead about Clegg "going along with Tory plans to shove the cost of higher education on to students and their families".
  • (19) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
  • (20) Instead, a repetitive, stepwise dissolution pattern was observed.

Stead


Definition:

  • (n.) Place, or spot, in general.
  • (n.) Place or room which another had, has, or might have.
  • (n.) A frame on which a bed is laid; a bedstead.
  • (n.) A farmhouse and offices.
  • (v. t.) To help; to support; to benefit; to assist.
  • (v. t.) To fill place of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The government began aggressively purging the heads of cultural and academic institutions (a notable number of them Jewish and liberal intellectuals suspected of a “foreign” mindset) and installing in their stead true believers in the Magyar way.
  • (2) "It depends on how many pages you print," says Patrick Stead, head of cartridge recycler Environmental Business Products.
  • (3) The T gamma chain of human fetal hemoglobin has a threonyl in stead of an isoleucyl residue in position 75.
  • (4) We wish his father in law, the president, had done the same.” Trump has said his three adult children, Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr, will not play a role in government, and that his sons will run his sprawling businesses in his stead.
  • (5) The less abundant IL 1 alpha mRNA showed a decrease in its stead-state levels prior to the reduction in the levels of IL 1 beta mRNA.
  • (6) They will make an assessment of Christ in that, and so I’ve been trying to hold the prayer that, whatever I’ve done or said, somehow Christ will be seen in it, or at least I won’t get in the way of that.” Revealing a glass half full attitude that may stand her in good stead in the potentially fraught times ahead, Elizabeth Jane Holden “Libby” Lane, whose husband is the chaplain at Manchester airport, stresses that she would “much rather travel with people than confront them”, but insists that that “doesn’t mean I won’t face up to difficult choices or decisions when they have to be made”.
  • (7) That stood him in good stead when he lost the ministerial status and limo in 2001, and again in 2012 when he separated from his long-term partner Dorian Jabri, sold their home in Islington, moved to fashionable Clerkenwell and started living alone again for the first time in 25 years.
  • (8) Multiple linear regression between stead state PDC and dose, age, body weight and serum creatinine concentration revealed 62.1% of the variance of the PDC after intravenous administration of digoxin.
  • (9) Furthermore we noted that the new collateral channel was able to fill a steadely increasing part of the cerebral circulation and that it was also found to irrigate territories of the brain that were previously well perfused by leptomeningeal anastomosis or retrograd flow through the ophthalmic artery etc.
  • (10) Biological calibration of the Hewlett-Packard electronic spirometer against a Stead-Wells 13.5-litre spirometer shows a good concordance for forced vital capacity (FVC; systematic error 0% in women, 1% in men, probable error 4% in both sexes).
  • (11) Co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is now worth over $2.7bn, congratulated Zuckerberg on his Facebook page: "Congrats to everyone involved in the project from day one till today, and I especially wanted to congratulate Mark Zukerberg (sic) on keeping tremendous stead-fast (sic) focus, however hard that was, on making the world a more open and connected place."
  • (12) But although his likability, proven persistence and enforced gravitas will hold him in good stead as he embarks upon a road much harder than the one he's already travelled, he has a lot more to prove.
  • (13) In addition, the open-circuit procedure used for the Jones spirometer required more corrdination in the subject than did the closed-circuit procedure employed in this study for the Stead-Wells spirometer; however, with application of the "conversion factors," both instruments, yield comparable data and prove adequate for spirometric studies.
  • (14) Peter Vanden Houte, an economist at ING, blamed a lack of consumption by households and businesses for the worse-than-expected figures, but said the figures showed a resilience to disruptive forces inside and outside the currency bloc that should stand it in good stead for the year.
  • (15) He made contacts with philosophy institutions in France and the US, which stood him in good stead when he finally published his breakthrough book, 1989's The Sublime Object of Ideology .
  • (16) Mexico do not have a great record against European opposition in World Cups – of 30 encounters they have win just seven – but Herrera insists a tight defence and just the occasional goal will stand them in good stead.
  • (17) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • (18) Therefore, some other indices should be, in future, investigated in order to establish the quantitative evaluation of GFR in patients with chronic renal failure in stead of Ccr or serum creatinine.
  • (19) A more precise classification instead of the diagnosis 'reticulosarcoma' and 'reticulosarcoma cell leukemia' is required, and the use of the term 'hairy cell' leukemia is suggested stead of the misleading term 'leukemic reticuloendotheliosis'.
  • (20) The former Chelsea youth-team midfielder Billy Knott worked tirelessly in behind the strikers, Stead and James Hanson.