What's the difference between leger and slender?

Leger


Definition:

  • (n.) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • (n.) A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government.
  • (n.) A ledger.
  • (a.) Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.
  • (a.) Light; slender; slim; trivial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philophthalmus gralli (Mathis and Leger, 1910) was introduced into the San Antonio, Texas area within the last 25-30 years from an unknown foreign source.
  • (2) The study quite specifically deals with histamine-legeration provoked by the direct pharmacodynamic action of drug substances, in particular those which are used in anaesthesiology.
  • (3) beauchampi Leger and Duboscq, 1917 was studied from the ventral digestive epithelium of the hepatic region of Glossobalanus minutus (Enteropneusta).
  • (4) Only an exclusive cadre of women can pull off a Herve Leger bandage dress on the red carpet without looking like a lumpy frosting tube, and it would seem that Lululemon ascribes to the same goal in the yoga studio.
  • (5) The St Leger at Doncaster, which is owned by ARC (formed recently by the merger of Arena Leisure and Northern Racing), the only obvious omission.
  • (6) There exists, in the anterior part of the intestine (pancreas, duodenum, stomach, ileum) a system of neuro-humoral cells derived embryologically from the neural crest (Weichert 1967, Gorin and Leger 1969).
  • (7) The primary hosts of its species, the best known of which are C. simplex Leger 1904 and C. bigenetica Wacha and Christiansen 1982, are carnivorous reptiles and birds of prey.
  • (8) Since the 2014 conference is being held this year in Ed Miliband’s backyard, on sun-soaked Doncaster racecourse, the development is doubly tragic: Ukip activists sober a few feet from where the world’s oldest classic horse race – the St Leger – was run just days ago.
  • (9) In conclusion, it must be recognized that, as Lucien Leger (39) wrote, "by creating a new physiopathology, portal decompression raises as many questions as it solves."
  • (10) This paper describes a new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri, from Heliosciurus gambianus gambianus, and gives a detailed description of T. (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury 1922, from Euxerus erythropus erythropus, all from Senegal, West Africa.
  • (11) In order to validate the "Maximal Multistage 20 Meter Shuttle Run Test" by Leger and Lambert (1982) (20-MST) as an estimate of maximal aerobic power (VO2max) and to compare the results of this test with the results of a 6 min endurance run, 82 subjects (41 boys and 41 girls) aged 12-14 performed the 20-MST and the 6 min endurance run, and had their VO2max directly measured during maximal treadmill running.
  • (12) These problems are illustrated by replication and re-analysis, using new data, of the well known study by Cochrane, St Leger and Moore.
  • (13) An oblique pelvis is a certain, a reduced angle of Leger a probable influence of lumbosciatic pain.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Duque-Gonzalez family will meet with Pope Francis in New York on 25 September 2015 Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Duque said his family is in the US now, and in Mexico he would only find unemployment and poverty.
  • (15) Douglas unleashed another off-color remark, telling the audience that when Steven Soderbergh first talked to him about playing Liberace during the filming of another movie, “I thought maybe I was mincing a little bit in the part that I was doing.” I can't tell if Twitter is really mad at him or not, but here's an unscientific roundup of the opinions I've seen floating around the ether: Stewart Legere (@StewartLegere) Mincing around my apartment thinking about Michael Douglas .
  • (16) Subspecific designations are given to distinctive populations parasitizing different host species: P. minasense minasense is recognized from the type host, Mabuya mabouya of Brasil; P. minasense carinii Leger and Mouzels, 1917 from Iguana iguana of coastal South America; P. minasense anolisi subsp.
  • (17) Sell in May and go away, don’t come back until St Leger Day.
  • (18) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Finally, after a further round of screening, the family was accepted as refugees by the US – a country they knew little about.
  • (19) It looks a bigger gamble than a flutter on the St Leger.
  • (20) Photograph: Laurence Mathieu-Leger for the Guardian Abdishakur Mohamed Noor, a homeless 55-year-old from Mogadishu, said he had been sleeping at the mosque at the time the men were arrested.

Slender


Definition:

  • (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
  • (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
  • (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
  • (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
  • (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (2) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.
  • (3) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (4) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (5) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
  • (6) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
  • (7) Histologically, they contained slender spindle cells and various amounts of collagen fibers.
  • (8) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (9) Public schools report dipping into their own slender budgets, and sometimes principal’s own pockets to pay family electricity bills so that students can keep access to their computer and also get the occasional warm meal.
  • (10) They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250.
  • (11) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (12) Normally, PC12 cells respond to NGF by morphologically differentiating into sympathetic neuron-like cells, exhibiting a marked hypertrophy, and extending slender neurites piloted by well defined growth cones.
  • (13) When explants of neurofibroma tissue were cultured, macrophage-like cells with pseudopodia migrated out first, and later took on a slender fusiform shape.
  • (14) Bone-age was advanced and bones were slender and osteoporotic with metaphyseal thickening.
  • (15) The surface cells had well developed apical junctions and slender cytoplasmic processes projecting into widened intercellular spaces appeared during the developmental period.
  • (16) At the level of the Z-line, a slender transverse tubule (T-tubule) runs transversely to the longitudinal axis of the myofibril.
  • (17) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (18) These consisted of parallel configurations of slender sheet-like astrocytic processes frequently connected to one another by highly organized intercellular adhesive devices.
  • (19) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
  • (20) These events were followed by a transformation of the long slender bloodstream form to a short stumpy form via an intermediate morphology.

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