What's the difference between longer and outline?

Longer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who longs for anything.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (3) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
  • (4) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (5) However, time in greater than 21% oxygen was significantly longer in infants less than 1000 g (median 30 days, 8.5 days in patients greater than 1000 g, p less than 0.01).
  • (6) To this figure an additional 250,000 older workers must be added, who are no longer registered as unemployed but nevertheless would be interested in finding another job.
  • (7) 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.
  • (8) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (9) The results show that in TMO-treated animals the time to the onset of convulsions, the time to the onset of NADH oxidation-reduction cycles, and the survival time were significantly longer than in the control group.
  • (10) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (11) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
  • (12) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (13) We found that, compared to one- and two-dose infants, those treated with three doses of Exosurf were more premature, smaller, required a longer ventilator course, and had more frequent complications, including patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), intraventricular hemorrhage, nosocomial pneumonia, and apnea.
  • (14) These data, compared with literature findings, support the idea that intratumoral BCG instillation of bladder cancer permits a longer disease-free period than other therapeutical approaches.
  • (15) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (16) The scleral arc length is slightly longer than the chord length (caliper setting).
  • (17) We need you, so keep us company for a while longer.
  • (18) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
  • (19) But the median survival time was 30.7 months in Arm A and 24.5 months in Arm B, and significantly longer in Arm A until 10 months.
  • (20) The return of NE to normal levels after one month is consistent with the observation that LH-lesioned rats are by one month postlesion no longer hypermetabolic, but display levels of heat production appropriate to the reduced body weight they then maintain.

Outline


Definition:

  • (n.) The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
  • (n.) In art: A line drawn by pencil, pen, graver, or the like, by which the boundary of a figure is indicated.
  • (n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.
  • (n.) Fig.: A sketch of any scheme; a preliminary or general indication of a plan, system, course of thought, etc.; as, the outline of a speech.
  • (v. t.) To draw the outline of.
  • (v. t.) Fig.: To sketch out or indicate as by an outline; as, to outline an argument or a campaign.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (2) The present status of percutaneous coronary angioplasty is presented, with a brief outline of current technique, the technical and clinical indications for the method, and the results being obtained.
  • (3) In this article it is outlined the medical biopsychosocial approach with particular emphasis on the family viewed as the primary health care agency.
  • (4) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
  • (5) Factors which have influenced the number of samples received are outlined.
  • (6) We outline a protocol for presenting the diagnosis of pseudoseizure with the goal of conveying to the patient the importance of knowing the nonepileptic nature of the spells and the need for psychiatric follow-up.
  • (7) Besides, it showed a high number of plasma cells secreting IgA in the stroma of the 2 tumours, the ultrastructural study performed on the epithelioma also demonstrated some similarities between epitheliomatous cells and epithelial cells of cystadenolymphomas (outlined epidermoid or glandular differentiation, numerous mitochondria).
  • (8) Impediments to the necessary growth of this subspecialty for the needs of clinical practice and research are outlined and criteria for certification are reviewed.
  • (9) This technique is compared with calculated outline and ring source attenuation correction techniques in a pie phantom.
  • (10) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
  • (11) A theory which includes the individual's activity as an essential mediator between the individual and the context is outlined.
  • (12) The purpose of this paper is to outline procedures that will facilitate the integration of microcomputers into the clinical milieu by (a) identifying the reasons why and how these devices are used improperly; (b) proposing ways to correct these problems; (c) providing recommendations concerning the acquisition of major microcomputer hardware, software, and adaptations; and (d) providing an annotated list of resources for further information.
  • (13) It led to general outline of the structural organisation of the alpha-subunit hydrophilic regions exposed from membrane.
  • (14) The procedure for using the batch stainer with Wright's stain is outlined.
  • (15) Its association with other systemic abnormalities is reviewed; the distinctions among distichiasis, trichiasis, entropion, and epiblepharon are outlined; and methods of treatment for distichiasis are described.
  • (16) In conclusion, a zipper technique has been outlined that allows effective continuing drainage of the septic abdomen, permits early diagnosis of organ damage, is rapid and cost effective, minimizes ventilator dependency and gastrointestinal complications, is well tolerated by the patients, and has produced a modest 65 per cent survival rate in the first 34 critically ill patients in whom it was used.
  • (17) Emphasizing this trend, we present our current approaches to managing retinoblastoma based on our experience with 324 patients, outlining our indications and pointing out a number of misconceptions about the role of enucleation, photocoagulation, cryotherapy, and radiotherapy in treating this condition.
  • (18) Hypertrophy of the satellite cells with increase in the perineuronal intercellular spaces, often associated with irregular, scalloped nuclear and cell outlines, suggested that neuron shrinkage had occurred.
  • (19) Complex Physical Therapy (CPT) is discussed and its principles outlined.
  • (20) The protocol for a radioimmunoassay is outlined which permits the measurement of AFP in several fetal-maternal physiological compartments throughout gestation.