What's the difference between married and unmarried?

Married


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Marry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm married to an Irish woman, and she remembers in the atmosphere stirred up in the 1970s people spitting on her.
  • (2) But when they decided to get married, "finding the clothes became my project," says Melanie.
  • (3) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (4) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
  • (5) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
  • (6) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
  • (7) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
  • (8) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
  • (9) The two of them broke up with their partners and in 1974 they married.
  • (10) Of the 275 women with Crohn's disease 224 had been married at some time compared with 208 controls.
  • (11) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (12) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
  • (13) Participants were younger, more likely to be male, less likely to be currently married, and more likely to have had a white-collar job and some postsecondary education than were nonparticipants.
  • (14) The author presents in this article just a small part of the results obtained in national survey of 1.902 married women, carried out in 1972, on "fertility and family planning in Spain".
  • (15) Best friends since school, they sound like an old married couple, finishing each other's sentences, constantly referring to the other by name and making each other laugh; deep sonorous, belly laughs.
  • (16) The energey expenditure during coitus for long-married couples is equivalent to that of climbing stairs, and consequently the risk of heart attack is low.
  • (17) According to Swedish law, couples who are planning to marry are obliged to publish their address.
  • (18) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
  • (19) Peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) obtained from married, adult males classified either as "copers" or as "non-copers" were tested for their natural killer (NK) activity and for the expression of the Leu 7 and Leu 11 NK-associated antigens.
  • (20) And if you think simply living together rather than marrying will help to keep you healthy, it is worth bearing in mind that research has found that cohabiting couples who separate are likely to be similarly affected .

Unmarried


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unmarried women had a higher risk of death than married women.
  • (2) However, unmarried women under 18 must obtain parental consent or written permission from their legal guardian or from a judge to undergo the operation.
  • (3) The unmarried men won 8-1, showing that being married doesn't mean you can score whenever you like.
  • (4) The Missouri data show a substantial difference in the smoking rates of married (23.2 percent) and unmarried (40.9 percent) women.
  • (5) While screening all women who were unmarried would detect 93% of those with chlamydia, the positive predictive value of 10.7% was not much higher than the overall prevalence.
  • (6) The most important risk factors for other preventable causes were found to be the mother being Maori (RR 4.35, CI 3.12-6.06), having a low birth weight infant (RR 3.56, CI 2.07-6.13) and being unmarried (RR 3.45, CI 2.47-4.82).
  • (7) Then one day I was at the hairdresser's and I read that the actor playing Cordelia was pregnant, but was going to carry on with the part and make her into an unmarried mother.
  • (8) Interviews regarding AIDS knowledge and related behavior change were conducted with a random sample of 409 unmarried individuals 18-39 years of age in Richmond, Virginia, between March 18 and April 3, 1987.
  • (9) The study group consisted of 283 unmarried students at several schools who were, on average, 19 years of age.
  • (10) Similarly, unmarried patients without a confidant had an unadjusted 5-year survival rate of 0.50, compared with 0.82 in patients who were married, had a confidant, or both (adjusted hazard ratio, 3.34; 95% confidence interval, 1.84 to 6.20; P less than .0001).
  • (11) Unmarried women with supervised deliveries are more likely to have financial support from the father of the child.
  • (12) By multiple logistic regression analysis, the odds of experiencing major weight gain were independently associated with low family income (odds ratio (OR) = 1.8 (95 percent CI, 1.0-3.3) ) compared with favorable income, and with becoming married (OR = 3.3 (1.7-6.3) ) or remaining unmarried (OR = 2.1 (1.1-4.2) ) compared with men who were consistently married.
  • (13) After allowing for maternal age, parity and smoking history, there was still a reduction in birth weight in the two unmarried groups, which was mainly associated with pre-term gestation rather than growth retardation.
  • (14) These differences are primarily the result of short-term variations in the amount of time they spend married; that is, women who are unmarried when they give birth are less likely to have a second birth soon afterward.
  • (15) Women most at risk of an adverse psychological reaction to abortion are those who are unmarried, adolescents, strongly religious, and are undergoing the procedure against their wishes.
  • (16) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (17) Demented patients were more liable to be placed in an institution, as were unmarried or widowed persons and people unable to prepare their own meals.
  • (18) Logistic regression analysis showed that female gender, unmarried status, and poverty were important predictors of domestic violence.
  • (19) The worst off one-fifth of the elderly (disproportionately unmarried women, minorities, and the physically impaired) receives 5.5% of the elderly's total resources, whereas the best off one-fifth receives 46%.
  • (20) Only one category of people (unmarried men and women over the age of 35) had rates that exceeded ten per cent.