What's the difference between matriculate and mature?

Matriculate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.
  • (v. i.) To go though the process of admission to membership, as by examination and enrollment, in a society or college.
  • (a.) Matriculated.
  • (n.) One who is matriculated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The marks achieved by students vary significantly with the type of matriculation examination written.
  • (2) Background information obtained on the first class day included major, major professor, degree(s) and location(s) of matriculation, and participation in science courses.
  • (3) Subjects were chosen from illiterate and below matriculate level; matriculate to graduate level; and graduate and above.
  • (4) Even though I desperately wanted to go, and I’ve known I was queer since I was a child, I matriculated at a Christian college at my mother’s request.
  • (5) Furthermore, parallel to the inverse correlation reported for mathematics anxiety and maths course performance, statistics anxiety correlated negatively with high school matriculation scores in maths as well as self perceptions of maths abilities.
  • (6) The determinants of the selection decision for applicants (N = 239) to one clinical Doctor of Psychology program during a 3-year period were examined, and relationships among selection variables measured at the time of application and program performance variables measured 2 years later for those matriculated were determined.
  • (7) Graduate and professional schools in general, and medical schools in particular, have traditionally not paid a great deal of attention to applicant "yield"--the proportion of accepted applicants who eventually confirm their intention to matriculate.
  • (8) It was also emphasized that only 65% of the college capacities are being utilised and a potential supply of matriculants amounts to 3300 p.a.
  • (9) Through the use of the maximum-likelihood estimation technique, the resulting model indicated that probability ranges for matriculation may be derived using data available from computerized student records.
  • (10) Ten undergraduate institutions with at least 20 matriculants in each group were selected for analysis.
  • (11) The requirements for the 1990 matriculants were a history and physical examination; tuberculin testing; immunizations to rubella, rubeola, tetanus-diphtheria, and hepatitis B; status of immunity to chickenpox; and proof of health insurance.
  • (12) The Allport-Vernon-Lindzey Study of Values (AVL) and the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) were administered to four classes of students upon their matriculation into dental school and readministered during each year until graduation.
  • (13) Data is provided on the number of women applicants to medical school, matriculants and graduates, specialty choices, the status of women in academic medicine, and the income of women physicians.
  • (14) Twenty-eight percent of medical schools had no immunization requirements for matriculating medical students.
  • (15) A total of 246 physicians who either had graduated from or had matriculated without graduating from dental school prior to entering a medical school were identified, and a combination multiple-choice, open-ended questionnaire was mailed to the group.
  • (16) Since the program began, 102 physicians have matriculated to the program, and of these physicians, 78 have returned to clinical activity.
  • (17) Perhaps of greater importance, however, was that students who entered medical school with an interest in family practice were almost three times as likely to choose family practice as a career than matriculants who were interested in other specialties (24.2% versus 8.4%, P less than .001).
  • (18) Results again indicated that the matriculation test is the most effective predictor.
  • (19) As a direct consequence of the summer program, four participants in the college institute were matriculated into schools of medicine, pharmacy, and optometry during the semester following the culmination of the Institute; ten more are participating in the followup program for continued guidance and counseling, seeking 1974 entrance into health professions schools and colleges.
  • (20) The results were discussed, raising several possible explanations for the relatively high validity of the matriculation scores.

Mature


Definition:

  • (superl.) Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
  • (superl.) Completely worked out; fully digested or prepared; ready for action; made ready for destined application or use; perfected; as, a mature plan.
  • (superl.) Of or pertaining to a condition of full development; as, a man of mature years.
  • (superl.) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
  • (v. t.) To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans.
  • (v. i.) To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to become due, as a note.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (2) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (3) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (4) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (5) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
  • (6) [5alpha-(3)H]5alpha-Androst-16-en-3-one (5alpha-androstenone) was infused at a constant rate for 180min into the spermatic artery of a sexually mature boar.
  • (7) Synapse loss was accentuated, however, within immature and mature plaques.
  • (8) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
  • (9) In the mature neutrophil, the number of binding sites for WEM-G11 were found to be about 20,000 per cell.
  • (10) In addition, transitional macrophages with both positive granules and positive RER, nuclear envelope, negative Golgi apparatus (as in exudate- resident macrophages in vivo), and mature macrophages with peroxidatic activity only in the RER and nuclear envelope (as in resident macrophages in vivo) were found.
  • (11) Plasma membranes were obtained from a homogeneous population of rabbit red blood cells at different maturation periods.
  • (12) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
  • (13) Between the 24th and 29th day mature daughter sporocysts with fully developed cercariae ready to emerge, or already emerged, could be seen in the digestive gland of the snail.
  • (14) The objective of this study was to examine the effects of different culture media used for maturation of bovine oocytes on in vitro embryo development following in vitro fertilization.
  • (15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (16) Furthermore, the expression of the 'mature' markers was found to be correlated with the phagocytic capacity of the cells.
  • (17) Implantation is dependent on embryonic age and is independent of endometrial maturation within this window.
  • (18) After isolation of the complex IV only gpFII and tails are required for mature phage formation in vitro.
  • (19) In males, the percentage of animals having mucous cells increased with sexual maturation and attained 100 per cent at age six months.
  • (20) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.

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