What's the difference between meed and meer?

Meed


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
  • (n.) Merit or desert; worth.
  • (n.) A gift; also, a bride.
  • (v. t.) To reward; to repay.
  • (v. t.) To deserve; to merit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The postflight phase of the Apollo MEED mycology attempts to identify survival according to exposure to specific quantitative space flight factors, while the second phase of studies identifies qualitative change other than cell survival [57].
  • (2) The mean modified Harris-Benedict equation overestimated the mean MEEA by 32% (P less than 0.0005) and the mean MEED by 39% (P less than 0.0005).
  • (3) Women under 18 meed the permission of their parents or legal guardians; a court may also grant permission.
  • (4) Hip abduction, knee extension, hip flexion, and grip force were assessed using the Spark Muscle Examination and Exercise Dosimeter (MEED) 3000 system.
  • (5) The masseter fibres of the ruminant differed from those of the other species in histochemical properties, and appeared to have the histochemical characteristics that meed functional demands for slow, long-term exercise.
  • (6) The total lipid extracted from the phenotype T. terrestre 7048-1 isolated from the Apollo 16 Microbial Ecology Evaluation Device (MEED) was found to vary according to the time at which the phospholipids were extracted.
  • (7) The Trichophyton phenotype was selected from a cuvette housed in the MEED exposed to specific space parameters including ultraviolet light of known wavelengths and energy levels in deep space.
  • (8) The mean energy expenditure calculated from the Curreri equation on admission (CEEA) overestimated the mean MEE on admission (MEEA) by 25% (P less than 0.001) and on discharge (MEED) by 36% (P less than 0.0005).

Meer


Definition:

  • (a.) Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a.
  • (n.) See Mere, a lake.
  • (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast to a recent report which described exclusive apical localization of the Forssman glycolipid (Hansson, G.C., Simons, K. and Van Meer, G. (1986) EMBO J.
  • (2) These include novel maytansinoid tumor inhibitors, some new ent-kaurane and rosane diterpenoids from Mallotus anomalus Meer et Chun (Euphorbiaceae), as well as novel insecticide, stemona alkaloids from Stemona parviflora C. H. Wright (Stemonaceae).
  • (3) In order to locate sites of action of thyroid hormone on mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation we have used an experimental application of control analysis as previously described [Groen, Wanders, Westerhoff, Van der Meer & Tager (1982) J. Biol.
  • (4) The fusion of liposomes with the plasma membrane of influenza virus-infected monolayers of an epithelial cell line, Madin-Darby canine kidney cells (van Meer et al., 1985.
  • (5) The presence of pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) as the organic cofactor of Dactylium dendroides galactose oxidase and lentil (Lens culinaris) seedling amine oxidase, purported PQQ-containing oxidoreductases (Van der Meer, R. A., Jongejan, J.
  • (6) The possibility to introduce exogenous phosphatidylcholine (PC) in the plasma membrane of Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells other than by fusion of liposomes with virus-infected cells (Van Meer, G. and Simons, K. (1983) J.
  • (7) In lake Nieuwe Meer, with the highest levels of organic micropollutants, the hepatic MFO activity was elevated in three fish species.
  • (8) We have used an extended Perrin equation which was in agreement with literature data for steady-state anisotropy (rSS) for a wide variety of artificial and isolated biological membranes labeled with various probes (Van der Meer et al.
  • (9) But, says Joost van der Meer, executive director of AIDS Foundation East West, a Dutch NGO, "Russia is totally failing to meet the MDGs.
  • (10) The possible quinoprotein nature of the laccases from Polyporus versicolor and Rhus vernicifera was also investigated because of the similarities in spectroscopic and kinetic features of these enzymes and the laccase from Phlebia radiata, reported to be a PQQ protein (Karhunen, E., Niku-Paavola, M.-L., Viikari, L., Haltia, T., Van der Meer, R. A., and Duine, J.
  • (11) To test our hypothesis that the cholestatic action of sulfated glycolithocholic acid (SGLC) in the rat is related to its interaction with calcium in the biliary tree [R. van der Meer, R. J. Vonk, and F. Kuipers.
  • (12) None of these experiments provided evidence for the presence of PQQ contrary to previous report by Van der Meer et al (1).
  • (13) Extracted from The Bedside Guardian 2015, a collection of the year’s best Guardian journalism, edited by Malik Meer.
  • (14) Using our new theoretical WOBHOP and P2P4HOP models as described in a preceding paper (Van Der Meer, B.W., K.H.
  • (15) Unilamellar liposomes can be fused at low pH with the plasma membrane of cells that express the hemagglutinin glycoprotein of influenza virus on their surface [van Meer, G., & Simons, K. (1983) J.
  • (16) Reaction of dopamine beta-hydroxylase with 6 mM phenylhydrazine in the presence of 15 mM ascorbate caused 96% inactivation within 20 min and did not produce any spectrally detectable amounts of the phenylhydrazone adduct of PQQ, as reported by van der Meer et al.
  • (17) "We slept on mats, without pillows, resting our heads on our elbows," recalled one of Mandela's nine sisters, Nobandhla, in Fatima Meer's biography Higher Than Hope.
  • (18) (van der Meer, R.A., Jongejan, J.A., and Duine, J.A.

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