What's the difference between meed and meld?

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).

Meld


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Goodman added: "The line between advice on policy (which Crosby doesn't give) and advice on strategy (which he certainly does) isn't the iron wall that Downing Street and CCHQ would like to assert: the one tends to meld into the other.
  • (2) Mixing of membrane components was demonstrated by transfer of fluorescent lipophilic dye, and melding of granule contents was seen with differential interference microscopy.
  • (3) It was through these now-remote valleys that ideas of art, decorum, dress, religion and court culture passed backwards and forwards, east to west and back again, mixing and melding to create the most unexpected conjuctions.
  • (4) Helping to meld everyone's creativity into an artistic whole is different from handing down dictats from on high, even if they are dressed up as helpful suggestions.
  • (5) This thickens the sauce and melds the flavours together.
  • (6) The doctor's lectures were a linguistic and topical pastiche, melding Indian and Western biologies, psychologies, and sociologies.
  • (7) It all melds together to make one of the finest examples of tight design, and of understanding by the designers of their game’s core.
  • (8) Rather, traditional pharmacy should be melded with the values system fostered by the clinical movement so that pharmacy as a whole will become more fully professionalized.
  • (9) "There is a depth and honesty in his music, in the way his beats meld together," Atwood-Ferguson says.
  • (10) Assuming senators back the bill, the Senate and the House of Representatives versions will then be melded into one and voted on again by both chambers before passing to Obama for his signature.
  • (11) This is why a new sports strategy is being worked on that will further build on the cross-government work on sport and physical activity that happens.” However, that £1bn “public funding” for community sport melds money from the national lottery, of which sport is one of the direct, statutory beneficiaries, with funding Crouch’s government provides.
  • (12) The uniqueness is in the melding of arcane British crafts (lacemakers, embroiderers, feather specialists, leather workers, corset-makers) with modern technology to create extraordinarily dramatic designs.
  • (13) This article reports the progress of 13 students at the end of 1 year of planning and 1 year of implementing the MELD model in one urban elementary school.
  • (14) Such overlapping segments are then melded into one continuous string of nucleotides.
  • (15) FKA Twigs’ LP1 sees 26-year-old solo artist Tahliah Debrett Barnett meld a variety of genres – from trip hop and jazz to ambient and R&B – to conjure up a sensual sound that is both ethereal and unique.
  • (16) The combined intracellular injection of Lucifer Yellow and biocytin provides a simple means of melding the advantages of a fluorescent label (compatible with other fluorescence labels and with immunocytochemistry) with the benefits of a stable, non-fading, electron-dense marker.
  • (17) Melding these various inputs required close attention to detail and diplomatic flexibility.
  • (18) Inorganic capillary electrophoresis (ICE) is a new separations technology which melds the technique of classical electrophoresis with the separations approach of ion chromatography.
  • (19) This article presents the rationale for education in nutrition in the preparation of agriculturalists and reviews some of the past efforts and present activities of national and international organizations to meld nutrition into agricultural world development programs.
  • (20) Perhaps even more exciting is what the future holds, as the continued march of molecular biology is melded with novel approaches to the definitive treatment of thalassemias.

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