What's the difference between multitude and multitudinous?

Multitude


Definition:

  • (n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.
  • (n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.
  • (n.) The state of being many; numerousness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (2) The basic question about the future of media perhaps becomes clearer and can more succinctly be asked: will Facebook be earning more from its multitude of users in 10 years – when there are no more users to be had – or will Comcast?
  • (3) Isocyanates are highly reactive chemicals capable of causing a multitude of toxicologic effects including respiratory irritation, dermal irritation, contact sensitivity, and pulmonary hypersensitivity.
  • (4) Pulmonary edema probably will always remain difficult to their mechanism of production, in so far as can be estimated from the multitude of substances.
  • (5) In a complex so large that travelator conveyor belts were installed to ferry visitors between the exhibition halls, the multitude of new gadgets on display can be bewildering.
  • (6) Its assessment is a damning one on a health service that was struggling with a multitude of problems and at a time of great change.
  • (7) The present results show that propentofylline and its hydroxylated metabolite can influence adenosine mechanisms in a multitude of ways.
  • (8) Conformational study on phosphopantetheine shows that this compound has an intrinsic tendency to adopt a multitude of conformations which contain hydrogen bonds involving the sulphydryl, hydroxyl, carbonyl and amide groups.
  • (9) A multitude of topical agents have been tried with variable results.
  • (10) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
  • (11) Furthermore, this patient presents a multitude of complications developing from large angiomas.
  • (12) I wonder: are there any historical precedents for the ageing multitudes who now keep rock'n'roll in business?
  • (13) The multitude of caval filters now available and conflicting experimental and clinical findings indicate that no one model can be considered to be perfect.
  • (14) Chronic renal failure (CRF) is the consequence of a multitude of diseases that cause permanent destruction of the nephron.
  • (15) Despite the multitude of losses we experience in our lifetime, death is likely to be the most paramount.
  • (16) A multitude of variants can be mounted from just four system components.
  • (17) Injections of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the habenula of squirrel monkeys labeled a multitude of neurons in the lateal hypothalamus and a lesser number of neurons in the internal pallidum (GPi).
  • (18) Separation of the symptoms of this syndrome from the symptoms of a multitude of other postgastrectomy syndromes is difficult, being complicated by a high incidence of emotional instability in these patients.
  • (19) Because we have this multitude of games, I hope Remy picks it up,” Hiddink said.
  • (20) The answer lies in the multitude of tiny modifiable connections between neuronal cells, the information-processing units of the brain.

Multitudinous


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a multitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Treatment approaches are multitudinous and sometimes conflicting, partly due to problems in definition of the disorder, and the role of psychoanalysis is still unclear.
  • (2) Fluorocitrate, a Krebs cycle inhibitor, induices neurons to rapidly expel multitudinous lysosomes, mitochondria, and other cytoplasmic constituents into their axons.
  • (3) These GC actions could be secondary to their multitudinous peripheral actions.
  • (4) Lager – which, say its multitudinous fans, has a crisper, cleaner taste than warm-brewed ales – was first made by monks in Bavaria 500 years ago, using a yeast that has since been shown to be a hybrid of European yeast and another yeast.
  • (5) In this paper the authors present a review of the multitudinous studies of researchers who have attempted to identify the sources of drug information utilized by physicians.
  • (6) The variety of nasal deformities of congenital, developmental, and traumatic origin is multitudinous.
  • (7) Since its discovery, ANF has provided multitudinous opportunities to explore its relationship to various biologic functions.
  • (8) The fine cellular structure of both species showed multitudinous plasma membrane folds on their surfaces.
  • (9) Even more than a national treasure, Ken was a local hero, the boy who grew up cycling between the multitudinous cinemas of Southampton, and who went on to become the area's most celebrated son.
  • (10) In the case of the autogenous graft generally smaller, and in the case of homologous composite flexor tendon graft more multitudinous adhesions occurred between flexor tendon and tendon sheath.
  • (11) Although the influences of temperature on plants are multitudinous, many can be predicted, or at least analysed, based on well-established physical principles.
  • (12) The mood of Thoreau is more interior; the eye is not on an audience but on a multitudinous world of sensation, seen and named with precision.
  • (13) It was the worst violence to hit France since the second world war – a stunning act of organised multitudinous terror.
  • (14) The common origin of the multitudinous RV serotypes so suggested is consistent with the extensive antigenic cross-relations which are becoming evident.
  • (15) Such a multitudinous and concomitant expression of antigenicity to the different tumor elements indicates a close relationship to its mesodermal Müllerian origin, and NSE, S 100 and vimentin might be most adequate indicators of these types of tumors.
  • (16) Last year the author Tom Bower brought out a critical biography, in spite of the worst that Branson's multitudinous lawyers could do none of whom has yet managed to land a glove on the book.
  • (17) Arthropoda form the most diversified and multitudinous phyllum of the animal kingdom.
  • (18) Multitudinous embryonic macrocommunication and microcommunication between the arterial and venous systems, with resultant shunting of blood to the low-resistance veins, produce massive venous and tissue engorgement.
  • (19) Five cases involving the terminal ileum or colon had a gross appearance of multitudinous mucosal polyps and were considered to represent examples of "multiple lymphomatous polyposis."
  • (20) Heaven forbid that the multitudinous poor should also have somewhere beautiful and uplifting in which to swim and relax.

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