What's the difference between myriad and surfeit?

Myriad


Definition:

  • (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
  • (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
  • (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a marketing model, it is argued that in New Zealand both groups will survive and spread best by selecting, from the myriad of patient need options, those that most closely match their skills.
  • (2) At present, the toxicity of most IL-2 regimens is severe and prohibitive for clinicians not intimately familiar with the myriad of side effects associated with its use.
  • (3) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
  • (4) Guy said the 28,000 issues reported to Citizens Advice in 2013, plus the 102,000 who sought help online, revealed that people are experiencing a myriad of problems with mobiles.
  • (5) Like many British shoppers, she finds she has to play a cat-and-mouse game with Tesco's myriad offers (some real, some less authentic) to keep costs down.
  • (6) Efforts to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality have led clinicians to use a myriad of ventilatory support modalities.
  • (7) Of ourse, men traverse them in myriad ways, as a result of differences in class, ethnicity, personality, and other factors.
  • (8) Some, hired from myriad unregulated subcontractors, had to pay for their own work clothes on a salary of £149 a month.
  • (9) There is evidence for the animosity the document cites around the country in myriad small protests.
  • (10) Privilege comes in a myriad of forms, including race, gender, wealth, physical fitness, safety, and educational attainment and indeed height.
  • (11) Militants led by energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis say any rupture with Europe would be better than signing up to an accord that crossed Syriza’s myriad red lines.
  • (12) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
  • (13) These maneuvers have been chosen from the myriad dietary interventions in the experimental and clinical literature and are not meant to be all inclusive.
  • (14) Recent elucidation of a few of the myriad functions of these saccharides has finally opened a crack in the door to one the last great frontiers of biochemistry.
  • (15) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
  • (16) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
  • (17) Over the last 50 years, Ballard's indiscriminate and unflinching gaze has worked hard to penetrate the myriad surface realities of our disturbed modernity and to tap into its unconscious energies.
  • (18) Aging is accompanied by a myriad of changes in cell structure, function, and composition.
  • (19) The doubts that he is presidential material have come from myriad quarters, though many serve as an acknowledgement of how much he is feared by potential rivals.
  • (20) Radiolucent filling defects within the renal pelvis are common findings in diagnositc urography, and because of their myriad causes the diagnostician is often faced with a challenging problem.

Surfeit


Definition:

  • (n.) Excess in eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Fullness and oppression of the system, occasioned often by excessive eating and drinking.
  • (n.) Disgust caused by excess; satiety.
  • (v. i.) To load the stomach with food, so that sickness or uneasiness ensues; to eat to excess.
  • (v. i.) To indulge to satiety in any gratification.
  • (v. t.) To feed so as to oppress the stomach and derange the function of the system; to overfeed, and produce satiety, sickness, or uneasiness; -- often reflexive; as, to surfeit one's self with sweets.
  • (v. t.) To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm reminded of something Cooper said earlier, when talking about the pressures of this time of year for working parents, with its surfeit of plays and, "Oh God, not another school fair".
  • (2) This very tight clustering suggests a cis interaction between adjacent Surfeit genes.
  • (3) The clustered arrangement (no two adjacent genes are separated by more than 73 base pairs [bp] and two genes overlap by 133 bp at their 3' ends) of the four genes (Surf-1 to -4) identified so far in the mouse surfeit locus (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.
  • (4) The organization of the mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains six housekeeping genes (Surf-1-Surf-6), which are unrelated by sequence homology, in the tightest mammalian gene cluster thus far described.
  • (5) When the faculty status of women and men academic anesthesiologists was examined a significant difference was found in rank distribution in age groups 40 to 44 (P less than 0.005) and 45 to 49 (P less than 0.001), where there was a deficit of professors and a surfeit of instructors among women.
  • (6) Here's Niall Mullen: "As a Liverpool fan who can barely buy his own groceries I am going to be outraged, outraged I tell you, if we fail to procure a player I've never heard of, who plays in a position in which we have a surfeit of players, for a club I've never seen play."
  • (7) We found no evidence of an initial surfeit of processing units, dendritic branches, or synapses.
  • (8) In this endocrine control, the renin axis provides the primary defence against sodium volume depletion and hypotension while atrial hormone plays an increasingly active counter-role for coping with situations that involve a sodium-volume surfeit or rising blood volume or blood pressure levels.
  • (9) Profound changes are occurring in the health care system, including a surfeit of physicians, cost containment, and competition.
  • (10) Using an interspecies backcross, we have mapped the HOX-5 and surfeit (surf) gene clusters within the proximal portion of mouse chromosome 2.
  • (11) In the adult, sodium surfeit is associated with an increase in urinary dopamine; the opposite occurs in the young.
  • (12) But we've had a surfeit of "behind the scenes" pictures of both coalition leaders; too many pictures of Cameron gurning at his new baby have led to this sort of material becoming a devalued currency.
  • (13) Responses to the energy surfeit led to intakes 104% and 116% of baseline, respectively.
  • (14) Since a repository would be expected to accumulate surplus material, one would predict that phosphorylase, which contains stoichio-metric amounts or pyridoxal phosphate, would increase in muscle of animals surfeited with the vitamin.
  • (15) What is called progress seems often to bring a surfeit of new experiences, facts, machines, noises, producing a feeling of helplessness, almost of despair.
  • (16) These data support the hypothesis that a surfeit of opioidergic ligand may potentiate drinking of alcoholic beverages.
  • (17) The concept of a basal level of body sodium (Strauss' state 'between surfeit and deficit') was studied by means of body sodium measurements in rats on different sodium intakes, in some cases after diuretic pretreatment.
  • (18) The invading fibers appear to encounter resistance at the basal lamina, but, once within the epithelium, at embryonic days 8-9, they form a surfeit of branches in columnar zones oriented radially toward the surface.
  • (19) Relative to their energy consumption on the medium-fat diet, the subjects spontaneously consumed an 11.3% deficit on the low-fat diet and a 15.4% surfeit on the high-fat diet (p less than 0.0001), resulting in significant changes in body weight (p less than 0.001).
  • (20) The mouse surfeit locus is unusual in that it contains a number of closely clustered genes (Surf-1, -2, and -4) that alternate in their direction of transcription (T. Williams, J. Yon, C. Huxley, and M. Fried, Proc.