What's the difference between neighbourhood and vicinity?

Neighbourhood


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (2) This analysis is based on a ranking of neighbourhoods according to the participation of young people in higher education.
  • (3) The authors are of the opinion that the processes occurring in the neighbourhood of the traumatic skin wound can be influenced and that regeneration can be regulated.
  • (4) They strongly suggest that the ADP-carrier comes to the close neighbourhood of the ATP synthetase on the matrix side of the inner membrane.
  • (5) Above 1.0 mol%, the PY molecules reside preferentially in the neighbourhood of the glyceryl moiety region of the PC vesicles.
  • (6) What I saw Aid workers speak out about mental health: 'I was afraid they would think I couldn't handle it' Read more The first place I visited was Nyamirambo, a neighbourhood in the south-west part of Kigali.
  • (7) Flats by the basketball arena, which will be the site of the first ‘legacy neighbourhood’, Chobham Manor.
  • (8) With its steep hills and cobblestones, the neighbourhood of São Cristóvão in Ouro Preto isn’t an easy place to play football.
  • (9) Other factors such as gender, marital status and the presence of children, relatives and friends in the neighbourhood had no association with loneliness.
  • (10) With the number of childless elderly persons increasing, such systems would partially compensate for the lack of family assistance through neighbourhood and other forms of self-support.
  • (11) While Bloomberg has defended his record, pointing out that New York city has 22 of the state's best 25 public schools, others have said those schools are predominantly in wealthy neighbourhoods or are difficult for students to get into.
  • (12) The majority of these were household contacts of kala-azar patients, and the remainder came from the close neighbourhood.
  • (13) Our basic finding was a conformational change in LC-2 deficient myosin detected at 18 degrees C. It was not observed in intact myosin suggesting that the dissociation of the regulatory light chain resulted in a local structural change in the neighbourhood of the attached label in the 20 kD domain.
  • (14) Police arrested her in September in a raid on a club on Iracema beach, a crowded neighbourhood packed with lively restaurants, hotels and bars.
  • (15) He recommended that skilled police officers be paid up to £2,000 more than they are now, and said a new expertise and professional accreditation allowance of £1,200 would be introduced for most detectives, firearms, public order and neighbourhood policing teams.
  • (16) Inflammatory parameters are definitely involved, and the nosological neighbourhood to angylosing spondylitis is discussed.
  • (17) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
  • (18) Since 2008 a massive public security "pacification" campaign has allowed police to regain control of dozens of neighbourhoods which had been off-limits to the authorities for years.
  • (19) Lieutenant General Abdel Wahab al-Saadi said his forces secured the largely agricultural southern neighbourhood of Naymiya, under cover of US-led coalition airstrikes, and are poised to enter the main city.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Residents sit on a sofa on a balcony of a damaged building in Aleppo’s al-Shaar neighbourhood in Syria.

Vicinity


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
  • (n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Generally, more distant neurones (500-1300 microns) were excited for variable periods of time (3-15 min), while neurones in the vicinity of the injection site (0-500 microns) showed, after a brief period of excitation time, a long-lasting (up to 30 min) decrease in excitability or silencing of discharge, probably due to a depolarizing block and disturbances in the ionic composition of the extracellular space.
  • (2) Assays with monoclonal antibodies (MB47, 2b, 4G3, and C1.1) directed against different epitopes of the LDL apoprotein B suggested that AcA modification reduced the immunological recognition of the LDL receptor binding region and its vicinity.
  • (3) Furthermore, we can accurately measure heteronuclear and homonuclear vicinal coupling constants.
  • (4) It can be concluded that at least some of the neurones in the nucleus tractus solitarius and its vicinity receive inputs from more than one source.
  • (5) Furthermore, duplications in the vicinity of this locus involving the beta-amyloid gene and the proto-oncogene ets-2 have been reported in association with AD.
  • (6) The material comprised liver and kidney samples collected from inhabitants of the city of Białystok and of its vicinity during anatomopathological examination at the Department of Pathological Anatomy, Medical Academy in Białystok.
  • (7) Pathomorphologically, spongiform alteration and demyelinization of the white matter in the vicinity of the amyloid deposits was detected and systemic amyloidosis excluded.
  • (8) It is colocalized with talin, but is not related to the distribution of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) which are clustered at the postsynaptic membrane in the vicinity of the MTJ in these fibers.
  • (9) In the presence of the drug, the higher permeability for Cl- diminishes the depolarization caused by the potassium released and accumulated in the vicinity of the membrane in the course of AP.
  • (10) Large (about 2 micron in diameter), pale vacuoles, probably of extracellular character, were found mostly in the vicinity of the perivascular septum.
  • (11) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
  • (12) Comparison of FAS from different sources shows that the primary sequence is conserved only for the active residues and the amino acids in their immediate vicinity.
  • (13) A rare case of aseptic tenosynovitis from oxytocin injection in the vicinity of a tendon causing spontaneous rupture of the extensor digitorum communis tendon is reported.
  • (14) During a period of almost ten years with 280 cases, experience has been gathered in connection with the immobilisation of radius fractures, in the vicinity of the wrist, by means of the fixateur externe.
  • (15) PTZ seizures appear to be mediated by an extensive system involving the reticular formation, diencephalic regions in the vicinity of the anterior medial thalamus and caudal hypothalamus, and bulbar regions which give rise to descending motor pathways to the spinal cord.
  • (16) In contrast, antagonists rely predominantly upon hydrophobic binding in the vicinity of the acetylmethyl group present in the endogenous transmitter.
  • (17) The regenerative response of myelinated axons of the mammalian central nervous system was investigated by inserting peripheral nerve grafts in the vicinity of traumatized rat optic axons.
  • (18) "The protest camp does not have significant impact on the rights and freedoms of those visiting, walking through or working in the vicinity.
  • (19) The third type projected to the contralateral spinal cord and distributed terminal boutons in the medial part of the nucleus of the solitary tract (NTS) and its vicinity.
  • (20) Glycine completely prevented the effect of FITC modification, suggesting the existence of lysine group(s) either at or in the vicinity of the agonist binding site.