What's the difference between offshoot and ramification?

Offshoot


Definition:

  • (n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The smooth endoplasmic reticulum present in the terminals of the offshoots of the light pinealocytes is possibly involved in pineal indoleamine synthesis.
  • (2) Yemen has long been the base of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, an offshoot of Osama bin Laden’s original group that has previously targeted Houthis.
  • (3) If you look at a map of Britain resized according to house prices, London and the south-east form a massive blob, and every other region and nation are mere stringy offshoots, like a fried egg that is all yolk.
  • (4) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
  • (5) Captain America kicking open the door of what looks like a European mountain fortress suggests the Nazi offshoot Hydra might be rearing its many ugly heads once again.
  • (6) The technology in cellphones, from the screens to the processors that are in there, were offshoots of work that Darpa did.
  • (7) In rabbits, the functional behavior of the pial arterial offshoots (PAO), the pial arterial anastomoses (PAA), and the precortical arteries (PCA), was studied.
  • (8) Brazil is the home of several offshoots of football.
  • (9) He has worked at an offshoot of Morgan Stanley called Omega Land, as well as Grosvenor, the Duke of Westminster's property investment company.
  • (10) Technically an offshoot of the Spyro franchise, Skylanders has become hugely popular in its own right.
  • (11) Besides supporting the theory that land vertebrates arose from an offshoot of the lineage leading to lungfishes, the molecular tree facilitates an evolutionary interpretation of the morphological differences among the living forms.
  • (12) We call on our supporters to join the demonstration against this, today at the Jamaica high commission .” Black Lives Matter UK, was launched last month as an offshoot of the international movement was set up in the US following the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida four years ago.
  • (13) In Libya, the Brotherhood's political offshoot did not do as well as expected in last year's elections – but still came second.
  • (14) Up to 40 people are to transfer to the new owners of a cheaper offshoot that had an existing staff of 17, including editor Oliver Duff.
  • (15) Do expect more offshoots of the main brand, along the lines of Virgin's two digital radio stations, Virgin Radio Classic Rock and Virgin Radio Xtreme.
  • (16) Treatment of this unusual complications is an offshoot of the modern management of the underlying disease.
  • (17) As an offshoot of a larger prospective cardiovascular population study, the present study aimed to determine the 12 months frequency of focal cerebral transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) in persons randomly selected after age stratification from the Copenhagen city population register.
  • (18) Since that last call home, Waheed had joined the al-Qaida offshoot Jabhat al-Nusra, fighting against Bashar al-Assad .
  • (19) He called Pineda a major operator in the cartel, an offshoot of the Beltran Leyva gang.
  • (20) National Counties building society and its Family building society offshoot will consider applicants up to the age of 89, while Bath building society does not have a set maximum age, but will be looking for proof of continued income.

Ramification


Definition:

  • (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.
  • (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve.
  • (n.) A division into principal and subordinate classes, heads, or departments; also, one of the subordinate parts; as, the ramifications of a subject or scheme.
  • (n.) The production of branchlike figures.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I approached the public inquiry after much soul-searching, weighing up the ramifications of "rocking the boat" with the potential longer-term gains of a more robust and sustainable regulator.
  • (2) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
  • (3) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
  • (4) Speaking for the first time since the Qatari royal family abandoned his plans to build 552 new homes on the site of ­Chelsea barracks, Rogers called for a national inquiry into whether the prince has a constitutional right to become involved in matters such as planning applications which have economic, political and social ramifications.
  • (5) Thus, the existence of different forms of UBF may have important ramifications for transcription by RNA polymerase I.
  • (6) B-cells are found between the ramifications of the DC.
  • (7) On the basis of dendroarchitecture and cell body shape, complemented with morphometry of dendritic ramification, four major neuronal types were distinguished in lamina I of the spinal cord of the rat.
  • (8) This advance was represented by an increase in the cytoplasmic volume, appearance and development Golgi zones, grouping of the free ribosomes into rosettes, appearance of single synaptic contacts, and a ramification of large-calibre nerve processes that continued during the later stages of the embryogenesis (ED19-ED22).
  • (9) She says that, while she stayed away from the more difficult ramifications of that upbringing, she nevertheless plunged right into the "hot quicksand" of the Arab-Israeli conflict, right down into the Biblical roots of Jewish-Muslim conflict in the story of Abraham, Hagar, Isaac and Ishmael (which she meditates upon in the opera's Hagar chorus), and into the vortex of questions about Israel's right to exist and what motivates terrorists.
  • (10) In neuropil, which is presented mainly as axo-spinal assymetrical contacts of the I type after Grey, transversal profiles of tightly arranged and collected in fasciculi finest axonal collaterals and terminal dendritic ramifications are revealed.
  • (11) "This has very serious ramifications with potentially grievous consequences for the country," the military said.
  • (12) Data from the two procedures are compared and ramifications for the study of body size are discussed.
  • (13) Thus, these data suggest a novel pharmacological action of HETEs on PLA2 which may have potential ramifications in the regulation of arachidonic acid metabolism.
  • (14) The possible explanation and ramifications of this finding are discussed.
  • (15) The paper develops a simple mathematical model for this process, based on experimental observations, and explores several ramifications.
  • (16) The basic pattern of arborisation shows short primary dendrites which branch close to the soma, forming a distal ramification extending over 600 to 1,200 micrometer from the soma.
  • (17) It is suggested that knowledge of sexual abuse and its ramifications be addressed at the medical school curriculum level and be taught in the various clinical departments and incorporated into ward teaching rounds and seminars.
  • (18) Some decisions are quite simple and have minimal, if any, ramifications; other decisions are more complex and can have major ramifications.
  • (19) (1) The incidence of Type I -A(1) was 13.2%, the highest among the entire Su ramification.
  • (20) Opinions have varied, and still do, on such matters as to whether or not the diagnosis of glaucoma is contingent upon a field defect, the existence of low tension glaucoma, the ramifications of ocular hypertension, what constitutes a glaucomatous appearance of the disc, field defects versus the appearance of the disc, field defects versus the appearance of the disc, and what constitutes an early glaucomatous field defect.