What's the difference between operation and send?

Operation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
  • (n.) The method of working; mode of action.
  • (n.) That which is operated or accomplished; an effect brought about in accordance with a definite plan; as, military or naval operations.
  • (n.) Effect produced; influence.
  • (n.) Something to be done; some transformation to be made upon quantities, the transformation being indicated either by rules or symbols.
  • (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (2) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
  • (3) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (4) Of the patients 73% demonstrated clinically normal sensibility test results within 23 days after operation.
  • (5) Seventeen patients (Group 1) had had no previous surgery, while 13 (Group 2) had had multiple previous operations.
  • (6) Use of the improved operative technique contributed to reduction in number of complications.
  • (7) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
  • (8) Together these results suggest that IVC may operate as a selective activator of calpain both in the cytosol and at the membrane level; in the latter case in synergism with the activation induced by association of the proteinase to the cell membrane.
  • (9) At operation, the tumour was identified and excised with part of the aneurysmal wall.
  • (10) Sixteen patients were operated on for lumbar pain and pain radiating into the sciatic nerve distribution.
  • (11) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (12) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (13) The present findings indicate that the deafferented [or isolated] hypothalamus remains neuronally isolated from the environment if the operation is carried out later than the end of the first week of life.
  • (14) At the fepB operator, a 31 base-pair Fur-protected region was identified, corresponding to positions -19 to +12 with respect to the transcriptional start site.
  • (15) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (16) The operative arteriograms confirmed vascular occlusive phenomenon.
  • (17) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (18) And that, as much as the “on water, operational” considerations, is why we are being kept in the dark.
  • (19) Six of the patients were operated using the McIndoe and Bannister technique while on the other two the Tobin and Day technique was used.
  • (20) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.

Send


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to go in any manner; to dispatch; to commission or direct to go; as, to send a messenger.
  • (v. t.) To give motion to; to cause to be borne or carried; to procure the going, transmission, or delivery of; as, to send a message.
  • (v. t.) To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.
  • (v. t.) To cause to be or to happen; to bestow; to inflict; to grant; -- sometimes followed by a dependent proposition.
  • (v. i.) To dispatch an agent or messenger to convey a message, or to do an errand.
  • (v. i.) To pitch; as, the ship sends forward so violently as to endanger her masts.
  • (n.) The impulse of a wave by which a vessel is carried bodily.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
  • (3) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (4) But we sent out reconnoitres in the morning; we send out a team in advance and they get halfway down the road, maybe a quarter of the way down the road, sometimes three-quarters of the way down the road – we tried this three days in a row – and then the shelling starts and while I can’t point the finger at who starts the shelling, we get the absolute assurances from the Ukraine government that it’s not them.” Flags on all Australian government buildings will be flown at half-mast on Thursday, and an interdenominational memorial service will be held at St Patrick’s cathedral in Melbourne from 10.30am.
  • (5) "It's a dangerous sign to send and it limits our ability to find a diplomatic solution to nuclear arms in Iran," he said.
  • (6) A survey into the current usage of tracheal tubes and associated procedures, such as various sedation regimes and antacid therapy, in intensive care units was carried out in Sweden by sending a questionnaire to physicians in charge of intensive care units in 70 acute hospitals which included seven main teaching hospitals.
  • (7) Weiner resigned in 2011 after sending a picture of himself in his underwear to a 21-year-old woman in Seattle that subsequently ended up on the internet.
  • (8) He sends a low ball into the middle, in the general direction of Fabregas, but the former Arsenal captain can't get ahead of Lahm, who is making a proper nuisance of himself.
  • (9) He told strikers at St Thomas’ hospital, London: “By taking action on such a miserable morning you are sending a strong message that decent men and women in the jewel of our civilisation are not prepared to be treated as second-class citizens any more.
  • (10) The Yamaguchi-gumi is reportedly considering a ban on sending traditional gifts to business associates, and holds weekly meetings to discuss its response to the new ordinances.
  • (11) In practice this would probably be vetoed by China, which has close links with North Korea and maintains a policy of sending back people found to have fled across the border, despite widespread evidence that they face mistreatment and detention on their return.
  • (12) Despite a new quota system demanding that the largest members send one woman for every four men, just 17% of the 2,500 delegates are female.
  • (13) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (14) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (15) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (16) I stand by my decision to send my son to Park View.
  • (17) "The government will ban qat so that we can protect vulnerable members of our communities and send a clear message to our international partners and qat smugglers that the UK is serious about stopping the illegal trafficking of qat."
  • (18) This sends the dangerous message that the citizens of the debtor countries need to suffer badly to signal their contrition.
  • (19) These cell bodies send a diffuse projection of processes throughout the spinal cord, including: (1) a dense projection to the ventral surface; (2) a strong projection to the ventromedial longitudinal fiber tracts; (3) a less intense projection to the dorsal longitudinal fiber tracts; and (4) a weak projection to the lateral fiber tracts.
  • (20) Indiana Indiana began to purge inactive voters in may 2014 by sending postcards to all registered voters.