What's the difference between outlet and passage?

Outlet


Definition:

  • (n.) The place or opening by which anything is let out; a passage out; an exit; a vent.
  • (v. t.) To let out; to emit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (2) John Lewis’s marketing, advertising and reputation are all built on their promises of good customer services, and it is a large part of what still drives people to their stores despite cheaper online outlets.
  • (3) In Japan, particularly, there is a feeling that they were built less out of need than as another outlet for the aggressively proactive concrete industry.
  • (4) The orientation of the dilating balloon in the inlet and outlet portions of the left ventricle, change of the catheter-dilator is controlled due to a loop of the conductor connecting the right and left parts of the heart.
  • (5) The survey also found that department stores – which include general retailers such as Marks & Spencer as well as traditional outlets such as John Lewis – had enjoyed their strongest surge in sales for 30 years.
  • (6) Tesco, the UK’s biggest petrol retailer with 499 outlets and more than 16% market share, cut petrol and diesel by 1p a litre at all of its petrol stations from lunchtime on Thursday.
  • (7) Venous ectasias and varices which can be encountered, associated with DVA constitute an acquired feature in relation to a venous outlet obstacle.
  • (8) We report on two cases of bladder outlet obstruction caused by massive dilatation of persistent müllerian duct remnants.
  • (9) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
  • (10) His committee had spent only $75,000, which included adverts in media outlets read by members of Congress and their staff.
  • (11) So, in these patients there was predominantly a left colon dysfunction and the called outlet obstruction syndrome, likely related to their evacuatory habits.
  • (12) Antral mucosal diaphragm is uncommon, and presents with manifestations of obstruction to the pyloric outlet.
  • (13) Also last week, Medium said more than a dozen media outlets would start publishing on its site, an arrangement that would have allowed publications whose websites are blocked in China to reach users in the country.
  • (14) The energy of radiation at the guide outlet being 9 mJ, the resources of fiber work remained at a high level (greater than 10(4) impulses) whereas high velocity of tissue evaporation allowed elimination of an area 3 mm3 in volume during 1 minute, with the rate of impulse repetition amounting to 10 Hz.
  • (15) Manning on contacting other media outlets Here is Manning describing how he first contacted traditional news outlets about what he found; listen on the player above.
  • (16) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
  • (17) The outlet should provide adequate outflow resistance to allow expulsion of urine under voluntary control and at convenient intervals.
  • (18) The news wasn’t a surprise, exactly: when a newspaper is available in more outlets than it sells copies, the future obviously looks a little cloudy.
  • (19) By now seemingly every print and online outlet has had a crack at explaining why the Sunday shows are so phenomenally useless.
  • (20) Officials and almost all media outlets say Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist group that is behind all attacks on the Egyptian state – but have thus far provided no evidence of their involvement.

Passage


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
  • (v. i.) Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
  • (v. i.) Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
  • (v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
  • (v. i.) Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
  • (v. i.) A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
  • (v. i.) A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
  • (v. i.) A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
  • (v. i.) Reception; currency.
  • (v. i.) A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
  • (v. i.) A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
  • (v. i.) In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
  • (2) Exposure to nanomolar concentrations of saralasin, an Ang II agonist, attenuated the passage of the fluorophores across the monolayers by 50-75%.
  • (3) Cultured cells from fourth to ninth passage showed positive labelling for S 100 protein, carbonic anydrase (CAA), glutamine synthetase (GS), alpha cristallin (alpha C) and polyclonal glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) antibody, but were negative for both monoclonal GFAP antibody and also for Muller cells in the retina.
  • (4) In the case of the latter, it show either a more or less typical appearance of radicolography only or, more rarely, a picture which combines opacification of the epidural space with the subarachnoid passage of the contrast medium.
  • (5) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
  • (6) In late-passage and cloned HUT102 cells, an increase in HTLV production was concordant with a decrease in constitutive interferon production and the loss of mature T lymphocyte antigens.
  • (7) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
  • (8) The resulting cell lines have a stable phenotype and retain the changes which result from transformation even after extended passaging.
  • (9) Abe’s longstanding efforts toward those goals, which include the successful passage of a state secrets act and efforts to expand the scope of Japan’s military activities have already damaged relations with China.
  • (10) It is inferred that in this experimental model (1) high-density lipoproteins are probably excreted in the glomerular filtrate, (2) alterations in the composition of the excreted lipoproteins may occur during their passage through the nephron.
  • (11) We report that kainic acid lesions of the posterior corpus striatum, which preferentially spare fibers of passage while destroying striatopallidal neurons, produce a stimulus-sensitive movement pattern in rats that has a highly specific sensory trigger.
  • (12) The cells have been maintained through 23 serial passages, and the modal number of chromosomes was calculated to be 55.
  • (13) The rate of passage of digesta was significantly reduced in both pair-fed control (50 per cent) and infected (74 per cent) groups.
  • (14) Unlike cells grown on plastic, RME cells grown on type I collagen were readily subculturable and serial subculture resulted in the cells undergoing 15-20 population doublings (5-6 passages) before exhibiting any loss of growth potential.
  • (15) The major difficulty encountered with the current technique is the danger of neurologic injury during the passage and handling of conventional wires, especially in extensive procedures.
  • (16) In addition, SPT16 is identical to CDC68, a gene previously shown to be required for passage through the cell cycle control point START.
  • (17) Selective catheterisation enabled opacification under pressure in more than 80 p. cent of cases, with perfect visualisation of the entire tubes and significant peritoneal passage.
  • (18) The effects of Urocalun and jumping exercise upon the passage of calculi were studied.
  • (19) The alterations in the glycosaminoglycans and collagen induced by hypoxia may cause changes in the passage of macromolecules through the aortic wall.
  • (20) Despite the lack of expression of the endogenous CYP17 gene in transfectants from late-passage cells, induced luciferase activity was higher in late-passage transfectants than early-passage transfectants for both the -2544 and -488 constructs.