What's the difference between outweigh and preponderate?

Outweigh


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exceed in weight or value.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And in my judgment, when the balance is struck, the factors for granting relief in this case easily outweigh the factors against.
  • (2) In 20 years, our children may well be able to look back and say with relief that the continuities with the past outweigh the differences once again.
  • (3) After considering the advantages and disadvantages of preclinical laboratory exercises, they conclude that the former still outweigh the latter.
  • (4) Psychological benefits resulting from the cosmetic improvement may outweigh the probability of recurrences in this rare condition.
  • (5) The benefits of treating diastolic blood pressure greater than or equal to 115 mm Hg are indisputable; the benefits of treating milder hypertension, i.e., diastolic blood pressure between 90 and 114 mm Hg, probably outweigh the risks, but controversy persists.
  • (6) The cost in educational underachievement would far outweigh any savings made by cuts.
  • (7) These results suggest that the increased lytic potential resulting from binding of small amounts of C9 to C5b-8 complexes is outweighed by enhanced elimination of complexes resulting in decreased cell death.
  • (8) The coupling together of 10 nephrons per se impairs autoregulation of renal blood flow compared to that of a single nephron model, but this effect is more than outweighed by greater control resistance in deep arterioles.
  • (9) Because warfarin carries a significant risk to the fetus of anomalies and hemorrhage, its use during pregnancy should be reserved for those circumstances in which the benefits of such therapy outweigh the risks.
  • (10) Consequently, men's SES and their willingness and ability to invest affection and resources in relationships may often outweigh the effects of their physical attractiveness in women's actual selection of partners.
  • (11) The writers cite a recent survey of social workers by the publication Community Care, which revealed that 73% of social workers questioned said they were unable to do their job properly, leaving children at risk because demand outweighs resources.Their unusual intervention came as the founder of Kids Company, Camila Batmanghelidjh , launched an independent taskforce to design a new way of delivering child protection and child wellbeing services.
  • (12) However, the possible added risk in a healthly young woman would not be expected to outweigh all other considerations.
  • (13) Both physician and patient need to determine whether the benefit of prophylaxis outweighs the inconvenience and possible side effects of the medication used.
  • (14) These results will permit sounder judgments of whether the risks of CNS radiotherapy outweigh the known benefits.
  • (15) The short-term nutritional disadvantage of malabsorption is outweighed by the long-term advantage of being parasite-free.
  • (16) Evidence from recent studies suggests that the benefits of aggressive therapy with early thrombolysis may outweigh the risks.
  • (17) The future good resulting from tubal ligation must outweigh the intrinsic harm.
  • (18) Some European officials, including senior British figures, argue that the gains in efficiency achieved by appointing an international envoy with vice regal authority would be outweighed by the Kabul government's further loss of legitimacy.
  • (19) Until further information is known, BCG vaccinations should not be given to symptomatic HIV-infected individuals and should only be given to HIV-infected children who are asymptomatic and who reside in areas where tuberculosis is highly endemic and where the risk of tuberculosis may outweigh the potential complications of BCG immunization.
  • (20) The authors believe that the hazards associated with these implants outweigh their advantages for primary use, but suggest their use for secondary procedures in patients who have had recurrent problems with smooth implants.

Preponderate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To outweigh; to overpower by weight; to exceed in weight; to overbalance.
  • (v. t.) To overpower by stronger or moral power.
  • (v. t.) To cause to prefer; to incline; to decide.
  • (v. i.) To exceed in weight; hence, to incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; figuratively, to exceed in influence, power, etc.; hence; to incline to one side; as, the affirmative side preponderated.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science."
  • (2) of complete tryptic digests of the IRBPs indicate that, although they have in common a similar preponderance of hydrophobic peptides, all three proteins differ extensively in their fine structure.
  • (3) Therefore, it is not necessary to postulate a preponderant extraerythropoietic source to explain the amount of fecal excretion.
  • (4) These findings suggest postsynaptic regulation abnormalities to be preponderant in this condition.
  • (5) Selective migration results in a relative preponderance of CD4 cells in the diffuse infiltrate and it is suggested that this is a mechanism likely to potentiate defensive reaction to Mycobacterium tuberculosis: any deficiency in selective migration may make immunological defences less effective and so contribute to the chronicity of the lesions of tuberculosis.
  • (6) The maximum manifestations were seen in the 21-40 years age group, with male preponderance.
  • (7) The treatment was almost only in those angiopathies successful, in which the fluorescein angiography showed a preponderance of the hyperpermeability over the obliterating process of retinal capillaries.
  • (8) A study of 222 pregnancies, with repeated spontaneous miscarriages confirms the clear preponderance of girls, among the non-premature and well-formed children born, and the efficiency of H.C.G.
  • (9) The patients were mostly middle-aged, and there was a female preponderence.
  • (10) It was found, contrary to expectation, that the prevalence was 2.96% and preponderant symptoms seemed to be worrisome, tense, irritable and depressive.
  • (11) In the first group, there was a slight male preponderance and 75% of the patients presented were under two years of age.
  • (12) A significant preponderance of males had their main interest in biological psychiatry, females in psychotherapy.
  • (13) Recurrent facial paralysis was encountered in 5.4% of patients and was characterized by male preponderance and a tendency to recur more frequently on the same side as the initial paralysis.
  • (14) Our results indicate that, if the mutant can be transposed equally well in the presence of the wild type, then it can be expected to be found in preponderance, whereas elements, such as retroviruses, where the transposing genome and its phenotypic expression are coupled, may be characterized by a low mutant frequency.
  • (15) The erythroleukemia with the preponderance of proerythroblasts had a worse prognosis because many of the individuals did not survive long enough to respond to the therapy initiated.
  • (16) Five amino acids are preponderant (serin, prolin, glycin, alanin and taurin).
  • (17) Unusual features of our series of patients were male preponderance (eight of nine patients), the low incidence of other developmental abnormalities, and, in the patients with the duodenal cysts, an age of 14 years or older at the time of onset of symptoms and diagnosis.
  • (18) In general, there was a male preponderance, with a male:female ratio of 2.2:1 and 7:1 for Saudis and non-Saudis, respectively.
  • (19) While the initial group of 122 arthroplasties was only slightly greater than one-third male, the preponderance of patellar fractures was in males (ten of 12).
  • (20) For the third component of complement, S allele is absolutely preponderant.