What's the difference between participant and sweepstake?

Participant


Definition:

  • (a.) Sharing; participating; having a share of part.
  • (n.) A participator; a partaker.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
  • (2) Sperm specimens were obtained from 13 men participating in our in vitro fertilization program.
  • (3) These results suggest the presence of a new antigen-antibody system for another human type C retrovirus related antigens(s) and a participation of retrovirus in autoimmune diseases.
  • (4) Participants (n=165) entering a week-long outpatient education program completed a protocol measuring self-care patterns, glycosylated hemoglobin levels, and emotional well-being.
  • (5) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (6) The program met with continued support and enthusiasm from nurse administrators, nursing unit managers, clinical educators, ward staff and course participants.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (9) The presence of CR-related activity suggests that SpoV may participate in the CR motor output pathway, and may also provide CR-related information to cerebellum.
  • (10) The high participation percentage also shows that the prerequisite of screening, namely, a positive attitude on the part of the population, was as well fulfilled in the present project.
  • (11) Participants were selected from existing classes forming a weight training, aerobic exercise and activity control group.
  • (12) Furthermore, there is experimental evidence for C5a participation in thromboxane production.
  • (13) An attempt was made to elucidate possible participation of low molecular weight nuclear RNA's (LMWN RNA's) in the transcription process.
  • (14) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (15) All staff can participate in the plan but payouts for directors are capped at £3,000.
  • (16) To evaluate the first full year of operation of the rural registrar scheme by comparing the educational activities undertaken by the participating rural general practitioners with those undertaken in the previous year.
  • (17) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
  • (18) The authors studied 84 randomly selected participants who live in retirement communities to discover factors leading to successful completion of a wellness enhancing program.
  • (19) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (20) Here's Dominic's full story: US unemployment rate drops to lowest level in six years as 288,000 jobs added Michael McKee (@mckonomy) BNP economists say jobless rate would have been 6.8% if not for drop in participation rate May 2, 2014 2.20pm BST ING's Rob Carnell is also struck by the "extraordinary weakness" of US wage growth .

Sweepstake


Definition:

  • (n.) A winning of all the stakes or prizes.
  • (n.) A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Sun has scrapped a World Cup sweepstake that involved 32 well-known football blogs, after a number of the bloggers criticised the newspaper for not gaining permission to be used in the promotion.
  • (2) "Will you be keeping a sweepstake count of the Scotland-v-France references that will crop up?"
  • (3) My auntie Nora combined gambling on the Irish sweepstakes with teaching me my catechism for my first Holy Communion.
  • (4) It appears that the first major domino might have finally fallen in the NBA’s free-agency sweepstakes.
  • (5) 10.18am GMT 90min: If you had two minutes of extra time in the office sweepstake you just won the prize.
  • (6) He went on to establish Guess2Give as an online fundraising platform whose users set up sweepstakes to fundraise.
  • (7) Debate over the sweepstake has been raging on the Pitch Invasion website , which has provided a list of the blogs it believes did not give permission to the Sun.
  • (8) Jeter asks: “Why doesn’t he just shut up?” Rodriguez helped create a new phrase in Mets lore – “24 plus one” – which was the verbiage used by then Mets GM Steve Phillips to describe why the team had opted out of the Rodriguez free-agent sweepstakes in 2000.
  • (9) The online sweepstake, which aimed to promote the Sun's iPhone app, was meant to be a "bit of friendly competition between the best football blogs during the World Cup".
  • (10) (Full disclosure: I plumped for +0.2% in the office sweepstake).
  • (11) Bloggers were sent an email saying their sites were to be used in the sweepstake and would receive lots of traffic through the association.
  • (12) Guess2Give.com Founder Mark Chandler previously worked at a large cancer charity and came up with the ideas for Guess2Give when he ran a successful fundraising sweepstake on his triathlon time, rather than just asking for sponsorship.
  • (13) Having secured an urgent question on the matter, Yvette Cooper bounced to her feet with all the confidence of someone who had just drawn Brazil in the shadow cabinet World Cup sweepstake.
  • (14) 17 min: "I am torn, as I have a Kiwi girlfriend, but also Paraguay in the office sweepstake," writes Michael Hunt (yes, Mike Hunt, tee-hee, no need to email in about it).
  • (15) Until recently the smart money was on a contraction (the sweepstake in our office runs from 0 down to -0.5%) but there was talk yesterday that it could be positive.
  • (16) "I do, however, have France in the sweepstake at work," he writes, "so I got myself into the spirit of things today by having some brie and grapes at lunch time.
  • (17) The £18 in the Guardian and Observer Sport sweepstake has been split by Observer production editor Philip Cornwall and Big Website Big Cheese James Dart, who scored nine points each.
  • (18) As ever, tickets to attend the gigs are being distributed via a mixture of an online sweepstake and competitions run by media partners, from newspapers and radio stations to Twitter and Shazam.
  • (19) But I have to say, the current shadow chancellor has outperformed him in the fiscal incontinence sweepstakes.
  • (20) Express newspapers chief Richard Desmond has been urged to increase the amount of cash his new "health lottery", launched on Tuesday, will raise for good causes after the sweepstake was branded a "disgraceful development" by a leading charity figure.

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