What's the difference between pervade and suffuse?

Pervade


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.
  • (v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is totally unclear to them how they can get the skills needed for a successful career.” The report, Overlooked and Left Behind, argues that “a culture of inequality between vocational and academic routes to work” pervades the education system.
  • (2) The microfilaments are strands of polymerized actin which form a network that pervades the neutrophil cytoplasm.
  • (3) Building Britain's Future startlingly admits: "A sense of unfairness pervades modern contemporary Britain.
  • (4) There is good reason to hope that the speculative nature which at this time pervades our bridging efforts will eventually be substituted by unequivocal facts and deductions.
  • (5) The chief executive of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, Paul Murphy, said the growing culture of secrecy pervading the government’s approach was disturbing.
  • (6) These structures pervade the cellular cords and rosette-like structures formed by immature type II pinealocytes.
  • (7) Examination of C. jejuni-colonized crypts by transmission electron microscopy revealed that the campylobacters freely pervaded the lumina of crypts without attachment to crypt microvilli.
  • (8) If they do, my hunch is that it's because their intuitions haven't kept pace with the extent that mobile technology has pervaded our lives, or with the scale of the data that outfits such as the NSA have been accumulating.
  • (9) Was justice itself falling prey to the menacing mood of rightwing fanaticism that has pervaded the country with the inexorable rise of neo-Nazi Golden Dawn?
  • (10) A debate about surveillance powers in the internet age is not best advanced by that all-pervading slogan: “nothing to hide, nothing to fear.” We cannot have a risk-free society, and it is too much to expect of the agencies or the law to deliver it.
  • (11) These strands form a three-dimensional lattice or mesh that pervades all parts of the cytoplasm.
  • (12) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
  • (13) Quackery is currently a widespread problem that pervades all aspects of healthcare, including the treatment of learning disorders.
  • (14) Shock-induced drive was assumed to equally pervade all four situations; stimulus contiguity ('pairing') was present only in the DP and DPC tests; and the avoidance 'contingency' was present only in the DC and DPC paradigms.
  • (15) The enduring ambiguity pervades more the psychiatrist than the legal profession.
  • (16) The power and independence of the department chairmen and the absolute dependence on research productivity as the criterion for advancement in the academic hierarchy are pervading influences in Swedish dental education.
  • (17) The party conference season has done little to lift the gloom pervading the public sector, as politicians offer little to cheer staff worried about services, jobs and pensions.
  • (18) Nonetheless, the change in the doctor-patient relationship might merely reflect the growing indifference to people as individuals that seems to pervade our society in all service-related areas.
  • (19) But the message that pervades the paper is that once one is a nurse, one is a nurse forever.
  • (20) The upper-floor restaurants left a lot to be desired, even as the smell pervaded surrounding departments.

Suffuse


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Alkalosis of the Hepes suffusate shortened the AP; but equivalent alkalosis of the K-R suffusate prolonged the AP as did a reduction of [CaCl2] in Hepes suffusate from 3.0 to 1.5 mM at pH 7.43.
  • (2) A similar strain difference was not observed with topical suffusion.
  • (3) Fetal cardiovascular (CVS) changes, forelimb movements (FM) and rates of habituation to repeated stimulation, with suffusions of cold saline over the skin, were measured in 12 chronically catheterized fetal sheep aged 130-145 days.
  • (4) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
  • (5) Tc-99m albumin isotopic cisternography at the L5-S1 level was performed and clearly depicted a functional CSF leak through the dura at the L2-L3 level and CSF suffusion along several rachidian roots.
  • (6) Myocytes were suffused with increasing concentrations of halocarbon added as a 0.2% solution of dimethyl sulfoxide to M199 containing 1.8 mM Ca and 5% serum.
  • (7) Clinical disturbances bound to ischemic phenomenons by cerebral vasospasm were observed in only 3 patients--all of them older than 17--in who a CT scan had showed a conspicuous cisternal blood suffusion.
  • (8) In tubules perfused with 2 mM ethylene glycol-bis(beta-aminoethyl ether)-N,N,N',N'-tetraacetic acid to eliminate luminal Ca, but suffused with 1.8 or 2.0 mM Ca, 8-BrcAMP increased [Ca2+]i (though less so than with Ca in the lumen), implying Ca entry across basolateral cell membranes.
  • (9) While his vision of a future Russia has often been vaguely shaped – as a nebulous "vast metaphysical Canada" – it has been suffused with a strong strand of sometimes xenophobic nationalism.
  • (10) Glutamine suffusion attenuated the flow impairment by dilation of previllus arterioles but to a lesser degree than that observed in glucose-treated animals.
  • (11) We must have a debate which will be suffused with a deep pride at our achievements in office.
  • (12) In contrast to La La Land’s romantic score, which suffused the ceremony, speaker after speaker took swipes at Trump’s crackdown on refugees and immigrants, making it one of the most politically tinged Oscars in memory.
  • (13) Other features include upper body edema and ruddiness or cyanosis, distended neck veins, proptosis, and conjunctival suffusion.
  • (14) He sat suffused with grey pallor, lips pursed, staring straight ahead as he listened to his defence counsel, William Coker QC, describe his genuine remorse.
  • (15) Autopsy visualized plurifocal haematic suffusions, typical for an asphyxial status.
  • (16) In normal vessels, reduced D and Vc, relative to peak values, were noted after 40 min suffusion with BK.
  • (17) Furthermore, the reactive hyperemia was not altered by suffusion of 50 microM hydroquinone or 0.2 mM NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, inhibitors of the dilation to acetylcholine mediated by the endothelium-derived relaxing factor.
  • (18) To quantify the integrated effects of local and central control mechanisms through tissue metabolites and the autonomic nervous system on the peripheral vascular beds, microcirculatory responses to the carotid sinus nerve stimulation at various levels of ambient oxygen tension (PO2) were measured in the rabbit tenuissimus muscle suffused with oxygenated Tyrode solution, using a microscope-TV system.
  • (19) During suffusion in situ with control PSS, VSM of both small veins and arteries in older (but not younger)SHR were less polarized than in WKY.
  • (20) Experimental materials are presented to the microvessels via intraarterial injection or suffusion through the chamber.