What's the difference between plenary and plenum?

Plenary


Definition:

  • (a.) Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority.
  • (n.) Decisive procedure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Xi's plans for the economy may become clearer at an important party plenary meeting in November.
  • (2) Thursday's vote is non-binding and more decisive votes will take place in the environment committee in February and a European parliament plenary session in March.
  • (3) His agreement was only evident in the dying minutes of the last plenary meeting.
  • (4) I'm not finding that at all… That is a matter that may come before the Court in plenary matter soon.” Konrad questions any definitive assertion that Wood was not suffering during the execution.
  • (5) Free resources on Guardian Teacher Network Some top tips for NQTs from positive behaviour specialist Paul Dix More top tips from NQT mentor Eugene Spiers Time-saving device – the Plenary Producer This content is brought to you by Guardian Professional .
  • (6) The teaching procedure comprised lectures, group work, and group discussions, internal television, films, plenary discussions, and debates.
  • (7) After a marathon of tetchy bilateral talks and barbed plenary speeches, the Chinese premier – who refused to enter the negotiations directly – flew back to Beijing without any public comment.
  • (8) He was unmoved by the cheering in the plenary hall for the agreement, saying: "They are thinking like politicians.
  • (9) This plenary sessions reviews the historical evolution and present status of academic emergency medicine in the United States, with predictions for future developments in the specialty.
  • (10) They release reports ahead of major conferences and Kimberley plenary sessions but we are not fazed at all."
  • (11) They determined what further information they required, obtained the information on their own and described it to the oters in plenary sessions.
  • (12) It is not clear whether Deshchytsia and Lavrov will meet separately before the plenary session of the talks begins at 11am.
  • (13) The deal was brokered between China, South Africa, India, Brazil and the US, but late last night it was still unclear whether it would be adopted by all 192 countries in the full plenary session.
  • (14) But I also heard these are resolvable.” Updated at 1.51pm GMT 1.25pm GMT Activist Cindy Baxter has been in touch with me to flag up an incident on Thursday night involving one of the regular pantomime villains of the talks, climate sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton: He took Myanmar's [Burma] seat in Plenary and made an intervention, claiming 16 years with no warming.
  • (15) The theme emerged from Dr Robert Wallerstein's 1987 Montreal Congress Plenary Address, 'One psychoanalysis or many'.
  • (16) Then there was the odd plenary session with everyone present.
  • (17) The accord was formally recognised after a dramatic all-night plenary session, during which the Danish chairman was forced to step aside, a Venezuelan delegate cut her hand, and Britain's climate and energy secretary, Ed Miliband, salvaged the deal just as it appeared on the verge of being rejected.
  • (18) The intermediary between Searle and the State Policy Network, the Guardian reports, was Stephen Moore, an editorial writer with the Wall Street Journal and an occasional speaker at TPPF events, including a January "plenary session" Moore hosted with senators Cruz and Cornyn.
  • (19) Plenary presentations summarized the nature and magnitude of the problem, and work groups were formed to address six issues: public health, epidemiology and surveillance, infection control and environment, laboratory diagnosis and research, therapy, and training and education.
  • (20) What seems clear is that China’s leadership is intent on pursuing many of the market-oriented reforms approved by the Third Plenary in 2013.

Plenum


Definition:

  • (n.) That state in which every part of space is supposed to be full of matter; -- opposed to vacuum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We assembled and evaluated a low-pressure plenum system, based upon the Farman entrainer, which was adaptable to spontaneous, assisted or intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV).
  • (2) Cell Biol., 91:1879, '81; Kasinsky, Mann, Lemke, and Huang: In: Chromosomal Proteins and Gene Expression, Plenum Press, New York, pp.
  • (3) The effect of the physical characteristics of the carrier gas on the output of automatic plenum vaporizers was studied.
  • (4) Airborne transfer of these bacteria was practically eliminated by nursing in single isolation rooms with plenum ventilation.
  • (5) Using S. pyogenes as a tracer organism, an examination of the importance of air-borne infection of clean wounds in the modern, plenum-ventilated operating room has been made.
  • (6) Obrist (Cardiovascular Psychophysiology: A Perspective, Plenum Press, New York, 1981) has recently argued for the superiority of contractility (e.g.
  • (7) The fan in the forced aeration process forced air into a perforated plenum beneath the compost piles.
  • (8) At this velocity the laminar-flow system, in terms of airborne bacteria measured at the wound site, was about 11 times more efficient using horizontal air-flow and 35-90 times more efficient using vertical air-flow than a plenum-ventilated operating-room.
  • (9) pp 121-145, Plenum, New York and London], we wanted to prepare specific oligonucleotides carrying O2- or O4-alkylthymidine residues.
  • (10) A long-forgotten chloroform inhaler, probably the first accurately calibrated, temperature compensatable, plenum vaporizer, is described.
  • (11) Forced-air furnace operation, along with leaky return ducts and plenums, and openings between the substructure and upper floors enhanced mixing of radon-laden substructure air throughout the rest of the building.
  • (12) Plenum, New York), that at least two lineages, from which sensory and autonomic cell types are derived respectively, are segregated early during neural crest ontogeny and have extremely different survival and trophic requirements.
  • (13) ), p. 81, Plenum Press, New York] consists of three domains: surfactant apolar tails, bound water and free water.
  • (14) Raman scattering data are consistent with a mixture of A- and Z-RNAs in 110 mM NaCl buffer at 37 degrees C. Comparison with the spectrum of Z-DNA indicates that there may be different glycosidic torsion angles in Z-RNA and Z-DNA [Tinoco, I., Jr., Cruz, P., Davis, P., Hall, K., Hardin, C. C., Mathies, R. A., Puglisi, J. D., Trulson, M. O., Johnson, W. C., & Neilson, T. (1986) in Structure and Dynamics of RNA, pp 55-68, Plenum, New York].
  • (15) Studies were made in a modified hospital ward containing 19 beds, 14 of them in the open ward, one in a window-ventilated side-room, two in rooms with partial-recirculation ventilators giving 7-10 air changes per hour, and two in self-contained isolation suites with plenum ventilation (20 air changes per hour), ultra-violet (UV) barriers at doorways and airlocks.Preliminary tests with aerosols of tracer bacteria showed that few bacteria entered the plenum or recirculation-ventilated rooms.
  • (16) Plenum Press, New York) is an important assessment instrument for use in the treatment of alcoholism and particularly in relapse prevention.
  • (17) 4): C249-C254, 1979] and mammalian (Molecular Basis of Insulin Action, New York: Plenum, 1985, p. 451-463; Am.
  • (18) Recently we reported preliminary mechanical experiments on freshly skinned rabbit psoas fibers that suggested that while almost all of the cross-bridges are attached to actin in the presence of 4 mM adenyl-5'-yl-imidodiphosphate (AMP-PNP) (ionic strength, 0.13 M), there is an equilibrium between the attached and detached states, so that, in the presence of 4 mM AMP-PNP, fibers should not be able to maintain tension (Schoenberg, et al., 1984, in Contractile Mechanisms in Muscle, Pollack and Sugi, editors., Plenum Publishing Corp., NY).
  • (19) A wound isolator was used to perform 109 total arthroplasties of the hip, while 108 similar operations were done in a plenum ventilated operating room.
  • (20) The event carries symbolic weight because Deng Xiaoping used a third plenum in 1978 to establish his vision of economic reform and opening.

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