What's the difference between plentiful and replete?

Plentiful


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water.
  • (a.) Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful.
  • (a.) Lavish; profuse; prodigal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But last year Rosi Santoni, one of the relatives who helped look after her, said she had plenty of family to care for her and had many friends in the town.
  • (2) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (3) There are, however, plenty of arguments to be made about the Slim Reaper's supporting cast.
  • (4) In the nerve fibre running between the sensory cells there are plenty of mitochondria but few clear vesicles and neurofilaments.
  • (5) But there is plenty here that thrills, from grand plans for offshore power production to the micro-engineeering of intelligent load management.
  • (6) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (7) Whilst a charity may seem to have plenty of cash to meet its general liabilities, if the money is in the form of restricted funds it can only be used with permission of the donor or the Charity Commission .
  • (8) "If you don't want my gear [on TV], I've got plenty of other places to take it," Jamie Oliver told advertisers last autumn, brazenly and a tad cheekily, at a Channel 4 "upfront" preview presentation of its 2014 schedule.
  • (9) Plenty of people felt embarrassed, upset, outraged or betrayed by the Goncourts' record of things they had said or had said about them.
  • (10) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
  • (11) And there is plenty of beauty in London - seeing Parliament Square in the snow, the dome of St Paul's rising above the City, the simple perfection of a Georgian terrace or the quietly elegant streets of Mayfair.
  • (12) There are plenty of creative, lawyerly brains in Brussels: with goodwill, they might just find a way through.
  • (13) After spending a good five minutes sketching out the vast scale of the economic and social challenge facing the town, Wright is careful to stress that Hartlepool still has plenty to fuel its inherent optimism.
  • (14) Yes, we can assign more or less responsibility – I blame Austria-Hungary and Germany for their mad determination to destroy Serbia knowing that a general war might result – but there is still plenty of room for disagreement.
  • (15) But Zhang described $9m of that as legitimate profit from an iron-ore deal, adding: "There are plenty of reasons to argue against the rest of the amount."
  • (16) Some consumers are aware we are earning so little, but there are plenty who really don’t care as long as it’s cheap John has calculated that he often takes home as little as £5.75 an hour, and rarely earns above the national minimum wage of £7.50.
  • (17) There have been plenty of calls for the European Central Bank to authorise a programme of quantitative easing when it meets this week, and the ECB president, Mario Draghi, appeared to be responding in a recent speech in the US, only to row back.
  • (18) Although the crude oil rally has already started at the end of last month when the Opec first announced the deal, I think there is plenty of fuel left in this rally,” he said.
  • (19) One of his principal worries is up front, where his main man is Michal Duris, who has scored plenty of goals for Viktoria Plzen in the Czech league this season but it is easy to add the caveat that it is only the Czech league.
  • (20) From Frances O'Grady , the TUC general secretary While it's good news that unemployment is still falling and more jobs are being created, there is still plenty to be worried about.

Replete


Definition:

  • (a.) Filled again; completely filled; full; charged; abounding.
  • (v. t.) To fill completely, or to satiety.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Injection of 0.001 Goldblatt u. renin into the angiotensin-sensitive region causes the water-replete rat to drink.
  • (2) The duodenal mucosa of genotypically normal iron replete and iron deficient mice and mice with sex-linked (sla) and microcytic anemias (mk) was examined for the presence of iron-binding proteins.
  • (3) Accordingly, we repleted vitamin D-depleted rats with subcutaneous injections of 2600, 520, and 130 pmoles of cholecalciferol (D3), 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (25(OH)D3), and 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1,25(OH)2D3), respectively, for up to 3 weeks.
  • (4) Since this protein is present in growing teeth, we have examined its synthesis in teeth from vitamin D-replete and -deplete rats by Western blotting and immunocytochemistry with an antiserum to CaBP 28 K purified from rat kidney.
  • (5) It was found to remain intact until at least 11, 30 and 10 days after repletion in larvae, nymphs and females, respectively.
  • (6) Gastroduodenal investigation must of course be comprised of pictures during collapse, semi-collapse and repletion of the entire duodenal outline; once out of every two times, one has to recourse to intravenous duodenography which has become a routine investigation.
  • (7) The responses to Ca depletion and repletion, Na depletion and repletion, and 1 microM ryanodine indicate that the contribution of Ca to contraction from the slow pool is much greater in the rat than in the rabbit and that its cellular locus is probably the sarcoplasmic reticulum.
  • (8) Uptake (30 min in Na(+)-free buffer) of histidine, kynurenine, leucine, tyrosine, and a model substrate for System L transport was 70-150% greater in Gln-replete cultures.
  • (9) Vitamin A repletion significantly reverses retinal degeneration from the Z-A- state even in the presence of moderate zinc deficiency.
  • (10) The same measurements were also made in two of the dogs during potassium repletion.
  • (11) Because of the variable responses of plasma ferritin concentration to iron depletion and repletion and the lack of relationship between plasma and liver ferritin concentrations, it is concluded that plasma ferritin concentration is not a good indicator of iron status in rats.
  • (12) These increased activities were reduced to those of folate-replete cells by co-culture of folate-deficient cells with thymidine.
  • (13) Nutritional repletion also significantly increased serum C(3), C(4) and C(3)PA concentrations.
  • (14) His home, an hour from Athens, is a mansion replete with large statues, candelabras, paintings on every wall in every room and many images of Jesus.
  • (15) Ca2+ repletion following Ca2+-free superfusion resulted in a rapid but small increase in resting tension that was not followed by contracture, nor was it associated with a significant increase in [3H]IPs accumulations.
  • (16) Although no changes could be detected in the conventional B lymphocyte population, the peritoneum was replete with B cells characteristic of the Ly-1 lineage.
  • (17) To examine whether the concentration gradient of glutamine (Gln) drives concentrative Na(+)-independent uptake of neutral amino acids (NAA) in mouse cerebral astrocytes, uptake was compared in "Gln-depleted" and "Gln-replete" cultures.
  • (18) We have been able to quantitate both of these parameters under a variety of experimental conditions using a unique essential fatty acid-deficient mouse fibrosarcoma cell line (EFD-1), which when repleted with arachidonate, produces prostaglandin E2 (PGE2).
  • (19) At exhaustion in these hearts %I increased significantly in response to a decrease in G. These findings suggest that glycogen repletion occurs in normal heart as a result of the combined increases in GS %I and G-6-P levels present at the cessation of work.
  • (20) The effects were reversed after 8 weeks of repletion.