What's the difference between populace and populous?

Populace


Definition:

  • (n.) The common people; the vulgar; the multitude, -- comprehending all persons not distinguished by rank, office, education, or profession.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
  • (2) There can be little doubt that the populace, whose taxes should be used appropriately, would support such a move.
  • (3) "It was part of his religion of nothing but the best – not for the elitist connoisseur but nothing but the best for the whole populace."
  • (4) The populace chose to remain, wrongly believing the world would comply with legally binding obligations to protect them.
  • (5) Interestingly, also in 400 MS patients examined, hyperuricaemia or gout, which are widespread among the populace, were not found in a single case.
  • (6) Such decisions are likely to either under- or over-define the requirements and standards for food additives and other chemicals which are important to the well-being of the populace.
  • (7) We conclude that the primary MS affection (PMSA) is a single, widespread infectious disease whose acquisition in virgin populations follows two years of exposure starting between age 11 and 45, which then produces clinical neurologic MS (CNMS) in only a small proportion of the affected after an incubation period of 6 (virgin populace) or 12 (endemic areas) years, and which is transmissible only during the systemic PMSA phase which ends by age 27 or younger.
  • (8) The collective punishment of a populace has its own grim legacy in western historical memory.
  • (9) The regime is a source of violence, but people go there to avoid the violence.” But the manpower shortage remains the Assad regime’s achilles heel – it could never really defeat the country’s demographics, maintaining Alawite rule over an overwhelmingly Sunni populace, and it has faced significant challenges mobilising foot soldiers to fight its war.
  • (10) Over the course of these long transits of time and geography, the purpose of ideas and objects (like that of the gold coin in India) was frequently changed, lassoed by the local populace for their own use.
  • (11) The expulsion of the disgraced Bo Xilai from the party and, yesterday, from parliament, for, among other offences, corruption, is hardly likely to convince a sceptical populace that China's leaders are ready to clean up their act.
  • (12) Active modification of risk factors in the general populace would include using such methods as screening, education, and mass-media campaigns.
  • (13) Remember Dickens' contemporaries digested the books in shorter episodes – produced in instalments, discussed and relished by the populace as a kind of Victorian soap opera.
  • (14) A drug-oriented society promotes drug treatment of illness but responds with restrictive legislation and mores when faced with serious drug abuse by the populace.
  • (15) It is proposing to "support a set of measures" to develop digital audio broadcasting – DAB – radio, including extending its national multiplex beyond 90% of the UK populace and "initiating a stronger marketing effort co-ordinated across the industry".
  • (16) The government doesn’t drag people off the streets, but the populace acts as if it could be a possibility.
  • (17) The jury had been picked from the local populace, many of whom earned their living from the prison or had families and friends that worked there; all were white.
  • (18) In Dodoma Region of Tanzania, the populace consumes large numbers of ground nuts which are believed to predispose to liver cancer.
  • (19) Concern over potential eye injury from sunlight prompted this study to see if the levels of sunlight in Christchurch posed a particular risk to our population's eyes, whether the populace was aware of any risk and whether effective sunglasses were freely available to the public.
  • (20) The military incursion is welcomed by many of the populace.

Populous


Definition:

  • (a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.
  • (a.) Popular; famous.
  • (a.) Common; vulgar.
  • (a.) Numerous; in large number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (2) Injection of resistant mice with Salmonella typhimurium did not result in the induction of a population of macrophages that expressed I-A continuously.
  • (3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (4) Models able to describe the events of cellular growth and division and the dynamics of cell populations are useful for the understanding of functional control mechanisms and for the theoretical support for automated analysis of flow cytometric data and of cell volume distributions.
  • (5) In some cervical nodes, a few follicles, lymphocyte clusters, and a well-developed plasmocyte population were also present.
  • (6) The constitution of chromosomes in the two plasmacytomas remained remarkably stable in their homogeneous modal population.
  • (7) For the first time it was organized on the basis of population.
  • (8) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (9) However, ticks, which failed to finish their feeding and represent a disproportionately great part of the whole parasite's population, die together with them and the parasitic system quickly restores its stability.
  • (10) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (11) The populations of Asia-Oceania have some features of the class II RFLPs in common, which are distinctly different from Caucasoids.
  • (12) The purpose of the present study was to report on remaining teeth and periodontal conditions in a population of 200 adolescent and adult Vietnamese refugees.
  • (13) No significant change occurred in the bacterial population of our hospital unit during the period of the study (more than 3 years).
  • (14) 119 representatives of this population were checked in their sexual contacts; of these, 13 persons proved to be infected with HIV.
  • (15) Two small populations of GLY + neurons were observed outside of the named nuclei of the SOC; one was located dorsal to the LSO, near its dorsal hilus, and the other was identified near the medial pole of the LSO.
  • (16) In addition to the aqueduct other associated inner ear anomalies have been identified in 60% of this population including: enlarged vestibule (14); enlarged vestibule and lateral semicircular canal (7); enlarged vestibule and hypoplastic cochlea (4); and hypoplastic cochlea (4).
  • (17) Wages for the population as a whole are £1,600 a year worse off than five years ago.
  • (18) The direct monocyte source is not sufficient to insure the stability of this population.
  • (19) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (20) We therefore enumerated the percentage of Leu2a+ cells as well as the occurrence of HLA-DR activation markers within this population.