What's the difference between predesign and predetermine?
Predesign
Definition:
(v. t.) To design or purpose beforehand; to predetermine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seemingly, proplatelets are fragmented in the lungs at predesignated locations along the proplatelet process.
(2) 96 patients with meningitis due to Neisseria meningitidis and Diplococcus pneumoniae were treated with epicillin or ampicillin according to a predesigned randomization chart.
(3) In addition, "blind" histopathologic evaluation of four predesignate colon locations revealed a dose-related incidence of microscopic preinvasive and invasive colon carcinomas.
(4) The relapse rate after discontinuation of antiepileptic drug treatment was investigated in 146 children with epilepsy, in whom medication was withdrawn according to a predesigned protocol, after a seizure-free period of at least 2 years and normalization of the EEG.
(5) Workers in 22 funeral home franchises were surveyed with a predesigned questionnaire.
(6) Smoking habits of the medical students, both undergraduates and postgraduates, were evaluated by self-administering a predesigned proforma.
(7) Both require a major time commitment to learn and to create custom punctuation files for journals not included in the predesigned punctuation files.
(8) The order-entry pathway allows the research pharmacist to predesign medication labels that are specific to each study and include all required information.
(9) Nevertheless, epithelial cell surface-ECM interaction can be modified in the embryo at particular times to permit predesignated epithelial-mesenchymal transformations, as for example at the primitive streak.
(10) College sophomores and sixth-grade readers were asked to indicate whether or not a predesignated target letter was present in these strings.
(11) A predesigned questionnaire was administered to the mothers to obtain information on age, education, fertility parameters and antenatal care during pregnancy with the index children.
(12) What's different about this new breed of audio-visual entertainer is that what they offer are "custom-branded visuals predesigned to fit specific songs".
(13) The results are interpreted on the basis of a multiple-stage processing model which assumes interaction between stimuli at different levels at different values of t. In experiment 2 the subject's task was to detect the presence or absence of a predesignated form.
(14) At their first prenatal medical appointments, 305 lower socioeconomic status women residing in predesignated lead-hazardous areas of Cincinnati were recruited.
(15) Sequencing of the hgiCIIRM region (carrying predesigned small mutations in the R gene) disclosed three open reading frames (ORFs): one small ORF preceding the methltransferase (MTase)-encoding gene, plus those encoding M.HgiCII (49,620 Da) and R.HgiCII (30,891 Da).
(16) Microbead samples collected after B. subtilis challenge from predesignated depths and locations within the air-fluidized bed at 0.25, 1, 2, 4, 24, and 48 hours were assayed for colony-forming units (CFU) of challenge bacteria by end point dilution and streak-plate assays.
(17) Twenty control subjects were given predesigned exercise programs and told to exercise four times per week for 6 months.
(18) Twenty experimental subjects were given predesigned exercise programs but were monitored by a strength and conditioning specialist for the same period.
(19) Seven building programs were identified as projected, or in predesign or design stages.
(20) In the simultaneous task, two words were not matched as quickly as a single letter and a letter in a predesignated location within a word.
Predetermine
Definition:
(v. t.) To determine (something) beforehand.
(v. t.) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
(v. i.) To determine beforehand.
Example Sentences:
(1) When subjects centered themselves actively, or additionally, contracted trunk flexor or extensor muscles to predetermined levels of activity, no increase in trunk positioning accuracy was found.
(2) Employed method of observation gave quantitative information about the influence of odours on ratios of basic predeterminate activities, insect distribution pattern and their tendency to choose zones with an odour.
(3) The duration of electrophoresis was based on the migration of a marker dye for a predetermined distance.
(4) Ventricular fibrillation was then induced and, after predetermined downtimes ranging from 5 to 60 minutes, thoracotomy was performed, and open-chest bimanual cardiac massage was started.
(5) Anesthetized, intubated kittens were subjected to one of two procedures: (1) insertion of a suction catheter to a predetermined distance and withdrawal with or without the application of suction or (2) insertion of the catheter until resistance was met and withdrawal with or without the application of suction.
(6) Minute ventilation (VE) was kept constant at a predetermined individual level during all treatments.
(7) Thus, it appears that the increased expression of the regulatory MLC2 gene in SHR atrial cells is a predetermined event, which, most likely, participates in functional adaptation of the myocardium in response to pressure overload and subsequent hypertrophy.
(8) Furthermore, the minimal actual treatment differences that can be detected with a reasonable (80%) probability at a predetermined (5%) significance level using a crossover design were estimated for different electrophysiologic variables.
(9) Each student conducted a medication-history interview with one of two simulated patients who presented a predetermined history; interviews were videotaped from behind a one-way mirror.
(10) The %s of fibroblasts, PMN's lymphocytes, plasma cells and macrophages were estimated in a predetermined standardized area close to the apical termination of the junctional epithelium.
(11) Under in vitro inhibition of alpha-glucosidasic activity by glucose in hemolymph of Bee prenymphas, the reaction order (n) (predetermined according to the initial natural glycemia) decreases with increasing inhibitor concentration and the affinity constant between enzyme and substrate undergoes lower variations than in other cases where (n) does not change.
(12) The effect of indomethacin administration on the mortality rate of brain-injured rats was studied in four groups of animals subjected to a level of injury with a fluid-percussion apparatus predetermined to cause 50% mortality (50% lethal dose, or LD50).
(13) To estimate the mean cardiac output, at least two measurements should be made at predetermined points of the ventilatory cycle.
(14) Microliter volumes of cell suspension were placed directly onto a computer-controlled cryostage and cooled to a predetermined subzero temperature.
(15) A genetic procedure is directed for the isolation of chromosomal deletions and duplications with predetermined endpoints.
(16) Specific checklists completed by patients and predetermined scoring protocols yielded reliable data and reduced faculty time.
(17) "It seems that the Metropolitan police, the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] and even the court have all colluded to implement a predetermined decision which was made in Washington.
(18) Various techniques can be used to deposit the dose accurately in a predetermined intracranial volume.
(19) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.
(20) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.