What's the difference between prepose and propose?

Prepose


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To place or set before; to prefix.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, we prepose that H-kininogen provides the binding site for plasma prekallikrein on circulating neutrophils.
  • (2) Insufficient quantitative information exists about the properties of neurons, synapses, and connectivity patterns in any cortical neuronal network to conclude that the three preposed requirements are necessary and sufficient general conditions for epileptiform activity.
  • (3) Such nuclei include the lateral cuneate nucleus, the nucleus prepositis hypoglossi, the nucleus reticularis lateralis, the nucleus raphe obscurus, the paramedian reticular nucleus, the nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis, and the medial vestibular nucleus.
  • (4) The oldest children (like the adults) were more likely to prepose when clauses than were younger children, a finding which suggests that with increasing awareness of the information needs of the listener, children begin to use preposed adverbial clauses as information 'guideposts'.
  • (5) Analysis of the adult data confirmed a preference for preposed over postposed when clauses and supported the notion of a continuum of simultaneity for when, while and as.
  • (6) Most commonly it ends up there when it introduces an explanation that has been preposed in front of a main clause, as in: "Because you're mine, I walk the line."

Propose


Definition:

  • (v.) To set forth.
  • (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance, or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
  • (v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
  • (v. i.) To speak; to converse.
  • (v. i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
  • (v. i.) To offer one's self in marriage.
  • (n.) Talk; discourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We propose that this dependence on coexpression reflects the association between the LTA::STa hybrids and LTB subunits.
  • (2) Experiments are proposed by which to test these and related hypotheses.
  • (3) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (4) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (5) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
  • (6) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (7) A sensitive color reaction after two-dimensional TLC described earlier for zeranol determination in veal samples is proposed for the detection of the zeranol metabolite zearalanone and the mycotoxin zearalenone.
  • (8) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
  • (9) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
  • (10) Gardner proposed that anomalies at the exit of the fourth ventricle produce a communicating syringomyelia.
  • (11) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (12) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (13) The schedule proposed is easy to use and reproducible.
  • (14) The proposed method appears to offer a more consistently accurate means of measuring EDV than previously suggested ultrasound methods.
  • (15) We propose that the results mainly reflect a variable local impact of infection control and that a much more restrictive use of IUTCs is possible in many wards.
  • (16) It is proposed that in A. brasilense, the PII protein and glutamine synthetase are involved in a post-translational modification of NifA.
  • (17) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (18) We propose that during the detergent solubilization the acidic phospholipids protect the transport systems against denaturation by preventing delipidation.
  • (19) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
  • (20) We propose that, for a GC base pair in B conformation, there are two amino proton exchangeable states--a cytosine amino proton exchangeable state and a guanine amino proton exchangeable state; both require the disruption of only the corresponding interbase H bond.

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