What's the difference between presension and pretension?
Presension
Definition:
(n.) Previous perception.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presense of thermolabile COMT in blood of individuals homozygous for COMTL raises the possibility that the locus COMT may represent the structural gene for the human enzyme.
(2) The protein subunit composition of isolated myofibrils of rabbit skeletal muscle is studied by polyacrylamide gel disc-electrophoresis in the presense of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
(3) MIF production of the sensitized lymphocytes cultured in the presense of DNP-hu-Mic generally correlated well with the results of patch testing, but not with the intensity of the skin test.
(4) It was shown that general symptoms accompanying colimastitis were associated with the presense of endotoxin at an elevated level of free histamine in blood circulation.
(5) The electric properties of the bilayer lethitin membranes have been studied in the presense of the antibiotic nigericin.
(6) In the serum all cows the presense of endotoxin was found between the 4th and 9th hour since the infection.
(7) 125I-Antibody U-1 bound to TFR alone in cell extracts when TFR was bound to antibody N-2-Sepharose 4B, but even in the presense of cell extracts it did not bind to TFR bound to antibody W-3-Sepharose 4B.
(8) The diagnosis was proved by the presense of Cryptococcus neoformans in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in 21 of the patients, and in pathological tissue in the remaining 3 patients.
(9) A conclusion is drawn that the presense of single growth factor EGF in enough for maximum stimulation of early reaction of cells on the proliferation stimulus realized at the posttranscriptional level, while both the additional factors and higher concentrations of EGF are necessary for the maximum induction of DNA synthesis.
(10) Duration of the disease, levels of glycosylated hemoglobin, differences in treatment and presense of diabetic nephropathy or retinopathy did not affect the fibrinolytic parameters.
(11) This is confirmed by the protective effect of the substrate (chitin), whose presense practically prevents the oxidation.
(12) A major factor influencing the movement of plutonium-238 from the lungs to blood after the intubation of oxide suspensions is the presense of 0.001 micrometer diameter particles.
(13) Migration of leukocytes from exposed swine was inhibited in the presence of the sensitizing antigens, whereas migration of leukocytes from nonexposed swine was not inhibited in the presense of these same antigens.
(14) Unlike other hydrogenases, this enzyme is rather resistant to O2 and is more thermostable: the inactivation of the enzyme was observed at the temperature above 80 degrees C; Hydrogenase preparation catalyses D2-H2O exchange reaction, H2 evolution from the reduced methyl viologene (MV) and H2 absorption in the presense of MV or benzylviologene but not in the presense of NAD(P), FAD, FMN, azocarmine, methylene blue and ferricyanide.
(15) The presense of SIF may depend upon persistence of virus, and may help to predict the development of chronic hepatitis.
(16) All subjects were given Piroxicam 20 mg mane on three different 14 days treatment periods in the presense of Nizatidine 150 or 300 mg bid and placebo respectively.
(17) One of these groups is buried in the native conformation of the enzyme and is fully titrated in 1.5 M urea when reaction is performed in the presense of 1 mM EDTA.
Pretension
Definition:
(n.) The act of pretending, or laying claim; the act of asserting right or title.
(n.) A claim made, whether true or false; a right alleged or assumed; a holding out the appearance of possessing a certain character; as, pretensions to scholarship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Should Britain start behaving like the small island state it is rather than maintaining the pretensions of being a significant world player?
(2) The most important determinants of the behavior which connect the organism with its informational environment are pretensions to space, time, metabolism and changing of form.
(3) He is wary of pretension, alive to all shades of irony.
(4) The peculiar skill of HTB has been to preserve the confidence of the public-school officer class that it had a duty to lead, but to drop the surrounding pretensions, the idea being that what remains is professionalism and commitment.
(5) Preliminary results suggest that the effect produced by the distraction of ring pairs on interfragmentary micromotion is as significant as pretensioning of the wires.
(6) Using a strain gauged pretension device, a procedure for determining the natural state tension and extension fields in the skin has been developed.
(7) He was a poet of modest pretensions and, although his translation of Julius Caesar was not brilliant, he did, after all, dare to translate Shakespeare.
(8) The track, shamelessly mocking the pretensions of people who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul – a kind of South Korean Beverly Hills – has been called a "force for world peace" by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
(9) Only one party with pretensions to government made the wrong choice; the Conservative Party of Britain.
(10) Leslie (1987b) proposed a new, metarepresentational model for the cognition of pretense.
(11) They were victims of a swatting attack, a malicious form of hoax where special weapons and tactics (Swat) teams are called to a victim’s home under false pretenses, with potentially deadly results.
(12) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
(13) "I love the grunge, the lack of pretension and the simpler way of life," says the Manchester-born DJ and record producer, better known as A Guy Called Gerald, who helped to shape the acid house scene in the 1980s.
(14) Two explanations for this breakdown in the belief-desire reasoning subserving pretense are considered.
(15) To the extent they acknowledged any of this at all, their responses ranged from indulging patently absurd pretenses (this was just a polite request from the White House: what's wrong with that?)
(16) One need not be a supporter of China’s provocative and aggressive actions in the South China Sea to notice that the incident did not involve a Chinese nuclear-capable bomber in the Caribbean, or off the coast of California, where China has no pretensions of establishing a “Chinese lake”.
(17) This, too, is perpetual disaster capitalism, creating havoc and inflicting disaster upon individual souls for corporate greed without even needing the pretense of a crisis for an excuse.
(18) What I don’t like is the pretense and the assumption that someway or another Hackney needs to be grateful for all these up-and-coming industries.
(19) Clegg will insist that the Lib Dems have already replaced Labour as the country's leading "progressive" party and scoff at Tory pretensions to the same label.
(20) In the individual case with a provable causality of trauma on the acceleration of tumor progress a pretension for insurance es legal.