What's the difference between probationary and tentative?
Probationary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to probation; serving for trial.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ninety-nine (66%) responders believe that a surgeon should serve a probationary period (average of 11.6 cases) with review of morbidity, prior to being given full privileges.
(2) One hundred seventeen patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease whose PaO2 in a stable clinical state ranged from 41 to 59 mmHg, were included in a multicentric controlled study on the effects of long-term O2 therapy (LTO), and the results of the 3-month probationary period are given here.
(3) Only it didn't work out that way: the new employer dropped him after a probationary period and the DWP cancelled his partner's benefits, without warning.
(4) The present legislation applies to learner and first year probationary licence holders.
(5) Students would in effect be taking a gamble on probationary degrees from probationary providers,” Marsden said.
(6) Hamilton told the Belfast Telegraph : “He is a good officer, did well in training, did well in his probationary period, was out serving communities doing the job that the public expect of him when he was shot.
(7) Although 72% of schools make allowances in the tenure probationary period for extended leaves of absence, few have developed specific provisions for childbearing or childrearing.
(8) The Home Office consultation paper proposes a new category of "probationary citizen" whose application for a British passport can be speeded up or slowed down depending on the points system.
(9) Among other proposals being considered are a minimum learning period before candidates are permitted to sit their test, increasing the probationary period from two to three years for new drivers' licences to be revoked if they receive six or more penalty points, making the driving test more rigorous, and incentives for young drivers to take up additional training after passing their test.
(10) After insisting that he didn't want to spread fear of the sack, the business secretary nonetheless went on to float quick-fire redundancies, massively extended probationary periods and axing unfair dismissal protection for staff in small firms.
(11) The results of compulsory blood alcohol tests on road casualties have shown that probationary licensed drivers have a threefold increased risk of road accident injury compared to fully licensed drivers and are additionally over-represented in alcohol-related crashes.
(12) These findings led the Victorian Road Trauma Committee to campaign for a zero blood alcohol limit for learner and probationary drivers and motorcyclists.
(13) Time 0 represented the beginning and T3 the end of the probationary period.
(14) If the concern is public safety, employment must thus be based upon average data for a given population, while if the concern is employment equity, the only recourse seems a probationary period of employment.
(15) The latest [of the three matches] is suspended for a probationary period of five years,” it added, referring to the modification.
(16) Christine Jones clearly recalls an experience she had as a 22-year-old police probationary officer.
(17) New providers to offer their own degrees immediately, on a probationary basis (subject to ongoing monitoring and annual reviews).
(18) Regulators stopped short of imposing the harshest sanctions available to them, such as putting the firm on a three-year probationary period and issuing a formal reprimand, even as the list of complaints continued to grow, the documents show.
(19) He said he became increasingly frustrated that the party did not advertise its policy of restricting immigrants' access to welfare benefits and social housing by introducing new probationary citizenships dependent on tests that could take as long as five to seven years.
(20) Of the eight Orthodox Brooklyn Jews on the New York sex offender registry, prosecuted in Brooklyn, four received probationary sentences.
Tentative
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
(n.) An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The pattern of the stressor that causes a change in the pitch can be often identified only tentatively, if there is no additional information.
(2) The tentative diagnosis "neurinoma of the hypoglossal nerve" was confirmed intraoperatively and histologically.
(3) These compounds were tentatively identified as two epimers at C-23 of 3 alpha,7 alpha,12 alpha-trihydroxy-5 beta-cholestano-26,23-lactone, which were probably artifacts formed from the corresponding tetrahydroxycholestanoic acids during the procedures for extraction after hydrolysis.
(4) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
(5) Based on these data, a tentative life cycle for P. carinii in vitro has been proposed.
(6) Investigation of the mechanism of action of the synergistic effect between kanamycin and HA led to the tentative conclusion that potentiation was mediated through an initial alteration of cell permeability by the aminoglycoside antibiotic which permitted accumulation of each of the six HA into the cell, at which point each interacted with pyridoxal phosphate.
(7) Taking this into account, it was tentatively concluded that the mature NDP kinase consists of 147 amino acid residues with a molecular weight of 16,724.
(8) Based on these characteristics, we tentatively ascribe this activity to hepatic very low density lipoprotein, the serum counterpart of which is known to express many immunoregulatory properties.
(9) A tentative scheme of EBV-induced pathogenesis is discussed.
(10) Two new alleles, tentatively designated ORM1*14 and ORM2*13, were identified.
(11) In a previous paper, the main mutagenic compound isolated from the model reaction system D-fructose, DL-alanine and creatinine was tentatively identified as 4,8-DiMeIQx.
(12) Thus it can be tentatively suggested that it is prokallikrein A which is secreted into the pancreatic juice and represents the physiologically important zymogen.
(13) This epithelial cell was tentatively identified as primitive extraembryonic endoderm by its ultrastructural appearance and its possession of cytokeratin intermediate filaments.
(14) Gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric analysis of aglycones released from this conjugate revealed the presence of 3 beta, 5 alpha-tetrahydroaldosterone and an another aglycone, tentatively identified as 21-deoxy-tetrahydroaldosterone.
(15) Iron deficiency has been tentatively excluded as a cause of this anaemia by measurement of serum ferritin levels.
(16) Meiosis is too complex to have arisen at once full blown and a stepwise scheme is proposed for its evolution, where each step is believed to have provided an immediate selective advantage: (1) The first step in this tentative sequence is the development of a haploidization process by means of a rapid series of mitotic non-disjunctions, turned on under conditions where haploidy is favored.
(17) Results of a tentative estimates as to the economic advantages offered by the experimental ASPEP and conditions required to achieve the maximum economic effect by using this system are given.
(18) In 6 cases only a tentative diagnosis of lymphoepitheloid cell malignant lymphoma could be made.
(19) Urine from normal children showed a small acid-labile (at 100 degrees C) peak at the ASA position, which we tentatively assign to genuine ASA.
(20) We tentatively suggest that a preferential loss of contrast sensitivity to horizontal gratings might be due to a functional abnormality in the striate cortex that relatively spares the extrastriate cortex.