What's the difference between prospect and prospector?
Prospect
Definition:
(v.) That which is embraced by eye in vision; the region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
(v.) Especially, a picturesque or widely extended view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
(v.) A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
(v.) Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
(v.) The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation; as, a prospect of the future state.
(v.) That which is hoped for; ground for hope or expectation; expectation; probable result; as, the prospect of success.
(v. t.) To look over; to explore or examine for something; as, to prospect a district for gold.
(v. i.) To make a search; to seek; to explore, as for mines or the like; as, to prospect for gold.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(2) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(3) Focusing on two prospective payment systems that operated concurrently in New Jersey, this study employs the hospital department as the unit of analysis and compares the effects of the all-payer DRG system with those of the SHARE program on hospitals.
(4) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
(5) Several dimensions of the outcome of 86 schizophrenic patients were recorded 1 year after discharge from inpatient index-treatment to complete a prospective study concerning the course of illness (rehospitalization, symptoms, employment and social contacts).
(6) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(7) A prospective randomized trial was conducted at Srinagarind and Khon Kaen hospitals.
(8) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(9) All 80 adult cardiac surgery patients undergoing a cardiac operation at one institution during the final quarter of 1983 were included in this prospective study.
(10) A prospective randomized trial involving 64 patients with bleeding peptic ulcers was performed to assess the efficacy of two modalities of injection therapy.
(11) The relationship between technique of obtaining Papanicolaou smears, presence of endocervical cells, and rate of cervical neoplasia was studied by comparing an endocervical and ectocervical nylon brush (Bayne brush), Ayre spatula plus endocervical brush, and spatula plus cotton-tipped swab in a randomized, prospective trial involving 11,061 patients.
(12) A 4-year prospective study was carried out on 53 chronically mentally ill patients living in a differentiated complementary residential complex.
(13) We are now conducting prospective clinical trials with one service using the algorithm and the others acting as the control group.
(14) Thirty-seven patients with retinoblastoma were evaluated prospectively by clinical examination, lumbar puncture, and CT.
(15) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(16) In the first of two phases of this study, we established criteria for a prospective screening study.
(17) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(18) In an open, prospectively randomised, parallel group study, 124 patients with a history of constipation for more than three weeks were treated with either 15 ml bd of lactulose (increasing to 60 ml daily if necessary) or one sachet bd of ispaghula.
(19) We performed a prospective study on 68 eyes of 68 patients to compare the vertical cup-disk ratio obtained with the video-ophthalmograph to that obtained with manual analysis of black-and-white stereoscopic photographs.
(20) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.
Prospector
Definition:
(n.) One who prospects; especially, one who explores a region for minerals and precious metals.
Example Sentences:
(1) The village is situated inside a nature reserve in the Ituri rainforest, an area covering 5,000 square miles that is supposed to be off limits to hunters and gold prospectors.
(2) Or if there are, they are meaningless and entirely ineffective; they might, in fact, just as well not be lying about at all until the prospector - the journalist - puts them into relation with other facts: presents them in other words.
(3) Lord Browne, the former chief executive of BP and now chairman of Cuadrilla, one of the UK's main shale prospectors, is an adviser to the government.
(4) Previous probes have included Lunar Prospector, which studied the moon's geology; Stardust, which returned a sample of material scooped from a comet's tail; and Mars Pathfinder, which deployed a tiny motorised robot vehicle on the Red Planet in 1997.
(5) Those irate British nimbys, along with the green groups who want to leave fossil fuels in the ground, are quite capable of making life miserable for the shale prospectors.
(6) It was a separate award to the AMEC awards, which include a media award and a prospector award,” an AMEC spokeswoman told Guardian Australia.
(7) Steve McIntyre, a Canadian former minerals prospector and climate sceptic who has analysed the data, suggests that one tree, known as YAD06, could be " the most influential tree in the world ".
(8) Folks say there’s a cabin of an old-time gold prospector up there still exactly as he left it.
(9) High risk groups included persons of such professions as forestry workers, truck and tractor drivers, oil workers and prospectors, livestock breeders, builders.
(10) Prospectors (28%) like success, ambition, seek the esteem of others and if they think a party can help them help themselves, they are on board.
(11) Palm oil risk to Africa as prospectors eye swaths of land Read more That’s all supposing the company can deliver, of course.
(12) The results of the study underline the importance of making available more prospectors in the district of Dresden to meet the expanding tasks of the clinically active pathologist in autopsy and biopsy diagnostic efforts.
(13) Born Jeane Jordan, in Oklahoma, she was the daughter of an itinerant and unsuccessful oil prospector.
(14) With so many prospectors on the lookout for so long, you're unlikely to find gem-quality shards of the blue-green stone just lying around, but the hills are a worthy destination on their own for the spectacular high-desert hiking and wild west lore.
(15) If he does win, it will be painful for bookmakers as three-quarters of all money backed has been for the writer who has been shortlisted three times (Flaubert's Parrot, England, England and Arthur and George) but never won.The wild card on the list is DeWitt, who tells the story of Charlie and Eli Sisters, two assassins who work for the shadowy "Commodore", and who travel from Oregon to California on the trail of a prospector called Hermann Kermit Warm.
(16) Instead, they have used psychological profiling around values, dividing the electorate into three “tribes”: pioneers, motivated by ethics and inner fulfilment, prospectors, motivated by “getting on”, and settlers, a socially conservative group motivated by security and safety.
(17) "Virunga's rich natural resources are for the benefit of the Congolese people, not for foreign oil prospectors to drain away.
(18) In 1896, after pair of prospectors discovered gold along a tributary of the Klondike River, an estimated 100,000 Americans and Canadians tried to climb over the Coast mountains of Alaska and British Columbia and boat down the Yukon river in an effort to find a fortune of their own.
(19) "The question is which politician can harness the Pioneer, the Prospector and the Settler in a convincing way."
(20) And Gammell may soon also be one of Britain's most successful oil prospectors, striking it rich in regions where the world's largest energy companies found dry rock.