What's the difference between punctuation and separating?

Punctuation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (2) Usually, there is leucoplakia with an erythema and an irregular keratosis or a punctuated one.
  • (3) Their unique point of view comes from diverse social and cultural experiences punctuated by a lifetime of inequities.
  • (4) Whatever social progress that marks her era came mainly from those Labour punctuations – abolition of capital punishment, Race Relations Act, abortion and homosexual law reform, equal pay and sex discrimination acts, civil partnerships, minimum wage, Sure Start, devolution, human rights, nursery education, a vast expansion of universities and more.
  • (5) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
  • (6) It is the first time in the short history of a country that has been repeatedly punctuated by periods of military rule that a former dictator has been held to account for his actions.
  • (7) Calcification, found in 2 of these cases, was characteristically discrete and nodular (calcifications found in chronic pancreatitis are typically diffuse, multiple, and punctuate).
  • (8) Her interventions will punctuate the conversation that follows.
  • (9) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
  • (10) A region upstream of the IPNS structural gene (pcbC) has been sequenced and the transcription initiation sites appear as major and minor pairs on either side of one of the pyrimidine-rich blocks that punctuate the promoter sequence.
  • (11) Then she married, had two more children, moved to Hawaii and lead a regular life working in real estate, punctuated by paparazzi camping out on her lawn whenever Polanski made a move.
  • (12) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
  • (13) After a period on Radio Luxembourg he was offered the freelance job of disc jockey on the radio programme Housewives' Choice, on which Jacobs had to play record requests and punctuate them with anodyne chat.
  • (14) As the story progresses, we follow our lunkhead hero Johnny Rico (Casper Van Dien) on his steps up the military ladder, and we find out, through deeply satirical propaganda adverts that punctuate the action, that this war might not be so just and that the humans we've been cheering are from a fascist society.
  • (15) In a year that will be punctuated by sober reflection and a series of commemorative occasions, it is tempting to assume a certain inevitability to events, especially when looking at them through the prism of hindsight.
  • (16) On Wembley Way the party atmosphere had been briefly punctuated by a skirmish between rival fans.
  • (17) We evaluate ten components, each of one is pointed between 0 and two, then overall incontinence punctuation (I.P.)
  • (18) When quiescent normal cells were PCNA-stained at 3 h after 100 microM CDDP treatment for 1 h, almost all nuclei of the cells showed a punctuated staining pattern.
  • (19) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
  • (20) Yet Lemieux was unmistakably getting the worst of the exchanges and was finally dropped by a three-punch sequence punctuated by a left to the body late in the round.

Separating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Separate
  • (a.) Designed or employed to separate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
  • (2) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (3) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (4) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (5) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (6) Completeness of isolation of the coronary and systemic circulations was shown by the marked difference in appearance times between the reflex hypotensive responses from catecholamine injections into the isolated coronary circulation and the direct hypertensive response from a similar injection when the circulations were connected as well as by the marked difference between the pressure pulses recorded simultaneously on both sides of the aortic balloon separating the two circulations.4.
  • (7) In the present study, respirometric quotients, the ratio of oral air volume expended to total volume expended, were obtained using separate but simultaneous productions of oral and nasal airflow.
  • (8) The sensitivity of an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test (screening test) for the detection of antibodies to cytomegalovirus (CMV) was examined by using 128 serum specimens and quaternary aminoethyl (QAE)-Sephadex A50 column chromatography to separate IgM from IgG class antibodies.
  • (9) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (10) The individual classes of drugs are first treated separately to highlight specific aspects of their quantification, and this is followed by an overview of those methods permitting the concomitant analysis of two or more antiepileptic compounds.
  • (11) The ADAM derivative of carnitine was separated from decomposition products of the reagent and related compounds such as amino acid derivatives on a silica gel column eluted with methanol-5% aqueous SDS-phosphoric acid (990:10:1).
  • (12) Each patient contributed only once to each phase (105 in phase 1, 107 in phase 2), but some entered both phases on separate occasions.
  • (13) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
  • (14) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (15) Densitometric analysis of myofibrillar proteins separated with sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that troponin I and troponin T were degraded during 60 minutes of CGI.
  • (16) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (17) Sephadex LH-20 column chromatography was used for the separation of the steroid prior to assay.
  • (18) The deletions and substitutions appear to occur in separate molecules.
  • (19) The canine system allows quantitative separation of native heme containing alpha and beta chains which recombine to for tetrameric hemoglobin with normal functional properties (n = 2.17).
  • (20) Prothrombin isolation on DEAE Sephadex failed to separate the abnormal population (prothrombin Clamart) from the normal one.