What's the difference between quartermaster and storage?

Quartermaster


Definition:

  • (n.) An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
  • (n.) A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A quartermaster for the organisation in Belfast, Molloy is said to have confessed to having been an informer for the British for three years, disclosing the location of arms dumps and possibly providing information in 1973 that led to the arrest of 16 leading members, including Adams and Hughes.
  • (2) "You were the trained chemist and quartermaster and you were in direct communication with Pakistan," the judge said.
  • (3) Assad Sarwar Former postman Sarwar, 29 was said by the prosecution to be the quartermaster of the plot, purchasing and storing bomb-making materials.
  • (4) But they also left audiences wondering quite why producers had bothered to introduce this bumbling new take on the MI6 quartermaster (who also inadvertently let Raoul Silva in to embark on his rampage through the corridors of power, lest we forget).

Storage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
  • (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
  • (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some common eye movement deficits, and concepts such as 'the neural integrator' and the 'velocity storage mechanism', for which anatomical substrates are still sought, are introduced.
  • (2) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (3) This study was designed to examine the effect of the storage configuration of skin and the ratio of tissue-to-storage medium on the viability of skin stored under refrigeration.
  • (4) Two different approaches were developed within the framework of Relational LABCOM to address both the intermediate and long-term storage of data.
  • (5) During the last 10 years 94% of patients have been normocalcaemic postoperatively, thanks mainly to the re-implantation of autologous parathyroid tissue, preserved by low-temperature storage.
  • (6) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
  • (7) The data suggest that inhibition of gain in weight with the addition of pyruvate and dihydroxyacetone to the diet is the result of an increased loss of calories as heat at the expense of storage as lipid.
  • (8) The major protein component in seeds is storage protein.
  • (9) The quality of liver grafts was evaluated using an original, blood-free isolated perfusion model, after 8 h cold storage, or after 15 min warm ischemia performed prior to harvesting.
  • (10) TTM predominantly enhances the removal of Cu from the short-term storage compartment, but effects on the long-term storage compartment may still be of significance.
  • (11) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (12) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
  • (13) Also, co-storage of a partially homologous regulatory polypeptide called brain natriuretic polypeptide (BNP) occurs, as has been determined by immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay.
  • (14) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (15) Possible reasons for the previous discrepancies between direct and isotopic methods are discussed, as are the effects of protein binding, sample handling, and storage conditions on oxalate values in plasma.
  • (16) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (17) Investigations of long-term storage of liver, fatty tissue and whole blood in the Environmental Specimen Bank (-85 degrees C and -170 degrees C) showed sufficient stability of HCB and other xenobiotics.
  • (18) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
  • (19) DG activates a kinase called protein kinase C, whereas IP3 mediates the release of Ca2+ from intracellular storage sites.
  • (20) Changes are interpreted primarily in terms of membrane behavior, and implications for storage monitoring are discussed.

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