What's the difference between reassume and reassure?

Reassume


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To assume again or anew; to resume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The aim of the present study was to reassume the chromatin changes occurring in lymphoid tissues of mice treated with alkylating agents of the nitrogen-mustard type in relation to recent evidence on the nucleosomal organization of chromatin and to our new data on the regular character of chromatin degradation in lymphoid tissues of irradiated mice.
  • (2) Tollner told ABC local radio he was “keen to get back to work” and reassume the role of treasurer.
  • (3) All infants were able to reassume neck and spinal extension following active and passive flexion of the neck.
  • (4) Experiments using cycloheximide, after a treatment with colchicine, have demonstrated that Ochromonas cannot reassume its normal shape without new protein synthesis.
  • (5) Simultaneously the apical junctions and cell surface microvilli reassumed the organization characteristic of the morula stage.
  • (6) Previous experimental studies that have used a bite-block cemented to the maxillary dental arch have shown that the direction of growth of the maxillary complex is redirected in a superior and anterior direction for approximately 12 weeks but reassumes a normal inferior and anterior direction after that time.
  • (7) However, an initiative has been taken recently to reassume the series.
  • (8) All three types of radiation produce appreciable amounts of ;damaged' (not completely inactivated) molecules which are prevented from reassuming an active configuration by the addition of 5.5m-urea; thiol reagents have a similar effect after bombardment with u.v.
  • (9) 15 min after injection, PVoc and the ocular perfusion and blood pressures were even slightly more reduced, whereas Pio had reassumed its pre-injection level.
  • (10) (iii) Reassuming of rat chromosome and globin gene products synthesis in hybrid cell indicates that the originally pyknotic nuclei of late erythroblasts could be reactivated to assume functional activity after cell hybridization.
  • (11) The intraocular pressure (Pio) was increased by an average of 3.2 mmHg directly after the 5-ml injection, whereas after 15 min the Pio had reassumed its preinjection level.
  • (12) At its cessation the spontaneous firing rate was reassumed immediately.
  • (13) (6) The response to bombesin frequently lasted for hours after washing before reassuming the original state.
  • (14) Although both mRNAs are already present in cryptobiotic embryos, the levels of the 5200 base mRNA decrease after development is reassumed, being undetectable after hatching of the nauplii.
  • (15) The most interesting phenomenon was the difference in time necessary to rehabilitate the swallowing reflex only after which it was possible to reassume oral alimentation.
  • (16) Because fibrinogen is found much more commonly than fibrin in the connective tissue of a variety of human malignancies, attention might reassumably be directed to determining the possible contribution of this molecule as well as of fibrin to tumor progression.
  • (17) During the recovery phase glycogen, lipids and mitochondria reassumed normal structure.
  • (18) A weakness of existing control methods is their emphasis on maintaining adequate gas exchange while poorly accommodating the patient's efforts to reassume control of the delivery pattern.
  • (19) It was upon demobilisation in 1918 and 1919 that colour reassumed its discriminatory implications for Australia’s black diggers.
  • (20) The cells of the surrounding perineurium appear to reassume a lamellar organization and to reestablish contacts with each other with the formation of junctional complexes.

Reassure


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror.
  • (v. t.) To reinsure.

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) On taking advice from the security and policing services, I gave a broad reassurance that those communities would not be at risk.
  • (3) Reassuring findings were the absence of weight loss and serious unwanted effects from d-fenfluramine.
  • (4) Organic investigation must be proposed to these patients when they are motivated and occasionally in obviously "psychological" patients in order to reassure him that all of the organic factors "function correctly".
  • (5) @HunterFelt October 28, 2013 Ali Mason (@alimason) Reassuring to see the #redsox aren't the only ones who can find stupid ways to lose.
  • (6) But the research drills down into the data to examine different cohorts separately, and discovers that reassuring overall averages are masking some striking variations.
  • (7) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
  • (8) Educating them about the physiology of the human nervous system can provide them with reassurance.
  • (9) But Ed Miliband needs to reassure David and his team and recognise that their approach won almost half the votes."
  • (10) So if this amendment is selected, we’ll accept it.” But members of the official campaign to leave the EU, Vote Leave, said they were not reassured by the statement.
  • (11) Overall, the findings provide some welcome reassurance about the accuracy and reliability of pain reports from memory.
  • (12) This repeated analysis should reassure physicians that isoniazid chemoprophylaxis for tuberculin skin test reactors is beneficial to the individual and consonant with public health policies.
  • (13) These results should be reassuring to patients exposed to 131I in medical practice and to most individuals exposed to the fall-out from the Chernobyl accident.
  • (14) But it wasn't O'Neal who requested the article's suppression; according to Google's UK head of communications, Peter Barron, it was "an ordinary member of the public who left a comment on Robert's blog" and he reassured us that "If you search for Merrill Lynch [the blog] will appear.
  • (15) In conclusion, the results of this study, the major interest of which lies in the opportunity of drawing up an overall pattern of risk for various digestive neoplasms, offer further reassurance as regards the effects of coffee on digestive tract carcinogenesis.
  • (16) Also, fetal echocardiography provided reassurance of cardiac normality in cases with familial and maternal risk factors for congenital heart disease.
  • (17) Younger children may worry about genital mutilation, and should be reassured.
  • (18) Based on reassuring monocyte monolayer assay results, the pregnancy was followed without invasive testing.
  • (19) Pope is at once sympathetic and terrifying, and it's a measure of Washington's performance that she has to reassure me she's nothing like Pope in real life.
  • (20) Hollington was named an hour after the MoD announced the death of another marine, killed in an explosion in Sangin yesterday while on a "reassurance patrol".

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