What's the difference between sane and sans?

Sane


Definition:

  • (a.) Being in a healthy condition; not deranged; acting rationally; -- said of the mind.
  • (a.) Mentally sound; possessing a rational mind; having the mental faculties in such condition as to be able to anticipate and judge of the effect of one's actions in an ordinary maner; -- said of persons.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier this week, Izvestia reported that Yaroshenko had written to Trump, complaining of poor health and saying that Trump’s intervention in the case would offer his “last chance to return to Russia as a sane person.” If the two leaders do delve into more geopolitical questions, Putin will probably try to focus on issues on which Washington lawmakers could more conceivably cooperate.
  • (2) Is there a difference between a person who is sane and that person when he is, in some way, mad?
  • (3) Marjorie Wallace, chief executive of the mental health charity Sane, said: "[Zeta-Jones's announcement] will have a huge impact on [people] recognising mental illness is a condition that everyone can suffer from.
  • (4) Kudos to Louise Byrne for her matter of fact courage #qanda @SANEAustralia October 6, 2014 Anthony Herbert (@AnthonyHerbert9) Deal with fear, maintain hope and believe people - Louise Byrne #qanda October 6, 2014 • Readers seeking support and information about suicide prevention can contact Lifeline 13 11 14 or Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467 • Sane Australia Helpline 1800 18 SANE (7263)
  • (5) "There are times," Cohn wrote, "when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility.
  • (6) USA 88, 5847-5851; Donoghue, M. J., Alvarez, J. D., Merlie, J. P. and Sanes, J. R. (1991).
  • (7) But since then it has gone ballistic, to the point where apparently sane men in suits, or at any rate employees of Goldman Sachs, say it is worth $50bn.
  • (8) Suicide prevention services, however, do not provide for suicide as a sane, honorable choice in such circumstances.
  • (9) And it's that magnificent compulsion that means we need to have a sane conversation about how to set limits for ourselves on another wonderful pleasure that has no natural limits.
  • (10) A divided empire: what the urban-rural split means for the future of America Read more “I hope Trump puts sane people in charge of this and says maybe they can stay on an individual basis.
  • (11) Other signatories include St John Ambulance, Volunteering Australia, Youth Off the Streets, Drug Arm, Sane Australia, the Myer Family Company, Hillsong Church, and the Australian Council of Social Service.
  • (12) That is a risk any sane person would seek to drastically reduce."
  • (13) "With the best engineers in the world, and the crew varying between the intensely respectable and the barely sane, ready to scorn any disaster, unless of Titanic scale."
  • (14) But the only sane response is total scepticism of the motives of those seeking to make us afraid.
  • (15) (Incidentally, this is hardly my area of expertise, but I fail to comprehend why any sane 21st-century human would refuse an epidural.
  • (16) For one thing, in a sane market, such double-digit rises for so long are not sustainable .
  • (17) Yet it wasn’t until my retirement that I had the time or the resources to fulfil some of the dreams and ambitions that had fuelled my imagination and kept me sane during my working life.
  • (18) Balmain’s collection had an Aladdin Sane jumpsuit, while Walter Van Beirendonck had a blazer adorned with a clever Aladdin Sane diagonal flash across the lapels, and Dries Van Noten and Alber Elbaz ’s autumn menswear shows both heavily referenced the Thin White Duke.
  • (19) I still find that the conversations I have with chefs are some of the most sane you'll ever have.
  • (20) I had dinner with him the first day he arrived in New York and he said to me his sister was in an asylum and she was the sane one in the family.

Sans


Definition:

  • (prep.) Without; deprived or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (2) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (3) The prevalence of diabetes was 36% higher among San Antonio Mexican Americans than among Mexicans in Mexico City; this difference was highly statistically significant (age- and sex-adjusted prevalence ratio 1.36, P = 0.006).
  • (4) Two similar calici agents, San Miguel sea lion virus (SMSV) and vesicular exanthema of swine virus (VESV) are susceptible to the virucidal activity of disinfectants of differing formulation.
  • (5) There were still 25 seconds left on the clock when Vernon Davis reeled in a catch at the Baltimore nine-yard line, but San Francisco could not convert on second or third down.
  • (6) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
  • (7) Using data collected at Moffitt Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, we examined the associations between maternal weight gain outside the recommendations of the IOM and three pregnancy outcomes (small for gestational age [SGA] infants, large for gestational age [LGA] infants, and cesarean delivery).
  • (8) Although selenium deficiency in livestock is consequently now rare in Oregon, selenium-deficient soils and attendant selenium deficiency conditions have been reported near the Kesterson Wildlife Refuge in the Northern part of the San Joaquin Valley, California, where, paradoxically, selenium toxicity in wildfowl, nesting near evaporation ponds, occurred and attracted wide attention.
  • (9) He was given a standing ovation as he arrived on stage for the launch event at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, San Francisco.
  • (10) England’s next assignments, to put it into context, come against San Marino and Estonia in October.
  • (11) The San Antonio Food Bank says donations are up 16% But because of the cuts to Snap the supplies disappear faster.
  • (12) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
  • (13) In the wake of her win, Aung San Suu Kyi has written to Min Aung Hlaing, the president, Thein Sein, and the parliamentary Speaker, Shwe Mann, requesting a meeting to discuss the election and “national reconciliation”, according to the National League for Democracy Facebook page.
  • (14) San Francisco Tenderloin map They could potentially gentrify this gritty, 50-block swath of downtown into condos, lofts, hipster bars, organic cafes and yoga studios, as has happened in other parts of San Francisco and the Bay area.
  • (15) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
  • (16) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
  • (17) Subjects were 862 nonsmoking coronary patients in the San Francisco Bay Area, randomized in 1978 to receive, over 4.5 years, cardiac counseling or cardiac counseling plus type A behavioral counseling.
  • (18) Thirty-eight cases of optic gliomas seen at the University of California, San Francisco, were reviewed.
  • (19) A warship from Russia’s Pacific fleet also accompanied former Russian president Medvedev’s visit to San Francisco in 2010.” Officials from the Russian embassy in Canberra declined to confirm the details when contacted by Guardian Australia on Wednesday.
  • (20) Accordingly, 80 schizophrenic inpatients were administered the HAM-D, the 18-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), and the Scale for the Assessment of Negative Symptoms (SANS) at drug-free baseline and after 4 weeks of neuroleptic treatment.

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