What's the difference between seizable and sizable?

Seizable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be seized.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since a special medical examination during the acute state is only possible as exception the patient's amnestically seizable behaviour obtains greatest importance in differential diagnosis.
  • (2) From all seizable influencing factors the levels of education and qualification have the most significant effect to the proportion of smokers to nonsmokers, the percentage of smokers significantly decreasing with increasing level of education and qualification.

Sizable


Definition:

  • (a.) Of considerable size or bulk.
  • (a.) Being of reasonable or suitable size; as, sizable timber; sizable bulk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, who bought the island in 1738, were to return today he would doubtless recognise the scene, though he might be surprised that his small private buildings have grown into a sizable hotel.
  • (2) Thus, the presence of a sizable group of individuals, with a clinically significant different metabolism of 1,4-dihydropyridine due to genetic factors is unlikely.
  • (3) In this second report a sizable proportion of the men reported a history of otitis or otorrhea but had normal tympanic membranes.
  • (4) A sizable number of Americans (many of low income) lack health insurance, and their ranks grew over the 1980s.
  • (5) Yet, on both Saturday and Sunday, the opposition appeared unable to organise the sizable anti-election rally it had promised.
  • (6) Sizable deposits of calcium in the region of the mitral anulus, posterior to the mitral valve, appeared to contribute to the outflow tract narrowing.
  • (7) The first two methods did not markedly affect alcohol consumption despite a sizable decrease in the brain 5-hydroxytryptamine level: 69 per cent in the raphé-lesioned group and 31 per cent in the 5,6-dihydroxytryptamine-treated group.
  • (8) These two experimental approaches provide direct evidence for the presence in cultured rabbit aortic smooth muscle cells of a sizable pool of alpha 1-adrenergic receptors in excess of those needed for maximum NE-stimulated 45Ca efflux.
  • (9) The promise of recovery with short-term, focused intervention appears to be misleading, as a sizable proportion of patients with pathologic grief will be unresponsive to treatment.
  • (10) In fact, the issue of whether the LDF is activated by the abdominals or the latissimus dorsi is irrelevant because neither strategy appeared able to generate sizable extensor moments in the type of lift studied.
  • (11) Our results suggest that at least a sizable portion of the active center of the enzyme responsible of biosynthesis of ceramide-phosphoethanolamine is located on the external side of liver plasma membrane and that the other is embedded in the membrane interior and is not accessible to trypsin, even in the presence of detergent.
  • (12) A sizable portion of their energies was expended in enhancing the quality of life in their communities and the nation.
  • (13) A sizable list of agents that increase cyclic AMP levels now includes adenosine (Ra), epinephrine (beta), glucocorticosteroids, histamine (H2), prostaglandins (A, E), and bacterial products (lipopolysaccharide, cholera toxin).
  • (14) Cattle tuberculosis was eradicated in Denmark more than 10 years ago, but still a sizable proportion of Danish tuberculin reactors owe their sensitivity to tuberculous infection derived from bovine sources.
  • (15) A sizable segment of the population was found to be taking large quantities of vitamin C to reduce the number or severity of upper respiratory infections.
  • (16) Combining technologies allowed us to continue taking advantage of our sizable investment in money, time, and customization while providing a microcomputer-based report module.
  • (17) Partial competition, or some interaction for the same or overlapping sites, was characterized by an extent of fluorescence quenching in the presence of two quinones that was more effective than either quinone alone but not as sizable as that expected when the two quinones act independently.
  • (18) A collateral benefit was a sizable posttraining decrease in the amount of stuttering.
  • (19) Several radiation surveys, at medical linear accelerator facilities where lead or steel had been used with concrete to fabricate the primary barriers, revealed the existence of a sizable neutron field outside the shielding.
  • (20) None of the studies discussed has considered the possibility that the link between life events and heavy drinking reflects the activities of a sizable subgroup of women described as "sociopathic" alcoholics, the disturbance producing an excess of both events and excessive alcohol consumption.

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