What's the difference between side and width?

Side


Definition:

  • (n.) The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.
  • (n.) Any outer portion of a thing considered apart from, and yet in relation to, the rest; as, the upper side of a sphere; also, any part or position viewed as opposite to or contrasted with another; as, this or that side.
  • (n.) One of the halves of the body, of an animals or man, on either side of the mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.
  • (n.) The right or left part of the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side.
  • (n.) A slope or declivity, as of a hill, considered as opposed to another slope over the ridge.
  • (n.) The position of a person or party regarded as opposed to another person or party, whether as a rival or a foe; a body of advocates or partisans; a party; hence, the interest or cause which one maintains against another; a doctrine or view opposed to another.
  • (n.) A line of descent traced through one parent as distinguished from that traced through another.
  • (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the side, or toward the side; lateral.
  • (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark.
  • (n.) Long; large; extensive.
  • (v. i.) To lean on one side.
  • (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party.
  • (v. t.) To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward.
  • (v. t.) To suit; to pair; to match.
  • (v. t.) To work (a timber or rib) to a certain thickness by trimming the sides.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a siding; as, to side a house.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (2) No differences between the two substances were observed with respect to side effects and general tolerability.
  • (3) During and after the infusion of 5HTP, none of the patients showed an increase in anxiety or depressive symptoms, despite the presence of severe side effects.
  • (4) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
  • (5) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (6) Side effect incidence in patients treated with the paracetamol-sobrerol combination (3.7%) was significantly lower than that observed in subjects treated with paracetamol (6.1% - P less than 0.01), salicylics (25.1% - P less than 0.001), pyrazolics (12.6% - P less than 0.001), propionics (20.3%, P less than 0.001) or other antipyretics (17.9% - P less than 0.001).
  • (7) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) The Tyr side chain had two conformations of comparable energy, one over the ring between the Gln and Asn side chains, and the other with the Tyr side chain away from the ring.
  • (10) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (11) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
  • (12) Only those derivatives with a free amino group and net positive charge in the side chain were effective.
  • (13) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
  • (14) For retrospective action to be taken, and an FA charge to follow, the decision of the panel must be unanimous.” The match between the sides ended in acrimony and two City red cards.
  • (15) We studied the effect of low-dose intrathecal morphine (0.00-0.20 mg) on pain relief and the incidence of side effects after cholecystectomy in 139 patients divided into eight groups according to intrathecal morphine dose: groups 1 (0.00 mg), 2 (0.04 mg), 3 (0.06 mg), 4 (0.08 mg), 5 (0.10 mg), 6 (0.12 mg), 7 (0.15 mg), and 8 (0.20 mg).
  • (16) The temperature increased from the anterior to the posterior region on both buccal and lingual sides of both arches.
  • (17) The product of this enzymatic hydrolysis was F420 with one less glutamic acid in the side chain.
  • (18) On embryonic day 3.5 (E3.5), 1 day after surgery, there is a 42% average increase in volume of the polyganglia compared with the corresponding DRG on the unoperated side.
  • (19) Side effects were observed in 15.9% of the patients in the urapidil group and in 11.3% of the prazosin group (NS).
  • (20) Significant side-effects occurred infrequently and only 2 children lost weight during the period of medication.

Width


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being wide; extent from side to side; breadth; wideness; as, the width of cloth; the width of a door.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
  • (3) On the tangential views the inclinations of the future implants were estimated and the part of the alveolar ridge having a width less than 5 mm, which is the minimum width for housing an implant, was compiled.
  • (4) Human figure drawings of 12 pediatric oncology patients were significantly smaller in height, width, and area than were drawings of 12 school children and 12 pediatric general surgery patients paired for sex and age.
  • (5) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
  • (6) The antibacterial property was evaluated by the width and sterility of the clear zone in the bacterial culture plates.
  • (7) The mean gain in width of keratinized gingiva averaged 3.15 mm.
  • (8) The influence of stretch and radial compression on the width of mechanically skinned fibers from the semitendinosus muscle of the frog (R. pipiens) was examined in relaxing solutions with high-power light microscopy.
  • (9) The ensuing scars were similar with respect to scar width and the amount of collagen in the scar.
  • (10) Simultaneously, reactivity of pial arteriole was observed and its diameter was measured through the cranial window using intravital microscope and width analyzer.
  • (11) The astrocytes had generally two types of processes: (1) thread-like processes of relatively constant width with few ramifications and few lamellar appendages and (2) the sinuous processes with clusters of lamellar appendages.
  • (12) The characteristics of pattern and flicker (movement) detection are compared to electrophysiological studies on X (sustained) and Y (transient) neurones respectively, and correlations are described for studies of temporal frequency response, non-linearity, width of receptive field, strength of the inhibitory surround and motion sensitivity.
  • (13) A modified CWS technique using an external pulse generator (pulse width = 40 msec) ordinarily used for transcutaneous cardiac pacing was tested in 74 patients (40 with unipolar and 34 with bipolar DDD devices).
  • (14) Adjustment of posterior arch width and dental alignment, using semi-rapid maxillary expansion by means of an upper removable appliance, to co-ordinate the anticipated positions for the arches.
  • (15) The DNA and protein contents of isolated basal cells were stained with propidium iodide and fluorescein isothiocyanate, respectively, and analysed by flow cytometry using the total protein fluorescence as an estimate of cell size and the DNA fluorescence pulse width as an estimate of nuclear size.
  • (16) Studies of the influence of orthodontic movement on the width of the attached gingiva gave conflicting results.
  • (17) The anterior-posterior length, the width, and the height of the cerebral hemispheres were also significantly reduced at P20, but the differences had disappeared by P70.
  • (18) On return to the euthyroid state, there were highly significant falls in the mean values of the mean platelet volume (16% decline, P less than 0.001) and the platelet hematocrit (16% decline, P less than 0.001) and a slight but highly significant increase in the mean value of the platelet distribution width (2% increase, P less than 0.01).
  • (19) We observe a slight heterogeneity and subtle line-width changes in the tyrosine signal between pH 7 and pH 12, which we interpret to be due to protein environmental effects (such as changes in hydrogen bonding) rather than complete deprotonation of tyrosine residue(s).
  • (20) The quality of the bolus, expressed as the full width at half-maximum of the left ventricular time--activity curve, was independent of the bolus volumes and patient positioning.