What's the difference between strict and strong?

Strict


Definition:

  • (a.) Strained; drawn close; tight; as, a strict embrace; a strict ligature.
  • (a.) Tense; not relaxed; as, a strict fiber.
  • (a.) Exact; accurate; precise; rigorously nice; as, to keep strict watch; to pay strict attention.
  • (a.) Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous; as, very strict in observing the Sabbath.
  • (a.) Rigidly; interpreted; exactly limited; confined; restricted; as, to understand words in a strict sense.
  • (a.) Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mindful of their own health ahead of their mission, astronauts at the Russia-leased launchpad in Kazakhstan remain in strict isolation in the days ahead of any launch to avoid exposure to infection.
  • (2) Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was diagnosed by strict histologic criteria in 103 patients.
  • (3) Neurospora crassa mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid shows strict uniparental inheritance in sexual crosses, with a notable absence of mixtures and recombinant types that appear frequently in heteroplasmons.
  • (4) Primary vaccination should be carried out as early as possible, while strictly observing the contraindications.
  • (5) Though no strict relationship could be observed between titers in the IH test and the time it took mice to die from the intravenous inoculation of mice (IIM test), results of the supernatants examined by both methods demonstrated that the IH test was more sensitive than the IIM one.
  • (6) Strict fundamentalists oppose music in any form as a sensual distraction - the Taliban, of course, banned music in Afghanistan.
  • (7) Neither assertion was strictly accurate, but Obama was on a rhetorical roll.
  • (8) They continuously produced heteropolymeric G6PD and showed strictly additive patterns of silver staining of both parental sets of nucleolar organizing chromosomes.
  • (9) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
  • (10) Orbital hypertelorism, strictly defined as an increase in bony interorbital distance, is not itself an isolated syndrome, but is instead an anomaly that may occur as either part of a syndrome or malformation sequence.
  • (11) There must also be strict rules in place to reduce the risks they take with shareholders' funds.Yet the huge cost of increasing capital and liquidity is forgotten when the Treasury urges them to increase lending to small and medium businesses.
  • (12) The occurrence of paresis or paralysis in ischemic processes strictly situated in the thalamus, however, is discussed: the deficit may be limited to parts of limbs; most often, it is not associated with pyramidal symptomatology; recovery is observed in the hand before the inferior limb.
  • (13) Active sites for thiosulphate are probably strictly connected with cell membranes.
  • (14) Indications for operation must be strict, for unless there are specific signs and symptoms of appendiceal disease, appendectomy will often be of no benefit.
  • (15) The uptake of acetyl-L-carnitine was not strictly substrate-specific; gamma-butyrobetaine, L-carnitine, L-DABA, and GABA were potent inhibitors, hypotaurine and L-glutamate were moderate inhibitors, and glycine and beta-alanine were only weakly inhibitory.
  • (16) The absence of strict restrictions for the feeding on unusual species of hosts has caused the domination of polyphagy and oligophagy over monophagy among ixodid ticks.
  • (17) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (18) The low amount of 100000-dalton protein and lack of 4-nm surface particles in sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles obtained from fetal and newborn rabbits are strictly correlated with the low activity of Ca2+-dependent ATPase and the ability to take up Ca2+.
  • (19) Sensitizing drugs must be strictly avoided to prevent such recurrences: their presence in drug mixtures must be guarded against.
  • (20) The lack of a strict correlation between the changes in tubulin composition and changes in organization of microtubular structures indicates that accumulation of beta 2-tubulin and disappearance of alpha 3-tubulin isotypes are not sufficient to bring about reorganization of microtubules during development.

Strong


Definition:

  • (superl.) Having active physical power, or great physical power to act; having a power of exerting great bodily force; vigorous.
  • (superl.) Having passive physical power; having ability to bear or endure; firm; hale; sound; robust; as, a strong constitution; strong health.
  • (superl.) Solid; tough; not easily broken or injured; able to withstand violence; able to sustain attacks; not easily subdued or taken; as, a strong beam; a strong rock; a strong fortress or town.
  • (superl.) Having great military or naval force; powerful; as, a strong army or fleet; a nation strong at sea.
  • (superl.) Having great wealth, means, or resources; as, a strong house, or company of merchants.
  • (superl.) Reaching a certain degree or limit in respect to strength or numbers; as, an army ten thousand strong.
  • (superl.) Moving with rapidity or force; violent; forcible; impetuous; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.
  • (superl.) Adapted to make a deep or effectual impression on the mind or imagination; striking or superior of the kind; powerful; forcible; cogent; as, a strong argument; strong reasons; strong evidence; a strong example; strong language.
  • (superl.) Ardent; eager; zealous; earnestly engaged; as, a strong partisan; a strong Whig or Tory.
  • (superl.) Having virtues of great efficacy; or, having a particular quality in a great degree; as, a strong powder or tincture; a strong decoction; strong tea or coffee.
  • (superl.) Full of spirit; containing a large proportion of alcohol; intoxicating; as, strong liquors.
  • (superl.) Affecting any sense powerfully; as, strong light, colors, etc.; a strong flavor of onions; a strong scent.
  • (superl.) Solid; nourishing; as, strong meat.
  • (superl.) Well established; firm; not easily overthrown or altered; as, a strong custom; a strong belief.
  • (superl.) Violent; vehement; earnest; ardent.
  • (superl.) Having great force, vigor, power, or the like, as the mind, intellect, or any faculty; as, a man of a strong mind, memory, judgment, or imagination.
  • (superl.) Vigorous; effective; forcible; powerful.
  • (superl.) Tending to higher prices; rising; as, a strong market.
  • (superl.) Pertaining to, or designating, a verb which forms its preterit (imperfect) by a variation in the root vowel, and the past participle (usually) by the addition of -en (with or without a change of the root vowel); as in the verbs strive, strove, striven; break, broke, broken; drink, drank, drunk. Opposed to weak, or regular. See Weak.
  • (superl.) Applied to forms in Anglo-Saxon, etc., which retain the old declensional endings. In the Teutonic languages the vowel stems have held the original endings most firmly, and are called strong; the stems in -n are called weak other constant stems conform, or are irregular.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
  • (2) Perinatal mortality is strongly associated with obstetrical factors, respiratory distress syndrome, and prematurity.
  • (3) We conclude that the SHBG concentration strongly affects this estimation.
  • (4) When the data correlating DHT with protein synthesis using both labelling techniques were combined, the curves were parallel and a strong correlation was noted between DHT and protein synthesis over a wide range of values (P less than 0.001).
  • (5) A strong block to the elongation of nascent RNA transcripts by RNA polymerase II occurs in the 5' part of the mammalian c-fos proto-oncogene.
  • (6) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
  • (7) These clones, designated as TcHMC-2, showed strong cytotoxicity against both HMC-2 and K562 cells.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) "There is … a risk that the political, trade, and gas frictions with Russia could lead to strong deterioration in economic relations between the two countries, with a significant drop in Ukraine's exports to and imports from Russia.
  • (10) Univariate and multivariate analyses indicated previous LBP or back pain in another location of the spine were strongly associated with LBP during the study year.
  • (11) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (12) Although the productions of deoxycortisol and androstenedione from 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone were strongly inhibited by progesterone, androstenedione formation from progesterone was not inhibited by a high concentration of progesterone.
  • (13) Simple cells that are nearly equally dominated by each eye always exhibit strong phase-specific interaction.
  • (14) The activity is strongly inhibited by SH-blocking reagents (e.g.
  • (15) Nice (the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence) has also published new guidance on good patient experience that provides a strong framework on which to build good engagement practice.
  • (16) In 0.17 M Na+(aq), tRNA(Phe) exists in its native conformation and the number of strong binding sites (Ka greater than or equal to 10(4)) was estimated to be 3-4 by titration experiments, in agreement with X-ray structural data for crystalline tRNA(Phe) (Jack et al., 1977).
  • (17) The remaining 33 sera (13.3 per cent) were classified as low, moderate or strong positives.
  • (18) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (19) The accumulated evidence would strongly favor an affirmative answer.
  • (20) Incubation of membrane with DL-Hcys alone (5 X 10(-5) M), the combination of both Ad (5 X 10(-5)) and DL-Hcys (5 X 10(-5)), or S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine (SAH) (1 X 10(-6)) strongly decreased the methyl ester formation.