What's the difference between tome and voluminous?

Tome


Definition:

  • (n.) As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of a larger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Differing patterns of calcium distribution were observed in the ameloblast seemingly associated with the appearance of Tomes' process.
  • (2) The arts and social space in Deptford opened in 2015 after three years of fundraising and it now runs a programme of gigs, screenings, talks and performances, as well as being home to Tome Records, which has a distractingly good selection of vinyl, as well as tapes and zines.
  • (3) The stereotypical view of the historian is that of a stodgy, bespectacled individual poring over tomes of printed text, dusty manuscripts, and thousands of index cards.
  • (4) This kind of material also could be seen in the spaces between the Tomes' processes and the enamel matrix, and in the vesicles of the Golgi apparatus.
  • (5) In examination of ground sections of human third maxillary molar teeth, the granular layer of Tomes was shown to consist of expansion of dentinal tubules.
  • (6) The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
  • (7) Without colchicine in the medium, many small vesicles containing HRP were located in the Tomes' processes, whereas only a few were present with colchicine at concentrations above 5 microM.
  • (8) Preparations from EFAD rats showed a gradual decrease of the tome with time.
  • (9) Twice as much calmodulin and calpactin II were detected in cell bodies as in Tomes' processes, but calcimedin was more abundant in the latter.
  • (10) The disturbances in mineralization were characterized by accumulations of unmineralized enamel matrix at the secretory regions of Tomes' process within 1 h after injection.
  • (11) Bookcases line the property: there are tomes on Hitler, Disney, Titanic, J Edgar Hoover, proverbs, quotations, fables, grammar, the Beach Boys, top 40 pop hits, baseball, Charlie Chaplin – any and every topic.
  • (12) On the floor was a pile of McQueen’s beloved reference books: Living Jewels, a huge tome of exquisite closeups of beetles, and another on German artist Rebecca Horn ’s installation piece Moon Mirror.
  • (13) Finally, there was a slower secretion of labeled proteins out of Tomes' processes between 1 and 4 h after injection.
  • (14) A bookshop clerk confirmed that politically sensitive tomes, such as those produced by the missing booksellers, would no longer be stocked.
  • (15) Into this depressing scene drops a 250-page radical tome from Dominic Cummings , Michael Gove's charismatically influential adviser.
  • (16) Newton coined the term in 1687 in his famous tome, Principia Mathematica, and for 200 years scientists were happy to think of mass as something that simply existed.
  • (17) A similar arrangement of wavy rows of ameloblasts at the level of distal terminal web and Tomes' processes was also seen in monkey teeth.
  • (18) Abraham is said to have pursued the role running C4 doggedly, quietly breakfasting opinion formers, publishing an impressive art house tome about his two-year rebranding of the UKTV digital channels, led by Dave, and trying to woo anyone who might be close to the decision-making process.
  • (19) Large type HID-TCH-SP stain deposits, approximately 10 nm in diameter, were detected on the interdigitating cell membrane of Tomes' process, inside some secretory granules, on the lateral cell membrane of stratum intermedium, in the basement membranes associated with outer enamel epithelium and endothelial cells of capillary, within the so-called hole region, and in the enamel matrix near future enamel-cement junction.
  • (20) Until Martin Blogg quoted us a line or two from Simon Inglis' historical tome Villa Park 100 Years, that is: "Aston Villa Football Club was founded by pupils of the Aston Villa Wesleyan Chapel Sunday school.

Voluminous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
  • (a.) Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
  • (a.) Of great volume, or bulk; large.
  • (a.) Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse; as, a voluminous writer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The existence of a voluminous literature on the placing, making, and closing of abdominal incisions suggests that no single ideal method exists.
  • (2) From ultrastructural point of view interstitial cells contain the organels proper to steroidogenetic cells (important smooth endoplasmic reticulum, many voluminous mitochondria with tubular cristae).
  • (3) The histologic exam revealed a proliferation of voluminous round lymphoid cells with 2 or 3 nucleoli often apposed to the nuclear membrane.
  • (4) It must be admitted: 2014 is looking voluminously rosy for those of us who love our lady gardens.
  • (5) The uterine artery has a voluminous branch to the uterine body and the cervix but does not anastomose with the vaginal artery.
  • (6) Considered by many to be a giant in the intellectual world, Judt chronicled his illness in unsparing detail in public lectures and essays – giving an extraordinary account that won him almost as much respect as his voluminous historical and political work, for which he was feted on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • (7) CT scan and angiography showed a voluminous intracerebral angiodysplasia and an aneurysm of the left anterior communicating artery.
  • (8) The investigations lead to the diagnosis of a voluminous plasma cell tumor involving the fossa infratemporalis, a part of the lateral orbit, as well as the middle and anterior cerebral fossae.
  • (9) The case of a 14-year old girl presenting with headaches, severe progressive hypertension and high plasma renin levels, in whom a voluminous epithelial liver hamartoma or adenoma was discovered at surgery is documented.
  • (10) Starvation resulted in extensive epithelial folds and a concomitant decrease in the crop volume, while the refed insects displayed an unfolded crop epithelium and a voluminous crop.
  • (11) During the differentiation of the infectious form into the reproductive form, the voluminous periplasm was gradually reduced and the cytoplasm expanded, until the entire bacterium was filled by the cytoplasm.
  • (12) An oral cholecystography showed that this formation corresponded to a voluminous choledochal cyst.
  • (13) But if you do dig into the voluminous polling studies and disaggregate, as the pollsters say, the results by gender, you find that what is troubling female voters is what is also troubling male voters – the future of health and education.
  • (14) Such factors include a specific syndrome the essential feature of which is that the mitral leaflets or part thereof, primarily the posterior one, are voluminous.
  • (15) Inoculation with K. pneumoniae mucoid strain DT-S into mice lung induced expansive, voluminous lethal pneumonia characterized with thickening of the alveolar septa caused by infiltration of inflammatory cell and packing of bacteria within alveolar spaces.
  • (16) Theresa May will recall her habit of dancing to Abba’s Dancing Queen in a pair of flared trousers and a yellow blouse with “huge voluminous sleeves” during a guest appearance on Desert Island Discs .
  • (17) His voluminous scientific oeuvre is appreciated, particularly with regard to his role as a pathfinder for the newly developing field of dermatovirology.
  • (18) The inner portion (between the nucleus and the ventricle) contains a voluminous Golgi apparatus, many mitochondria, RER cisternae which contain electron-dense material, SER, and many vesicles.
  • (19) A young 15 year old girl presented with a voluminous desmoid tumor of the calf.
  • (20) The principal nucleoli are more voluminous but their relations with the secondary constrictions and the satellites of the D and G chromosomes are not modified.

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