What's the difference between unoccupied and vacant?

Unoccupied


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
  • (2) R units are either occupied (RO) or unoccupied (RU); C units are either active (CA) or inactive (CI).
  • (3) In immunoprecipitation experiments, one tested antiserum bound unoccupied as well as 17 beta-estradiol-occupied rERs, indicating that this region is exposed in both receptor forms.
  • (4) The most intense labelling for unoccupied PRs was in the condensed chromatin.
  • (5) I have repeatedly explained to BT that the house was unoccupied at the time the calls were made.
  • (6) Sequential application of standard unoccupied site blocking, antibody incubation, and washing steps resulted in significant losses of all growth factors (46-98%).
  • (7) On Day 12 of the oestrous cycle corpora lutea were collected and luteal progesterone concentrations, unoccupied receptors for LH and number and sizes of steroidogenic and non-steroidogenic luteal cell types were determined.
  • (8) The energy level of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) of the delta 3 esters also correlated with log k12.
  • (9) The unoccupied higher and lower mobility forms of the receptor, designated R and D, are considered to be in rapid equilibrium with liganded forms, designated RL and DL.
  • (10) We conclude that unoccupied alpha 2 M receptors are diffusely distributed on the cell surface.
  • (11) After the capture of analyte, the unoccupied antibody sites are blocked by the addition of an excess amount of betatype.
  • (12) The hybridization was visualized by additional binding of avidin-FITC (fluorescein) to the unoccupied biotinylated human DNA bound to the human chromosomes.
  • (13) Unoccupied estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors were measured in the cytoplasm of five sections along the length of endometrium obtained from noncancerous, premenopausal hysterectomy specimens.
  • (14) Unoccupied nonactivated receptors are thought to be weakly bound to nuclei of target cells from which they are leaking during tissue fractionation and thus found in the cytosol fraction of homogenates in a nontransformed heterooligomeric "8-9 S" form, which includes hsp90.
  • (15) We used cell enucleation of two human breast cancer-derived cell lines, MCF-7 and T47D, to determine whether the unoccupied receptors were also nuclear in these cells and to determine whether the weak estrogen phenol red, present in nearly all tissue culture media, affected the distribution of the receptors seen with this technique.
  • (16) Empty Belgravia Extraordinarily expensive houses owned by people with properties in several other countries, such that they are usually unoccupied.
  • (17) One of these forms was predominant following short incubations (2 h) with [3H]TCDD at a low temperature (0 degree C) and was characterized by having the same elution profile on DEAE-Sepharose as the unoccupied form, but demonstrated some affinity for DNA.
  • (18) Both unoccupied oestradiol receptors (measured by separating bound from free hormone with dextran-coated charcoal; DCC) and 'total' receptor populations (as measured by an enzyme immunoassay) were measured in each fibroid and adjoining myometrium.
  • (19) The unoccupied receptors for all three hormones were recovered instead in the nucleus-containing cell fragments (nucleoplasts).
  • (20) Now the children have left they have two unoccupied rooms, so the amount of rent for which they can claim housing benefit has been reduced by 25%.

Vacant


Definition:

  • (a.) Deprived of contents; not filled; empty; as, a vacant room.
  • (a.) Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.
  • (a.) Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.
  • (a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.
  • (a.) Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (2) Deafferentation of certain brain regions in adult animals results in (1) the disappearance of degenerating axon terminals and (2) in the temporary persistence of vacant postsynaptic sites.
  • (3) The data suggests that putrescine may reduce net formation of vacant 70 S ribosomes.
  • (4) Hiddleston, who played spy Jonathan Pine in the Night Manager, has played down speculation that he would take on the role, recently telling the BBC’s Graham Norton Show: “The position isn’t vacant as far as I’m aware.
  • (5) The station looks unloved and there are many vacant plots of land.
  • (6) Simulated territorial intrusion promoted increased plasma levels of both T and 11KT while access to vacant territories without neighboring territorial males did not.
  • (7) Abbott said Simpkins and Randall were “perfectly entitled” to call for the two leadership positions to be declared vacant, but they were “asking the party room to vote out the people that the electorate voted in in September 2013”.
  • (8) Richard Rogers has called for a "severe" new tax on empty homes and warned that prime areas of London are emptying because of wealthy buyers leaving homes vacant.
  • (9) An online communication facility to the central register enables searches for and reporting of vacant treatment capacity.
  • (10) This pathological response can be explained by lacrimotor fibres branching into vacant sympathetic sudomotor pathways.
  • (11) Skin biopsies of non-atopic healthy controls or clinically uninvolved skin in mycosis fungoides had neither any IgE+ cells nor any vacant binding sites.
  • (12) They almost found themselves three goals down as Schürrle took up the space once again left vacant by Marcelo, but, after taking a touch, he fired over.
  • (13) Labour strategists are understood to be planning to stage an early byelection in a vacant Greater Manchester seat in an attempt to minimise the potential of an embarrassing threat from the UK Independence party.
  • (14) It is concluded that the extent of reactive reflex changes may be related to both the number of vacant synaptic sites and the degree of functional synergism between the eliminated and remaining monosynaptic pathways.
  • (15) Four weeks later, it was found in the specimens that the growth of neurofibers sprung out from the end of the proximal stump directed towards the distal nerve stump rather than towards the tendon end or the vacant limb of the tube.
  • (16) Vacant buildings are being pressed into service, and the usual high standards set by the immigration service are being waived.
  • (17) I would like to see a law passed where there is an obligation on owners of properties left vacant for a long time to allow homeless people to temporarily move in.
  • (18) The West Ham board are now considering their options, with interest registered with a number of candidates for the vacant managerial position.
  • (19) NHS England expresses the same concern in the leaked draft report: “The commitment to seven-day GP access is … dependent on the commitment to an additional 5,000 GPs working in general practice, which is a challenging target, both in terms of recruitment and retaining the existing workforce.” Porter said the document “echoes the BMA’s concerns around the government’s recruitment target for GPs, at a time when one in three GPs are considering retiring in the next five years and hundreds of GP trainee posts were left vacant this year.
  • (20) A 22-year-old named Guy Roux sent off an application for the vacant head coach's job at l'Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise.

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