Description : What is the equivalent word for sexism as applied to the difference between the have and havenots?
Last Answer : I don’t understand.
Description : What's the difference between 'Latin' and 'Latino'?
Last Answer : Obviously, there are some people in VT that ignorant. It’s funny actually. So, what do they think? The motto is Spanish not Latin? Or, that Mexicans speak Latin? It’s ridiculous.
Description : Do you know the difference between guaranty and guarantee?
Last Answer : I like Raise and Raze. One builds up, one tears down.
Description : What is the difference between being infatuated and being in love?
Last Answer : Some people realize the word love means too much, so it’s best not to use it. If you say you’re infatuated, this may mean the person understands that their feelings are only because the relationship is new and it’s possible for those feelings to fade away.
Description : What is the difference between "artist" and "artisan"?
Last Answer : answer:Artisan is the new Craftsman. Poets are the new Rock Stars. Scientists are the new Priests. Criminals are the new Victims.
Description : What is the difference between bellisima and bellisimo ?
Last Answer : answer:Bellisimo is male, bellisima is female. But the words can refer to inanimate things as well. Italian is one of those languages where words have genders just like Spanish, French, etc. I think that’s right. I tried to learn Italian years ago. :P
Description : What's the difference between motivation and passion?
Last Answer : You can different motivations of which passion is only one option. You can also be motivated by anger, greed, etc.
Description : How would you explain the difference between the terms "define" and "describe"?
Last Answer : “Define” is to tell what something means. “Describe” is to tell about its appearance or characteristics.
Description : What is the difference between the usage of "Argentine" or "Argentinian"?
Last Answer : I'm certain they're interchangeable. However, Argentine' is a word I rarely hear in conversation. Yet I've seen it numerous times in novels and news reports. Apparently then Argentine' is more suited ... language, and Argentinian'/ Argentinean' to the spoken. Why this could be I have no idea.
Description : Is there a difference between fiance and fiancee?
Last Answer : fiance is a male, fiancee is a female.
Description : What is the difference between a curse, a cuss and a swear?
Last Answer : where you come from… In NY it’s a curse.
Description : Difference between a convoy, envoy, and caravan?
Last Answer : why do you care?
Description : What is the difference between redundant and abundant?
Last Answer : A dictionary.
Description : What is the proper use of "thereby" when involving a copula?
Last Answer : I never use “thereby”, but I do use “therefore”, and use it along the lines of “It would, therefore, be worthwhile.” You can also get away with “then”, as in “That, then, is what we shall do.”
Description : What does the word thereby mean ?
Last Answer : That way. Accordingly. Etc. in that context
Description : Assertion `:` Neural signals through the sympathetic nerves can increase the rate of heart beat, the strength fo ventriculrar contraction and thereby
Last Answer : Assertion `:` Neural signals through the sympathetic nerves can increase the rate of heart beat, the ... D. If both Assertion & Reason are false.
Description : During summer, we feel comfortable under a fan because it (a) throws cool air on us (b) sets the air in motion, thereby increasing the evaporation of sweat (c) produces convection currents (d) produces air which carries heat away from the body
Last Answer : Ans:(b)
Description : What happens when a chemical bond is formed? (1) energy is always absorbed (2) energy in always released (3) more energy is released than is absorbed (4) energy is neither released nor ... as potential energy. Upon the breaking of these bonds the energy is released thereby creating usable energy.
Last Answer : Silver nitrate solution is kept in brown bottles in laboratory because - (1) it reacts with ordinary white bottles (2) brown bottles stops the passage of light through it (3) brown bottles do not react with it (4) brown bottles react with it
Description : Addition of plasticisers to polymers results in partial neutralisation of intermolecular forces of attraction between the macro-molecules thereby increasing its (A) Tensile strength (B) Chemical resistance (C) Flexibility (D) All (A), (B) & (C)
Last Answer : (C) Flexibility
Description : Crude oil is subjected to vacuum distillation in the last stage, because (A) High boiling point products like heavy fuel oil & lubricating oils are heat sensitive and may decompose (B) Lighter/low ... prone to thermal decomposition (C) High purity products can be obtained thereby (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) High boiling point products like heavy fuel oil & lubricating oils are heat sensitive and may decompose
Description : Which of the following grinding mills has the horizontally arranged rods as the grinding elements thereby delivering more uniform granular products with minimum fines? (A) Compartment mill (B) Rod mill (C) Pebble mill (D) Tube mill
Last Answer : (B) Rod mill
Description : Lead pipes are not safe for carrying drinking water because water containing dissolved oxygen attacks lead thereby forming poisonous Pb (OH)2 . Lead pipes are readily corroded by (A) Dilute HCI (B) Acetic acid (C) Concentrated H2SO4 (D) None of these
Last Answer : (B) Acetic acid
Description : Lead pipes are not safe for carrying drinking water, because water, containing dissolved oxygen attacks lead thereby forming poisonous Pb(OH)2 . Lead pipes are readily corroded by (A) Dilute HCl (B) Acetic acid (C) Concentrated H2SO4 (D) None of these
Description : Your upcoming project includes project team members from a foreign country. To make certain that cultural differences don't interfere with team performance, thereby affecting the success of the project ... exercises. D. Inform the team members of the organization's rules and standards.
Last Answer : A. Provide diversity training to all the team members.
Description : An interesting modification of flower shape for insect pollination occurs in some orchids in which a male insect mistakes the pattern on the orchid flower for the female species and tries ... phenomenon is called (a) pseudopollination (b) pseudoparthenocarpy (c) mimicry (d) pseudocopulation.
Last Answer : (d) pseudocopulation.
Description : Regarding interferon: a. it is a virus specific molecules b. it acts by neutralizing exotoxin c. it enhances the histocompatibility antigen on cell surface and thereby activate the T cells d. it exerts its effect by integrating itself with the DNA of virus infected cells
Last Answer : it enhances the histocompatibility antigen on cell surface and thereby activate the T cells
Description : A bag is used to enclose several bags sent to the same office or section thereby affording protection to them called a) Packet Bag b) Insured Bag c) Transit Bag d) None of these
Last Answer : c) Transit Bag
Description : A coal with high ash content is undesirable, as (A) It is abrasive to the coal pulveriser (i.e. ball mill) and the combustion chamber (B) The ash in molten condition gets absorbed in the pores of the ... and stick to the boiler tubes thereby reducing the heat transfer (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Pitch creosote mixture (PCM) as compared to furnace oil is a better fuel, because its (A) Emissivity factor is higher (B) Sulphur content is lower (C) Flue gas has lower dew point thereby facilitating more waste heat recovery (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Pick out the wrong statement. (A) Loamy soil is the best soil for vigorous plant growth, while the clayey soil is solid and hence the plant roots penetrate with difficulty (B) Large ... vegetables (D) Cereal crops grown on alkaline soil absorb higher amount of fluorides thereby spreading fluorosis
Last Answer : (C) Application of large excess of Potassic fertiliser in soil increases the valuable carotene in fruits and vegetables
Description : The widest explosive limit is of __________, thereby making it the most explosive gas. (A) Acetylene (B) Petrol vapor (C) Hydrogen (D) Carbon monoxide
Last Answer : (A) Acetylene
Description : Pick out the wrong statement pertaining to 'green house' for the plants. (A) 'Green house' (made of glass) allows visible sunlight (i.e., short wavelength solar radiation like ultra-violet rays) ... ' thereby warming up the earth's surface (D) 'Green house' is colder than the outside atmosphere
Last Answer : (D) 'Green house' is colder than the outside atmosphere
Description : Sooty and sulphurous smog formed due to combustion of fossil fuels particularly in winter, continues throughout the day and night. When the moist atmospheric air's water vapor condenses on the solid particles of smoke thereby ... B) Irritation in eyes (C) Respiratory trouble (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : Presence of carbon monoxide in atmosphere produced by decomposition of chlorophyll and haemoglobin breakdown of some animals, beyond TLV (>50 ppm) (A) Acts as a green house gas thereby raising earth's ... (B) Causes asphyxia (C) Causes increase in sea level (D) Enhances the green house effect
Last Answer : (B) Causes asphyxia
Description : Presence of nitrogen in high concentration in contaminated air reduces partial pressure of oxygen in lungs, thereby causing asphyxia (suffocation) leading to death from oxygen deficiency. Concentration of N2 in contaminated air at ... asphyxiate is ≥ __________ percent. (A) 84 (B) 88 (C) 80 (D) 92
Last Answer : (A) 84
Description : On prolonged exposure to high concentration of carbon monoxide (> 5000 ppm), man dies because (A) Of clotting of blood (B) Of jamming of respiratory tract (C) It forms carboxyhemoglobin by combining ... it incapable of absorbing oxygen (D) It forms CO2 by combining with oxygen present in the blood
Last Answer : (C) It forms carboxyhemoglobin by combining with haemoglobin of blood, thereby making it incapable of absorbing oxygen
Description : What purpose does FeCl3 serve in the electrophilic aromatic substitution reaction between chlorine and benzene? (a) It serves as a radical initiator to produce the chlorine radical needed to propagate the ... by reacting with the Cl2 and thereby activates it toward attack by benzene's π electrons.
Last Answer : It serves as a Lewis acid catalyst by reacting with the Cl2 and thereby activates it toward attack by benzene’s π electrons.
Description : Fluorescent dyes are added in detergents to (A) Act as fabric brightener (by converting ultraviolet light to visible light) thereby improving the whiteness appearance of white fabrics (B) Attain distinctiveness ... brands (C) Act as tarnish inhibitor for metals like German silver (D) None of these
Last Answer : (A) Act as fabric brightener (by converting ultraviolet light to visible light) thereby improving the whiteness appearance of white fabrics
Description : Presence of carbonaceous matter in the sewage (A) Causes reduction in its dissolved oxygen content thereby endangering the life of aquatic creatures (B) Reduces sulphate ions to sulphides causing obnoxious ... quantity of chlorine used for its purification (D) All (A), (B) and (C)
Description : __________ is the process of coating the surface of steel with aluminium oxide, thereby imparting it increased resistance to corrosion & oxidation upto a temperature of 700°C. (A) Veneering (B) Galvanising (C) Electroplating (D) Calorising
Last Answer : (D) Calorising
Description : Austempering of steel requires it to be heated to 875°C followed by sudden cooling to 250-525°C, thereby changing austenite to (A) Sorbite (B) Bainite (C) Martensite (D) Troostite
Last Answer : (B) Bainite
Description : An osmotic diuretic, such as Mannitol, is given to the patient with increased intracranial pressure (IICP) in order to a) dehydrate the brain and reduce cerebral edema. Osmotic diuretics ... Medications such as barbiturates are given to the patient with IICP to reduce cellular metabolic demands.
Last Answer : a) dehydrate the brain and reduce cerebral edema. Osmotic diuretics draw water across intact membranes, thereby reducing the volume of brain and extracellular fluid.
Description : The nurse teaches the patient with peripheral vascular disease to refrain from smoking because nicotine causes a) vasospasm. Nicotine causes vasospasm and can thereby dramatically reduce circulation to the ... the bronchial tree, causing coughing. d) diuresis. Nicotine does not cause diuresis.
Last Answer : a) vasospasm. Nicotine causes vasospasm and can thereby dramatically reduce circulation to the extremities.
Description : Vasoactive drugs which cause the arteries and veins to dilate, thereby shunting much of the intravascular volume to the periphery and causing a reduction in preload and afterload include agents ... Furosemide (Lasix) Furosemide (Lasix) is a loop diuretic that reduces intravascular fluid volume.
Last Answer : a) Sodium nitroprusside (Nipride) Sodium nitroprusside is used in the treatment of cardiogenic shock.
Description : A batsman in his 17th innings makes a score of 85, and thereby increases his average by 3. What is his average after 17 innings? A.30 B.37 C.40 D.45 E.None of these
Last Answer : Answer – B (37) Explanation – Let the average after 16th innings be a, then total score after 17th innings => 16a+85 = 17 (a+3) a = 85-51 = 34 Average after 17 innings = a + 3 = 34 + 3 = 37
Description : What is correct in regard to high copper amalgam, A. Reacts and strengthens the amalgam by its dispersion properties B. Reacts to form copper-tin phase thereby eliminating the tin-mercury ... thereby eliminating the silver mercury phase D. Reacts and strengthens the amalgam by its grain diffusion
Last Answer : B. Reacts to form copper-tin phase thereby eliminating the tin-mercury phase
Description : The incident photon absorbed by an atom in the ground state E1, thereby leaving the atom in the excited state E2 , is a) spontaneous absorption b) stimulated absorption c) induced absorption d) both b & c
Last Answer : d) both b & c
Description : “Composite sleeper index” is employed to determine a) sleeper density requirement b) number of fixtures required for a particular type of sleeper c) durability of sleeper d) mechanical strength of wooden sleepers and thereby gives its suitability as to be used as li sleepers.*
Last Answer : d) mechanical strength of wooden sleepers and thereby gives its suitability as to be used as li sleepers.*
Description : The field of economics that is now called Macroeconomics grew out of the era of the Great Depression, which saw the economy experience a prolonged downturn and persistent high unemployment. ... the labor market, thereby eliminating unemployment (d) the government should intervene in the economy
Last Answer : (d) the government should intervene in the economy
Description : Which one of the following statements regarding a catalyst is not correct? A An enzyme is a catalyst that only binds certain substrates. B An enzyme is a protein that is a highly ... increasing the activation energy. D Catalysts do not alter the equilibrium constant for a chemical reaction.
Last Answer : C Catalysts increase the rate of a reaction by altering the mechanism, thereby increasing the activation energy.