What's the difference between abiogenesis and lifeless?

Abiogenesis


Definition:

  • (n.) The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The data has been discussed in connection with abiogenesis of two major types of biopolymers, proteins and nucleic acids.

Lifeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He was put on a gurney and he was lifeless,” she said.
  • (2) It all started with a problem Wolf was having in her own sex life; the quality of her orgasms suddenly changed from being full of light and colour and what she describes in terms of transcendental experience, to something dull and lifeless.
  • (3) Southall and coworkers have demonstrated in a recent study that attacks of lifelessness with sudden and severe hypoxemia and cyanosis are caused by a combination of respiratory arrest in expiration, and a right-to-left shunting of the blood through the lungs due to increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
  • (4) She felt hollow and lifeless and compared herself to the calm centre of a tornado, "moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo", she writes.
  • (5) From start to finish, maybe apart from the first five minutes, it was a pretty lifeless performance,” Muscat said.
  • (6) The mastiff fell lifeless and Stapleton was swallowed in Grimpen Mire.
  • (7) Perhaps, the evolution of medicine has eclipsed what was once sensational, disturbing, interesting, and marketable, leaving only the dry and lifeless bones of stories--remnants of what once they were.
  • (8) It is physiology's responsibility to put together the lifeless pieces of the molecular biologist into living systems.
  • (9) Several men from the local fire department and EMT department are already there, hovering around the seemingly lifeless body of a 31-year-old man on the living room floor in a soaking wet T-shirt and jeans.
  • (10) The latest tragedies follow the death of a Syrian toddler whose lifeless body was photographed washed up on a Turkish beach last week, becoming a heartwrenching symbol of the plight of asylum seekers fleeing war.
  • (11) Hidalgo, currently deputy mayor of Paris and the pollsters' favourite to win the municipal election in March, caused a storm when she announced she wanted to transform Avenue Foch, which some critics have described as a "lifeless urban motorway", into a "green corridor" leading straight to the neighbouring Bois de Boulogne public park.
  • (12) In a variety of new situations under the beaker (presence of a lifeless object, of a grouped mouse or of an isolated mouse), the isolated mice were more reactive than the grouped mice.
  • (13) Aggressive treatment, including emergency room thoracotomy, is justified for lifeless and deteriorating cardiac injury victims.
  • (14) Now that I’m rewilding my once-lifeless garden, I’m hoping to be surprised.
  • (15) These laws will be used to stamp out plurality and difference, to douse the exuberance of youth, to pursue children for the crime of being young and together in a public place, to help turn this nation into a money-making monoculture, controlled, homogenised, lifeless, strifeless and bland.
  • (16) The US can either use the lifeless tissue for transplants or for other research or it can throw it away.
  • (17) Early Thursday morning, one penguin was spotted floating lifelessly in the pool.
  • (18) But soon after returning, “there is no energy and you are lifeless and you are dull”.
  • (19) Emergency room thoracotomy was performed in 17 "lifeless" patients, 4 of whom survived.
  • (20) Economic turmoil, a lifeless advertising market and print publications folding across the industry - it is a strange time to launch a magazine.