What's the difference between absorbed and introspection?

Absorbed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Absorb

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (2) Photoreactions induced in that proper sensitizer molecules absorb UV-light or visible light.
  • (3) The use of an absorbable material may alleviate potential late complications associated with implantation of nonabsorbable materials.
  • (4) Absorbance or fluorescence measurements may be used for detection.
  • (5) Data are shown for both mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, indicating that, in this respect, even the smallest average organ absorbed dose can be effective, particularly for high-LET radiation.
  • (6) It is the absorbed dose in joules per gram that is biologically significant and the data shows that the mean absorbed dose to death within either sex shows no significant difference with respect to age or weight, but that the difference between the sexes are significant, particularly among the aged ex-breeders.
  • (7) Since iron from fortified formulas is well absorbed during the first three months of life, even if it is not immediately used for hemoglobin formation, an inccrease in the iron stores will occur...
  • (8) The drug-picrate chromophores maximally absorb within the first minute of reaction (21 s for phenacemide, 45 s for cephalothin), after which the absorbances decrease.
  • (9) This implies that these proteins are quantitatively absorbed from the peritoneum without undergoing modifications.
  • (10) The resulting cortexolone-Sepharose absorbed easily the cytosolic chick thymus glucocorticoid receptor.
  • (11) The activity of this autoantibody was absorbed by histidine and glutaminic acid.
  • (12) In these animals, propionate was the major VFA taken up by the liver and approximately 50% of absorbed acetate was also removed by the liver.
  • (13) On the other hand, ultraviolet (320-nm) light, absorbed by 3-hydroxy-pyridinium cross-links which were rapidly photolyzed, partially dissociated polymeric collagen aggregates from bovine Achilles tendon after subsequent heating.
  • (14) Perplexed, from being absorbed into some undateable future world governed by an advanced technology whose capacities have to be learned as one reads.
  • (15) This differential absorbance is linear with increasing concentrations of Na2MoO4 and was used to calculate the molar extinction coefficient of molybdochelin at 425 nm (epsilon similar to 6,200).
  • (16) Although differences were noted between species, the absolute rates of absorption measured indicate that the phthalate esters are slowly absorbed through both human and rat skin.
  • (17) By determining the solubility of CaTPA, the concentration of TPA that would be required to achieve urinary saturation was calculated, and a conservative estimate of the amount of TPA or DMT that would have to be absorbed in order to induce calculi was derived.
  • (18) All recombinants were found to be photochemically active, in that optical bleaching produced a temperature- and lipid chain-length-dependent mixture of species absorbing at 480 and 380 nm.
  • (19) Carotenoids are absorbed and then partially converted to retinol in the enterocytes.
  • (20) The filler did not absorb water, so the effect of the filler content on the diffusion coefficients of the water sorption was to be associated with of the law of mixture.

Introspection


Definition:

  • (n.) A view of the inside or interior; a looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states; self-consciousness; reflection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But at least one customer signalled that America's gun lobby might be on the cusp of a moment of introspection.
  • (2) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
  • (3) The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.
  • (4) Man of Steel gets three stars from him, thanks largely to an opening section that "creates a plausible context for the introspection and self-doubt that dogs the adult version of [this] costumed warrior".
  • (5) There is a striking amount of national introspection in a hearteningly vibrant press.
  • (6) The people of Australia are sick to death of this introspection when there are very important, significant issues in constituencies like mine.
  • (7) While O'Dwyer's defence portrayed him as the vulnerable, introspective young man whose promising career would be derailed by extradition, prosecutors contend he is a skilled businessman who made large sums of money from a website he knew was profiting from pirated material.
  • (8) Academic medicine is entering a period of introspection created by changing patterns of health and disease and changing patterns in reimbursement and health policy.
  • (9) The first Labour MP I spoke to today put it well: “As our standing and his standing has got worse, Labour MPs talk of little else.” Party introspection, angst and fear were always on the cards for this period – it just wasn’t meant to be Labour that would suffer.
  • (10) South Africans have undergone sombre introspection of late with the economy slowing, unemployment sky highand, worst of all, violent unrest that included the killing of workers at the Lonmin platinum mine in August.
  • (11) Pharmacists can grow in a current or second career by using introspection and self-assessment and by adapting to changes that occur in the profession.
  • (12) Ex-HSBC banker denies fraud charges brought in US Snowden endorses phone case warning system Whistleblower Edward Snowden has endorsed a mobile phone case called the “introspection engine” that, he claims, will show when data is being monitored.
  • (13) Ishiguro's flawed but introspective narrators are always fascinating portraits of unusual characters: in A Pale View from the Hills, the narrator is a Japanese widow living in England, The Remains of the Day is narrated by the butler of an Nazi-sympathising English aristocrat, and a callow English private detective is the central character in When We Were Orphans.
  • (14) Michael Cavanagh, the JP Morgan executive who conducted the bank's internal investigation, opened his testimony by proudly noting that the bank had engaged in "introspection" and was "determined to be a better company because of this experience".
  • (15) This approach focuses on the "only or never" phenomenon, the parallel process, and introspective curiosity as modes of identifying the existence of countertransference responses.
  • (16) He stressed three essentials to meeting the future: an effective and introspective organization; ample participation by the membership of the specialty; and a plan.
  • (17) The results are interpreted through the theory of memory introspection proposed by Herrmann.
  • (18) This superposition of introspection and austere secrecy, of simplicity and opacity, is not new.
  • (19) It includes introspective consciousness of introspective consciousness itself.
  • (20) Steeped in introspection, ambiguity and a total lack of plausible strategic sense, the Corbynistas aren’t going anywhere.