What's the difference between accommodating and unselfish?

Accommodating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Accommodate
  • (a.) Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high transition enthalpy for kerasin is ascribed to a lesser accommodation of gauche conformers in the hydrocarbon chains just below the transition temperature.
  • (2) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (3) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
  • (4) The results are discussed in terms of a two-site model in which separate, but interacting, regions exist on the enzyme to accommodate the adenosine and nicotinamide moieties of NAD, and a single-site model in which the adenosine part of the molecule is bound preferentially and this interacts with the nicotinamide fraction.
  • (5) The so-called apparent accommodation has been measured in patients implanted with anterior chamber, iris support and posterior chamber IOLs.
  • (6) In the anatomy laboratory we looked for an alternative approach to the glenohumeral joint which would accommodate these difficulties.
  • (7) The government’s increase in the discount offered to tenants has prompted a massive increase in purchases of local authority accommodation.
  • (8) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
  • (9) The 61-year-old paid to transport prize-winning children to the fair in St Thomas and funded their accommodation.
  • (10) The rationale for this assumption seems logical because using all of the available accommodation is not sustainable without discomfort.
  • (11) It is clear that some degree of thyroid inhibition can be accommodated within the bounds of the normal feedback mechanism without the induction of either hyperplasia or neoplasia.
  • (12) This will not be helped by the fact that the AU still accommodates the likes of Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasago, who was until January its chair despite having been accused of serious human rights abuses.
  • (13) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
  • (14) These findings supported the idea that the ferrochelatase active site could accommodate alkyl groups larger than methyl only if they were present on the nitrogens of the A or B pyrrole rings of the N-alkylPP.
  • (15) A Tory planning minister has admitted that the coalition's new wave of garden cities would not have to contain a single affordable home, despite Nick Clegg's claims that they would offer low-cost accommodation and help solve the UK's housing crisis.
  • (16) After a short review of the literature the reduction of earning capacity on the common labour market in cases of decrease of fusion, convergence and accommodation caused by head injuries is discussed and percentual values are proposed.
  • (17) During each session, measurements were made of either tonic accommodation or tonic vergence 30 s before stimulus onset and at 0.5, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 14 min after stimulus offset.
  • (18) To investigate the ability of a protein to accommodate potentially destabilizing amino acid substitutions, and also to investigate the steric requirements for catalysis, proline was substituted at different sites within the long alpha-helix that connects the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal domains of T4 lysozyme.
  • (19) Accommodation measurements of nine young, emmetropic subjects were obtained with an infrared optometer while they viewed superimposed horizontal and vertical square-wave gratings at various dioptric separations.
  • (20) The hydrolysis of a series of n-alkyl esters of 4-nitrobenzoic acid, and of isopropyl 4-nitrobenzoate, 4'-nitrophenyl 4-nitrobenzoate, and 4-nitrobenzoyl 1-monoglycerol, catalyzed by human milk lipase in the absence and presence of cholate stimulation, has been measured at pH 7.3, 37.5 degrees C. It has been shown that the enzyme possesses a specific alkyl binding site which is hydrophobic in nature and wide enough to accommodate two fatty acid chains lying side by side or a phenyl ring lying flat.

Unselfish


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He made a great pass and CB hit a big shot.” Bosh praised his team-mate’s unselfishness.
  • (2) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
  • (3) If his long, soaring laser at the basket is destined to be preserved forever so will the act of unselfishness that made it happen.
  • (4) By that stage United could have been three in front, for Martial should have scored when Rooney broke clear and unselfishly squared for his better-placed team-mate, only to see the teenager scuff his attempt at a tap-in and allow John Stones to get in the way.
  • (5) I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my team-mates.
  • (6) David has taken a brutally unsentimental and unselfish step to ensure the strategy remains in place and an orderly succession is established with the board fully in control of the process."
  • (7) Scientist's norms (principally honesty, objectivity, tolerance, doubt of certitude, and unselfish engagement) are in danger of serious distortion unless broadened to apply to the relations between scientists and nonscientists.
  • (8) America is the apotheosis of selfish capitalism, Denmark of the unselfish variety.
  • (9) Instead, Özil unselfishly squared for Ramsey, who had charged from one end of the pitch to the other, to sweep home emphatically.
  • (10) "It was tremendously important for Albert to know that his mother had not had any choice about giving him up, that she had worried about him and kept in touch as best she could, and unselfishly agreed for him to emigrate so he could have better opportunities," says his nephew, Marcus James.
  • (11) The keys to the Spurs' success have been consistency, unselfish play and a strong emphasis on basketball fundamentals.
  • (12) Agüero could have had his hat-trick six minutes from time but unselfishly set up Silva instead.
  • (13) Silva may have been demonstrably offside from Dzeko's flick but it was still a better passing move than the home side had put together in the previous 45 minutes, with Touré, Dzeko and Silva linking effortlessly for the last to leave Nasri a tap-in with an unselfish square ball.
  • (14) And yet he's unselfish and he plays within the team, and he shares the ball and he's a one and two touch player, very good in possession.
  • (15) Mané was a menace behind Long, and Wanyama shielded his back-four unselfishly after returning from his suspension.
  • (16) David Luiz and Ryan Bertrand were bypassed by Jordan Henderson's slide-rule pass that liberated Bellamy down the right, with the forward's delivery across the six-yard box unselfish and inviting.
  • (17) And the readiness of adults to make such a firm and unselfish commitment for a child they cannot know is, to my mind, an inspirational example of humanity at its best."
  • (18) Finally to those who have so unselfishly given of their services to lighten my task in the past dozen years, I extend my thanks and gratitude.
  • (19) Lennon squared unselfishly for Defoe, and he rolled into the empty net.
  • (20) Porters, cleaners, and the army of voluntary workers who give their time and energy so unselfishly ...

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