What's the difference between adequate and competent?

Adequate


Definition:

  • (a.) Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
  • (a.) To equalize; to make adequate.
  • (a.) To equal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (2) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (3) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (4) In the past 6 years 26 patients underwent operation for recurrent duodenal ulcer after what was considered to be an "adequate" initial operation.
  • (5) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (6) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (7) Preexistent diseases that could possibly be improved should be treated adequately before operation.
  • (8) Six of eight AD and seven of eight vitamin A-adequate dams carried pregnancy to term (greater than or equal to Day 64).
  • (9) Analysis was performed on all patients who received any amount of therapy (VSG) and on the Adequately Treated Group (ATG), who had received 5000 or more rads radiotherapy, two or more courses of chemotherapy, and had a minimum survival of 8 or more weeks (the interval that would have been required to have received either the radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
  • (10) The primary focus of both nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy should be to control systemic blood pressure in a simple, affordable, and nontoxic fashion that provides an adequate quality of life.
  • (11) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (12) Even if it does not always provide the solution to a particularly delicate problem, which is often of vital importance, it provides data which, modifiable and better used, should provide an adequate notion of the anatomical and physiopathological state in aortic stenosis.
  • (13) Electron microscopic radioautography is considered as the most adequate method for studying intracellular regeneration.
  • (14) Specific antisera prepared in rabbits or in foot-pad-inoculated chickens were adequate for culture typing.
  • (15) The capacity of granule-cell networks to separate overlapping patterns of activity on their inputs is adequate, with spatial variability in the secretion at synapses, but is improved if there is also temporal variability in the stochastic secretion at individual synapses, although this is at the expense of reliability in the network.
  • (16) Based on the economics of most countries in Africa, their Health Budgets can afford mostly the non-opioid and strong opioid drugs in more or less adequate quantities.
  • (17) In this way complex interpretations can be made objective, so that they may be adequately tested.
  • (18) The latter indicated that, despite the smaller size of the digital image, they were adequate for resolving clinically significant soft-tissue densities.
  • (19) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
  • (20) The authors are also upfront about what has not gone so well: "We were too slow to mobilise … we did not identify clear leadership or adequate resources for the actions … it is vital to accelerate the programme of civil service reform."

Competent


Definition:

  • (a.) Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
  • (a.) Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
  • (2) In the measurement, enzyme-labeled and unlabeled antigens (Ag* and Ag) were allowed to compete in binding to the antibody (Ab) under conditions where Ag* much less than Ab much less than Ag.
  • (3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (4) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (5) This competence persists over the eight measurement points.
  • (6) Dilemmas of trust, confidentiality, and professional competence highlight the limits of professional ethical codes.
  • (7) Skin allografts survived longer on ALS-treated, complement-deficient (C5 negative) recipients than on ALS-treated, complement-competent (C5 positive) recipients.
  • (8) LM-fragment-8 competes for this binding to the same extent as unlabelled LM (75%), while fragment PI is inactive and fibronectin (FN) competes by about 30% only.
  • (9) These agents compete with catecholamines at beta-adrenoreceptors.
  • (10) It is also suggested that alpha-lactalbumin, GTP, UDP, and CDP compete with the binding of HRP to a glycosyltransferase on the cell surface.
  • (11) Well-refined x-ray structures of the liganded forms of the wild-type and a mutant protein isolated from a strain defective in chemotaxis but fully competent in transport have provided a molecular view of the sugar-binding site and of a site for interacting with the Trg transmembrane signal transducer.
  • (12) The antagonist drugs showed the following order of potency to displace [3H]prazosin: prazosin much greater than phentolamine much greater than corynanthine greater than pyrextramine much greater than yohimbine much greater than piperoxan greater than benextramine greater than idazoxan; for the agonists: clonidine much greater than (-)-noradrenaline much greater than (-)-adrenaline much greater than phenylephrine, while other drugs, such as (-)-propranolol, dopamine, (-)-isoproterenol and serotonin only competed with the alpha-1-ligand at concentrations above 20 microM.
  • (13) Application of the chemoattractant, cAMP (20 nM), to aggregation-competent cells induced a rapid increase in [Ca2+]i within 1-2 s, and the [Ca2+]i level increased to about four-fold higher than the resting [Ca2+]i within 30 s of chemotactic stimulation.
  • (14) The present study was designed to evaluate competence of KM231 for immunotherapy of cancer.
  • (15) Quality of anaesthesia and risk of intoxication are competing principles in IVRA.
  • (16) Mutant polypeptides have been characterized that are competent and incompetent for association with GRP78-BiP.
  • (17) Lindane proved to be ten times more potent in competing with 35S-TBPS binding in electric organ than rat brain, while the bicyclophosphate analogs displayed up to three orders of magnitude greater affinity for rat brain over electric organ.
  • (18) In Experiment 1, subjects performing in groups of four were compared with individual performers both in competing and noncompeting (coacting) conditions.
  • (19) Competent nursing care depends on open and effective communication between the nurse and the patient.
  • (20) Furthermore, asialo-Pg does not compete with native Pg for cell binding.