What's the difference between adherent and futurist?

Adherent


Definition:

  • (a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
  • (a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
  • (a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
  • (n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
  • (n.) That which adheres; an appendage.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (2) Preincubation of the bacteria at 56 degrees C for 30 minutes and ultraviolet irradiation resulted in a noticeable decrease in adherence.
  • (3) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
  • (4) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
  • (5) In normal lymphoreticular tissue, IgGEA selectively bound to areas colonized by macrophages, IgMEAC to B-dependent areas, whereas E showed no adherence.
  • (6) Results of this study provide preliminary evidence that tracheal adherence and HA of B avium are closely related.
  • (7) Bacterial adherence to vascular sutures was evaluated in vitro using radioactively labeled Staphylococcus aureus.
  • (8) In contrast, newly formed secondary myotubes are short cells which insert solely into the primary myotubes by a series of complex interdigitating folds along which adhering junctions occur.
  • (9) Alveolar macrophages (greater than 97% esterase positive) were isolated form bronchoalveolar lavage fluids by adherence onto plastic.
  • (10) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (11) Newborn suppressor T cells were characterized as being non-adherent to Ig-anti-Ig affinity columns, soybean agglutinin receptor negative (SBA-), and susceptible to lysis by anti-T-cell specific antiserum plus complement.
  • (12) Approximately 70% of DN thymocytes became bound to FN-precoated culture plates, whereas 30 to 40% of DP and only 10 to 20% of SP cells adhered to FN.
  • (13) Seventeen different bacteria were used in the adherence tests; ten strains of alpha-hemolytic streptococci, five from children with infective endocarditis (IE) and five from healthy carriers, two S. aureus, two N. meningitidis, two N. gonorrhoeae and one E. coli.
  • (14) E. coli strain S22-1, serotype O103:H2, isolated from a child with diarrhoea, contained two plasmids; one of these (pDEP12) hybridized with the CVD419 DNA probe derived from a plasmid found in E. coli O157:H7 and associated with expression of fimbriae and ability to adhere to Intestine 407 cells.
  • (15) The interaction between PE and E-IgG involved the extension of micropseudopods toward adherent E-IgG, the formation of a linear uniform cap of roughly 200 A between opposing cell membranes, the ingestion of E-IgG by PE into a membrane-lined compartment, and the disintegration of the ingested ligand into membranous debris.
  • (16) At present significant effects have been documented only for the stage of bacterial adherence to the damaged valve.
  • (17) Binding of fibronectin, an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein, to Candida albicans was measured, and adherence of the fungus to immobilized ECM proteins, fibronectin, laminin, types I and IV collagen, and subendothelial ECM was studied.
  • (18) Thrombospondin (TSP), a 450-kDa trimeric glycoprotein secreted by platelets and endothelial cells at sites of tissue injury or inflammation, may play an important role in polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN) adherence to blood vessel walls before diapedesis.
  • (19) [3H]-leu leukocyte adherence inhibition assay ([3H]-leu-LAI) was modified to identify activity of Sp-TFM.
  • (20) is related to the presence of adherent clots along cerebral arteries and when severe may lead to cerebral infarction.

Futurist


Definition:

  • (n.) One whose chief interests are in what is to come; one who anxiously, eagerly, or confidently looks forward to the future; an expectant.
  • (n.) One who believes or maintains that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the Bible is to be in the future.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lord Freud revealed his futuristic vision of how people could soon claim benefits, suggesting ultimately claimants might take advantage of the development of internet eye-glasses by Google – which allows users to surf the internet on the lens of a pair of glasses, using eye movement to navigate the web and make benefits claims.
  • (2) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
  • (3) "Consumers are beginning to realise that this technology isn't an outlandish, futurist concept coming to life from The Jetsons but in fact can be used efficiently and effectively to solve everyday problems," says Alex Hawkinson, CEO of home automation company SmartThings.
  • (4) She's a symbol of revolt, and freedom, and hope … a futuristic Joan of Arc."
  • (5) Until I can strap myself to a big drone like some sort of hipster Icarus, the disappointed futurist thinks, I will wobble about on a two-wheeled board and pretend it is not in contact with the ground.
  • (6) Also, Doc Brown's inventions changed 1985 and made it much more futuristic when Marty finally got back.
  • (7) "The ideal city is not one with gated communities, security cameras, a futuristic scene from Blade Runner , dark and dramatic, with profound unhappiness … We need to at least build a city where happiness is possible and where public space is really for everybody."
  • (8) I'm not a futurist kind of person, but I would expect over time that it's just going to be real common."
  • (9) *** I took off my futuristic yellow pants and my Rush club shirt and stepped into the shower.
  • (10) Unfathomable, futuristic madness: that's what made me want to visit Japan.
  • (11) It’s an eerie setting in many ways, a limitless vista of futuristic visions and broken dreams, of soaring ambition and once-modern flying machines brought sadly back down to earth.
  • (12) This is the world of titanium or cobalt-chromium joint designs, bone screws and plates, orthotic limbs, supports and wheelchairs, and futuristic ideas such as miniature video cameras for artificial eyes.
  • (13) I had no idea what I was looking at: the one thing I did know was that this unfathomable futuristic madness was precisely the sort of thing I'd come to Japan to see.
  • (14) A futuristic sci-fi apparently: "An epic human story, set in a futuristic world without humanity."
  • (15) They don't align themselves with the thinkers, they align themselves with marketing, advertising, futurist crowd who are interested in ideas for the sake of ideas.
  • (16) I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city.
  • (17) With a hint of Tom Cruise in Minority Report, this instinctive, ­futuristic control system allows users to tailor their screen (even the size of the keyboard) and move from function to function effortlessly and with style.
  • (18) Some old, some current, and some futuristic techniques, including a few now operative but largely experimental, are mentioned, as is a concluding opinion of the minimum clinical routine providing the "best" information of the edema state.
  • (19) Those long enough in the tooth will remember that the Standard's former owner, Associated Newspapers , made a financially disastrous foray into TV back in the mid-1990s with the launch and closure of Channel One, a cable station it then futuristically billed as its "electronic newspaper" for the capital.
  • (20) In 2001 the retro-futurist Discovery revived appreciation for the kind of glossy soft-rock and sentimental 80s pop that most bands deemed too cheesy. "