What's the difference between admiring and complimentary?

Admiring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Admire
  • (a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hettinga can be admired, and his heart is in the right place.
  • (2) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
  • (3) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
  • (4) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (5) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
  • (6) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
  • (7) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
  • (8) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
  • (9) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
  • (10) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
  • (11) No wonder celebrities all take selfies of themselves all day long, admiring and capturing their specialness for themselves.
  • (12) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
  • (13) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
  • (14) Admirably, Clinton kept her cool throughout, particularly Trump when spoke over her to call her “such a nasty woman”.
  • (15) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
  • (16) But it's still a neat model to watch – and admire.
  • (17) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
  • (18) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
  • (19) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," Allen told the Guardian.
  • (20) David Puttnam, president of the Film Distributors' Association, said in a statement: "The report's clear message that everyone should have the opportunity to engage with film, and that watching, exploring, understanding and creating film is important for young people and the audience as a whole, is as admirable as it is welcome."

Complimentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no significant change in PMN count, PMN CD18 expression, or plasma TNF activity in Group C. In complimentary in vitro studies, porcine PMNs stimulated with recombinant human TNF-alpha (n = 5) demonstrated a time- and dose-dependent increase in CD18 expression.
  • (2) The two techniques revealed different and complimentary representations of the morphology of neuron C1.
  • (3) The upper and lower airways have complimentary roles in the ultimate object of supplying the body with oxygen whilst removing waste products of metabolism.
  • (4) A 1.1-kilobase cDNA clone generated by primer extension using an oligonucleotide complimentary to a sequence 245 base pairs 3' to the putative initiation codon for EBNA I in the BamHI K fragment has been isolated.
  • (5) He added that Bragg was bursting with ideas, and had been complimentary about what Sky Arts was doing.
  • (6) In addition, because of the complimentary nature of these 2 new technologies certain complex stones, such as staghorn calculi, may be handled best by a combination of the 2 techniques.
  • (7) These final oligosaccharides are hydrolyzed efficiently by complimentary action of three integral brush border enzymes at the intestinal surface: glucoamylase (maltase-glucoamylase, amyloglucosidase), sucrase (maltase-sucrase) and alpha-dextrinase (isomaltase).
  • (8) Hopkins is funny and frequently complimentary, which might be manipulative but might just be niceness.
  • (9) The gastroenterologist and GI surgeon should play complimentary roles in the care of these complicated patients.
  • (10) Lebedev said that readers confronted on aeroplanes with a complimentary copy of the Daily Mail and the Independent were far more likely to read the Mail first.
  • (11) That included making the court-ordered payment, the spokesman said, adding that a complimentary lunch order had been sent to Driscoll’s workplace in Sydney.
  • (12) These active muscular relaxation techniques are complimentary to chiropractic adjustments.
  • (13) When considering joint innervation, it is important to appreciate that the joint receptors and the muscle tendon units about the joint interact in a complimentary manner forming a single afferent system.
  • (14) Our aim was to clone the PLC-delta complimentary DNA (cDNA) from SHR and analyse the genomic DNA obtained from two hypertensive rat strains such as SHR and its stroke-prone substrain (SHR-SP) and three normotensive rat strains such as Sprague-Dawley, Donryu and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) by preparing an aortic cDNA library of SHR, hybridization cloning of PLC-delta cDNA and an analysis of the genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction.
  • (15) LH receptor mRNA was demonstrated in monkey ovarian sections by in situ hybridization with a 35S-labeled antisense RNA probe derived from rat LH receptor complimentary DNA.
  • (16) However, Erekat was complimentary of Obama and Kerry, saying he believed both were committed to reaching an agreement.
  • (17) Without prior in vitro enzymatic ligation a DNA duplex was assembled successfully by directly transforming competent cells with a mixture containing six synthetic complimentary oligodeoxyribonucleotides and a linearized plasmid.
  • (18) "As new capabilities come on the block, you reassess whether you need the old ones, whether they are complimentary or duplicatory.
  • (19) It is concluded that 5TH, SP, TRH and proctolin, which appear to co-exist in various combinations in ventral horn terminals near spinal motoneurons, have complimentary effects on motoneuron excitability.
  • (20) By means of the rosetting antiglobulin test, clear differences between AA and AO as well as BB and BO could be shown; however, this method could not define the variation in the amount of the H antigen as a complimentary means of differentiating AA from AO and BB from BO.