What's the difference between adumbrate and foreshadow?

Adumbrate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
  • (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The syndrome he described--a psychosis of early onset with a deteriorating course characterized by a "silly" affect, behavioral peculiarities, and formal thought disorder--not only adumbrated Kraepelin's generic category of dementia praecox but quite specifically defined the later subtype of hebephrenic, or disorganized, schizophrenia as well.
  • (2) The way companies now see themselves largely chimes with the vision adumbrated in 1990 by the management guru, Charles Handy, when he argued that companies were "communities not properties", and that profits were "a necessary but not sufficient condition of success".
  • (3) These conclusions and the rapidity of action of intravenously administered substances necessitated the adumbration of a new electrical hypothesis for the mechanism whereby signals pass from one part of the brain and spinal cord to another.
  • (4) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
  • (5) These data are interpreted as support for the hypothesis (first adumbrated nearly 20 years ago) that HLA antigens index unusual hormone concentrations, which in turn are causally related to the diseases.
  • (6) Just a few paragraphs before, Obama had adumbrated the Muhammad video explanation, saying: "Since our founding, the United States has been a nation that respects all faiths.
  • (7) In particular, private health insurers' potential role in cost control is explored, and some promising insurer strategies are adumbrated.
  • (8) Possibilities to overcome the radiation damage problem are adumbrated.
  • (9) She wrote two books in 1918, Married Love and Wise Parenthood, in which she adumbrated some of her eugenicist views.
  • (10) The purpose of this paper is to describe an aspect of the functioning of a therapeutic community conceptualized in terms of a sociotherapy framework as adumbrated, for example, by Edelson (1970), Rapoport (1960), and White et al.
  • (11) Further genetic advances required for development of recombinant BCG into an effective recombinant vaccine vehicle, including possibilities for oral administration, are adumbrated.
  • (12) The changing form and relations of PPTg and LDT are adumbrated including that of the microcellular nucleus (MI) to the former and of Barrington's detrusor nucleus (B) which is unstained, to the latter.

Foreshadow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He did foreshadow that all Australia bilateral trade agreements have covered “movement of natural persons, particularly things such as mutual recognition, easier recognition of skill sets and whatever, so again those issues have been under consideration”.
  • (2) They had become an allegory for unhappy love, a foreshadow of Romeo and Juliet set in the Hindu Kush .
  • (3) Much of the social services (Wales) bill, which is out for consultation for 12 weeks, foreshadows what ministers at Westminster have indicated will be in the white paper and is in line with recommendations by the Law Commission.
  • (4) George H. Mead's conception of though as internal dialogue between the "I" and "me" aspects of the self and his notion of the "generalized other" were foreshadowed by some of the Scottish moralists, particularly Adam Smith.
  • (5) Wednesday 16th July 2014 Photograph: Mike Bowers The two gentleman pictured above foreshadowed new national security laws that will give Asio more powers to snoop on computers and more powers to coordinate with other agencies during investigations.
  • (6) After Joyce discussed assistance in a recent drought tour, the treasurer, Joe Hockey, foreshadowed the “end of the age of entitlements”.
  • (7) But I think you can read this opinion as foreshadowing of what that’s going to be,” said Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond school of law.
  • (8) They set a window limited to 60 days for military action – during which Obama could order the limited, tailored strikes he has foreshadowed – while allowing for a single 30-day extension subject to conditions.
  • (9) Human rights lawyers are foreshadowing a legal challenge against the dramatic move, but the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, said he was certain it was entirely in accordance with Australia’s domestic and international law obligations.
  • (10) The proposed and foreshadowed increases in commercial tourism and aircraft landings threaten the ecological integrity of places of outstanding universal value,” their submission said.
  • (11) Although expensive now, developments of technology and know-how should foreshadow routine usage.
  • (12) The institute's curiously muted response to the abolition of the Audit Commission foreshadowed a period during which council employment has been disproportionately cut, and such growth as there has been in the professional finance function has been in the private sector, where traditionally the other associations and institutes hold sway.
  • (13) The society accused him of “intellectual dishonesty”, and its members attacked him online, an unpleasant, but also, perhaps, a bleakly satisfying experience: the incident foreshadowed the themes of Franzen’s new novel.
  • (14) If the strangeness of Shanghai is meant to foreshadow Auschwitz, Vietnam and the contextless chaos of modern media, Jim's medical studies in postwar England tell us a lot about Ballard's values as a prose-writer.
  • (15) Earlier this month, John Brennan, the director of the CIA, foreshadowed closer military coordination with the Iranians, laundered through the Iraqi government.
  • (16) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
  • (17) The PMB foreshadowing the highly curved cell plates in meristemoids I of the mesoperigenous process, as well as in meristemoids I and II of the mesogenous one, are apposed only on one anticlinal wall and therefore do not encircle the nucleus or traverse the cell.
  • (18) Also in December, Greg Barker foreshadowed today's announcement , saying: "I'm not a fan of large-scale solar farms.
  • (19) The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, earlier foreshadowed a fresh round of sanctions against the Russian hierarchy.
  • (20) This once rare disease became an epidemic among male homosexuals and foreshadowed the AIDS epidemic.

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