What's the difference between agree and congruence?

Agree


Definition:

  • (adv.) In good part; kindly.
  • (v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
  • (v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
  • (v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
  • (v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
  • (v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
  • (v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.
  • (v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.
  • (v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) They had allegedly agreed that Younous would not be charged with any crime upon his arrival there and that he would not be detained in Morocco for longer than 72 hours.
  • (3) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
  • (4) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
  • (5) 2010 2 May : In a move that signals the start of the eurozone crisis, Greece is bailed out for the first time , after eurozone finance ministers agree to grant the country rescue loans worth €110bn (£84bn).
  • (6) She agreed with Amanda that "Madiba is for everyone.
  • (7) Salmonella Centre of Paris confirmed the antigenic structure and agreed with this designation.
  • (8) The common atoms of the [3Fe-4S] and [4Fe-4S] cores agree within 0.1 A; the three common cysteinyl S gamma ligand atoms agree within 0.25 A.
  • (9) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
  • (10) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (11) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (12) "While I wouldn't necessarily concur with all the specific recommendations of the report," Barker said, "there is one clear message that I do agree with: that solar has far more potential than has previously been thought."
  • (13) Hopes of a breakthrough are slim, though, after WTO members failed to agree a draft deal to rubber-stamp this week.
  • (14) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (15) Cameron, who faces intense political pressure from the UK Independence party in the runup to the 2014 European parliamentary elections, believes voters will need to be consulted if the EU agrees a major treaty revision in the next few years.
  • (16) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (17) Non-essential Federal government services will remain closed until a budget to pay for them has been agreed.
  • (18) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
  • (19) It is generally agreed upon that ERT is fruitless in the patient with severe head trauma or when vital signs were absent at the scene of the injury.
  • (20) Surely Michael wasn't saying he agreed with what Blair is doing?

Congruence


Definition:

  • (n.) Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The statistical evaluation of the results showed a congruence between the theoretical approach and the experimental data.
  • (2) When the knee was in extension compared to 30 degrees flexion, the sulcus angle was greater, the lateral patellofemoral angle was smaller, there was more lateral patellar displacement, the patella tilted more laterally, and the congruence angle was directed more laterally.
  • (3) Merieux tests were false-negative in 15.3% of the cases, whereas congruence of the positive Mendel Mantoux and Tubergen reactions was 100%.
  • (4) The difficulties and opportunities offered by the long term follow-up studies as well as the congruency of the findings with current etiological hypotheses are discussed.
  • (5) Good congruency of the diagnosis from these two different aspects, could be established.
  • (6) Congruence of client and nurse perceptions is vital to mutual goal-setting as a means of achieving self-care in the elderly.
  • (7) These states are not always going parallel with the macroscopic pictures revealed by gastroscopy, but there are some obvious congruences.
  • (8) Previous university-based research has suggested that physician adaptation to patients' locus of control interferes with patient-physician congruence on expected compliance, but not with congruence on satisfaction with their relationship.
  • (9) The S-enantiomer was also more strongly protein bound in plasma (73.5% vs 63.4% for the R-enantiomer), which is consistent with its structural congruence to S-warfarin, S-phenprocoumon and S-glifumide.
  • (10) The implications of the congruence and the discrepancies in outcomes for the two approaches are discussed.
  • (11) The present study investigated the congruence between the factor structures of the learning environment and cognitive variables for mathematics and English courses in Grade 10.
  • (12) Comparison of perfused and existing capillary counts revealed high congruence when fluorescent results were compared.
  • (13) These results suggest that researchers who wish to observe and study the Stroop congruency and interference effects should place special emphasis on speed.
  • (14) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
  • (15) Similarities between Kohut's empathic relatedness and Buber's I-Thou are demonstrated as well as some congruence in their clinical views.
  • (16) This paper reviews the development of stress, adaptation, and coping theory, and identifies congruencies and inconsistencies with the mission of nursing.
  • (17) Mothers' postcounseling beliefs about the causes of their children's genetic disorders were investigated by means of a Q-sort consisting of 54 statements of possible beliefs that were sorted into nine groups of six items each on the basis of congruence with the subject's beliefs.
  • (18) Tenured and tenure-track faculty in 21 schools of allied health in the Midwest were surveyed by a questionnaire to identify (1) the relative importance of the variety of documents allied health faculty may submit for promotion and tenure reviews and (2) the congruence between the real and ideal value of the major areas of faculty responsibility.
  • (19) Such congruence suggests a stable inheritance of the somatic mutation(s) that is involved in carcinogenesis and that affects ploidy.
  • (20) The differing measures are located in a two-dimensional space whose axes represent first, practical application and second, relevance to actual central nervous system activity as viewed from spatial and systemic congruence.