What's the difference between anachronous and incongruous?

Anachronous


Definition:

  • (a.) Containing an anachronism; anachronistic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Despite 50 years of intensive research in the field of RFs, autoimmunity and chronic inflammation, some of the serological tests used for measuring autoantibodies remain an anachronism.
  • (2) Miliband, as I observed some time ago in a piece for ConservativeHome , should have dismissed as a preposterous anachronism the Tory attack on the trade union link.
  • (3) In order to have an impact on the vast population, that kind of anachronism must be addressed.
  • (4) What better reason to get rid of it as an economically and ethically unjustifiable anachronism from a bygone age, exploited now only by the richest in our society so that they can get richer at cost to all the rest of us?
  • (5) Like its predecessors (The Tudors, Spartacus, Camelot etc) the 10-part potboiler is awash with wrecking ball exposition, window-rattling anachronisms and scenes in which heritage hardbodies have shouting backwards sex next to stupefied livestock.
  • (6) In the past she has gone on the attack, pointing out that the Booker criteria (Commonwealth writers yes, Americans no) might also be viewed as an anachronism.
  • (7) But it did have a very particular place in the Liberal Democrat heart, both because the ermine-trimmed anachronism that still co-writes Britain's law offends the party's modernity and rationalism, and because great Liberal heroes moved heaven and earth to reform the chamber a century ago.
  • (8) The whole thing is a mad anachronism,” Greer said.
  • (9) Aid projects in China and Russia will be cut, on the grounds that they have become anachronisms given the global clout of those economies.
  • (10) In an ere in which man is beginning to master and make his way into the various systems which surround him (atom, cosmic exploration, organ transplant, genetic manipulations...), a clinical practice which would remain centered on the various forms and apparent characteristics of psychic dysfunctioning, has become anachronical.
  • (11) Laboratory managers who eschew computer tools are now an anachronism; extinction of this species is imminent.
  • (12) American Indian tribes are seen as an anachronism by many non-Indian people.
  • (13) The non-dom loophole is an anachronism that should have been archived a long time ago.
  • (14) By the time the last club closed in the early 90s, they seemed a total anachronism.
  • (15) Despite truly heroic estimates of their economic value to the nation (at least $1bn a year), the red tape repeal days were mostly about removing anachronisms and correcting punctuation in the nation’s legislation.
  • (16) The G8 as an institution, after all, is an anachronism – a body without legitimacy or power, in the words of David Miliband last week.
  • (17) At the same time, the decline of the trade union movement has made many people believe that being a "worker" is something of an anachronism.
  • (18) Rebekah Anderson and Helen Fuller spent the month of their student elective in southern India and here reveal some of the dental anachronisms they encountered.
  • (19) The conclusion arrived at after a review of the relevant literature, coupled with current knowledge of the morphophysiological changes which take place in the transformation zone of the cervix, is that the term cervical erosion is an anachronism.
  • (20) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.

Incongruous


Definition:

  • (a.) Not congruous; reciprocally disagreeing; not capable of harmonizing or readily assimilating; inharmonious; inappropriate; unsuitable; not fitting; inconsistent; improper; as, an incongruous remark; incongruous behavior, action, dress, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
  • (2) Motion’s inner dialogue with his father’s memory coloured his own mission to Germany, but he was conscious of the incongruity of his presence among the Desert Rats.
  • (3) We successfully applied it in the treatment of eight fractures of the shafts of the femur or tibia which would not unite because of infection, soft tissue interposition or gross incongruity of fragments.
  • (4) Fifty-nine Salter-Harris III and IV lesions of the medial malleolus, Tillaux fractures, and triplane fractures were examined after 9 (3-32) years to assess the frequency of late symptoms, deformity, joint incongruity, and secondary arthrosis.
  • (5) The thymus is the first organ in the body to age, which seems incongruent considering its cardinal role in the immune system.
  • (6) Children recalled incongruent material more than congruent material on the comprehension-monitoring task.
  • (7) One joint was congruent, in agreement with the hypotheses, but the other was incongruent.
  • (8) Nothing in the present findings, however, is incongruent with the possibility of an association between low platelet MAO activity and bipolar affective disorder.
  • (9) Results showed significantly longer VRTs in the Accuracy group, and more errors in the Speed group to right-field projections (initial left hemisphere input) of the incongruent color-words during the color-naming condition.
  • (10) In addition, background music was either congruent or incongruent with the affect of an episode's outcome.
  • (11) Examination of 29 cases of fracture of the distal radius with restricted motion or persistent pain in 22 patients showed that most had been caused by incongruity of the distal radioulnar joint or by rotational malalignment in supination or pronation.
  • (12) Incongruous and illusory depth cues, arising from 'interference patterns' produced by overlapping linear grids at the edges of escalator treads, may contribute to the disorientation experienced by some escalator users, which in turn may contribute to the causes of some of the many escalator accidents which occur.
  • (13) Congruent students did in fact achieve significantly higher cumulative GPA and science GPA than did incongruent students.
  • (14) In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline.
  • (15) The reasons for post-traumatic contracture of the elbow could be intrinsic such as interposed fragments, intra-articular adhesions, incongruity of the articular surfaces--or extrinsic--like contractures of the capsule and ligaments, adhesions of different layers, ectopic bone formations.
  • (16) In one, incongruous homonymous hemianopsia was accompanied by a decrease in visual acuity in one eye from chiasmal involvement.
  • (17) Congruence between the object display and the sentence produced significantly higher recall and clustering than the incongruence or control conditions.
  • (18) She laughs raucously again, mirth appearing to be, incongruously, her way of acknowledging pain.
  • (19) Once incongruent persistence is suspected, the possibility of parental falsification of symptoms must be faced.
  • (20) The proverbs appeared either in their original form or with their final word changed to be incongruous with the sentence context.

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