What's the difference between appertain and irrelevant?

Appertain


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These other factors appertain to changes in the firing statistics of individual motor units as well as the correlation between the firings of different motor units.
  • (2) Results agree with a Cd2+ binding to HS- groups of membrane proteins at the brush border, appertaining or functionally related to the phlorizin-sensitive and Na+ dependent transport system for sugars.
  • (3) "Almost by definition, a decision to contain will only be made, or even considered, in extreme and exceptional circumstances: the [high court] made it clear that they thought the circumstances appertaining in the City of London on 1 April 2009 were extreme and exceptional.
  • (4) A correlation between the increase of the respiration and the appertaining cardiac effects was not discovered.
  • (5) Considerable differences in enzymic reactivity, appertaining particularly to the phosphatases and esterases, between the anterior and posterior parts of the callosal gyrus were found.
  • (6) Fitting with the appertaining model function resulted in 500 sets of estimated parameters.
  • (7) Using the soil plate technique and Sabouraud's dextrose agar, thirty six species appertaining to twenty genera of keratinophilic fungi were isolated.
  • (8) A facilitated diffusion system appertained at low concentrations of choline and exhibited Michaelis-Menten kinetics.
  • (9) Data on the primary and secondary drug resistance, type appertainance of the causative agent and the result of a disinfectant work in the infection foci have been studied in 511 patients having copious bacilli excretion.
  • (10) An Appendix is included to which points 6-ll appertain...
  • (11) On the basis of 70 serial angiograms of surgically and histologically reliably diagnosed intracranial meningiomas and the appertaining general radiographs of the skull the following was found: 48.5 per cent of the general radiographs showed reactions, 7.1 per cent showed tumour calcifications.
  • (12) Fifty-one species and one variety appertaining to twenty one genera of mesophilic fungi were recovered from the monthly samples of marginal water (44 species, 1 variety and 18 genera) and submerged mud (78 species, 1 variety and 30 genera) of Aswan High Dam Lake during the period from July 1985 to December 1986.
  • (13) Twenty-three strains of Group 1 appertain to subgroup 1B and were isolated over a 4-year period from the burned surface of patients and from the throat of a medical staff carrier.
  • (14) The basic messages will be the same worldwide but require to be tailored to the different needs and conditions appertaining to individuals as they become elderly.
  • (15) In radicular disturbances not only the autonomous reflexes of the appertaining muscles may be weakened or extinguished, but those of the antagonists may also be accentuated.
  • (16) Intussusception thus appears to be a principle of growth appertaining to many vascular systems.
  • (17) The long-wave forms of chlorophyll appertain to the pigment-protein complex of PS-1 which is not involved in the formation of contacts between the grand thylacoids.
  • (18) A hazardous activity appertains even if only a minor portion of the field of activity is the cause of the disease.
  • (19) The purpose of this article is to present a new cast clasp's design: the retentive clasp element will be shifted from the vestibular to the oral surface of the abutment tooth; at the same time, both the appertaining reciprocal component and the occlusal rest will be combined into a new element: an "occlusal arm rest".
  • (20) No information is provided as to whether the circadian-mediated response appertains in disease or with continued drug administration.

Irrelevant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (2) At this point that is largely an irrelevance,” he said.
  • (3) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
  • (4) Mammary tumors in dogs related to oral contraceptives are now widely considered to be irrelevant as a model or predictor for human tumors.
  • (5) We conclude that transformation by transfection with human tumor DNA does not require persistence of the BKV viral genome, suggesting that either BKV virus was irrelevant to original oncogenesis, in analogy with models proposed by others for herpesvirus oncogenesis.
  • (6) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
  • (7) Ratios of MoAb 273-34A to a nonspecific, irrelevant MoAb 135-14 are 250 to 285 times higher in the lung than in the serum.
  • (8) But what has really been lost is a sense of the density and interdependence of human life, which can neither be reduced to a formula nor brushed aside as irrelevant.
  • (9) It isn't, of course; but to make the primary complaint that he is using his view of the first world war to make political points is asking us to make history irrelevant to all but academics.
  • (10) As arousal level increases, so does selectivity, and attention is diverted away from irrelevant task components.
  • (11) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
  • (12) The actual rights and wrongs of it are almost irrelevant.
  • (13) When the three-tone patterns were embedded in longer sequences of seven or eight tones, the identification performance was best when the pattern occurred at the beginning or the end of the sequence, and when the range of frequencies from which the irrelevant background tones were chosen lay outside the range of pattern frequencies.
  • (14) The “right to be forgotten” ruling allows EU residents to request the removal of search results that they feel link to outdated or irrelevant information about themselves on a country-by-country basis.
  • (15) Using this methodology, no non-allogeneic reactive T cells remain in the responding cells: after restimulation by autologous LCL, no IL-2-SC could be seen and no cytotoxic activity could be observed against autologous, irrelevant or LAK sensitive targets.
  • (16) Blocking is an established animal learning procedure, thought by some researchers to reflect selective attention; decreased blocking indicates increased processing of irrelevant stimuli.
  • (17) There was a significant but clinically irrelevant increase in mean pulse rate before and 1 min after early bronchoscopy.
  • (18) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
  • (19) The precise identities of the alleles are irrelevant to the linkage analysis so long as identity-by-descent and linkage-phase information are preserved.
  • (20) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.