What's the difference between apt and germane?

Apt


Definition:

  • (a.) Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
  • (a.) Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things.
  • (a.) Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons.
  • (a.) Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
  • (v. t.) To fit; to suit; to adapt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (2) The ApU analogues ApT, Apcl5U, Apbr5U, Apa5U and Apno5(2)U were synthesized with the aid of ribonuclease U2 starting from 2',3'-cyclic Ap and the respective uridine derivatives.
  • (3) The current CEO, the aptly named John Boss, took home $5.4m in salary and other compensation in 2015.
  • (4) We describe immunofluorescence microscopic studies of the amebal-plasmodial transition (APT) in Physarum polycephalum.
  • (5) The most promising clinical application of APT so far has been the monitoring of gastric emptying.
  • (6) Damage which is apt to be most cytotoxic is probably less effective as an inducer of skin cancer than is more subtle damage, which is tolerated but can initiate malignant transformation.
  • (7) Fornalini in 1984 independently revived the concept of APT using the closed method of needle induction, as later accepted.
  • (8) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .
  • (9) A patient with an anal lesion, however, was more apt to develop small bowel disease simply because the small bowel was a far commoner site of Crohn disease in this series.
  • (10) Although most vitreous seeds were necrotic tumor cells, some were almost intact tumor cells which were apt to be situated along blood vessels.
  • (11) Recurrences, which are apt to be more common after PTA versus carotid subclavian bypass, are easily managed with repeat dilatation.
  • (12) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (13) Expression of the APT gene is under the control of lambda bacteriophage PL promoter.
  • (14) We are apt to know what the current situation is after ten years have passed.
  • (15) The author considers the loss of opportunities in life as an apt criterium of the vital impact of different permanent health impairments.
  • (16) Applied potential tomography (APT) or electrical impedance imaging has received considerable attention during the past few years and some in vivo images have been produced.
  • (17) The stronger the smoking habit, the less apt the smoker is to quit or maintain a nonsmoking status.
  • (18) Members of the medical profession were considered particularly apt to accurately and reliably report their personal experience with lower back pain and were therefore selected for this survey.
  • (19) The groups with low right-left ear ratios were less likely to have a somatosensory disorder than the other two groups, but they were more apt to have a language problem.
  • (20) As our understanding of the biochemical and cellular mechanisms of APT improve, a number of key clinical issues may be clarified: (1) risk factor assessment for APT, (2) criteria for early diagnosis of APT, and (3) improved therapeutic approach to patients with APT.

Germane


Definition:

  • (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
  • (3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
  • (8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
  • (10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
  • (14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
  • (16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
  • (17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
  • (20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.