What's the difference between apt and inept?

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.

Inept


Definition:

  • (a.) Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
  • (a.) Silly; useless; nonsensical; absurd; foolish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
  • (2) Ever since the ex-PD leader Walter Veltroni started praising President Kennedy as a way to jettison communism, this has been an abiding theme, manifesting itself institutionally in the desperate attempt to engineer a US-style two-party system through breathtakingly inept electoral reforms – the latest one, the " Porcellum " (after porcello, swine), was behind the impasse earlier this year.
  • (3) The head seems to float uncomfortably above the collar, while the doublet is ineptly managed.
  • (4) Its structure was elucidated by IR, UV, FAB-MS, and various NMR spectra (including NOE, BBD, INEPT, SR, COSY, NOESY etc.
  • (5) Their barking drew an entertaining rebuke from Ta-Nehisi Coates to which we cannot resist linking, however: Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory.
  • (6) I have to say that arranging your move so that you actually become homeless for a month is pretty much the definition of inept.
  • (7) The structures of the loureirins 1-4 were elucidated through interpretation of their spectroscopic data, with particular use being made of the selective INEPT nmr technique.
  • (8) As an inexperienced and diplomatically inept minister in the early 1970s, Thatcher clashed with what was later called "the education establishment".
  • (9) The government has handled the "£9,000 student fees" affair ineptly, near paralysed by political correctness.
  • (10) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
  • (11) spectrum were given for these dolichols by using model compounds and INEPT (insensitive nuclei enhanced by polarization transfer) measurement.
  • (12) The basic principles applied are the VOSY pulse scheme for volume selection and the INEPT sequence for homonuclear polarization transfer from the CH to the CH3 groups.
  • (13) "The crumbling of key pillars of Israel's security … coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel's history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation," declared New York Times columnist Tom Friedman last month.
  • (14) So could I counter with a 'tactically inept' regarding England?
  • (15) But their attempts are suspiciously theatrical and inept – with the "demonstrators" at one point advancing in a hopeless Roman-style assault.
  • (16) Congress granted qualified immunity from liability for peer review participation to physicians, osteopaths and dentists, created a national practitioner data bank to track inept, incompetent or unprofessional physicians, and enacted procedural rules for due process, privilege restrictions, and reporting and disbursement of information.
  • (17) The INEPT (insensitive nucleus enhancement by polarization transfer) experiment [Morris, G. A., & Freeman, R. (1979) J.
  • (18) If you think Isis arose from the US invasion of Iraq, not the vacuum created by its inept occupation and premature withdrawal, good luck again.
  • (19) Friedman and Schwartz made a convincing case that it was inept monetary management by the Federal Reserve Bank that was the main culprit.
  • (20) The present Queen’s legacy may look very different once the future of the monarchy is in the inept hands of her eldest son.