What's the difference between arcane and occult?

Arcane


Definition:

  • (a.) Hidden; secret.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (2) The arcane nature of physics calls for some imagination when it comes to naming particles.
  • (3) Arcane though names such as Ro, La, Sm and Jo-1 may appear, much is now known about the intracellular targets of the antibodies; most are enzymes or particles active in DNA replication and the synthesis of RNA and protein.
  • (4) Milk texture talk quickly becomes arcane, with terms like frothing, stretching and the all-important microfoam.
  • (5) The arcane wiring when electricity came along, the subsequent clumsy rewiring; the cheap flat conversion in the 1960s; the constant saga of patch and mend from occupants who never have the money or vision to remake the whole thing from scratch - all this, and more, was paralleled on the WCML on an enormous scale.
  • (6) This partly explains the higher infection rate among Maasai livestock but the low human infection rate remains arcane and requires further study.
  • (7) "But the danger always is that the debate becomes very quickly polarised between one side which says this is the moment to rush headlong towards further integration, new treaties, new intergovernmental conferences, new arcane debates about EU powers, and another side that says this is the moment to unravel the whole thing.
  • (8) It's partly to do with the fact that kids are more sophisticated, especially linguistically, then they used to be, so to do a show that is clever and funny and uses arcane references but can play to adults and children is more possible now.
  • (9) Furthermore, it emphasizes method rather than arcane knowledge and illustrates the approaches to problems and the kinds of thinking that a liberal education should cultivate: the scientific method, analogic thinking, deductive reasoning, problem solving within constraints, and concern for aesthetic values.
  • (10) With his moral authority and charisma, the pope has helped reframe climate change from an arcane set of negotiations into an issue with sweeping moral implications.
  • (11) Even if some unease about the hiving off of public services prevails, maybe all those acronyms and contractual complexities made it too arcane to compete with broad brush concerns like equality and climate change.
  • (12) Nothing is too odd, too arcane, or too outre (I’ve not researched the tie-in adult sex-toy angle, but I’ll bet there is one) to have the Star Wars logo plastered across it.
  • (13) But while she has set herself such arcane formal constraints, much of the novel's appeal lies in the fact that it is a compulsive thriller.
  • (14) This is not some arcane dry and dusty subject,” Cameron said at his closing press conference.
  • (15) Among the problems in this area have been the lack of a theoretical base for taxonomic categories of behavior, overlapping categories, the arcane nature of many disciplinary taxonomies, and lack of rigorous operational definitions for measurements.
  • (16) Even more esoterically, it ran a specialist indie page: this when “indie” didn’t mean Oasis filling stadiums and the Arctic Monkeys breaking sales records, but music of an unbelievably arcane stripe.
  • (17) The immediate focus of the dispute is an arcane point of law.
  • (18) Partly inspired by the soundtracks to arcane horror movies, it's a meticulously constructed, cinematic work that moves from eerie paranoia to tentative optimism, painting vivid mental pictures as it goes.
  • (19) ARCANE's referential is based on conceptual slicing close to SNOMED's.
  • (20) Flash Boys follows the usual Lewis formula: find a scandalous situation that is too arcane for most people to comprehend; locate some smart guys (they are usually male) who have spotted the scam and plan to do something with or about it; and tell their story.

Occult


Definition:

  • (a.) Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown.
  • (v. t.) To eclipse; to hide from sight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fecal occult blood was positive in 4 patients and fecal leukocytes were positive in one patient.
  • (2) The present report details an unusual patient with "occult temporal arteritis" who sustained abrupt monocular visual loss and subsequent ipsilateral ophthalmoplegia involving all functions of the oculomotor nerve.
  • (3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
  • (4) Lateral cervical cystic metastases arising from occult thyroid carcinoma and their ultrasonic differentiation from true cysts are discussed.
  • (5) The procedure may prove useful for detection of occult infections and may provide a new diagnostic approach in fever of unknown origin.
  • (6) Previous studies suggest that patients who are in clinical remission harbor tumor in multiple occult "sanctuaries."
  • (7) While occult breast carcinoma was relatively common in our series (two of 17 patients), the ability to detect the tumor with mammography was disappointing (one of two patients).
  • (8) A clinico-pathological study of 10 cases (including histopathology) indicates that occult cholesteatoma is neither a congenital cholesteatoma nor an epidermoid cyst, originating in the attic through a melaplastic process of middle ear mucosa behind an intact tympanic membrane.
  • (9) In order to estimate the diagnostic validity of chemical fecal occult blood tests, i.e.
  • (10) Arm exercise with myocardial scintigraphy may be an effective method of detecting occult ischemia in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
  • (11) ), the diagnostic significance (occult carcinoma?, parenchymal asymmetry?, benign or malignant microcalcification?)
  • (12) The importance of recognising occult CO exposure and of treating symptomatic patients promptly cannot be overemphasized.
  • (13) In contrast to the immunologically-detected fecal occult blood test, the sensitivity and specificity for CR cancers are surprisingly high, the percentage values in using the Shams test having been found to be 100% and 93.1%, respectively (Shamsuddin).
  • (14) Accordingly, exacerbation of atherogenesis may accompany release of platelet-associated growth factors (or mitogens) occurring in association with occult, repetitive thrombosis and thrombolysis.
  • (15) It was found that combining faecal occult blood testing with the health check did not reduce attendance at the health check--43.5% of patients attended when the Haemoccult test kit was offered by the nurse at the health check, 43.6% attended when a test kit was included with the invitation to attend the health check and 42.9% attended when the health check invitation was posted on its own.
  • (16) Gastric antral vascular ectasia ('water melon stomach') is a poorly documented cause of occult upper gastrointestinal blood loss.
  • (17) Because cavernous malformations are often angiographically occult and do not have a characteristic appearance on computed tomography (CT), they are seldom recognized preoperatively and may be missed if the surgical specimen is not carefully reviewed.
  • (18) Taken together, these data demonstrate that dental radiography is not efficacious for the purpose of detecting occult lesions.
  • (19) A forensic autopsy series of 519 women more than 14 years old was studied for prevalence of benign, atypical, and occult malignant breast lesions.
  • (20) and metoclopramide stimulation have considerable value in identifying hyperprolactinaemic patients with prolactin-secreting adenomas, particularly those which are radiologically occult.