What's the difference between archaic and chimerical?

Archaic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Its language is “archaic and obscure”, the commission says.
  • (2) Separate item pools were developed to measure each disposition: Trance, Nonconscious Involvement, Archaic Involvement, Drowsiness, Relaxation, Vividness of Imagery, Absorption, and Access to the Unconscious.
  • (3) The patriarchal laws and the predominantly male enforcers of said archaic acts of parliaments condemn us criminals if we terminate our pregnancies.
  • (4) The stomach of N. savona shows gastric glands of an archaic type, without any acid-secreting parietal cells.
  • (5) The study presents a demographic assessment of the Carlston Annis (Bt-5) Late Archaic hunting and gathering population recovered from the banks of the Green River in west-central Kentucky.
  • (6) In extreme anticipatory condensation--what I do propose, from my own reflections, is the preeminent importance of an archaic characterological core in depressive illness.
  • (7) The two most distinct models of recent human evolution, the multiregional and the recent African origin models, have different retrodictions concerning specific archaic-recent population relationships.
  • (8) The Parkinsonian-like walking pattern of the healthy old-aged human is thought to be a disinhibition of an archaic pattern of posture and movement.
  • (9) Stress is laid on the role played by archaic fears of being the bearer of evil tidings.
  • (10) Nor was it an institution, or a curious, outdated source of national pride, or an embarrassingly archaic badge of national pride , of a Britain continuing to punch above its weight on the international scene.
  • (11) It added that mistakes in how officers handled intelligence could be down to its "archaic paper-based system, a lack of personal responsibility by officers, convoluted policing structures and subjective assessments of what was relevant".
  • (12) Microbiology laboratories that offer only the archaic retrospective Weil-Felix serologic tests should review the needs of their patients.
  • (13) the projective identification (archaic form), the identification, the transference (in psychotherapy), the regression etc.
  • (14) These observations demonstrate that thyroglobulin has evolved from the condensation of a duplicated copy of the acetylcholinesterase gene with an archaic thyroglobulin gene encoding the major hormonogenic domain.
  • (15) It is considered as a transsynaptic degeneration which probably reveals an archaic phenomenon, submerged but not lost through evolution.
  • (16) We need a smarter system of information use, not a bigger one; a digital NHS, not a paper-based archaic NHS.
  • (17) When the dust settles from this particular takeover furore, we should start thinking more practically about the fundamental purpose of companies: the current structure of narrow shareholder ownership is based on an archaic interpretation of shareholding and a very narrow objective: to maximise their return.
  • (18) The state of Wisconsin is still clinging to an archaic contraceptive law that prohibits birth control for unmarrieds.¿The mos t tragic victims of this law are unmarried teen-agers because studies indicate that sexual intercourse is very frequent among teen-agers, yet access to contraception is hard to come by.¿It is hoped that the Legislature will see fit to repeal this outdated contraceptive law.
  • (19) These results strongly suggest the presence of a V-ATPase in pinocytic vesicles of E. histolytica, and thereby support the notion that the V-ATPases in the organelles of higher eukaryotes are derived from an archaic plasma membrane-bound form.
  • (20) Submitted to their narcissistically uncathected archaic superego, depressives are strictly directed towards law and order.

Chimerical


Definition:

  • (a.) Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
  • (2) The results suggests that abrin B chain of chimeric protein may act as a vector to carry ACTI into the tumor cells.
  • (3) ch14.18-delta CH2 was localized to the melanoma tumors more rapidly and with better localization ratios than the intact chimeric antibody ch14.18.
  • (4) Using a cell line as a model, it was found that the CD38 antigen acts as a target for a chimeric antibody prepared from the antibody OKT10.
  • (5) Chimeric plasmids pCD1 and pCD3 were constructed from site-specific endonuclease digests of bacteriophage phi3T DNA cloned in pMB9 in E. coli.
  • (6) The chimeric antibodies studied have several advantages over human paraproteins as quality control reagents for clinical assays.
  • (7) The ability to generate reconstructed antibodies, chimeric antibodies, catalytic antibodies and the use of modelled antibodies for the design of drugs is discussed.
  • (8) In another transgenic strain, carrying the rat MLC2 gene and a modified rat skeletal muscle actin gene (actin-globin chimeric gene), transcripts of the rat MLC2 gene were detected in skeletal muscle only, whereas the actin-globin transcripts were detected in skeletal muscle as well as in the heart.
  • (9) Chimeric oligodeoxynucleotides, comprised of internal phosphodiester and terminal methylphosphonodiester sections, possess many beneficial characteristics as antisense effectors.
  • (10) The chimeric shuttle vector was transformed into strain GS-5, and two transformants (TK15 and TK18) were isolated.
  • (11) In typical applications like the differentiation of cells derived from chimeric animals or the characterization of chromosomes in somatic cell hybrids, the two DNA probes are differently labeled and detected using label-specific reagents that fluoresce at different wavelengths.
  • (12) An insulin response element (IRE) has been identified in the prolactin gene using chimeric plasmids in which prolactin promoter DNA directs expression of the bacterial chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene.
  • (13) Fusion of 90 amino acids of HIV-1 Gag protein to HBcAg still allowed the formation of capsids presenting on their surface epitopes of HIV-1 core protein, whereas fusion of 317, 189, or 100 amino acids of Gag prevented self-assembly of chimeric particles.
  • (14) K12G0S32 is a 57-kDa recombinant single-chain chimeric plasminogen activator consisting of scFv-K12Go, a single-chain variable-region antigen-binding fragment (Fv) of the monoclonal antibody MA-15C5, which is specific for fragment D-dimer of human cross-linked fibrin, and a low-molecular-mass (33 kDa) urokinase-type plasminogen activator (u-PA-33k) containing amino acids Ala132-Leu411 (Holvoet, P., Laroche, Y., Lijnen, H. R., Van Cauwenberghe, R., Demarsin, E., Brouwers, E., Matthyssens, G. & Collen D. (1991) J. Biol.
  • (15) The chimeric protein produced by expression of this plasmid has been isolated and then cleaved by the enteropeptidase to give [Leu5]enkephalin with the yield 74%.
  • (16) Tests on five different blood chimeras showed the T- and B-lymphocyte chimerism to be the same.
  • (17) To understand the regulation of expression of these two genes, we fused the 5'-flanking region to the CAT gene in inverted orientations to generate two chimeric plasmids, pH3-II-900 and pH3-III-900.
  • (18) In this study, we describe biochemical, serological, immunohistochemical, and functional properties of the chimeric ING-1 antibody.
  • (19) Using DNA restriction-fragment-length polymorphisms (RFLPs), we have evaluated the feasibility of developing a single synthetic oligonucleotide probe to study post-BMT chimerism.
  • (20) Some chimeric genes did not accumulate outer membrane proteins, despite the fact that the fusion of the ompF and ompC genes was in frame.