What's the difference between artifice and unstudied?

Artifice


Definition:

  • (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
  • (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
  • (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
  • (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors describe a technical artifice, the use silicon-impregnated compresses, to help in the peroperative ultrasonographic detection of these section planes.
  • (2) The seriousness and sincerity were almost shocking in that den of artifice.
  • (3) More recently, Iain Sinclair, in his novel Dining on Stones, an elegy to the A13, describes it as: "A landscape to die for: haze lifting to a high clear morning, pylons, distant road, an escarpment of multi-coloured containers, a magical blend of nature and artifice."
  • (4) As I signed up, I decided to ask Martha a few questions to see how much of her was artifice.
  • (5) All of the suffering in Europe – inflicted in the service of a man-made artifice, the euro – is even more tragic for being unnecessary.
  • (6) There never will be sufficient financial resources, organizational artifice, or measurable standards to safeguard quality any other way.
  • (7) Poisonous and deleterious components are deemed to be "added," even if they are natural constituents of food, if any amount is present through the artifice of man.
  • (8) As such, the migration amendment bill seeks to implement a staggering legal artifice for a nation that claims to walk tall among the civilised.
  • (9) Technical artifices are described to assist compliance with these imperatives.
  • (10) "These are legal artifices created to result in paying less tax," he said.
  • (11) But this operation imposes technical artifices when direct urtero-vesical implantation is not possible.
  • (12) Close friends say this is not artifice, but reflects his personality; in any case positioning himself as the polar opposite of the frequently choleric Sarkozy has paid off in the polls.
  • (13) The less visible in the context of individual's facial architecture the more esthetic the prosthetic artifice is.
  • (14) It's almost as though the more outmoded a politician becomes, the more artifice is required to keep him fresh.
  • (15) We think that this artifice could also be used in case of anatomic variations of the hepatic artery like trifurcation.
  • (16) The essence of camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration.
  • (17) Barnard's unusual technique, highlighting the artifice in film-making, showed that no single person has a monopoly on truth – and certainly not the documentary director who shapes truth into a narrative in the editing process.
  • (18) The proper manoeuvres and artifices to avoid intraoperative accidents are suggested.
  • (19) Remarkable for its relentless skewering of artifice and pretension, Lucky Jim also contains some of the finest comic set pieces in the language.
  • (20) As Susan Sontag wrote, camp is artifice and theatricality and flamboyance.

Unstudied


Definition:

  • (a.) Not studied; not acquired by study; unlabored; natural.
  • (a.) Not skilled; unversed; -- followed by in.
  • (a.) Not spent in study.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This set of deuterated coenzymes was used to determine the stereospecificity of the previously unstudied 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Escherichia coli (NAD-dependent) and 12 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase from Clostridium group P (NADP-dependent).
  • (2) Either ribosome assembly in the mutant differs from that in the wild-type strain, or 47S particles represent a hitherto unstudied stage in the synthesis of 50S ribosomes.
  • (3) These parameters have hitherto been largely unstudied.
  • (4) CONCLUSIONS--Further studies should specifically address combined treatment approaches, optimal treatment length and timing, effects of comorbidity, and unstudied traumatized populations.
  • (5) Furthermore, by applying this technique, it was shown that the previously unstudied enzymes D-beta-hydroxybutyrate and 4-aminobutanal dehydrogenases are B- and A-stereospecific enzymes, respectively.
  • (6) Its effect on the uterine arterial circulation is unstudied and yet dihydroergotamine is widely used to treat postural hypotension in pregnant and nonpregnant women.
  • (7) Large variations in nutritional intake have profound effects on the GH-insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) axis in children and adults, but the effect of normal variations in nutrition on IGF-I concentrations is largely unstudied, particularly during puberty.
  • (8) Since other unstudied males in the family died in infancy, we questioned whether this T cell defect was more profound in early life.
  • (9) Although it is known that cardiac striated muscle is relatively spared in undernutrition, and that disease-induced reductions in lean body mass do not spare respiratory muscle, the effects of undernutrition per se on the structure and function of the respiratory muscle are largely unstudied in humans.
  • (10) The previously unstudied dose-response also was evaluated in our study.
  • (11) A further study of the Tgamma-chain in a variety of conditions has revealed its presence in the cord bloods of ethnic groups previously unstudied.
  • (12) The problem of DNA restriction in eucaryotes is absolutely unstudied and requires experimental development.
  • (13) There were three types of test stimuli: target stimuli, which had been presented during study, conjunction stimuli, constructed by combining the features of separate study stimuli, and feature stimuli, in which studied stimulus features were combined with new, unstudied, features.
  • (14) The authors studied 300 Vietnam veterans admitted to a general hospital to determine their level of symptomatology and to gather data on this previously unstudied group.
  • (15) Subcellular fractionation by differential centrifugation was performed on two previously unstudied marine sponges that predominantly contain either conventional (Reniera sp.)
  • (16) Although some individuals of Barrio San Antonio have sought therapy, this population and area have been largely unstudied and have not up to the present been involved in control or mass chemotherapy programs.
  • (17) These findings indicate that bile duct ligation provides a method for manipulating the in vivo transcytotic pathway and for accumulating previously unstudied transcytotic carriers in hepatocytes.
  • (18) The frequencies of 32 HLA antigens of the A and B series were determined in a previously unstudied population of Mexican-Americans in South Texas.
  • (19) Public health educational campaigns can attract large numbers of one-time participants, but the impact on subsequent behavior remains unstudied.
  • (20) By sum of results of investigation of its physicochemical properties and biological activity, the polypeptide represents previously unstudied blood whey factor.

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