What's the difference between becoming and congruous?

Becoming


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Become
  • (a.) Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
  • (n.) That which is becoming or appropriate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) What's to become of Tibetan stability and cohesion then is anyone's guess.
  • (2) Stimulation is also observed with mixtures of APC expressing DPw3 and APC expressing A1, and likewise, DPw3+ APC become stimulatory when preincubated with supernatants from A1-positive cells.
  • (3) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
  • (4) In a climate in which medical staffs are being sued as a result of their decisions in peer review activities, hospitals' administrative and medical staffs are becoming more cautious in their approach to medical staff privileging.
  • (5) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (6) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
  • (7) Community owned and run local businesses are becoming increasingly common.
  • (8) When TSLP was pretreated with TF5 in vitro, the most restorative effects on the decreased MLR were found in hyperplastic stage and the effects were becoming less with the advance of tumor developments.
  • (9) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (10) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
  • (11) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
  • (12) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (13) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (14) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
  • (15) They also note surveys that show British voters becoming more Eurosceptic, not less.
  • (16) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (17) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (18) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (19) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (20) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.

Congruous


Definition:

  • (a.) Suitable or concordant; accordant; fit; harmonious; correspondent; consistent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This assumes that equating retinal image size results in congruous cortical images.
  • (2) In Experiment 1, at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 300 ms, congruous situations showed 59 ms of facilitation while incongruous situations did not differ from the baseline.
  • (3) This investigation examined the validity of the hypothesis that the acetabulum in congenital dislocation of the hip will develop satisfactorily provided accurate congruous and concentric reduction is obtained as early as possible, and is maintained throughout growth.
  • (4) Early diagnosis is vital for a congruous femoral head to be obtained at the conclusion of treatment.
  • (5) In Experiment II, three types of sentence frames were used: Semantic and Syntactic Congruous (CC) Semantic Incongruous and Syntactic Congruous (CI) and Semantic and Syntactic Incongruous (II).
  • (6) Incubation of the toxin with intact membranes or extracted lipids as well as application of the lipid layer technique resulted in congruous crystalline properties.
  • (7) In all cases, the patients heard sentence fragments that were completed either by semantically congruous or incongruous words briefly flashed to the left visual field, right visual field or to both fields simultaneously.
  • (8) A young woman developed the sudden onset of a congruous right lower quadratic visual field defect two weeks prior to examination.
  • (9) Ten digits had minor roentgenographic changes but, with the exception of one digit, the joint space was congruous and free of significant abnormalities.
  • (10) Model-dependent and noncompartmental pharmacokinetic parameters were congruous.
  • (11) The data are congruous with the hypothesis that intracerebroventricularly (i.c.v.)
  • (12) Visual field defects may be congruous or not in lesions affecting the optic radiation.
  • (13) In addition, congruous motion of the septum and posterior wall was recorded at a rate that was half the heart rate and corresponded to the electrical alternans.
  • (14) I found that Korean fetal acetabuli and femoral heads are spherical and that the proportion of the head contained in the acetabulum remains constant and congruous throughout the fetal life.
  • (15) These findings are congruous with the high affinity (greater than 98%) of MK-196 and the major metabolite with plasma proteins.
  • (16) However, fibrinogen was the only protein, which also showed congruous mean values for the two different arterial types.
  • (17) However, congruous, irregular central scotomas with vertical step were observed in both eyes with Goldmann perimetry.
  • (18) The lateral wall of the iliac bone at the lateral edge of the affected acetabulum is raised as a proximally-based flap and massive bone grafts are inserted to provide a congruous, non-absorbable roof for the capsule and femoral head.
  • (19) Dogs had their femoral head replaced with a smaller prosthesis (smaller prosthesis group), a larger prosthesis (larger prosthesis group) or a virtually congruous prosthesis (diameter discrepancy: less than 2 mm; congruous prosthesis group) and were examined both roentgenographically and histologically for subsequent changes in the acetabulum.
  • (20) As a result, acetabular changes were found to be more profound in both the smaller and larger prosthesis groups, especially the latter, than in the congruous prosthesis group.