What's the difference between best and peerless?

Best


Definition:

  • (a.) Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.
  • (a.) Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.
  • (a.) Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.
  • (n.) Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.
  • (superl.) In the highest degree; beyond all others.
  • (superl.) To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety.
  • (superl.) Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.
  • (v. t.) To get the better of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (2) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (3) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (4) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
  • (5) Gross deformity, point tenderness and decrease in supination and pronation movements of the forearm were the best predictors of bony injury.
  • (6) He best be careful out there, because one of these days, POW, RIGHT IN THE KISSER!
  • (7) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (8) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (9) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (10) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
  • (11) The shock resulting from acute canine babesiosis is best viewed as anemic shock.
  • (12) Early detection of breast cancer is the major indication, and mammography is the single best test for this task.
  • (13) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (14) In reconstruction of the orbital floor, homograft lyophilised dura or cialit-stord rib cartilage are suitable, but the best materials are autologous cartilage or silastic or teflon.
  • (15) Hollywood legend has it that, at the first Academy awards in 1929, Rin Tin Tin the dog won most votes for best actor.
  • (16) Internal fixation of these pathological fractures appeared to be the best treatment.
  • (17) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
  • (18) In assessing damaged nets and curtains it must be recognised that anything less than the best vector control may have no appreciable impact on holoendemic malaria.
  • (19) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
  • (20) The effect upon ethanol responding was found not to resemble a pattern of extinction, but rather was best described as a general overall reduction in responding.

Peerless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Charles Peerless, manager of the West End and City branches of Winkworths estate agency, said: "We've had gazumping on two lower priced properties - around the £360,000 mark - in January.
  • (2) Consider their peerless dead parrot sketch which, in many people's memories, ends when Cleese does his huge rant, and Palin grudgingly offers to replace the bird.
  • (3) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
  • (4) I remember most vividly, as the prey was seized, how one lazuline wing fell outwards like a flag; the hobby's wings seemed to chop and paddle and there was this momentary drama-less inelegance to it, then the falcon swept the victim back into the peerless symmetry of its going, and all was done.
  • (5) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian The point of this area of Dorset is its peerless loveliness.
  • (6) Just one problem: she was singing the praises of Donald Trump, that peerless narcissist, deceiver, dodgy deal maker and demagogue.
  • (7) Logistically, it was a triumph, underlining the peerless efficiency and organisational capacity of the political machine he controls, the Justice and Development party (AK), which he founded in 2001 and has governed Turkey since the 2002 election.
  • (8) And Jed, played by the peerless Elizabeth Debicki , as the prize.
  • (9) There's a bit on the pulpy flamboyance of Italy's giallo thrillers, a segment on Argento's peerlessly tasteless memorabilia shop ("Is that a torso?")
  • (10) The company claims the car will boast "peerless riding dynamics", and a suspension that will automatically adjust when passengers move around the car.
  • (11) It's known as the "welfare market", a peerless example of double-speak in which people's welfare is ignored and market forces dominate.
  • (12) Tunic-style tops over trousers are also permissible, if not always all that flattering, as generously demonstrated by the once peerless Anna in the quite gaspingly abysmal This Life + 10 last week.
  • (13) I would like to thank my peerless staff for the creativity and spark they have brought to the paper day after day.
  • (14) There are shows you can't imagine finding a home anywhere else on the BBC network: Jarvis Cocker's intriguing Sunday Service, the Classic Rock Sequence that trawls the BBC archives, and, most notably, Stuart Maconie's peerless Freak Zone, a repository for music that everyone else ignores, and perhaps the most challenging and eclectic "rock" show in Britain.
  • (15) Trump’s quasi-fictional, aggressive and unalloyed nativism and misogyny immediately shoved the rest of the Republican candidates to the left, co-opting the “real” conservative mantle while offering a peerless non-career-politician pedigree.
  • (16) As Newcastle’s all powerful chief scout and de facto director of football the 71-year-old won plenty of plaudits a few years ago when his apparently peerless French contacts facilitated the acquisitions of Yohan Cabaye and Mathieu Debuchy.
  • (17) Throughout the early-80s, they crafted a string of peerlessly gloomy records – dark ink-blots of despair like 1981's Faith and 1982's Pornography – before changing direction and guiding their sound into poppier realms.
  • (18) But he was reassured by the director's reputation and by the presence of a peerless supporting cast.
  • (19) If we tried to replace Jon Stewart with just a younger version of Jon Stewart, it would be probably be a fool’s errand because Jon is sort of peerless,” said Alterman, citing the network’s desire to connect with a younger audience.
  • (20) A peerless networker, he was so plugged into all sides of the political establishment that he played tennis with the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and chose the Labour peer Lord Adonis as godfather to one of his three children.