What's the difference between boring and predictable?

Boring


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bore
  • (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, bores; as, the boring of cannon; the boring of piles and ship timbers by certain marine mollusks.
  • (n.) A hole made by boring.
  • (n.) The chips or fragments made by boring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The scaphoid silicone implant bore significant, although less, load than the normal scaphoid.
  • (2) Paparella type II tubes had a prolonged period of intubation and a decreased reintubation rate when compared with the smaller bore tubes.
  • (3) He says the next step will be moving to bore water, which will require people to boil water to drink.
  • (4) By the time the bud was half the diameter of the mother cell, it almost always bore a vacuole.
  • (5) Rather, there is evidence that students find these courses 'waffly' and boring.
  • (6) (2) E. granulosus, which includes two geographical groups: (a) Northern group, with two sub-species E. g borelis and E. g. canadensis, the life-cycle of which is sylvatic and that are agents of a pulmonary hydatidosis which may affect Man.
  • (7) Adult mongrel dogs were instrumented and placed in the bore of a Bruker Biospec 1.89 tesla superconducting magnet system.
  • (8) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (9) It was shown by double staining that most of the Ia-bearing T cells also bore the T8 marker.
  • (10) Neither the peak serum E2 level attained nor the number of days of stimulation required bore a relationship to the BMI or the total body weight of these women.
  • (11) Experts and activists have said the murder bore all the hallmarks of Egypt’s notorious secret service, but Egyptian officials have consistently put forward alternative theories, including that Regeni was killed by a criminal gang and that his death was an isolated incident.
  • (12) The selectivity, efficiency and lifetime of normal- and narrow-bore columns for high-performance liquid chromatography were investigated for the separation and quantification of amino acids and the amino acid-like antibiotics phosphinothricin and phosphinothricylalanylalanine in biological samples.
  • (13) Soon my pillowcases bore rusty coins of nasal drippage.
  • (14) On 1 January 1832, he reports that: "The new year to my jaundiced senses bore a most gloomy appearance.
  • (15) The use of soft catheter materials in large-bore veins has allowed safe long-term venous access in human patients.
  • (16) The lesson for the international community, fatigued or bored by competing stories of Middle Eastern carnage, is that problems that are left to fester only get worse – and always take a terrible human toll.
  • (17) While Cropley talked to a member of staff, her daughter got a bit bored.
  • (18) Sometimes my press conferences are boring because I’m very polite or political.
  • (19) It was found that the emphasis in the reporting of adolescence bore little relationship to the importance or relevance of each area of study.
  • (20) And until recently, they bore children for foreigners who never even saw this place.

Predictable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be predicted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (3) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
  • (4) From these data it is possible to predict theoretically the apparent temperature difference as seen by an infrared scanner or radiometer with a detector of which the spectral detectivity, D (lambda), is known.
  • (5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (6) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (7) However, this predictive value disappeared when five baseline parameters found to predict the outcome (neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin, p24 antigen, anti-p18 antibody and immunoglobulin A) were adjusted.
  • (8) From the biochemical markers in follicular fluid, cyclic adenosine monophosphate has a distinct predictive value in regard to pregnancy in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer cycles.
  • (9) (Predictive value positive refers to the proportion of all people identified who actually have the disease.)
  • (10) Serial observations of blood pressure after unilateral adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma revealed an incidence of hypotension (systolic BP less than fifth percentile for age- and sex-matched normal population) of 27% at 2 years, more than 5 times that predicted.
  • (11) Thus, brain NE levels after training were not predictive of retention performance in amygdala-implanted or -stimulated animals.
  • (12) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (13) Our prospective study has defined a number of important variables in patients with clinical evidence of mast cell proliferation that can predict both the presence of SMCD and the likelihood of fatal disease.
  • (14) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
  • (15) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (16) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
  • (17) An experimental model was established in the ewe allowing one to predict with accuracy an antral follicle that coincidentally would either undergo ovulation (6-8 mm diameter) or atresia (3-4 mm diameter) following synchronization of luteal regression and the onset of the gonadotropin surge.
  • (18) Correlations and some clinically relevant comparisons suggested that the MMPI 168 predicted the standard MMPI with a high degree of accuracy.
  • (19) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (20) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.