What's the difference between byzantine and intricate?
Byzantine
Definition:
(n.) A gold coin, so called from being coined at Byzantium. See Bezant.
(a.) Of or pertaining to Byzantium.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Byzantium, now Constantinople; sometimes, applied to an inhabitant of the modern city of Constantinople.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sanctity of voting in private may be one of the pillars of democracy, but in an age of byzantine disenfranchisement rules and empowering social-media platforms, outlawing a picture of your candidate selection is a missed opportunity and a failure of imagination.
(2) Byzantine historians and chroniclers recorded events not only of national importance, but also of daily life.
(3) In the xenones of the Byzantine churches and in the hospitals connected to these, therapeutic regimes, cures and surgical interventions took place at night during incubation, following the example of the ancient Asclepieia.
(4) This is fitting since both worked through realms of indirect influence and power: Moses within the byzantine and barely accountable tangle of New York’s public authority powers; Jacobs in the inherently decentralised world of community organising and writings about urbanism.
(5) Asylum seekers have been left to navigate the byzantine process of applying for substantive visas on their own, negotiating complex forms in English – for many their third or fourth language.
(6) Observers of Pakistan's byzantine political scene have long suspected an excuse would be found to take Musharraf back to a life of exile in Dubai and London, which he had enjoyed until March last year when he returned to the country in a bid to stand for election.
(7) The byzantine eurozone architecture we have created is incomplete.
(8) Instead, we served as the weight that helped my parents understand this country – we forced them to learn English, as our Spanish waned; we translated documents that navigated them through this country’s byzantine tax codes and healthcare system; we taught them enough American politics so that they forsook their conservative leanings every election year and voted Democrat (You’re welcome, Hillary).
(9) On the face of it, if there is to be production, trade and consumption on a global level, such byzantine hierarchies are unavoidable – and with that, all the concentrations of power, the state-corporate alliances, and the veils of secrecy that are entailed by such arrangements.
(10) On Wednesday in Barcelona couples will celebrate his anniversary by exchanging roses and books; on 6 May in Bulgaria some will remember him by cooking a whole lamb ; and on 5 May – in a legacy of Byzantine rule – Palestinian Christians and Muslims will both participate in his feast day .
(11) We gather at the venerable United Artists Theatre, a sumptuous 1927 movie palace, all faux-Byzantine motifs and three tiers of balconies, bearing our $200 tickets and plenty of questions.
(12) Away from the coast you can still find isolated hiking trails and the odd Byzantine monastery.
(13) The resulting uncertainty has split families and forced refugees to navigate unsympathetic and byzantine immigration rules.
(14) The failure of the Grand Bargain led to a byzantine deal: if the two parties could not agree on a new deficit plan, then a combination of tax increases and spending cuts—cuts known, in budget jargon, as a “sequester”—would automatically kick in on New Year’s Day.
(15) Senate Democrats ready to revolt over TPP 'fast track' authority Read more Thanks to the alphabet soup of acronyms and the byzantine path the Trans-Pacific Partnership has taken, many people have ignored the pact.
(16) Here’s our summary Treasury committee chairman Andrew Tyrie has responded, saying the Bank must reassure the public that it is handling the crisis well , having labelled its governance structure “opaque, complex and Byzantine”.
(17) And he made sure visitors were left in no doubt that the flowering of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic cultures were mere historical footnotes to his own ascent as "king of kings".
(18) If so, then your goods were quite likely to have been routed through a byzantine world hosted – only on paper, you understand – by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, where Amazon has located its European headquarters, slashing its tax bills around the world.
(19) Only in Britain would the beautifully byzantine Duckworth-Lewis method be invented.
(20) It is easy to accuse Clegg of mishandling the Rennard affair but he is at the mercy of a chaotic "open market" for vexatious litigation and of an upper chamber of Byzantine archaism desperately in need of reform.
Intricate
Definition:
(a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
(v. t.) To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
(2) These channels form an intricate network throughout the submucosa.
(3) A large number of samples can be analyzed without specialized equipment or intricate experimental steps.
(4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(5) The program helps easy study of the different parameters on the conducting rate of the permeable ion through the channel which otherwise would demand intricate experimental set-ups.
(6) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.
(7) Neuroimaging data are particularly complex owing to (a) the high number of potential dependent variables (i.e., regions of interest) coupled with the practical limitations on sample size; (b) the known physical properties of scanners (e.g., resolution) interacting with the intricate and variable structure of the human brain; and (c) mathematical properties introduced into the data by the physiological model for quantification.
(8) Bungie says it has a vast and stable infrastructure, which it has intricately tested.
(9) Age, height and weight are intricately related to performance in a specific sporting activity.
(10) In brief, the results suggest that the categorical usage of relative terms involves a rich and intricate knowledge system and that it takes children considerable time to acquire and organize the relevant pieces of knowledge.
(11) Further experimentation is likely to be technically demanding because of indications that intricate hormone-prostaglandin-cytokine networks regulate uterine macrophage activities.
(12) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
(13) Worldwide literature and ten or so personal cases are reviewed as a basis for distinction or intrication of two aspect of post-hydatid sclerosing cholangitis; that of a localized lesion of diffuse lesions of the biliary tract.
(14) It was found that underweight children showed significantly less favourable indices in all of the above categories except stool parasitology suggesting an extremely intricate and complex interaction of a host of ecological variables in the causation of undernutrition.
(15) What at first appeared to be a frustrating, difficult-to-control case of diabetes mellitus was later revealed to be an intricate drama involving multiple voices and issues: marital, life stage, family, religious, occupational, regional, economic, and physician family-of-origin.
(16) To analyze intricate roentgeno-diagnostic complexes the need for application of frequency-contrast characteristics (FCC) is generally acknowledged at present.
(17) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(18) "In Trapani, the mafia and the masons are intricately linked," Principato said.
(19) Qualitative analyses resulted in the identification of descriptors of fatigue, conditions under which fatigue occurs, an intricate repertoire of strategies used to prevent and manage fatigue, and the consequences of chronic fatigue.
(20) It appears, then, that the interrelation between glial cell lines during differentiation is more intricate than previously suspected and is closely dependent, for each line, upon the integrity of axons.