What's the difference between cachet and characteristic?

Cachet


Definition:

  • (n.) A seal, as of a letter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The following messages are elaborated: osteoporosis is a silent thief; backache during the menopause is not always osteoporosis; detection of the patient at risk for osteoporotic fractures is possible; primary osteoarthrosis protects against osteoporosis; bone densitometry has given osteoporosis a scientific cachet; bones are not stones, effective prevention and treatment are possible, there are alternatives to calcium and hormone replacement therapies.
  • (2) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.
  • (3) It may be that if you move a drug up a class, it has a greater cachet.
  • (4) At least one reason is straightforward: clubbing lost its all-important cachet of cool.
  • (5) It looked like a marriage of convenience: Piano would lend Sellar his cachet and Sellar would give Piano the chance to build the most conspicuous landmark of his career.
  • (6) But the world has changed since it launched in 2009, and the idea of letting all your friends know where you are doesn't have quite the same cachet in 2014.
  • (7) "The fact that he had made it in Britain gave him tremendous cachet in India, particularly among the 200,000 or so English-speakers who still run the country," he adds.
  • (8) I think parents want the social cachet of having kids at grammar school, they're holding on to old perceptions and we wanted to set the record straight."
  • (9) But Everest still has a certain cachet.” It does.
  • (10) Chinese giant pandas have been a hit all around the world but seem to have a special cachet in Taiwan, where animal figures are so much in vogue that the airline company Eva Airways has found that festooning its aircraft in the livery of fictional Japanese figure Hello Kitty provides a powerful boost to sales.
  • (11) The last presidential duo to have that kind of cachet were John and Jackie.
  • (12) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
  • (13) The idea was popularized in a Wall Street Journal op-ed by the conservative writer Heather Mac Donald, and gained cachet as national figures like Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel and FBI director James Comey invoked it, or a similar “YouTube” or “viral video” effect, to describe a behavior among law enforcement of rolling back their most proactive policing strategies in response to criticism and scrutiny from the general public.
  • (14) Its prices place it above the highest end of the high street, stores such as Jigsaw, Whistles, Hobbs and Reiss, without the cachet of the catwalks or celebrity endorsement.
  • (15) I imagine the cachet at school must have been tremendous, but he puts me right on that.
  • (16) However much she condemns the hypocrisy of traditional marketing, she knows her backstory has cachet.
  • (17) Major labels in the UK also capitalised on the cool cachet of the cassette.
  • (18) There is certainly cachet and brand equity attached to many of the brands, beyond their intrinsic value.
  • (19) His charm and immense wealth gave him a cachet that few other Iranians enjoyed.
  • (20) Once an icon of British gentility (as perceived by non-Brits), the commissariat of trench coats , scarves, and other country squire accoutrements, Burberry had lost its cachet by sticking to a taste-numbing repetition.

Characteristic


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
  • (n.) A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
  • (n.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The assembly reaction is accompanied by characteristic changes in fluorescence emission and dichroic absorption.
  • (2) The angiographic appearances are highly characteristic and equal in value to a histological diagnosis.
  • (3) The femoral component, made of Tivanium with titanium mesh attached to it by a new process called diffusion bonding, retains superalloy fatigue strength characteristics.
  • (4) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) It is quite interesting to analyse which gene of the virus determines the characteristics of the virus.
  • (7) In this paper, we show representative experiments illustrating some characteristics of the procedure which may have wide application in clinical microbiology.
  • (8) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (9) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (10) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (11) These cells contained organelles characteristic of the maturation stage ameloblast and often extended to the enamel surface, suggesting a possible origin from the ameloblast layer.
  • (12) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (13) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
  • (14) The obtained results are used to study the relation between the acoustic characteristics of these vowels and the corresponding articulatory dimensions.
  • (15) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
  • (16) These same molecules may be equally responsible for the pathologic characteristics of the immune response seen, for example, in inflammatory bowel diseases.
  • (17) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (18) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (19) This exploratory survey of 100 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was conducted (1) to learn about the types and frequencies of disability law-related problems encountered as a result of having RA, and (2) to assess the respective relationships between the number of disability law-related problems reported and the patients' sociodemographic and RA disease characteristics.
  • (20) These two types of transfer functions are appropriate to explain the transition to anaerobic metabolism (anaerobic threshold), with a hyperbolic transfer characteristic representing a graded transition; and a sigmoid transfer characteristic representing an abrupt transition.