What's the difference between cacophonous and discordant?

Cacophonous


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Cacophonious

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Almost all of Moscow’s roofers speak of having a unique relationship with the traffic-clogged, cacophonous city of 12 million inhabitants.
  • (2) Through a cacophonous sea of blue and white on either side, the bus carrying Leicester City’s triumphant Premier League champions slowly snaked its way through the streets of the city in a victory parade like no other in British footballing history.
  • (3) Baron explores the differences between the “cacophonously cosmopolitan nature” of Jeddah and its slick urban counterpart, the country’s capital Riyadh.
  • (4) His film credits include a jubilant Strictly Ballroom , an exuberant Romeo + Juliet , a cacophonous Moulin Rouge!
  • (5) When rumours began to circulate last year that the BBC was threatening to axe CBeebies and move all children’s content online, the uproar was predictable and cacophonous.
  • (6) The cacophonous, unchanging harmonies that sound like revellers in the street.
  • (7) We need to crowd the stage of history with as many voices as possible in order to understand it in all its ambivalent, cacophonous diversity, and thereby learn to live with the same polymorphous perversity and trump those who would have us live thinner lives.
  • (8) These kids are growing up in a mass extinction, robbed of the cacophonous company of being surrounded by so many fast-disappearing life forms.
  • (9) Their cacophonous din has so far been a soundtrack for the World Cup , to the delight of some and the profound annoyance of others.
  • (10) I am also planning a demonstration outside Broadcasting House where all we women over 50 plaster the windows with our HRT patches, then hold a cacophonous cocktail party, quipping and quaffing and being loudly witty and wonderful just to prove to commissioning editors that we're not invisible.
  • (11) Photograph: Sue Anne Tay Cacophonous and comforting all at the same time.
  • (12) "It's because of the drones and the US war on terror," said Amir Masih, a 25-year-old lying in a cacophonous ward in the city's Lady Reading hospital packed with survivors recovering from severe injuries, emergency surgeries and the grief of losing friends and relatives.
  • (13) What was supposed to be a shiny citadel with huge attention to detail and organisation has in places degraded into a violent, crime-ridden sprawl of cacophonous traffic jams.

Discordant


Definition:

  • (n.) Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
  • (n.) Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
  • (n.) Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Plasma renin activity (PRA) and aldosterone concentration were measured before and during submaximal exercise in 10 male monozygotic twin pairs who were discordant for smoking.
  • (2) The small number of discordant outcomes could generally be accounted for by three factors: (1) retinal abnormalities beyond those considered in the photographic grading system (12 eyes), (2) nonretinal visual pathway disease (five eyes), or (3) false-positive and false-negative results in the measurement systems used to evaluate structure and function (five eyes).
  • (3) Discordance was found in three cases studied earlier, the two cases with low expression mentioned above and one cytogenetically normal case, which were now restudied with the new probes.
  • (4) Of 12 women followed through two pregnancies, 10 had elevated serum TSH values in both pregnancies, 1 had normal serum TSH values in both, and 1 had discordant serum TSH values.
  • (5) To elucidate the relationship between the presence of anti-Tax antibody and the transmission of the viral infection, annual consecutive serum samples from married couples serologically discordant or concordant for HTLV-I were examined.
  • (6) The data on monozygotic twins further suggested that for most variables examined, the increment of environmental discordance resulting from the twinning phenomena was greater than the developmental noise that caused asymmetry within individual cotwins.
  • (7) The clinical and anatomic findings were reviewed in 17 patients with double-outlet right ventricle and atrioventricular discordance.
  • (8) Experts say they are encouraged that after months of simmering discord Xi and Trump are preparing to thrash it out at the so-called winter White House .
  • (9) This synchronization of dissimilar perceptions brings together disjunctive and conjunctive categories dominated by such coordinate conjunctions as "and... and", in the living diachronic discordance.
  • (10) Discordant segregation between COL2A1 and the mutant locus was seen in pedigrees with multiple epiphyseal dysplasia, autosomal recessive spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia tarda, hypochondroplasia, pseudoachondroplasia, diaphyseal aclasis, and trichorhinophalangeal syndrome.
  • (11) These results demonstrate that permselective artificial membranes can protect discordant islet xenografts from both graft rejection and autoimmune destruction for more than 1 month in an animal model that is similar in several respects to human type I diabetes.
  • (12) The authors present a report on two sibling with a nearly identical phenotype mimicking peroxisomal disorder but with totally discordant biochemical findings.
  • (13) The overall aim of the current study was to comprehensively evaluate the prevalence, impact, and health correlates of marital aggression in a clinical sample of maritally discordant couples seeking psychological treatment.
  • (14) These results serve in part to explain the discordant findings reported in other studies and emphasize the importance of carefully selecting the technical conditions most likely to give results that are prognostically relevant for individual patients.
  • (15) The other had left isomerism (quasi solitus) with an ambiguous atrioventricular connexion (quasi discordant).
  • (16) Discordance in antigen expression between primary and metastatic lesions (ie, positive primary tumors with negative metastatic lesions and negative primary tumors with positive metastatic lesions) was observed in the following order of frequency: extrathoracic metastatic lesion, contralateral lung, mediastinal lymph node (N2), and ipsilateral peribronchial and hilar (N1) lymph nodes.
  • (17) Comparison of results obtained from one week to the next was evaluated in 57 test pairs; discordant data, i.e.
  • (18) In three patients, broncho-atrial discordance was diagnosed clinically by bronchial tomography and selective atrial angiography, and in the other one the diagnosis was made by anatomical study.
  • (19) Murdoch’s rise to the top of Fox prompted rumours of discord within the company, but he has said he does not pay attention to the criticism.
  • (20) Eighteen standard and three research scales from the California Psychological Inventory were used to identify differences in personality between twins discordant for smoking and in nonsmoking and ever-smoking twins treated as individuals.