What's the difference between certainty and flatly?

Certainty


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
  • (n.) A fact or truth unquestionable established.
  • (n.) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) IT can, therefore, be excluded almost with certainty that the meat would contain such large amounts of hormone residues.
  • (2) Here's a certainty: When you play out your personal dramas, hurt and self-interest in the media, it's a confection.
  • (3) "Thousands of scientists and officials from over 100 countries have collaborated to achieve greater certainty as to the scale of the warming," the panel said.
  • (4) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
  • (5) But in a country with an unemployment rate of nearly 70%, including many former child soldiers, there are no certainties.
  • (6) The type of semantic categories missing from the UMLS consisted mainly of modifier information relating to certainty, degree, and change type of information.
  • (7) Tests included recording the scalp EEG, visual and auditory cerebral evoked-potentials, the CNV, cerebral slow potentials related to certainty of response correctness in auditory discrimination tasks, heart rate, respiration and the galvanic skin response.
  • (8) However, there is no certainty that both of Ainu and the people in Ueno derived from the same origin, or that genetic drift due to endogamy in this village took place.
  • (9) However, there was no certainty about how the cuts will be distributed.
  • (10) These data suggest that, after discontinuing supplemental oxygen in patients with chronic airways obstruction, more than 25 minutes should elapse if a blood gas measurement is to reflect with certainty conditions during room air breathing.
  • (11) Metastasis from them has never been described like a certainty with histological evidence.
  • (12) The certainty of a strong genetic predisposition to malignant melanoma was first established over 35 years ago.
  • (13) It is not possible to decide with certainty, in the absence of typical infarction signs in the ECG and clinically, whether treatment-resistant angina is due to CHD or other causes.
  • (14) DNA analysis is expected to provide maximum certainty as to the phenotype of the fetus for approximately 60 per cent of the women; for another 37 per cent a rate of misdiagnosis of 4-5 per cent applies.
  • (15) It is a virtual certainty that the dermatologist will be called upon routinely to evaluate illness caused by occupational factors.
  • (16) Henry had hinted during a recent interview with French newspaper L’Equipe he could be interested in a future coaching role with the Gunners, and Wenger insisted on Tuesday that Henry’s return is a certainty when asked about a reunion with the former France striker.
  • (17) And there are consequences for the more than 30,000 asylum seekers already here, whom the Coalition says will never get permanent visas and who, at the moment, are being denied any visas or work rights or certainty because of a political standoff over the Coalition’s policy to give them “temporary protection visas” instead.
  • (18) For example, it is not known with any certainty whether the oscillations seen in fetal heart rate are highly organised, in reflection of underlying ultradian rhythms, or whether they are entirely random and haphazard.
  • (19) Their occurrence rules out any organic involvement almost with certainty, and allows abstaining from additional examinations, or keeping them within minimum limits.
  • (20) The popliteal artery entrapment syndrome can be diagnosed by computer tomography with a greater degree of certainty than by angiography.

Flatly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a flat manner; evenly; horizontally; without spirit; dully; frigidly; peremptorily; positively, plainly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
  • (2) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
  • (3) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
  • (4) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
  • (5) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (6) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
  • (7) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
  • (8) Distance running performance is slower on hilly race courses than flat courses even when the start and finish are at the same elevation, resulting in equal amounts of uphill and downhill running.
  • (9) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
  • (10) Here we present images of polydeoxyadenylate molecules aligned in parallel, with their bases lying flat on a surface of highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and with their charged phosphodiester backbones protruding upwards.
  • (11) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (12) We investigated the mechanism by which retinoic acid causes growth arrest and flat reversion of SSV-NRK, simian sarcoma virus-transformed normal rat kidney cells.
  • (13) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (14) After about 3 weeks of culture, N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-pretreated fetal rat brain cells showed focal proliferation of neural cells on an underlayer of flat, epithelioid cells.
  • (15) In order to determine an histological high-risk group, we chose cases with preneoplastic conditions (60 CAG, 10 biopsies of gastric remnants, 3 flat adenomas and 55 gastrectomies by cancer or ulcer).
  • (16) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (17) The following relationships were found: Round nuclei have higher rates of DNA synthesis than flat ones.
  • (18) The individual micelles are relatively flat, ring-shaped structures, the center offering space for one of the two bulky sugar chains of the saponins.
  • (19) Microinfusion of the selective 5-HT1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-(di-N-propylamino)tetralin (8-OHDPAT), into the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) produced a marked behavioural hypoactivity and flat body posture.
  • (20) Don was racing the Dodge through the Bonneville Salt Flats , where Gary Gabelich had just (on 23 October) broken the land-speed record.