What's the difference between changeable and modifiable?

Changeable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor.
  • (a.) Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This confirms the findings according to which chromosomal changeability in the NBLD may be associated mostly with the change in the number of homologous chromosomes rather than with chromosomal aberrations.
  • (2) Malfunctioning pacemaker produced stimuli with changeable amplitude and fast rate.
  • (3) Sigmoidal kinetics is considered as an adaptive feature of glucokinases to increase the efficiency of the liver uptake of glucose at the changeable concentrations in the blood resulting from variations in the amount of dietary glucose.
  • (4) Individual changeability is more pronounced in the all cardiac parts at diastole.
  • (5) In the legal institution of driver's licence on probation the driving licence law relies on the changeability of the driving beginner by means of post-schooling.
  • (6) Even if Clegg's ideas are proving changeable, the party faithful will ensure he remains a yellow rather than a scarlet or blue pimpernel – any decision that affects party independence will have to be agreed by three-quarters of their MPs.
  • (7) These findings are in line with the results concerning the dynamics of vigilance and certain claims of earlier authors according to which EEG changeability should be decisive for therapeutic outcome.
  • (8) One connects it with a form of heterophoria in which the eyes--because of an inacurate and changeable function of binocular vision are unable to exert precise saccadic movements enabling a binocular or precisely unimacular reading.
  • (9) It was concluded that the histologic Dx of large cell carcinoma was the most inter- and intra-changeable, and the most frequent dissenting Dx from it was poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma.
  • (10) In regard to the villi, the morphology is locally changeable, with the atrophic-sclerotic areas alternated with hyperplastic areas, but topographically well defined.
  • (11) The results indicate that even after birth the CSF pathways of babies with spina bifida cystica are in a plastic and changeable condition, with competition between constricting and distending forces.
  • (12) The encephalic structures are very complex, changeable, labile, therefor her variations can correspond with the "psychologics" variations.
  • (13) The difference was especially marked for the categories "synthetic - natural", "unpleasant - very tasty", and "changeable - stable in times".
  • (14) Before collagen pathologic changes occurred, fatty deposits on artery wall were changeable.
  • (15) Hearing Davies’s description of the moment when plastic emerges from the machine, blown up through a tube like a bubble, expansive and changeable, it is easy to see why plastic bags exert such sway over the popular imagination.
  • (16) The load level of SR was less changeable than those of SB and SY by the difference of heat treatment temperature.
  • (17) The study showed changeability of the character of myocardial asynergy under the effect of the drugs investigated, which should be taken into account when these drugs are given to patients with ischemic heart disease.
  • (18) Apparently amino acid sequences of visual pigments are less changeable than the morphology of the photoreceptor cells in the course of evolution.
  • (19) Emotion-focused coping was positively related to depression when a stressor was appraised as changeable.
  • (20) Total activity of HAP was changeable according to the degree of maturation in the case of chum salmon.

Modifiable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being modified; liable to modification.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, this pretreatment protocol did not modify the recipient immune response against B-lymphocyte alloantigens which developed in unsuccessful transplants.
  • (2) Experience of pain is modified by intern and extern influences, and it can appear very multiformly in the chronicity.
  • (3) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (4) Incubation with IFN alpha or IFN gamma for 24 h resulted in only modest cytokinetic alterations, and they did not modify the effects of FUra.
  • (5) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
  • (6) In the clinical trials in which there was complete substitution of fat-modified ruminant foods for conventional ruminant products the fall in serum cholesterol was approximately 10%.
  • (7) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
  • (8) This modified endocrine activity in brook trout may reflect adjustment to adverse external ionic conditions.
  • (9) The secretion of GH as measured by increased plasma level, in response to oral administration of 500 mg L-dopa or 30 min-infusion of arginine, was not modified by prior intravenous administration of 200 micrograms GH-releasing hormone (GHRH).
  • (10) Thus, our results indicate that calbindin-D28k is a useful marker for the projection system from the matrix compartment and that its expression is modified in patients with progressive supranuclear palsy and striatal degeneration.
  • (11) Both systems indicated that the Kupffer cell modified endotoxin by enriching the lipid content of the molecule and shortening the length of the O-antigen.
  • (12) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (13) Pretreatment of cells with maitotoxin did not modify 125I-omega-conotoxin and [3H]PN 200-110 binding to PC12 membranes.
  • (14) The quantity of social ties, the quality of relationships as modified by type of intimate, and the baseline level of symptoms measured five years earlier were significant predictors of psychosomatic symptoms among this sample of women.
  • (15) Ultraviolet difference spectrophotometry indicates that the inactivated enzyme retains its capacity for binding the nucleotide substrates whereas the spectral perturbation characteristic of 3-phosphoglycerate binding is abolished in the modified enzyme.
  • (16) Lipoprotein electrophoresis on agarose gel has been modified to allow estimation of the absolute quantity of each fraction.
  • (17) A modified method of two-dimensional gel electrophoresis has been developed for detecting acidic eukaryotic ribosomal proteins.
  • (18) It is clear that before general release of a new living feline infectious enteritis vaccine, there must be satisfactory evidence that concurrent infection will not affect the safety of the modified antigen.In cats infected with feline infectious enteritis there appears to be a short period, coinciding with the onset of leucopaenia, during which they are highly infectious.
  • (19) The effect of modifying the periodate-susceptible methionine residues in chicken ovotransferrin was small but significant.
  • (20) The ability of adenosine to modify the effects of noradrenaline on action potential characteristics was also investigated.