What's the difference between clue and evidence?

Clue


Definition:

  • (n.) A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
  • (n.) That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
  • (n.) A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
  • (n.) A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
  • (n.) A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
  • (n.) A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
  • (2) If it works anyone can do this exactly as we have done.” The sudden release follows weeks of visual clues left on the Radiohead frontman’s Twitter and Tumblr.
  • (3) Peripheral basophilia was present in four cases, providing a clinical clue that the Philadelphia chromosome might be present.
  • (4) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (5) Two patients are described in whom Streptococcus bovis bacteremia was the only clue to the presence of a colonic neoplasm.
  • (6) Their only clues were two statements involving contrasting mental terms, with each statement referring to one of the possible hiding places.
  • (7) To obtain a clue to its possible origin, the degree of restriction enzyme site homology between adenovirus genome type 7h and those representative of the three described genomic clusters (GC) for serotype 7 was studied by analysis of pairwise comigrating DNA restriction fragments (PCRF) after digestion with BamHI, BglI, BglII, BstEII, EcoRI, HindIII, HpaI, SalI, SmaI, XbaI, and XhoI.
  • (8) The filings do not contain any clues about the size of the settlement that the DoJ was hoping to reach with Barclays, although the bank is thought to have been prepared to pay up to $2bn (£1.6bn).
  • (9) Differing careers in the two sexes may provide a clue as to the reason underlying this finding.
  • (10) Hunt gave a few clues as to areas on which he may focus, but appeared to indicate that one may be regulation of programming content on the internet.
  • (11) This phenomenon may be an important clue to the differential diagnosis of the etiology of neonatal ascites.
  • (12) Calcification on abdominal radiographs, especially serpiginous, seen in the region of the neck of gallbladder, appears to be the clue to the diagnosis of gallbladder schistosomiasis in people from endemic areas.
  • (13) Unusual infections associated with colorectal tumors may, in some instances, be the sole clue to presence of malignancy.
  • (14) It was concluded that the situational clues led to high degree of expectatory coordination with others, and also brought about a bias in choices.
  • (15) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
  • (16) Hyperthyroidism can be difficult to recognize clinically, and isolated elevation of serum alkaline phosphatase levels may be a useful clue.
  • (17) Abaaoud’s history may provide context or clues to the purpose of his UK trip.
  • (18) Subacute course of renal failure after angiography and eosinophilia seem to be the important diagnostic clues for this disorder.
  • (19) Although antibodies to these proteins were only found in 5-10% of more than 50 sera screened by radioimmunoassay or Western blotting, the selective production of antibodies to epitopes on three (out of a total of more than 80) ribosomal proteins may provide further clues to autoantibody induction of SLE.
  • (20) Tonic heart rate, averaged over 30-second periods, was lower when clues were present on the tape than during control periods when clues were not present.

Evidence


Definition:

  • (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes, or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
  • (n.) One who bears witness.
  • (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
  • (v. t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact, or the guilt of an offender.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evidence suggests a multifactorial etiology for this problem.
  • (2) The only other evidence of Kopachi's existence is the primary school near the memorial.
  • (3) Patient plasma samples demonstrated evidence of marked complement activation, with 3-fold elevations of C3a desArg concentrations by the 8th day of therapy.
  • (4) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (5) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (6) Disseminated CMV infection with multiorgan involvement was evident in 7 of 9 at postmortem examination.
  • (7) Urinary ANF immunoreactivity was significantly enhanced by candoxatril in both groups (P less than 0.05 and P less than 0.01 in groups 1 and 2, respectively), with a more pronounced effect evident at the higher dose (P less than 0.01).
  • (8) We sought additional evidence for an inverse relationship between functional CTL-target cell affinity on the one hand, and susceptibility of the CTL-mediated killing to inhibition by alpha LFA-1 and alpha Lyt-2,3 monoclonal antibodies on the other hand.
  • (9) Immunocompetence was also evident when the cells from thymectomized donors were first incubated with thymus extract for 1 hr and subsequently tested for reactivity.
  • (10) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
  • (11) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
  • (12) Minimal levels were evident 16 weeks after irradiation; Hct then increased, but remained below preirradiation values.
  • (13) Evidence of fetal alcohol effects may be found for each outcome category.
  • (14) The present results provide no evidence for a clear morphological substrate for electrotonic transmission in the somatic efferent portion of the primate oculomotor nucleus.
  • (15) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
  • (16) Past imaging techniques shown in the courtroom have made the conventional rules of evidence more difficult because of the different informational content and format required for presentation of these data.
  • (17) We have previously shown that intratracheally instilled silica (quartz) produces both morphologic evidence of emphysema and small-airway changes, and functional evidence of airflow obstruction.
  • (18) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (19) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (20) The condition is compared to extrahepatic and intrahepatic biliary atresia of man and evidence is presented for regarding this case to be one of extrahepatic origin.