What's the difference between commendatory and complimentary?

Commendatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to commend; containing praise or commendation; commending; praising.
  • (a.) Holding a benefice in commendam; as, a commendatory bishop.
  • (n.) A commendation; eulogy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The comments of the reviewers, both commendatory and critical, were referred back to the participants, and their evaluation of the system was sought.

Complimentary


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressive of regard or praise; of the nature of, or containing, a compliment; as, a complimentary remark; a complimentary ticket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was no significant change in PMN count, PMN CD18 expression, or plasma TNF activity in Group C. In complimentary in vitro studies, porcine PMNs stimulated with recombinant human TNF-alpha (n = 5) demonstrated a time- and dose-dependent increase in CD18 expression.
  • (2) The two techniques revealed different and complimentary representations of the morphology of neuron C1.
  • (3) The upper and lower airways have complimentary roles in the ultimate object of supplying the body with oxygen whilst removing waste products of metabolism.
  • (4) A 1.1-kilobase cDNA clone generated by primer extension using an oligonucleotide complimentary to a sequence 245 base pairs 3' to the putative initiation codon for EBNA I in the BamHI K fragment has been isolated.
  • (5) He added that Bragg was bursting with ideas, and had been complimentary about what Sky Arts was doing.
  • (6) In addition, because of the complimentary nature of these 2 new technologies certain complex stones, such as staghorn calculi, may be handled best by a combination of the 2 techniques.
  • (7) These final oligosaccharides are hydrolyzed efficiently by complimentary action of three integral brush border enzymes at the intestinal surface: glucoamylase (maltase-glucoamylase, amyloglucosidase), sucrase (maltase-sucrase) and alpha-dextrinase (isomaltase).
  • (8) Hopkins is funny and frequently complimentary, which might be manipulative but might just be niceness.
  • (9) The gastroenterologist and GI surgeon should play complimentary roles in the care of these complicated patients.
  • (10) Lebedev said that readers confronted on aeroplanes with a complimentary copy of the Daily Mail and the Independent were far more likely to read the Mail first.
  • (11) That included making the court-ordered payment, the spokesman said, adding that a complimentary lunch order had been sent to Driscoll’s workplace in Sydney.
  • (12) These active muscular relaxation techniques are complimentary to chiropractic adjustments.
  • (13) When considering joint innervation, it is important to appreciate that the joint receptors and the muscle tendon units about the joint interact in a complimentary manner forming a single afferent system.
  • (14) Our aim was to clone the PLC-delta complimentary DNA (cDNA) from SHR and analyse the genomic DNA obtained from two hypertensive rat strains such as SHR and its stroke-prone substrain (SHR-SP) and three normotensive rat strains such as Sprague-Dawley, Donryu and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) by preparing an aortic cDNA library of SHR, hybridization cloning of PLC-delta cDNA and an analysis of the genomic DNA by polymerase chain reaction.
  • (15) LH receptor mRNA was demonstrated in monkey ovarian sections by in situ hybridization with a 35S-labeled antisense RNA probe derived from rat LH receptor complimentary DNA.
  • (16) However, Erekat was complimentary of Obama and Kerry, saying he believed both were committed to reaching an agreement.
  • (17) Without prior in vitro enzymatic ligation a DNA duplex was assembled successfully by directly transforming competent cells with a mixture containing six synthetic complimentary oligodeoxyribonucleotides and a linearized plasmid.
  • (18) "As new capabilities come on the block, you reassess whether you need the old ones, whether they are complimentary or duplicatory.
  • (19) It is concluded that 5TH, SP, TRH and proctolin, which appear to co-exist in various combinations in ventral horn terminals near spinal motoneurons, have complimentary effects on motoneuron excitability.
  • (20) By means of the rosetting antiglobulin test, clear differences between AA and AO as well as BB and BO could be shown; however, this method could not define the variation in the amount of the H antigen as a complimentary means of differentiating AA from AO and BB from BO.