What's the difference between complimentary and flattering?

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.

Flattering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flatter
  • (a.) That flatters (in the various senses of the verb); as, a flattering speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (2) With profound blockade, the slope of the edrophonium dose-response relationship was significantly flatter (P less than 0.05) than that of neostigmine.
  • (3) The groups showed significantly different iEMG fatigue slopes, with the control group showing declining iEMG by repetition, while the CLBP group showed flatter, slightly increasing iEMG.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Farage ’flattered’ by Trump’s call for him to be US ambassador In another shot at Obama, referring to remarks by the US president before the Brexit vote about the possible trade consequences of Britain leaving Europe, Farage said: “No longer do we have a president who says that we’re at the back of the line.” Everything you need to know about Trump and the Indiana Carrier factory Read more He also said Hillary Clinton, Trump’s opponent, had “wanted the European Union to be a prototype for a bigger model across the whole world”.
  • (5) "It may not be nice, kind or flattering, but to put it as unlawful would be startling," White said.
  • (6) Carbamazepine has a flatter concentration-time profile than valproic acid.
  • (7) Flattered, entreated, begged by the rest of the committee, he did not yield: "Recommendations are recommendations, there it is"; and "I honestly believe it's all there"; "I promise you I have done my very best"; "if I hadn't thought my recommendations were fit for purpose, I would not have made them"; "with all due respect, I could not have done any more than I did".
  • (8) Perhaps the most flattering epitaph for Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, was written for him many years ago by the unlikely figure of the former commissioner of the Metropolitan police Sir Robert Mark .
  • (9) "So that was very flattering and a little surprising," she says.
  • (10) When spectrin was rebound to the erythrocyte membrane, a decay in the anisotropy was still present but was markedly less sensitive to solution viscosity and flatter at longer times.
  • (11) Things are different now: wonks observe that we’ve got lucky with the chairs – Margaret Hodge on the public accounts committee (PAC), Rory Stewart on defence, Sarah Wollaston on health – but committee work is flattered mainly by comparison with everything else.
  • (12) We praise and flatter each other and automatically learn the details of each other's lives.
  • (13) One-day chicks displayed reliably flatter generalization gradients than 3-4-day chicks.
  • (14) Early flattering comparisons were made with the Strokes and Sonic Youth.
  • (15) Their pay structure is flatter and their sense of responsibility to the community stronger.
  • (16) I will propose a new school funding model from the commonwealth which will be flatter, simpler, fairer to all the states and territories and equitable between students,” he said.
  • (17) The instantaneous I-V curve was linear while in the steady state the curve became flatter at low negative membrane potentials and steeper at high negative membrane potentials.
  • (18) To describe this course of action as "clutching at straws" is to flatter it.
  • (19) She should be confronting her party's prejudices, not flattering them.
  • (20) The steeper the curve of Spee, the more irregular the cusp height and angulations are with steeper anterior cusps and flatter posterior cusps.