What's the difference between conceal and withhold?

Conceal


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
  • (2) The recorded APs were further subdivided into those exhibiting consistent antegrade conduction during sinus rhythm (overt APs: 50 left APs, eight right APs), those exhibiting intermittent antegrade conduction (intermittent APs: six left APs, two right APs), and those exhibiting only retrograde conduction (concealed APs: 33 left APs, two right APs).
  • (3) In patients under anti-epileptic therapy it is readily possible for the clinical picture to be concealed, and this may then result in irreversible damage due to the disturbance of metabolism remaining uninfluenced.
  • (4) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
  • (5) It created a very ugly atmosphere in society – as I was growing up in politics, I disliked the hypocrisy where people had to conceal their own identity.
  • (6) Years ahead of its time, it saw each song presented theatrically, the musicians concealed in the wings (although Bowie said that they kept creeping on to the stage, literally unable to resist the spotlight) and with Bowie performing on a cherry-picker and on a giant hand, both of which kept breaking down.
  • (7) The regulator said it did not find the evidence provided a basis to conclude Rupert Murdoch had acted in a way that was inappropriate in relation to phone hacking, concealment or corruption by employees.
  • (8) The evidence obtained in these patients was consistent with a concealed Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.
  • (9) It is concluded that the site of unidirectional block in this patient is at the origin of the concealed accessory pathway in the ventricular septal muscle.
  • (10) Kipling deliberately concealed something of himself, but did not seek to conceal the truth about the nature of imperial power; Wodehouse exposed himself, and thereby inadvertently exposed something of the double standards of the system of power in which he unthinkingly believed.
  • (11) It is concluded that the loss in total thigh volume during inactivation in a cast is due to waste of the muscle tissue, and further that this loss is partly concealed by an unchanged fat thigh volume.
  • (12) Slower ventricular rates during atrial fibrillation would suggest an increased propensity for concealed conduction in the enhanced AV node conduction group than in the group with an accessory pathway.
  • (13) The same plant was seriously damaged by an earthquake in 2007, but the owners tried to conceal a radiation leak.
  • (14) It has since emerged that Brinsley had already been arrested 19 times for offences including concealing a weapon, and disorderly conduct.
  • (15) Expressions that included muscular activity around the eyes in addition to the smiling lips occurred more often when people were actually enjoying themselves as compared with when enjoyment was feigned to conceal negative emotions.
  • (16) Drug-taking was, in effect, decriminalised by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 , ever since when the authorities have deployed the rhetoric of toughness to conceal the truth that we are free to take drugs with impunity, knowing our crime will probably be ignored, or at worst not punished but "treated".
  • (17) The conduction disturbances were due to the association of concealed His bundle depolarizations (H') not propagated to atria or ventricles with first degree AV block in the His bundle.
  • (18) The measure would also lower the minimum age required to obtain a concealed weapons permit, from 21 to 19.
  • (19) Importantly, this abnormal state is concealed at rest and the choice of palliative shunting procedure appears to have little effect on normalizing pump performance.
  • (20) Such observations may conceal the fact that the amine N-oxide has undergone a sequence of deoxygenation and oxygenation reactions only to revert to the parental form and be excreted as such--a process that we propose to call metabolic retroversion.

Withhold


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hold back; to restrain; to keep from action.
  • (v. t.) To retain; to keep back; not to grant; as, to withhold assent to a proposition.
  • (v. t.) To keep; to maintain; to retain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is concluded that there is no pharmacokinetic indiction for withholding OCs from women with early active schistosomiasis who are concurrently receiving antischistosmal drugs.
  • (2) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
  • (3) "The default switch should be set to release information unless there is an extremely good reason for withholding it.".
  • (4) Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican who chairs the Senate judiciary committee, introduced legislation on Tuesday that would crack down on jurisdictions that provide safe harbor for undocumented migrants by withholding some federal funding for state and local entities if they decline to cooperate with the government on the holding or transferring of undocumented migrants with criminal records.
  • (5) In the stringent E. coli, strain 15 TAU (thymine-arginine-uracil) rel A+ (arginine), withholding thymine did not affect the rate of killing.
  • (6) The Natural Death Act amendments authorize the withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from patients with incurable or irreversible conditions if death will result within a relatively short time without use of such procedures.
  • (7) Recent activities by some to decry clinical trials as unethical and restrict their conduct results in the totally unacceptable situation of withholding potentially valuable treatments from patients or subjecting patients to the unnecessary risks of treatments not proven safe and efficacious.
  • (8) While ethicists view the withholding and withdrawing of life-supporting treatment as morally equivalent, physicians tend to make a distinction based on the perceived locus of moral responsibility for the patient's death.
  • (9) It is argued that the evidence for withholding rifampicin from use in short courses against non-tuberculous infections is slight.
  • (10) Dear British public, be outraged, act, withhold your money until you can have confidence in what you consume.
  • (11) These findings support the construct and predictive diagnostic validity of nonfearful panic disorder as a subtype of panic disorder and suggest that a lack of attention to this group leads to both the underestimation of the prevalence of panic disorder and to the withholding of potentially successful treatments for this group.
  • (12) Kenyan human rights lawyers described how potential witnesses have been cajoled and bullied into withholding their testimony.
  • (13) We found that 26% of 508 neurons in both parts of the striatum were activated during the presentation of visual signals which prepared the animals for the execution or withholding of individual arm reaching movements.
  • (14) The Financial Reporting Council also asked for views on companies being able to recover or withhold bonuses from top directors and to explain when publishing the votes at annual meetings how they intend to head off any rebellions in the future.
  • (15) This study was performed to assess the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in consecutive obstetric patients with clinical symptoms of DVT, using impedance plethysmography (IPG) as the diagnostic method and to establish the safety of withholding anticoagulant therapy in patients with a repeatedly normal IPG.
  • (16) The daily newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday that Israel had decided to withhold the taxes it collects for the Palestinians under the current interim peace accords and transfers each month to the Palestinian Authority.
  • (17) Results show that this method of attachment is reliable and strong enough to withhold forces exceeding those necessary to break or tear the cell.
  • (18) This information was transmitted to a hospital-based telemetry physician who diagnosed or excluded acute myocardial infarction and made a mock decision to withhold or administer a thrombolytic agent.
  • (19) Neurons were found which remained active during the time period for which the monkey had to withhold eye movements while remembering desired target locations.
  • (20) Among a "toolbox" of actions under consideration are: • full or partial annulment of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established • withholding tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the PA • cancellation of permits for thousands of Palestinian labourers to work in Israel • withdrawal of travel privileges for senior PA officials • acceleration of building programmes in West Bank settlements • unilateral annexation of the main Jewish settlement blocks.