What's the difference between consistent and incessant?

Consistent


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
  • (a.) Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory.
  • (a.) Living or acting in conformity with one's belief or professions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The findings are more consistent with those in studies of panic disorder.
  • (2) We have determined the genomic structure of the fosB gene and shown that it consists of 4 exons and 3 introns at positions also found in the c-fos gene.
  • (3) No consistent relationship could be found between the time interval from SAH to operation and the severity of vasospasm.
  • (4) The NORPLANT-2 rod system on the other hand consists of only 2 rods.
  • (5) These four antigens consisted of S of MNSs blood group, Lua of Lutheran blood group, and K and Kpa of Kell-Cellano blood group.
  • (6) Neither the plasma prolactin level nor urinary excretion of aldosterone and ADHshowed any consistent change throughout the dive.
  • (7) Taken together these results are consistent with the view that primary CTL, as well as long term cloned CTL cell lines, exercise their cytolytic activity by means of perforin.
  • (8) Maximal covalent binding of [4,5-14C]ronidazole to DNA also required four-electron reduction, consistent with previous studies of the covalent binding of this agent to immobilized sulfhydryl groups [Kedderis et al.
  • (9) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.
  • (10) Mapping of the cross-link position between U2 and U6 RNAs is consistent with base-pairing between the 5' domain of U2 and the 3' end of U6 RNA.
  • (11) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
  • (12) Projection obliquity resulted in consistent underestimation of DPR angle.
  • (13) Control incubations revealed an inherent difference between the two substrates; gram-positive supernatants consistently contained 5% radioactivity, whereas even at 0 h, those from the gram-negative mutant released 22%.
  • (14) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (15) LH and FSH levels in the group which were given low dose progesterone only, rose consistently after BSO and these patterns were similar to those seen in the control group.
  • (16) The estimated DNA compaction ratio (approximately 3-fold) is consistent with a significant degree of nucleosome unfolding in the hyperstimulated BR genes.
  • (17) The results are consistent with our previous suggestion that lethality for virulent SFV infection results from a lethal threshold of damage to neurons in the CNS and that attenuating mutations may reduce neuronal damage below this threshold level.
  • (18) Changes in renal renin levels after the administration of glycerol were not significant, although lower renal renin values were consistently found in rabbits with more severe impairment of renal function.
  • (19) We conclude that the rat somatosympathetic reflex consists of an early excitatory component due to the early activation of RVL-spinal sympathoexcitatory neurons with rapidly conducting axons and a later peak that may arise from the late activation of these same neurons as well as the early activation of RVL vasomotor neurons with more slowly conducting spinal axons.
  • (20) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.

Incessant


Definition:

  • (a.) Continuing or following without interruption; unceasing; unitermitted; uninterrupted; continual; as, incessant clamors; incessant pain, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, against Real Madrid, Nani was sent off, Ferguson, jaws agape, interrupting his incessant mastication, roared from the bench, uprooting his assistant and marched to the touchline.
  • (2) Yes, I’m aware that’s confusing, and no, I don’t really know how employers are going to get their heads round this either.” I watch colleagues battle to keep up with the incessant changes and I feel frustrated that this is taking us all away from the core business of providing inspiring lessons for students.
  • (3) But it rained incessantly and the family had to keep indoors.
  • (4) Incessantly progressive loss of renal function culminated in irreversible renal failure 7 weeks after initial manifestations of renal insufficiency.
  • (5) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
  • (6) Incessant hand to mouth movements are often noted as part of the movement disorder of the hands in the Rett syndrome (RS).
  • (7) A patient with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented with incessant orthodromic atrioventricular tachycardia following initiation of procainamide therapy.
  • (8) This 35-year-old male homosexual, who had no psychiatric history, suddenly developed in November 1988 the following psychiatric signs: he started to walk back and forth incessantly, he had the impression that he was the subject of the conversations of the passers-by, that all the posters and notices refer to him, and that he was God.
  • (9) However, for incessant supraventricular mechanisms, catheter or surgical ablative techniques are recommended to eliminate long-term drug administration.
  • (10) This report details a patient with incessant fascicular tachycardia.
  • (11) Two patients died, one due to incessant ventricular tachycardia and one of a cause unrelated to device.
  • (12) Thirteen out of 14 patients with the incessant or undetermined type of AAT were symptomatic, in contrast to only two of seven patients with the repetitive type.
  • (13) The problem in deciding what Orwell would write about in 2013 is that Orwell the man was incessantly, in 21st century newspeak, off-message.
  • (14) A succession of storms, some very high tides and incessant downpours this winter have brought into stark relief Britain's exposure to the weather.
  • (15) An incessant growth of kallikrein content was detected in DUH patients, whereas their prekallikrein levels were much lower than in the controls.
  • (16) One baby had an incessant reciprocating tachycardia and subsequently required digoxin for heart failure.
  • (17) Three of these 16 patients developed electrically provoked incessant VT during treatment with propafenone without other evidence of toxicity.
  • (18) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
  • (19) The reason for this savagery is that, contrary to their incessant claims that their long-term plan is working, five years of Osbornomics has been an outright failure, even in its own terms.
  • (20) But there’s also generic observational material (how British people avoid speaking to strangers on trains, and so on), and I soon found Hess’s incessant burbling and tittering around largely trivial subjects beginning to wash over me.