What's the difference between conspicuous and deface?

Conspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye.
  • (a.) Obvious to the mental eye; easily recognized; clearly defined; notable; prominent; eminent; distinguished; as, a conspicuous excellence, or fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
  • (2) Platinum deer mice are conspicuously pale, with light ears and tail stripe.
  • (3) Two mechanisms are evident in chicks' spatial representations: a metric frame for encoding the spatial arrangement of surfaces as surfaces and a cue-guidance system for encoding conspicuous landmarks near the target.
  • (4) Which certainly isn't a charge you can level at Sony – in recent years, it has conspicuously championed indies (winning a hatful of Baftas for Journey and The Unfinished Swan in the process).
  • (5) Postoperative haemodynamics in patients with cardiac disease followed the same trends as in normal patients; there were, however, no significant changes in cardiac index or central pressures, and in general the cardiovascular reaction to operation was less conspicuous than in the group of normal patients.
  • (6) This implies that there is no important loss of motor units and no conspicuous muscle fiber degeneration in fibromyalgia.
  • (7) However, if solubility is considered as a function of pH at equilibrium, i.e., the final pH after the dissolution products have entered the solvent--a model more akin to the in vivo situation--hydroxyapatite is the conspicuously more soluble of the two minerals.
  • (8) SER proliferation in rat and monkey liver cells was less conspicuous than in mice.
  • (9) Another conspicuous histologic finding observed in the WKY hearts was that the continuity of the latitudinal fiber bundle of the ventricular septum with that of the left ventricular free wall, an important functioning unit for pressure generation in the left ventricle, was markedly disturbed in the area of junction between the 2 walls; the smaller the continuity, the greater the cardiac hypertrophy; the disadvantage of the discontinuity for the pressure generation may be related to the development of cardiac hypertrophy.
  • (10) The media theorist Nathan Jurgenson reads it as "conspicuous acquisition", after Thorstein Verblen's notion of conspicuous consumption.
  • (11) Both patients continue to use the device voluntarily; a smaller unit, however, that doesn't have the conspicuous external controls, would likely be readily acceptable to most young patients.
  • (12) But the large sums that undercut Hillary’s sudden fondness for economic populism will undercut Biden just as much, especially if raised conspicuously quickly.
  • (13) Among the most conspicuous features found were the presence of very distinct desmosome-like structures between blastomeres, and the cytoplasmic cell organelles distribution in three areas referred as: a sub-cortical, a middle and a perinuclear bands.
  • (14) Both tumors were solid, without conspicuous vascular differentiation by light microscopy.
  • (15) The study in which the animals were killed serially revealed that CTP had conspicuous damage on the respiratory system of rats, especially on the bronchiolo-alveolar areas.
  • (16) Hence the finding of six individuals with both these conditions in a small population with testicular cancer is highly conspicuous and indicates some kind of connection among such persons.
  • (17) PFB was conspicuously increased in maternal blood sera.
  • (18) The principal disadvantage, that this is a conspicuous donor site, has not been a source of concern for our patients.
  • (19) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.
  • (20) At the stage when each placode first becomes visible conspicuous differences have been seen in the surface morphology between those cells which will invaginate and form the placode and those which will remain on the surface of the head, forming the epidermis.

Deface


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important features or portions of; as, to deface a monument; to deface an edifice; to deface writing; to deface a note, deed, or bond; to deface a record.
  • (v. t.) To destroy; to make null.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Children with multiple defacing anomalies may not be mentally retarded so that aggressive management of their visceral anomalies and hearing problems, and early educational intervention are mandatory.
  • (2) The ready recourse to these grafts, so much in vogue at the present time in primary rhinoplasties, should be carefully and completely re-examined, since the final result very frequently yields no real benefits and may permanently deface the area from which the cartilage has been taken.
  • (3) "We must make sure that those who want to advertise [with] women's images in the city can do so without fear of vandalism and defacement of billboards or buses showing women," he has said.
  • (4) Just as Banksy causes collateral damage to the neatness of walls, so Amazon's masterpiece is a defacement of the public purse.
  • (5) The damages "nuisances" were "running laundry or defacing walls (67.1%) and "contamination of food (15.3%)", suggesting that chironomid midges influenced the daily life of the residents.
  • (6) I am devastated by this week, by our descent into defacement and boycott over discussion and debate."
  • (7) Past posters were defaced with markers on billboards just as quickly, but the parodies had no means of going viral.
  • (8) We’ve just had the gravestone removed because it’s been rather badly defaced one way and another with people chipping away at it.” I tell Gabrielle that I once interviewed Oscar Wilde’s grandson , who was pleading with admirers not to cover his grandfather’s tomb in Père Lachaise, Paris, with lipstick kisses because it was damaging the stone.
  • (9) Sherri Iacobelli, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety, told the Associated Press Newsome and Tyson, 30, also of Charlotte, had been charged with defacing monuments on state capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that carries a fine of up to $5,000 and a prison term of up to three years, or both.
  • (10) Earlier about 150 youths defaced central Athens's Christmas tree, hanging bin liners from its branches, before clashing with riot police.
  • (11) Some see a confident, charismatic comedy talent and a welcome point of difference in a bland – and white – late-night landscape, while others see him as an unwelcome reformist who has defaced the Daily Show that Stewart built.
  • (12) Other incidents that have worried international campaigners include the arrest of four young men near the northern city of Jaffna in late November, for defacing an image of Rajapaksa, and the death of a Tamil prisoner who was a British citizen in February in the main Colombo jail.
  • (13) I just think the world is a bit better when you are willing to give people chances.” Hopkins, a columnist with MailOnline, is facing a legal bill estimated at more than £300,000 after a high court judge ruled on Friday that she had defamed Monroe in two tweets sent in May 2015, which the court found had implied that Monroe had defaced or supported defacing a war memorial.
  • (14) Monroe was awarded £24,000 in damages last week in a row over tweets suggesting the writer approved of defacing a war memorial during an anti-austerity demonstration in Whitehall.
  • (15) DI Ian Harratt of GMP’s Oldham borough, said: “In the wake of the atrocities that happened at the Manchester Arena, this man thought it was acceptable to deface and set fire to a local mosque.” “This behaviour will not be tolerated,” he went on.
  • (16) As you walk home, stopping only to deface street art and urinate on sights of natural beauty, consider what’s gone wrong enough to lead you to this point.
  • (17) I don’t think it’s ever been defaced before in that time.” Gilmore said a large group of “highly respected” Muslims had lived in the community since the 1920s.
  • (18) Brian Pannebecker knew trouble was brewing when he found one of his letters to the editor defaced with a swastika.
  • (19) I have no idea if any of those initiatives was inspired by my protest; several others also defaced the hate posters with stickers.
  • (20) It says to the people of Canning, ‘We don’t care if your main worry is law and order, and the scourge of ice.’” Hastie also used his address on Saturday to take two separate swipes at the opposition, criticising its candidate Matt Keogh and saying the Labor party has shown it will deface Australia’s national achievements with bad policy if given the opportunity.