What's the difference between conspire and inspire?

Conspire


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together.
  • (v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.
  • (v. t.) To plot; to plan; to combine for.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paul Vickers, the legal director of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror, said the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) – announced on Monday – was being fast-tracked in an attempt to kill off accusations that big newspaper groups are conspiring to delay the introduction of a new regulator backed by royal charter.
  • (2) According to Kadyrov’s multiple outlandish, sometimes confused, statements the enemies aren’t just at the gates, but have entered the castle and are conspiring to take the country down.
  • (3) Following an eight-month trial, Brooks was in June cleared at the Old Bailey of conspiring to hack phones, illegal payments to a public official and perverting the course of justice.
  • (4) A confluence of my residual neurosis, the patient's neurosis, her transference state, her other characteristics (that she was female, for example), plus the fact that she was the last patient contacted, all conspired with the regression from the trauma of being hospitalized to produce the countertransference reaction.
  • (5) According to the US indictment, Ghinkul (and his co-conspirators, who remain un-named) tried to steal almost $1m from a school district in Pennsylvania, and successfully transferred over $3.5m from Penneco Oil in over the course of three separate attacks.
  • (6) They also accessed billing data for the conspirators and alleged conspirators’ phones, showing the date and time of incoming and outgoing calls, as well as geographical data about where the calls were made.
  • (7) But - as at Barclays and UBS - it's clear that some traders conspired to fix the rate by changing the rate that they submitted to the Libor panel.
  • (8) Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Assad Sarwar and Tanvir Hussain were found guilty of conspiring to murder crew and passengers on transatlantic flights.
  • (9) Built in the 1570s and known as a 'miniature Hampton Court', it was once owned by one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators.
  • (10) Maybe we have conspired against ourselves at times, but it just didn't go for us."
  • (11) But now people are thinking about the public school elites, aristocracy, City of London investment bankers, corporate lobbyists, and the imperialist warmongers, apologists and conspirators in the media, not as instruments of good government and a healthy democracy, but as dangerous impediments to it.
  • (12) A brief court appearance was made in Sydney’s central local court on Thursday by Omarjan Azari, who has been charged with conspiring to commit an act of terrorism.
  • (13) Affairs were had and buildings were blown up; Olivia Pope drugged, kidnapped and changed the identity of one of her employees; the president’s chief of staff spent his time orchestrating murders, rigging elections and conspiring with hit men; the president got shot in the head, and still found time to murder a supreme court justice.
  • (14) Marcinkova and Kellen were among four named Epstein associates identified by US government prosecutors as “potential co-conspirators” who would avoid charges under the controversial plea deal Epstein struck in 2007, which saw him serve just over year in jail for his offences.
  • (15) Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev have been charged with conspiring to obstruct justice.
  • (16) "If the property market and the stock market conspired against it then the UK could possibly see the same thing happen."
  • (17) He responds: "Look, find weaknesses in me, criticise me for my weaknesses - I'm not as great a presenter of information or communicator as I would like to be - but the one thing people should not say is that I'm surrounded by some group of conspirators."
  • (18) It could have been his team celebrating a Double had they won at Villa Park and avoided defeat in their penultimate league game of the season to Leeds United, a match in which events seemed to conspire against them as dramatically as they went in favour of Ferguson’s side.
  • (19) Rajaratnam, a 52-year-old financier ranked by Forbes as the 559th richest man in the world, was arrested alongside five alleged conspirators in a dramatic series of raids by the US department of justice, based on evidence compiled from phone calls intercepted by wire taps.
  • (20) In the trial, Coulson was convicted of conspiring to hack phones while he was editor of the News of the World.

Inspire


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • (v. t.) To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • (v. t.) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire.
  • (v. t.) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
  • (v. t.) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue.
  • (v. i.) To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire.
  • (v. i.) To breathe; to blow gently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Airway closure (CV), functional residual capacity (FRC) and the distribution of inspired gas (nitrogen washout delay percentage, NWOD %) and arterial oxygen tension (PaO2) was measured by standard electrodes in eight extremely obese patients before and after weight loss (mean weights 142 and 94 kg, respectively) following intestinal shunt operation.
  • (2) We have much more fighting to do!” Now Cherwell is preparing to publish letters or articles from other students who have been inspired to open up about their own ordeals.
  • (3) Increase in activity of pulmonary stretch receptors causes inhibition of inspiration and bronchodilation.
  • (4) The duration of the individual crackles became shorter and the timing of the crackles shifted toward the end of inspiration.
  • (5) "I wanted it to have a romantic feel," says Wilson, "recalling Donald Campbell and his Bluebird machines and that spirit of awe-inspiring adventure."
  • (6) Transcutaneous oxygen measurements (TcpO2) have been shown to be an index of tissue perfusion and it has been suggested that the main haemodynamic variable influencing tissue perfusion is cardiac output, assuming that inspired oxygen remains constant.
  • (7) There was also an OBE for Daily Mirror advice columnist and broadcaster, Dr Miriam Stoppard , while Dr Claire Bertschinger , whose appearance in Michael Buerk's 1984 reports from Ethiopia inspired Bob Geldof to organise Live Aid, was made a dame for services to nursing and international humanitarian aid.
  • (8) I was inspired by and, in this article, refer to videotapes of consultations and therapy sessions shown at an international conference on constructivism and family therapy in Sulitjelma, Norway, June 1988, and to written material from the Tromsø group (Tom Andersen and Anna M. Flåm), the Milan team (Luigi Boscolo and Gianfranco Cecchin), and the Galveston team (Harlene Anderson and Harold Goolishian).
  • (9) Under cyclic uptake conditions alveolar gases follow an oscillating time course, because gas concentrations tend to increase during inspiration and to decrease during expiration.
  • (10) We used two experimental paradigms inspired by developmental biology to study how bees obtain information on changing colony needs that results in precocious foraging.
  • (11) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
  • (12) During inspiration, the velocity was greater and the shape of the flow profile throughout diastole tended to be flat.
  • (13) "It's inspiring for young sportspeople everywhere to have something like this happening in our backyard.
  • (14) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
  • (15) As an index of inhomogeneous distribution of inspired air, the mean dilution number (the ratio of the first to zero moments) was calculated from each multibreath nitrogen washout during spontaneous breathing.
  • (16) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (17) The effects of the level of oxygenation on the respiratory response to heat exposure have been studied in conscious cats during normoxia, severe or mild hypocapnic hypoxia [inspired O2 fraction (FIO2) = 0.11 or 0.13], or hyperoxia.
  • (18) We therefore measured HCVR, HVR, and ventilation for three breaths preceding and eight breaths following three totally obstructed inspirations in eight normal subjects during NREM sleep.
  • (19) As well as a portrait of Austen, the new note will include images of her writing desk and quills at Chawton Cottage, in Hampshire, where she lived; her brother's home, Godmersham Park, which she visited often, and is thought to have inspired some of her novels, and a quote from Miss Bingley, in Pride and Prejudice: "I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  • (20) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.