What's the difference between contradictory and diametrically?

Contradictory


Definition:

  • (a.) Affirming the contrary; implying a denial of what has been asserted; also, mutually contradicting; inconsistent.
  • (a.) Opposing or opposed; repugnant.
  • (n.) A proposition or thing which denies or opposes another; contrariety.
  • (n.) propositions with the same terms, but opposed to each other both in quality and quantity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The relationships between the menopause and risk factors for ischaemic heart disease are complex, which may be one reason for the contradictory results when relating menopausal age to the incidence of ischaemic heart disease.
  • (2) (1) EXCP appears to be a more serious finding only in those higher risk individuals with either a positive EXECG or lower MAXRPP; (2) EXCP and its interactions may help discriminate between anginal and nonanginal, exertional chest pain, and (3) the contradictory results found when EXCP was allowed to interact may explain conflicting results in previous multivariate models regarding the predictive significance of EXCP.
  • (3) We suggest a model for transcription that involves the participation of a nucleoskeleton at the active site and reconcile the contradictory results obtained using different salt concentrations.
  • (4) A few days on, we still don't know much , and the evidence against Lewthwaite is scant and contradictory.
  • (5) The literature on the possible risk of myasthenia gravis complicating pregnancy and delivery is sparse and partly contradictory but some of the reports on the number of perinatal and neonatal deaths are alarming.
  • (6) This seemed contradictory for a government keen on getting people out of their cars, and given that at the time the Treasury finances were relatively healthy.
  • (7) A former ministerial colleague of Iain Duncan Smith once put it to me that he was a striking example of cognitive dissonance: that is, of holding two or more contradictory beliefs in his head at any given moment.
  • (8) The often changing and contradictory assessments made of the situation in different countries and at different times are outlined, and the difficulty of making a balanced and just evaluation of long established drugs is shown, particularly if the available data are derived primarily from spontaneous reports which, besides being almost impossible to verify, are often incomplete.
  • (9) Up to now there are contradictory findings as to the presence of an endogenous opioid antagonist.
  • (10) This finding is contradictory to the generally held view that antagonist-induced opioid receptor up-regulation in brain increases asymptotically, leveling off after a relatively brief treatment period.
  • (11) However, the literature provides little information on this and is contradictory.
  • (12) Contradictory data have recently been published from two different laboratories on the presence vs absence of an intrinsic endonucliolytic activity of E. coli exonuclease III at apurinic sites in double-stranded DNA.
  • (13) The test is commonly used as a preoperative screen to predict hemorrhage, but the data supporting this indication are contradictory at best.
  • (14) In view of the contradictory results reported in the literature regarding induction of specific immunologic tolerance to mechlorethamine hydrochloride (HN2), the problem was reinvestigated using a "tolerogenic" schedule that had been reported to be effective.
  • (15) By compromising these contradictory requirements, small dialkylamino (including cyclic amino) groups were decided to be the most favorable substituents.
  • (16) Evidence is presented to demonstrate that two different "melanotic" genes were being considered, thus explaining the apparently contradictory reports.
  • (17) In type 2 diabetics contradictory results have been obtained, probably related to varying degrees of body overweight in the patients investigated.
  • (18) This appears to be contradictory to the current view that a decrease in serum PRL levels with a concurrent increase in the intracellular PRL levels caused by bromocriptine treatment results from the inhibition of exocytosis of secretory granules.
  • (19) The literature is contradictory regarding the effect of static magnetic fields on the function of the central nervous system of mammals.
  • (20) The evidence for the involvement of Ca2+ in dPRL release is based on contradictory or unclear data.

Diametrically


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Each axon had a characteristic head position which was maximally excitatory to it, and a diametrically opposed head position which was minimally excitatory.3.
  • (2) Since there exist transitory forms between diametrically opposite manifestations of such behavior, possibly the process of individual acquirement of capabilities necessary for fulfilling foraging function occurs.
  • (3) A hybrid composite resin, Prisma APH, and a microfilled composite resin, Silux Plus, were compared regarding diametral tensile strength values following conventional visible light polymerization and argon lasing.
  • (4) The interaction with troponin T from white skeletal muscle or with the phosphorylated 42-residue N-terminal peptide of troponin T restores in the trypsin-treated AMP deaminase the sensitivity to adenine nucleotides and increases the KA for K+ activation of the enzyme from 1 mM to 12 mM, this effect being diametrically opposite to that exerted by limited proteolysis on the native enzyme.
  • (5) Furthermore, it seems that two diametrically opposed mechanisms underlie depressive behavior: increase or decrease of behavioral mode frequency.
  • (6) RF applicators were placed on the lateral sides of the scalp and applied to diametrically opposite sides of the tumor.
  • (7) We conclude that neither the angulation of the circumflex artery as it appears on a two-dimensional projection nor the proportional diametric stenosis of the lesion can serve as easily assessible predictors fro the success of the procedure.
  • (8) There have been many conflicting reports leading to diametrically opposed views.
  • (9) The point is a self-developed Suction-curette-system, consisting of a suction-curette of diametres of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 mm, a cervicometer and a filter.
  • (10) There were different and, occasionally, diametrically opposite effects of the spatial arrangement of the nitrogen-containing descriptors on gram positive and gram negative organisms.
  • (11) Unexpectedly, the CCK-B receptor antagonist, L-365,260, enhanced the response to CCK-8, an effect diametrically opposite to that produced by CCK-A antagonists.
  • (12) In vertically oriented red blood cells (RBCs) the diameter, central thickness, and toroidal thickness were measured at the diametrical cross section.
  • (13) The tensile strength of a dental gypsum was measured indirectly using both the diametral and the double-punch tests.
  • (14) The difference of the chemical composition of the sugar moiety is believed to account for the diametric difference in the immunochemical character, in particular the different behaviour in the electric field, of both endotoxin types.
  • (15) The ever-growing recourse to profit-driven firms to provide prisons is diametrically opposed to the provision of reform and rehabilitation in prisons.
  • (16) Additionally, the data show that the differential capacity of these two steroids to produce embryotoxic effects is diametrically opposite to earlier reported patterns of their carcinogenic potential in the Syrian hamster kidney.
  • (17) An additional observation was the presence of incomplete superficial and deep palmar arches in all instances, a finding which diametrically contrasts with anatomical studies purporting to demonstrate complete palmar arches in 80% of the normal population.
  • (18) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
  • (19) A study was conducted to compare the compressive strength, diametral tensile strength, transverse flexural strength, and flexural modulus of a microfilled and a small particle composite resin restorative material following argon laser and conventional visible light polymerization techniques.
  • (20) Despite their each inducing MHC-unrestricted cytolytic activity in overnight PBMC cultures mediated predominantly by CD56+ non-T cells, anti-CD3 mAb and rIL2 induce diametrically opposite effects on subsequent polyclonal T cell-dependent B cell differentiation.