(a.) Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.
(a.) Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.
(n.) A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities.
(n.) An opponent; an enemy.
(n.) the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1.
(n.) See Contraries.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
(2) These results do not support the view that in the rat pheromones from adult males enhance puberty in females, contrary to what is known to happen in the mouse.
(3) The sensitivity of SPECT for detection of overall coronary stenosis was 79%, contrary that of treadmill exercise test was only 33% (p < 0.001).
(4) Contrary to expectations, low SES was not associated with greater levels of hyperglycemia or grades of retinopathy.
(5) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(6) Contrary to expectations, it was determined that ATP was not the only nucleotide which enhanced Ca2(+)-induced secretion in the presence of Mg2+.
(7) Contrary to previous reports, approximately 20% of the neurons in V3 were color selective in terms of showing a severalfold greater response to the best monochromatic wavelength compared with the worst.
(8) Contrary to expectations, it was found that psychological variables had some prognostic significance for outcome assessed by medical measures of illness severity.
(9) Contrary to current knowledge there was no statistically significant difference in the velocities of nerve conduction on the left and right sides of these subjects.
(10) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
(11) However, contrary to some previous reports the incidences of anemia, cesarean sections, induced labor, dysmaturity and perinatal deaths were decreased.
(12) On the other hand, with simultaneous doses of the two substances, the blood toluene concentration was higher for the first 15-30 min than the ethanol control and the urinary excretion of hippuric acid, a main metabolite of toluene, was markedly decreased for the first 2 h. The blood ethanol in this group, on the contrary, was reduced until 1 h after administration.
(13) Contrary to the claims of some commentators, such as Steve Vladeck , it is impossible to argue reasonably that the memo imposed a requirement of "infeasibility of capture" on Obama's assassination power.
(14) "On the contrary, they often serve to inflame rather than mollify the feelings of those involved."
(15) Quite the contrary, in cases of higher nervous activity disturbances, destruction of the organelles and desintegration of spine apparatuses is clearly pronounced.
(16) On the contrary, catatonic forms had decreased very much since the utilization of neuroleptics (they moved from 18 to 28% before neuroleptic periods to 2% after the beginning of utilization of neuroleptics).
(17) These last specialized characters are observed, on the contrary, in species parasitic in Lagomorpha.
(18) Contrary to adults, fractures misdiagnosed in radiography often result in significant reduction of joint function.
(19) Gerson Zweifach, general counsel for both News Corp and 21st Century Fox , Murdoch’s film and TV business, said: “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and acknowledge the fairness and professionalism of the Department of Justice throughout this investigation.” It is understood there has been no background settlement with the Department of Justice in order to avoid a full-blown investigation, contrary to speculation in New York over a year ago that the company was looking at a possible payment of over $850m.
(20) Colon and rectum, leukemia, and breast cancers were found to have very high positive spatial autocorrelation and high correlation with population density--a result contrary to previous findings in the West.
Juxtapose
Definition:
(v. t.) To place in juxtaposition.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may be that the low severity of the disease in India, juxtaposed against the high mortality rates in parts of Africa, may be due to the relative prevalence of marasmic and kwashiorkor types of malnutrition in these particular geographic areas.
(2) Antibody genes are assembled from a series of germ-line gene segments that are juxtaposed during the maturation of B lymphocytes.
(3) A recent systematic investigation of domain structures consisting of juxtaposed icosahedral columns is also presented.
(4) Often juxtaposing sets of striations are not in correct register with respect to one another.
(5) By three hours postcoitus, the region beneath the basement lamina of the vaginal epithelium is crowded with numerous juxtaposed leukocytes.
(6) The phosphoribulokinase reaction involves a single in-line phosphoryl transfer, requiring that the gamma-phosphoryl of ATP be closely juxtaposed to the bound cosubstrate.
(7) These results suggest a critical role for an iron-liganding moiety that is abundantly present in PMN, marginally so in neutroplasts, and not at all in purified enzymatic systems--a moiety that we presume catalyzes very toxic O2 specie generation in the vicinity of juxtaposed erythrocyte targets.
(8) He frequently intermingled two sentences to convey a given concept, juxtaposing words in grammatically unacceptable ways.
(9) A suppurative gastritis with full thickness perforations of the stomach wall associated with Gasterophilus intestinalis larvae had extended to the juxtaposed organ initiating an extensive suppurative splenitis.
(10) When the fields were juxtaposed, chromatic sensitivity declined with viewing duration.
(11) Aristapedioid is the result of a P element mediated inversion which juxtaposes unrelated DNA adjacent to Suppressor 2 of zeste, causing a gain of function mutation in that gene.
(12) It also suggests that both cohesive acts involve at least dimeric associations of molecules or molecular complexes located within or on juxtaposed membranes.
(13) Juxtaposed genes with divergent transcriptional polarity were prevalent.
(14) It is concluded that RNA splicing between inadvertently juxtaposed donor and acceptor signals was responsible for the observed deletions.
(15) We conclude that the gene classes 2, 4, and 5 are closely juxtaposed in the normal Chinese hamster genome and comprise one amplicon in resistant cells.
(16) The interconnected helices are juxtaposed so that the continuous strands of each helix generate an antiparallel alignment, and the two interchanged strands do not cross at the centre.
(17) Most human follicular lymphomas bear the specific t(14;18) translocation that juxtaposes the 3' region of bcl-2 to the IgH gene on chromosome 14q+.
(18) When a group of earlier visual fields is compared with a group of later ones utilizing the statistical program delta-change, the results of regression analysis, based on data from program delta-series, are juxtaposed to the results of the t test with very good correlation.
(19) These arrangements were evaluated for whether they could incorporate the disulfide bond, satisfy loop length constraints, and juxtapose the two basic regions.
(20) Analysis of mutant constructs revealed that only 83 bp of H-2 DNA, consisting of the enhancer juxtaposed to the basal promoter, was sufficient for this differential expression.