What's the difference between countable and uncountable?

Countable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being numbered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
  • (2) Two of our four subjects had reduced but countable numbers of CFU-E, BFU-E, and GFU-GM in methylcellulose culture.
  • (3) During the first day the vitality of the cells diminishes whereby they become stainable and countable.
  • (4) Such spleen colonies represent the bulk of the countable nodules that form the basis of the widely applied murine "stem cell" assay.
  • (5) A majority of SSI recipients had less than +100 in countable resources, and only about 12 percent of SSI recipients had more than +1,000 of resources.
  • (6) Using L-Arterenol and sodium citrate in combination with standard chromosome culture techniques, 12 of 17 consecutive tumors (75%) had countable figures ranging from 5 cells to 59 cells.
  • (7) "There might be some projects out there that are not flawed but they are hardly even countable let's say," said Filzmoser.
  • (8) Countable bone metastases detected by bone scintigraphy were evaluated whether the lesion showed apparent, faint, or negative Ga-67 uptake.
  • (9) Cemental annulations are easily countable in teeth from animals that have an exaggerated regular change of food intake from season to season.
  • (10) The canonical countable entity for 3- and 4-year-old children is a discrete physical object.
  • (11) Cells furnished tryptone (Difco) and glycerol just before aerosolization increased (in viable numbers and countable cells) almost twofold within 1 to 2 h after becoming airborne, whereas cells not furnished additional tryptone decreased in viable numbers at a faster rate than the number of particles removed by gravitational settling.
  • (12) This paper deals with isolated, countable items, often termed particles, in three-dimensional space.
  • (13) Epidemiologists, who by themselves work only with countable phenomena of the macro-world, must collaborate with specialists in subjects below the macro-level if they wish to improve the explanatory power and validity of their results.
  • (14) When heavily stained with Giemsa, the colonies of transformed cells were grossly visible and countable.
  • (15) So it is necessary to use always two inoculations for all specimens and the resistance is calculated on the medium inoculated with the same doses, for that, colonies on the control must be countable and suitable number that is 50-300.
  • (16) In order to receive payments under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, an aged, blind, or disabled person's countable resources must fall below specified limits.
  • (17) Lymphoma 6C3HED-OG cells, known from previous work to be susceptible to the effects of guinea pig serum in vivo and dependent upon extrinsic asparagine for protein synthesis and growth in vitro, remained for the most part morphologically intact and countable in the electronic cell counter following exposures of 1 and 2 hr to the effects of heated (56 degrees C, 30 min) guinea pig serum injected into the peritoneal cavities of mice in which the lymphoma cells were growing rapidly; after exposures of 4 and 6 hr the bulk of the -OG cells remained still intact and countable in the cell counter, though by this time a small proportion of them (5 to 12%) proved stainable with eosin in wet preparations) hence were presumably nonviable.
  • (18) With a 90-min invasion time, the invasive potential of a strain was reflected by the multiplicity of infection needed to produce countable wells.
  • (19) Fourteen to 24 months later, 33% (10 of 30) of the mice had countable numbers of acid-fast bacilli (greater than 2 X 10(4)) with the characteristics of M. leprae in one or more homogenates prepared from ears, foot pads, nose or lungs.
  • (20) The earliest lymphocytes with sIg in fetal lambs were demonstrable at 52 days (96 mm crown-rump length) and countable by 56 days (110 mm CRL) at 0.3% sIg.

Uncountable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is not known how many killings by police officers go uncounted in the United States each year.
  • (2) By restraining the lateral spread and confluence of colonies, the hydrophobic grid-membrane filter (HGMF) allows growth- or colony-forming units (GU) to be resolved at levels far above those which produce an uncountable lawn on a conventional membrane filter.
  • (3) In a canyon between grey shattered precipices of bomb-ravaged buildings, an uncountable number of people wait for food.
  • (4) The first-ever attempt by US record-keepers to estimate the number of uncounted “law enforcement homicides” exposed previous official tallies as capturing less than half of the real picture.
  • (5) But Kyte added: “If they all had access to coal-fired power tomorrow their respiratory illness rates would go up, etc, etc … We need to extend access to energy to the poor and we need to do it the cleanest way possible because the social costs of coal are uncounted and damaging, just as the global emissions count is damaging as well.” The World Bank sees climate change as a driver of poverty, threatening decades of development.
  • (6) There are uncountable things that only a human can do, and that no computer seems close to.
  • (7) Some degree of carpeting of the colonic mucosa and uncountable numbers fo tumors occurred in 30% of mice and these areas of confluent neoplasms also occurred predominantly in the distal colon.
  • (8) Simulations with this model show that: (1) none of the postural maintenance schemes considered in these simulations (including varying anticipation) could suppress the initial backward thrust on the body link; (2) the more important destabilizing perturbation is a subsequent forward sway that, left uncountered by postural activity, would eventually leave the body to fall flat on its face; and (3) anticipatory silencing of the postural extensor followed by a brief period of extensor activation (descending control) and synchronous reflex activity (feedback control) appears to be the most likely postural stabilizing strategy that inhibits the continuous forward sway and is consistent with the experimental evidence.
  • (9) Moscow remains wary of the Afghan quagmire, with memories still fresh of the disastrous 1979-89 war that cost the lives of 15,000 Russian soldiers and uncounted Afghan civilians, and ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  • (10) The uncounted: why the US can't keep track of people killed by police Read more Cummings told the Guardian he was convening the debate “because I believe we have a unique moment of bipartisan, nationwide support to reform our criminal justice system – a system that has led to the over-criminalization, imprisonment, and even deaths of Americans across the country, particularly in communities of color.
  • (11) An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday.
  • (12) The core business of the BBC is broadcasting – it's there in the name – and if it has to make a choice between radio, television and an uncountable number of web pages then radio and TV should always come first.
  • (13) The abdominal pathologies that can be studied are almost uncountable: gastric neoplasms, pancreatic cysts and stones, gallstones, neoplasms of the liver and pancreas, bowel tumors, abdominal aortic aneurysms, renal neoplasms and cysts, atrophy of the kidneys, bladder tumors, uterine tumors, ovarian cysts, and many more.
  • (14) Wyden warned that the uncounted FBI searches posed a particular problem, both substantively and for oversight.
  • (15) I hope that neither place continues to act as a graveyard; full of the uncounted remains of people we preferred not to think about or see as equal to ourselves.
  • (16) The amplitude reduction associated with a CVA cannot be simply interpreted as evidence for reduced cognitive efficiency because overall amplitudes and intercorrelations between brain regions of CVA patients were reduced for both counted and uncounted stimuli.
  • (17) But the majority of victims in law enforcement homicides for those years not only went unnamed – they went uncounted in any one tally.
  • (18) Simulations also predict that any postural activities in the hips and lower limbs should be a two-fold process: first, some preprogrammed, descending control to the lower body would be required to actively enhance the passive, backwards motion (this is consistent with, though not strictly identical to, the hypothesis of Crenna and colleagues); secondly, there must be a subsequent activation in the anterior muscles of the lower body in order to arrest this backwards motion, since otherwise the uncountered momentum would carry the body backward to the floor in less than half a second after the upper body movement has terminated.
  • (19) Operation Ellamy cost the British taxpayer hundreds of millions of pounds; what it cost the Libyan people is uncountable.
  • (20) A justice department investigation of the FBI’s published statistics has already revealed the worst from a data standpoint: more than half the people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the US went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year, for almost a decade.