What's the difference between countless and incalculable?

Countless


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thanks to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Art Fund and countless donations from individuals and groups, this wonderful picture – a masterpiece by any standards – will be enjoyed, free of charge, in the National Portrait Gallery for many generations to come."
  • (2) She devotes countless hours every week to meeting with her lawyer and officials from Russia's Investigative Committee, which raided her flat in early June.
  • (3) According to Newman, with whom Hislop has written TV series, a film and radio programmes, as well as countless jokes for Private Eye, his fogeyism is reflected in his attitude to sex.
  • (4) She had already passed the test: she made countless appearances between 2 February and 14 May, while her treatment was underway, and no one suspected a thing!
  • (5) Trevor Sinclair and Frédéric Kanouté scored, Tomas Repka gave away a penalty and Jermain Defoe missed countless chances.
  • (6) And there are countless white Britons who are unaware of the histories that bind us all together.
  • (7) This is a pattern of confusion, or deliberate deception, repeated in countless cases of missing persons who were later tracked down to Bagram.
  • (8) Legislators, third parties, physicians, and patients alike have spent countless hours in recent years searching for a way to contain rising medical costs.
  • (9) The text offers countless more examples in the same vein.
  • (10) Every month they delay its introduction, carmakers add to the 400,000 premature deaths, and countless respiratory, cardiac and other illnesses that result from air pollution in Europe.
  • (11) Yet he seems to have not just used his plane, but travelled with him on countless occasions and stayed on his luxury yacht.
  • (12) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (13) The cytoplasm of the photoreceptor cells contains countless small Golgi fields, mitochondria, microtubules, multivesicular and multilamellar bodies.
  • (14) That stunner set the tone for a first round which did not follow the script that had been set by the countless mock drafts leading up to Thursday night.
  • (15) The umpteenth tragedy involving African migrants off the tiny island of Lampedusa could and should have been prevented, like the countless other deaths that have occurred over the last years in those waters.
  • (16) This man’s anguish and his love for his children pour out of your image and it is [a] look that I saw in the faces of countless people as we took them from the boats.” Working on deadline, I lost track of the family.
  • (17) 4.01pm BST Former GOP congressman and TV host Joe Scarborough lays into the Romney campaign in an op-ed for Politico : How can it be that this man who turned around countless businesses, saved the 2002 Olympics and ran Democratic Massachusetts like a pro be the head of such a disastrous campaign?
  • (18) Anti-Trump protesters to descend on NBC headquarters over SNL appearance Read more This weekend, however, the latest leg of the tour has countless Latino organizations and their allies declaring that NBC’s Trump hypocrisy will no longer be tolerated.
  • (19) The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland , but of Newcastle, Oldham, the Midlands, and countless other places not featured on the Circle line.
  • (20) Countless veterans survived the war but paid the price by leaving it maimed, mutilated and disfigured.

Incalculable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being calculated; beyond calculation; very great.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Domino theorists argue that the impact on the economy, growth and employment would be catastrophic and incalculable.
  • (2) The other impact is incalculable, like his fear about what's going to happen next."
  • (3) But, hypothetically, if Mubarak were to fall, the consequences would be incalculable – for Israel and the peace process, for the ascending power of Iran, for US influence across the Middle East, and for the future rise and spread of militant, anti-western Islam.
  • (4) Since leaking State and Defense Department documents to Wikileaks in 2010, the amount of injustice Chelsea has had to suffer is almost incalculable.
  • (5) The consequences of this decision are incalculable: the destruction of one of the world’s greatest training orchestras, generations of young musicians denied unique opportunities, and the loss of 40 years of patient tradition, and one of the EU’s greatest arts organisations.
  • (6) Whereas a change of temperature within the physiological range does not lead to significant contrast alterations in MRI, changing magnetic field strength can lead to drastic alterations in tissue contrast caused by incalculable changes of T1 relaxation.
  • (7) Threats that are incalculable or somehow alien will be seen as their worst possible manifestations.
  • (8) Offering to discuss the deal with Le Guin "at any time", the writers' body pointed out that if it had lost its case against Google, anyone, not just the search engine, could have digitised copyright-protected books and made them available online, prompting the "uncontrolled scanning of books" and "incalculable" damage to copyright protection.
  • (9) His contribution is actually incalculable because a lot of other people didn’t step up” to refurbish buildings as early as he did, Samoff said.
  • (10) The close neighbourhood of vital organs, small and easily vulnerable blood vessels and nerval tissues of functional importance first seemed to burden this method of investigation with an incalculate risk.
  • (11) "Seventy thousand dead, 26,000 disappeared, and an incalculable number of internally displaced are more than sufficient reason to look for an alternative model," federal congressman Fernando Belaunzarán told reporters this week.
  • (12) The influence of UK membership is immense; the damage resulting from its withdrawal would be incalculable.
  • (13) Although these diseases are rarely serious, they result in immense amounts of time lost from work and incalculable expense for over-the-counter medications.
  • (14) It is not clear how an incalculably large number of foreign proteins form unique complexes with a very limited number of MHC molecules.
  • (15) Gauweiler's office argued that the unlimited bond-buying programme announced by Mario Draghi last Thursday had "created a completely new situation"r regarding the ESM, making the impact on Germany's taxpayers "completely incalculable".
  • (16) There are fears in Washington and London that if no deal is reached to at least temporarily defuse tensions by the end of December, Israel could set in motion plans to take military action aimed at setting back the Iranian programme by force, with incalculable consequences for the Middle East.
  • (17) While the economic benefits of keeping people out of hospital are obvious (a one-night stay in an acute hospital costs more than a hotel room at the Ritz), there is an incalculable human impact on someone who is able to stay in their own home and, with support, manage their health and care needs in a way that works for them.
  • (18) As the west stepped up the rhetoric ahead of the sanctions announcement, the French foreign minister Laurent Fabius warned the Ukraine crisis could yet have "incalculable consequences".
  • (19) The daily download of chatter within the office feeds into what we produce in an incalculable way.
  • (20) Even if Tanztheater Wuppertal (as her company is officially known) was only going to continue as a showcase for the Bausch repertory, without even addressing the issue of presenting other, new work, the loss of her presence would be incalculable.