What's the difference between deathless and immortal?

Deathless


Definition:

  • (a.) Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That is a kind we have already been warned about — by Marco Polo in Italo Calvino’s deathless novel Invisible Cities .
  • (2) These results suggest that WR256 exhibits a "deathless" phenotype and has a unique defect in a step of the apoptotic cascade that may be common to the glucocorticoid- and cAMP-mediated cell death pathways.
  • (3) The answer to that is something to do with not wanting to deprive the public of access to my deathless prose, John.
  • (4) Net exponential petite mutation did not occur during the deathless first period of growth at superoptimal temperatures nor at any time during growth at suboptimal temperatures.
  • (5) The failure to be killed by CTL is not due to an inability of this 'deathless' mutant to be recognized.
  • (6) Analysts expected $67.38bn…” It’s not deathless prose – at least not yet; the machines are still “learning” day by day how to write effectively – but it’s already good enough to replace the jobs once done by wire reporters.
  • (7) However, the programme's ability to stir publicity really came in an earlier episode a fortnight ago when Craig – played by Stephen Kennedy – was discussing the visit with the proprietor Caroline Sterling (Sara Coward) and uttered the deathless line: "Have you not tried Duchy shortbread?
  • (8) The four variant phenotypes have been respectively designated r-, receptor activity deficient; nt-, nuclear transfer deficient; d-, deathless (appears normal in binding and nuclear transfer); and nti, increased nuclear transfer.
  • (9) It would be another 30 years and more before the steel and railroad barons of the Upper East Side began to vie for Velázquez’s deathless portraits of princesses in shimmering gowns, of dwarves and servants, boy princes and grave courtiers, all ruled over by a sad-eyed monarch in the silvery shadows of the Spanish palace.
  • (10) By using a counter selection procedure, we have isolated a new class of mutants of S49 cells termed "deathless" that are resistant to cytolysis, but otherwise respond like the wild-type cells to cAMP.
  • (11) Having read the 400-page book by the artist explaining his ongoing project - how he became so bored with everything modern music had to offer and so nauseated by the deathless nostalgia of heritage rock that he issued a manifesto calling for people to "dispense with all previous forms of music and music-making and start again" and set out to create music that sounded unlike anything that had come before, using choirs of 17 people - I'm not entirely sure Bill Drummond does either.

Immortal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance.
  • (a.) Connected with, or pertaining to immortability.
  • (a.) Destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame.
  • (a.) Great; excessive; grievous.
  • (n.) One who will never cease to be; one exempt from death, decay, or annihilation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In keratinocyte lines immortalized by E7 alone, the p53 half-life was found to be similar to that in non-transformed cells; however, it decreased to approximately 1 h following supertransfection of an E6 gene.
  • (2) This has been accomplished by insertion of a desired gene into a pre-existing immortal cell or by immortalizing primary cells.
  • (3) The proliferation of this cell type may represent an escape from the senescence pathway and progression to immortal tumor cells.
  • (4) The large T antigen from both of these viruses can immortalize primary rat embryo fibroblasts.
  • (5) Normal and E1A-immortalized rat fetal intestinal epithelial SLC-11 cells were compared for the characteristics of the 35S-labeled proteoglycans isolated from their cell-associated and secreted fractions.
  • (6) Hybrids obtained following fusion of normal human diploid fibroblasts with different immortal human cell lines exhibited limited division potential.
  • (7) Cell lines established directly from adult T-cell leukemia-lymphoma patients or immortalized by human T-cell leukemia virus type I (HTLV-I) in vitro that do not produce complete HTLV virions were characterized both for the content of viral proteins and for the presence of trans-acting factors activating gene expression under the control of the HTLV long terminal repeat.
  • (8) Significantly, their derivation demonstrates the feasibility of immortalizing differentiated neurons by targeting tumorigenesis in transgenic mice to specific neurons of the CNS.
  • (9) We report on the use of human B lymphocytes immortalized by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) as targets for transformation by the c-Ha-ras oncogene of bladder carcinoma cells T24.
  • (10) Mutagenesis of a diploid human fibroblast strain, KD, with the chemical carcinogen 4 nitroquinolin-1-oxide led to the isolation of stably immortalized neoplastic substrains.
  • (11) Spontaneous outgrowth of immortalized Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infected B-cell clones will occur from cultures of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMNCs) of some persons with a history of EBV infection.
  • (12) We have analyzed the antisperm antibody production of autoimmunized male subjects using Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) immortalization of B lymphocytes.
  • (13) We suggest that the temporal pattern of HSP70 expression during S phase, the nuclear localization, and activation by trans-acting immortalizing proteins indicate a role for HSP70 in the nucleus of replicating cells.
  • (14) We have previously reported that adenovirus E1a mutants lacking the C-terminal 61 or 67 amino acids were severely defective in immortalization, but cooperated more efficiently (than wt E1a) with activated T24 ras oncogene in transformation of primary rat kidney (BRK) cells (Subramanian et al., 1989; Oncogene, 4:415-420).
  • (15) Diazepam and medazepam exposure of immortal and low passage number cells resulted in the formation of monopolar mitotic spindles and subsequent metaphase arrest.
  • (16) In order to elucidate the role of c-myc oncogene activation in B cell malignancy, the phenotypic changes caused by the expression of c-myc oncogenes in human B lymphoblastoid cells immortalized by Epstein-Barr virus were analyzed.
  • (17) In contrast, we detected no immortalized colonies when we transfected the cells with DNA of five other early-region deletion mutants that do not make stable truncated forms of T antigen.
  • (18) Celebrities from Justin Bieber to Spike Lee were on hand for the opening of a spectacle that mixes circus tricks with the music of the late King of Pop – a pairing that has already proved lucrative for Cirque on the road with the arena show, Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour .
  • (19) Unlike the mitogen-stimulated Schwann cells, whose proliferation could be inhibited completely, the immortalized and transformed Schwann cell types were nearly unresponsive to the antiproliferative activity.
  • (20) After dexamethasone removal, immortal cells divided once or twice and then accumulated in G1.

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