What's the difference between deferential and differential?

Deferential


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So when did audiences become so deferential to a release strategy blatantly motivated by naked financial gain?
  • (2) The testis is packed in ice-cold saline throughout the ischemic interval, and the deferential artery and vein are ligated.
  • (3) Failures to fertilise after epiddidymo-deferential anastomoses therefore do not seem to be due to these two factors.
  • (4) Justice Malala , a political commentator, said: "Culturally, black South Africans are very deferential on the subject of death.
  • (5) Our data indicate that the most common etiology of recurrent varicocele in children seems to be residual proximal (central) collateral veins, pelvic collateral veins (that is cremasteric, deferential and crossover veins) rarely seem to contribute to varicocelectomy failure and there is an inherent but low risk of varicocelectomy failure despite radiological evidence of complete internal spermatic vein interruption.
  • (6) The government claims it has a court warrant under Fisa – but that unconstitutionally sweeping warrant is from a secret court, shielded from effective oversight, almost totally deferential to executive requests.
  • (7) A distinct activity of N-Acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase and beta-galactosidase was observed in the seminal vesicle, the ampulla ductus deferentis and in the prostatic gland.
  • (8) But it's obvious from the start that there are no deferential nods to Egyptian, classical, modernist or postmodernist modes, no reassuring "quotes" like the over-cute pilasters that adorn the extension to London's National Gallery by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
  • (9) In some senses Boyle's exuberant vision appeared to have been conceived not only in response to the regimented order of Beijing, but also to the joyous but deferential spirit of the recent jubilee.
  • (10) "It will make people a lot less trusting or deferential, perhaps more cynical, but politicians have got to win back people's trust," he said.
  • (11) That is why, among other reasons, it is regrettable that the British approach to China under the coalition has come to have about it something mendicant, cap in hand, and unduly deferential.
  • (12) The foreign secretary rejected suggestions that Britain was being overly deferential to Beijing.
  • (13) On venography, the stop-type varicoceles showed only retrograde blood flow (reflux) in the testicular (internal spermatic) vein, whereas each shunt-type varicocele showed both retrograde and orthograde (i.e., physiologic) venous blood flow: First, reflux appeared in the testicular vein, then orthograde flow occurred in the deferential vein, cremasteric vein, or both.
  • (14) Watch it here: ) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.59pm GMT Dianne Feinstein has not garnered much praise in the last year from civil liberties and privacy advocates, many of whom see her as having been too deferential to the intelligence community – of allowing testimony to go unchallenged, of making overblown claims for the efficacy of surveillance programs, of siding with the intelligence chiefs over the public.
  • (15) The Receptaculum ductus deferentis, the Corpus vasculare paracloacalis and the Phallus nonprotrudens in the Cloaca were supplied from the thick Ramus cloacalis of the A. pudenda.
  • (16) It might seem hard to imagine someone who’s usually more deferential to the intelligence community than Sen. Feinstein (other than on this one issue) but the next head of the intelligence committee – which again, is supposed to question the agency – is North Carolina Republican Richard Burr.
  • (17) In those more deferential times, John Junor, the editor of the Sunday Express, was ordered to come to the bar to apologise for claiming that MPs were evading petrol rations.
  • (18) In that more deferential era, Boothby bluffed his way out of it, furiously denied the allegations, and successfully sued the Sunday Mirror for £40,000.
  • (19) In person, the 36-year-old Ayoade is known for being deferential and self-deprecating.
  • (20) Yet it had no influence: over the following 46 years, the divide has grown almost totally obscure, the average pop star growing older, grander and more statesmanlike, the average politician younger, more awestruck and deferential.

Differential


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a differential, or to differentials.
  • (a.) Relating to differences of motion or leverage; producing effects by such differences; said of mechanism.
  • (n.) An increment, usually an indefinitely small one, which is given to a variable quantity.
  • (n.) A small difference in rates which competing railroad lines, in establishing a common tariff, allow one of their number to make, in order to get a fair share of the business. The lower rate is called a differential rate. Differentials are also sometimes granted to cities.
  • (n.) One of two coils of conducting wire so related to one another or to a magnet or armature common to both, that one coil produces polar action contrary to that of the other.
  • (n.) A form of conductor used for dividing and distributing the current to a series of electric lamps so as to maintain equal action in all.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) AEDs may also have differential effects on nighttime sleep.
  • (2) We used the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to amplify the breakpoint area of alpha-thalassemia-1 of Southeast Asia type and several parts of the alpha-globin gene cluster to make a differential diagnosis between alpha-thalassemia-1 and Hb Bart's hydrops fetalis.
  • (3) We also show that proliferation of primary amnion cells is not dependent on a high c-fos expression, suggesting that the function of c-fos is more likely to be associated with other cellular functions in the differentiated amnion cell.
  • (4) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
  • (5) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (6) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (7) The differential diagnosis is more complex in Hawaii due to the presence of granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and leprosy.
  • (8) At 48 h after pretreatment, a differential effect on the absorption of sulfanilamide and L-tryptophan was observed in in situ recirculation experiments.
  • (9) The results suggest differential regulation of IL-6 expression between fibroblasts and macrophages.
  • (10) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
  • (11) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (12) Dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) treatment of Neuro 2A neuroblastoma cells induces cell differentiation and neurite outgrowth.
  • (13) This experimental system allows separation of three B lymphocyte developmental stages: early differentiation in vitro, progression to IgM secretion in vivo, and late differentiation dependent upon mature T lymphocytes in vivo.
  • (14) A murine keratinocyte cell line that is resistant to the growth-inhibitory effects of transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta 1) was examined for differential gene expression patterns that may be related to the mechanism of the loss of TGF beta 1 responsiveness.
  • (15) SD is shown to have therapeutic and differential diagnostic significance in varying pathological conditions of cerebral dopaminergic systems.
  • (16) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (17) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (18) By growing purified human cytotrophoblasts under serum-free conditions and manipulating the culture surface, we were able to disassociate morphologic from biochemical differentiation.
  • (19) Therefore, the measurement of the alpha-antitrypsin content plays the crucial part in differential diagnosis of primary (hereditary determined) and secondary (obstructive) emphysema.
  • (20) Although each of palate and limb is concurrently susceptible to epigenetic regulation, their differential intrinsic genomic capabilities appear to have been uncoupled.