What's the difference between deferential and referential?
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.
Referential
Definition:
(a.) Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.
Example Sentences:
(1) In another treatment, the same students were assigned single-level study guides that did not contain referential cues, with the guides implemented as an independent activity.
(2) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(3) The main effects and interactions of speech and gesture in combination with quantitative models of performance showed the following similarities in information processing between preschoolers and adults: (1) referential evaluation of gestures occurs independently of the evaluation of linguistic reference; (2) speech and gesture are continuous, rather than discrete, sources of information; (3) 5-year-olds and adults combine the two types of information in such a way that the least ambiguous source has the most impact on the judgment.
(4) In this paper are proposed the normal referential values of MN-SSEP in children.
(5) The meeting, which was only open to the press for about 12 minutes, resembled most of Trump’s interactions with the black community to date: self-referential and placing style ahead of substance, to the chagrin of civil rights advocates.
(6) The need for an immunophenotypical referential framework relative to lymphoid follicle has led us to apply a panel of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, by means of a sensitive immunostaining method.
(7) At the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory (AFHRL), our researchers are building computer environments that know what they know, know how people can best use them, and know how to draw inferences about their state--self-referential electronic tutors.
(8) The role of these two mechanisms in mediating other referential access phenomena is also discussed.
(9) The relation between sensorimotor attainments and linguistic development in children using referential speech at the single- and two-word utterance levels was examined.
(10) Performance on the referential tasks was used to derive measures of communication success, learning, and efficiency.
(11) Both groups of deaf children performed at near perfect levels on the picture recognition task, suggesting that performance differences were attributable to differential message formulation skill as opposed to differential visual processing of the referential array.
(12) Those against simplified texts argue that the problem of figurative language control is not one of linguistic complexity, but one of cognitive processing: deaf children can grasp inferred or indirect meaning so long as the referential domain is made clear.
(13) Thus, concepts introduced with the indefinite this were more accessible; therefore, the indefinite this appears to operate cataphorically to improve referential access.
(14) The importance of comparison and message-formulation skills in referential communication was studied with severely mentally retarded children.
(15) The results presented as well as the referential ones suggest the better response to therapy and longer survival of patients with planocellular bronchial carcinoma in whom higher therapeutical irradiation dose was applied (60 Gy).
(16) Polarity of the referential component C was inverted between STh-Th and DTh and between OFH and STR while that of referential components D and E remained unchanged along all subcortical structures.
(17) The standing posture of 17 young men and women were studied using Barycentremeter measurements and full spine radiograph with a single referential system.
(18) For all subjects, however, the load effect on other-referential judgment latencies was smaller for nondepressed-content adjectives than for depressed-content adjectives.
(19) The present studies investigated the anaphoric inferences that occur during comprehension of figurative referential descriptions.
(20) But this book also has two more distinctly self-referential (and fourth-wall breaking) connections.