What's the difference between defunct and inactive?

Defunct


Definition:

  • (a.) Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
  • (n.) A dead person; one deceased.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
  • (2) Submucosal microcarcinoids are described in association with diversion colitis in a colon defunctioned for 18 years.
  • (3) A now-defunct Yahoo discussion group supposedly jointly run by "Amina Arraf" was listed under an address in Stone Mountain, Georgia, that public records show is a home owned by MacMaster and Froelicher.
  • (4) Both types of stoma were demonstrated objectively to defunction the distal bowel almost completely.
  • (5) Its investments have included the airline Monarch, which has returned to profit after nearly collapsing a year ago, Morrisons convenience stores , and the now defunct Comet electrical goods chain.
  • (6) Operation in the early stages of management should be confined to the drainage of abscesses, the defunctioning of diseases or disrupted bowel and the formation of feeding enterostomies.
  • (7) He spent 13 years as managing editor of the Sunday Times, up until June 2011 when he was made group managing editor of News Group Newspapers , which at that point meant running the Sun and now defunct News of the World.
  • (8) At the age of two Rodríguez would go to watch the now defunct second division side Cooperamos Tolima train.
  • (9) The five AT cell lines were heterogeneous in the fast component of chromosome break repair, varying from a nearly normal fast repair component in one cell line to a nearly defunct fast repair component in two other AT cell lines.
  • (10) Early in the film, a journalist comes to interview him about his defunct literary career; he berates her for caring (intellectually, Jep is a closet puritan).
  • (11) He was suspended for the entire 2014 season for his part in the Biogenesis scandal , in which MLB players were accused of involvement with performance enhancing drugs allegedly supplied by the now defunct South Florida anti-aging clinic.
  • (12) We also reviewed available data on injuries and diseases from major sources, including the now-defunct Instituto Nacional do Previdencia Social (INPS) and the workers' compensation scheme, Seguro de Acidente de Trabalho (SAT).
  • (13) Mark Lewis, the lawyer who acted for clients including Eriksson, said: “There are many more people who will now be able to make claims against the Mirror Group titles in respect of their unlawful activities.” Lewis is the lawyer who also brought the first successful phone-hacking legal claim against Rupert Murdoch’s now-defunct News of the World.
  • (14) Between January 1, 1982 and June 30, 1987 a total of 122 patients suffering colorectal cancer (n = 88) or diverticulitis of the colon (n = 24) underwent surgery for construction of a transient defunctioning stoma.
  • (15) Perioperative mortality was high following either primary resection (31%) or fashioning of a defunctioning stoma alone (25%) but was twice as high (40%) in patients over 70 than those under 70 (20%).
  • (16) By contrast, a defunctioning colostomy causes distal hypoplasia, and fewer tumours develop.
  • (17) In an event prompted by the rule that what goes up must come down, the defunct satellite will plummet through the atmosphere, burn and break apart, and scatter hunks of steel, aluminium and titanium over a distance of hundreds of miles.
  • (18) The move by a rival publisher comes as speculation grows among News International staff at Wapping that a Sunday edition of the Sun is being geared up for launch as soon as this weekend to replace the now defunct News of the World.
  • (19) deoxycholic acid and lithocholic acid in equal concentration to rat feces (group B) and control material (group C) was instilled in the defunctioned colon.
  • (20) A defunctioning ileostomy may protect the patient against the consequences of anastomotic leakage.

Inactive


Definition:

  • (a.) Not active; having no power to move; that does not or can not produce results; inert; as, matter is, of itself, inactive.
  • (a.) Not disposed to action or effort; not diligent or industrious; not busy; idle; as, an inactive officer.
  • (a.) Not active; inert; esp., not exhibiting any action or activity on polarized light; optically neutral; -- said of isomeric forms of certain substances, in distinction from other forms which are optically active; as, racemic acid is an inactive tartaric acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
  • (2) This suggested that some of the cell population became metabolically inactive at a very early stage, possibly owing to suboptimal conditions of growth.Glycine, lysozyme and lithium chloride initiated lysis of BCG growth in the aforementioned media 24-48 hours after inoculation.
  • (3) No evidence was found of reactivation of the inactive (paternal) allele or inactivation of both maternal and paternal alleles.
  • (4) The IgM antibody was found at high titers in each of 70 patients with inflammatory liver disease and at a low titer in one of six patients with inactive cirrhosis; it was not found in eight carriers with normal liver histology.
  • (5) To this purpose, the formation of DHT has been measured in rat glial cell cultures after different time of exposure to TPA, 4 alpha-Ph, an active and an inactive phorbol ester respectively, and 8-Br-cAMP.
  • (6) Insulin incubation of plasma membranes pretreated with protease inhibitors (leupeptin, phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride) or with exogenous trypsin, but not chymotrypsin substrates (esters of arginine and tyrosine) yields an inactive supernatant on PDH.
  • (7) Using the asynchronously replicating (hence genetically inactive) X chromosome as a marker, we obtained evidence showing that most or all of these tumors were monoclonal in origin.
  • (8) Plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), the primary physiological inhibitor of tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) in plasma, is a serine proteinase inhibitor (serpin) that forms a 1:1 stoichiometric complex with its target proteinase leading to the formation of a stable inactive complex.
  • (9) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
  • (10) Thus, progesterone appears to be a relatively inactive ligand with high affinity for the 20 beta-S receptor.
  • (11) The subscales Depression, Inactivity and Physical Impairment could not be identified as a factor.
  • (12) LM-fragment-8 competes for this binding to the same extent as unlabelled LM (75%), while fragment PI is inactive and fibronectin (FN) competes by about 30% only.
  • (13) Cell culture experiments showed that CA III induced a 2- to 11-fold increase in [14C]HA synthesis by human synovial fibroblasts (SF) in a dose-dependent manner (P less than 0.001); erythrocyte CA I and CA II were inactive.
  • (14) Polypeptides of egg-borne Sendai virus (egg Sendai), which is biologically active on the basis of criteria of the infectivity for L cells and of hemolytic and cell fusion activities, were compared by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis with those of L cell-borne (L Sendai) and HeLa cell-borne Sendai (HeLa Sendai) viruses, which are judged biologically inactive by the above criteria.
  • (15) Total and Cu,Zn-SOD activities significantly decreased and Mn-SOD activities significantly increased in both the active (with increased ALT levels) and the inactive phases (with normal ALT levels) for 36 children with chronic persistent hepatitis (CPH).
  • (16) Various forms of inactive data storage and archiving in machine-readable form are available to address this dilemma, yet these solutions can create even more difficult problems.
  • (17) Incubation of the enzyme-inhibitor complex with the sulfhydryl reagent caused dissociation into active ribonuclease and inactive inhibitor.
  • (18) Pipemidic acid and nalidixic acid showed only low activity or proved to be inactive.
  • (19) It is suggested that an enzyme-inhibitor complex of an acyl-enzyme type is formed that is slowly hydrolysed, with water as the final acceptor, leaving an intact enzyme and an inactive form of the inhibitor.
  • (20) Plasma angiotensin II correlated with active renin but not with inactive renin, suggesting that the inactive renin does not produce angiotensin II in vivo.