What's the difference between denomination and epithet?

Denomination


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of naming or designating.
  • (n.) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.
  • (n.) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Although these two destructive entities are completely different in many respects, they share a common denominator: the initial lesions are brought about by an aggregate of bacteria known as plaque.
  • (2) Changes in transcutaneous PO2 correlated to changes in MEF25 (P less than 0.05), indicating a common denominator, probably the conditions in the peripheral airways.
  • (3) Authors have previously published April 1988 a lecture where they criticize the bad denomination "passed coma" full of ambiguity for public mind, to which "brain death" ought to be preferred.
  • (4) It is suggested that SHBG may act as one common denominator in the pathogenesis of postmenopausal osteoporosis and endometrial disease by regulating the levels of unbound, biologically active androgens and estrogens.
  • (5) The physiopathological and agnoslogical basis for this denomination could be the following: 1st The "S. aureus" is the ehtiological agent of the SSE in man.
  • (6) According to a new and still unorthodox principle, a syndrome may have a common psychodynamic denominator, shared by all or most carriers of the syndrome.
  • (7) Denominators (base population) were obtained from monitoring a random sample of returning British travellers with the international passenger survey.
  • (8) The view is taken, that the seemingly inconsistent findings could be related to a common denominator, with no immediate need of abandoning Schachter's basic ideas.
  • (9) In most cases, denominator data were not available, so proportional mortality analysis was used.
  • (10) Such a mechanism suggests that other muscle contractile systems operating with the same Ca++ denominator should also be affected by the drug.
  • (11) To add to their woes, the cost of their dollar-denominated debt is rising; the US Federal Reserve said December’s rate hike is just the start of a “gradual” tightening cycle .
  • (12) Since the description of "senile haemorrhagic caries of the shoulder", several authors have reported, under various names, very similar diseases whose common denominator is destruction of the shoulder joint.
  • (13) An example indicates that a 1 per cent increase in the denominator of one treatment group results in a 32 per cent drop in the exact P value, but a mere 0.1 per cent decrease in the treatment success rate.
  • (14) Female respondents had greater similarity in their emphasis upon relationality than did lesbian and gay respondents within the same denominational tradition.
  • (15) This alpha 2-macroglobulin fraction isolated from allopregnant rats was denominated IRG to its graft rejection inhibitory activity.
  • (16) Nitric oxide (NO) appears to be the common denominator of this group of drugs that leads to guanylate cyclase activation, followed by increases in levels of cyclic GMP and relaxation.
  • (17) "There's been a sense that we don't want to be a lowest common denominator government just trying to legislate where we agree."
  • (18) The severity of myocardial damage appears to be a common denominator contributing to electrophysiologic derangements, impaired ventricular function, and prognosis after myocardial infarction.
  • (19) "It is denominational cleansing; part of a major Iranian Shia plan, which is obvious through the involvement of Hezbollah and Iranian militias.
  • (20) Geopathological, dietary, gerontological, and geophysiological data, data on electrolyte concentrations in healthy cells and in the corresponding tumor cells, and data on the potassium status of patients with different diseases and the associations of these diseases with cancer revealed a common denominator in the potassium-sodium-cancer relationship.

Epithet


Definition:

  • (n.) An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
  • (n.) Term; expression; phrase.
  • (v. t.) To describe by an epithet.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 3) The first who presumed an independent state of these microorganisms, was Kohlert (1968), from the work of which the epithet for correct name, i.e.
  • (2) Trolls called Kaepernick racial epithets , after all.
  • (3) When he first became president, Republicans slammed him for being a socialist – an epithet, from their lips, of the worst kind.
  • (4) This epithet was sufficiently offensive for Obama to cancel a planned meeting with Duterte.
  • (5) Male, pale and stale is the epithet often used to describe the makeup of a charity board.
  • (6) The tragic results for the babies of patients prescribed thalidomide, although they can indeed be termed "side" effects, hardly warrant so slight an epithet, and Dr Joyce in his paper would like the term to be dropped in favour of "additional" effects of drugs.
  • (7) Gibran's epithet is one of many quotations on the Guardian Witness website , where people are sharing good advice for the women in their life ahead of International Women's Day on Saturday.
  • (8) Believe the hype and he was a cross between a mafioso overlord and "HRH Victor Meldrew" (the epithet is David Starkey's).
  • (9) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
  • (10) A descriptive identification epithet for P. multocida isolates was constructed.
  • (11) In order to provide a new reference point in the dermatological literature from which the naming of florists' chrysanthemums may be regularised and standardised, the case is presented for the use of the generic name Dendranthema together with a cultivar name in place of a specific epithet.
  • (12) But, in addition to being the “roof of the world”, here are a few other equally suitable epithets.
  • (13) Debate about the film has turned into a major talking point in a number publications large and small, with editorials in defence and critique of Django Unchained laying out their case for readers, while one of the film's stars, Samuel L Jackson, highlighted the discomfort over the frequent use of a racial epithet in the movie when he challenged a journalist to say the word out loud.
  • (14) We have seen it shift in particular since the Meet the Ukippers programme,” he added, referring to a recent BBC documentary about the local Ukip branch which led to one of its councillors being expelled after she was filmed saying that she had a “problem” with black people and using racial epithets.
  • (15) I was called a dirty Jew walking home from synagogue, my rabbi was kicked and punched in central London while anti-Jewish epithets were hurled at him, and my university sometimes suffered from an atmosphere of intimidation and harassment of Jewish students.
  • (16) The long-standing use of racial epithets by players and racial abuse from crowds have been exposed by a number of incidents in which the authorities actually prosecuted perpetrators: Juventude supporters were barred from their ground after racially abusing Internacional's Tinga in 2005.
  • (17) DC representative Eleanor Holmes Norton said: “As an African American woman and third-generation Washingtonian, I want to say to Redskins fans: no one blames you for using a name that has always been used but they will blame you if you continue to use it.” She compared the word to racial epithets used against African Americans before it was accepted that they were not the terms of endearment that some claimed.
  • (18) The epithets applicable to these groups appear to be lacunata, nonliquefaciens, and bovis.
  • (19) But before Argo, Affleck had pretty much had to retire from being a frontline movie star because he almost without exception ensured any movie's eternal epithet would be "the Ben Affleck shocker — ".
  • (20) He also went to jab at former rival Jeb Bush, using the epithet “low energy” while going on a tirade about primary opponents who signed the RNC pledge to support the eventual nominee but are now not backing Trump.