What's the difference between dichotomy and duplicity?

Dichotomy


Definition:

  • (n.) A cutting in two; a division.
  • (n.) Division or distribution of genera into two species; division into two subordinate parts.
  • (n.) That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or shows only half its disk, as at the quadratures.
  • (n.) Successive division and subdivision, as of a stem of a plant or a vein of the body, into two parts as it proceeds from its origin; successive bifurcation.
  • (n.) The place where a stem or vein is forked.
  • (n.) Division into two; especially, the division of a class into two subclasses opposed to each other by contradiction, as the division of the term man into white and not white.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I have always been of the view that it is a false dichotomy, and one that is pretty much built-in by our education system unfortunately," he said this weekend.
  • (2) In the present article, we characterize this dichotomy with examples from the literature, and we apply an adaptive priming procedure for testing discrete versus continuous activation models.
  • (3) The reason for this apparent dichotomy between opportunity and reality seems to be related to the industry's lack of emphasis on genetic improvement.
  • (4) Their differences highlight Northern Ireland’s often stark dichotomy between religious-based social conservatism and secular progressive liberalism.
  • (5) Scotland’s politics must snap out of its tribalism and recover the conventional left-right dichotomy.
  • (6) Linear discriminant analysis of the subtests disregarding the verbal-performance dichotomy yielded considerable increase in hit-rate in prediction of laterality of lesion.
  • (7) Moreover, the response profile of isolated 38+ thymocytes was analogous to peripheral 38+ T cells, suggesting that the dichotomy of function detected with our mAb also occurs before acquisition of 110 antigen.
  • (8) In the past, the notion of the "education-service dichotomy" concerned the divergent priorities of academia and the clinical care delivery setting.
  • (9) These results demonstrate that cytochalasin D has a biphasic effect on luteal progesterone release in the rat and provides an explanation for the dichotomy of results thus far reported.
  • (10) Soyinka's dichotomy of dreams and nightmares continues to resonate in Africa and beyond
  • (11) This paper discusses the dichotomy between continually moving eyes and the lack of blurred visual experience.
  • (12) Dendrites stratified predominantly in the inner sublamina of the inner plexiform layer (IPL) with a varying number of branches from the remaining dendrites contained within the outer IPL, both strata presumably corresponding to the electrophysiologically determined on-off dichotomy.
  • (13) This paper addresses the dichotomy between the low and high Li concentrations regarding the two bacterial parameters studied, as well as their possibly related cariogenic and cariostatic clinical relevance.
  • (14) Although radiotherapy cures a very high percentage of early stage patients with Hodgkin's disease (HD), there is a controversial dichotomy in the dose recommendations believed necessary to achieve greater than 95% local control: Whereas one school of thought is to administer 40-44 Gy, other reports claim equal results with about 36 Gy.
  • (15) Most of the traits studied are observed using ordinal scales with several grades, and many are tested using more than one dichotomy of their scale.
  • (16) Resuspended, virus-infected endothelial cells bound significantly less well to tissue-culture wells coated with both low (p less than 0.001) and high (p less than 0.05) concentrations of fibronectin as compared with uninfected endothelial cells, a dichotomy further worsened in the presence of granulocyte-released elastase.
  • (17) In addition, distribution of lead and cadmium varied within the individual producer (Fucus vesiculosus) in such a way that the holdfast exhibited the highest concentration followed by the apcial tip and the branches of the first dichotomy was the lowest.
  • (18) Prior studies have been based on several problematic assumptions: (1) specific behavioral abnormalities are associated with NOFTT, (2) NOFTT is a homogeneous population, and (3) a strict dichotomy between organic and environmental influences on physical growth is a valid distinction.
  • (19) In particular, we show how the PDP framework provides an alternative to the usual dichotomy between automatic and controlled processing and can explain the relative nature of automaticity as well as the fact that seemingly automatic processes can be influenced by attention.
  • (20) There is no evidence that these subjects can be divided into a simple dichotomy of those with physical or mental illnesses, or that pain measures can discriminate between them.

Duplicity


Definition:

  • (n.) Doubleness; a twofold state.
  • (n.) Doubleness of heart or speech; insincerity; a sustained form of deception which consists in entertaining or pretending to entertain one of feelings, and acting as if influenced by another; bad faith.
  • (n.) The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient.
  • (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
  • (2) Preliminary data also suggest that high-molecular-weight rearrangements of the duplicated region are present in all tissues.
  • (3) In the second comparison, HSV was isolated from 225 of 1,026 (21.9%) specimens and duplicate human foreskin fibroblast cell wells stained at 24 and 72 h were PAP positive in 241 of 1,026 (23.5%).
  • (4) Evidence reported here shows that, consistent with prediction, 10 carcinogens are all active in inducing tandem duplications.
  • (5) So we concluded that duplications and accessories should be thought to have similar meanings with the ordinary branching patterns of MCA in the occurrence of aneurysms.
  • (6) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
  • (7) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
  • (8) For the case of the fluctuating pressure, the strength of the artery becomes considerably lower than those under constant amplitude and two-step-multi-duplicated pulsatile pressure.
  • (9) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (10) The authors report a case of total bladder duplication by frontal septum.
  • (11) Control-operated cells with centrosomes left in the karyoplast progress through the cell cycle, duplicate the centrosome, and form clonal cell colonies.
  • (12) Partial duplication of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 5, on the other hand, is associated mainly with musculoskeletal abnormalities including muscle hypotrophy and hypotonia, scoliosis, lordosis, pectus carinatum, cubitus valgus, and genu valgum, in addition to psychomotor retardation.
  • (13) Using fluorescent in situ hybridization and digital imaging microscopy, we mapped probe p32.1 (D11S16) to the proximal part of region 11p14 (11p14.1) and demonstrated duplication of this probe in our patient.
  • (14) The efflux rate for EB of strains with duplicated ebr genes was twice the rate of strains with a single ebr gene.
  • (15) In addition to the fatigue tester and the pulse duplicator, a signal conditioner, a DC amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, and a digital microcomputer comprised the essential hardware.
  • (16) The 3' untranslated region of the VMRI gene 11 equivalent contains a clear duplication of a portion of its coding sequence.
  • (17) The regulatory region of the casein gene contains two different TATA signals flanking the duplication site in the promoter region.
  • (18) A 68-year-old female patient was admitted for the examination of duplication of right ureter and right hydronephrosis.
  • (19) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
  • (20) Furthermore, duplications in the vicinity of this locus involving the beta-amyloid gene and the proto-oncogene ets-2 have been reported in association with AD.