What's the difference between digress and parenthetic?
Digress
Definition:
(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
(n.) Digression.
Example Sentences:
(1) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(2) Bilaterals in summit seasons can be stiff exchanges, where digressions can carry risks: not enough said, too much said.
(3) Discrepancies increase when moderate digressions from the adopted implant system rules are allowed, such as could commonly occur clinically.
(4) Her only digression from a rather set, humdrum routine came when in 1975 she divorced her husband and then two years later remarried him.
(5) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(6) Despite that initial exposure to sports commentary, Healey took a digression into the music industry in the early 90s, as a tour manager for various "shoegazing" bands, before a chance break landed him in the US as an alt rock DJ and ultimately as the voice of New England Revolution, before ESPN came calling.
(7) The PPI is but the ratio G1 cells to total 2C cells (or G2 to 4C cells, when cells also digress from the post-replicative stage of the cycle).
(8) That is why its tempo is so explicit with slowness, syncopated with digression.
(9) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
(10) Comprehensive evaluation of work conditions of workers of different occupational groups (bulldozer, excavator and boring machine operators, embroideresses) helped create a new parameter of occupation harmfulness evaluation: mean arithmetic value and root-mean-square digression.
(11) Eleven studies were found that did not contain obvious digressions from several methodologic assessment criteria (adapted from the McMaster guidelines for the evaluation of clinical trials).
(12) But I digress in precisely the sort of way you would expect from someone shaped by a lifetime's exposure to Attenborough programmes.
(13) Since his meander to China becomes a superb digression into the Anglo-Chinese opium wars, perhaps it doesn't matter that he made the train thing up.
(14) Hugo's form, predicated on length, on digression and detail, is a deliberate accretion of overlapping examples: his scenes are all variations on the same theme.
(15) We only go along with the book's violence because there are the safety valves of unreliability and chapter-long digressions about Whitney Houston .
(16) In vitro comparisons indicated that although neither instrument accurately recorded intraocular pressure (IOP), compared with manometric measurements, results of both instruments indicated linear digression from manometric IOP values that could readily be corrected, thereby accurately estimating IOP in horses.
(17) After a brief digression on the etiopathogenesis of carbon monoxide poisoning, the paper underlines the importance of the timely use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment not only to impede the immediate effects of CO, but also to reduce the incidence of neurological complications.
(18) In Sebald, Norfolk is never the focus but rather the beginning of a digression.
(19) diGRESS-tiGRESS, in which digress is a real word, and DIgress-Tigress, in which tigress is a real word).
(20) I speak from the brain but I also speak from the heart,” he said, rambling like a rich know-it-all uncle – “I’m bringing back the jobs from China!” – with brief digressions into self-pity: “Macy’s was very disloyal to me.
Parenthetic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Parenthetical
Example Sentences:
(1) Parenthetically, it should also be said that electron microscopy has proven particularly well suited to the examination of fine-needle aspiration specimens.
(2) Strangely there have been no direct appeals to the public, apart from a parenthetical note that voters determine who is prime minister.
(3) Close compliance with the SI nomenclature and rules of use assures that the SI are universally understood without additional parenthetical explanations.
(4) The parenthetical G and T were preferred secondarily to T and G, respectively, whereas T and G in the 13th position from the left were equally preferred.
(5) Stories from other people were treated similarly: brief points about their accusations accompanied by parenthetical denials from Richardson's camp.
(6) Parenthetically, large populations provide opportunity to study multiple factor interaction; without this, toxic potential of a single agent may be obscured.
(7) Sebald goes on to recount his own eventual landfall on the island in 1996, then employs this – the parenthetic of his own life – to consider the strange denouement and afterlife of the pre-eminent ideologue of the French revolution.
(8) They became inconvenient parenthetical phrases, in career-long odes."
(9) Since hypertension must result from narrowing of blood vessels, delta Lmax is, parenthetically, the important variable to study.
(10) Parenthetically, it should be noted that the membrane fraction was devoid of the cytosolic enzyme marker, lactate dehydrogenase.
(11) A parenthetical finding was that at our institution liver scan alone appeared to be the most adequate imaging workup of suspected hepatic disease.
(12) Nineteen food samples which did not comply (as indicated parenthetically by actual counts per gram) with the requirements were (i) total aerobic plate count: beef soup and gravy base (18,000), chicken soup and gravy base (57,000), spaghetti with meat sauce (12,100 and 14,000), sugared coffee (> 300,000), chocolate ice cream cubes (20,000), and each of four samples of chocolate candy (12,000 to 61,000); (ii) coliforms: two out of three vanilla milk drinks (16 and 127) and one beef hash bar (14); (iii) fecal coliforms: one sample of chicken soup and gravy base positive; (iv) fecal streptococci: two samples of peanut cubes (40 and 108), coconut cubes (75), chicken soup and gravy base (2,650), beef soup and gravy base (33), and five out of six flavored milk drinks (23 to 300); (v) salmonellae: one each of chicken and beef soup and gravy base were positive.
(13) Parenthetically, these elevated levels of aldosterone and renin were probably the norm for man during much of human evolution and suggest that the values observed in civilized controls are depressed by an excessive salt intake in contemporary diets.
(14) Further comment on how he finds it should have been added parenthetically (and rather sycophantically), and not in the context of added emphasis to his regional peculiarity” – Brett Crowley.
(15) But it also contains an even more intriguing parenthetical aside about the "difficult case" of George Eliot, who wrote not out of frustration, but "as an extension of the womanly duty of mediation".
(16) That is just a political fact and sometimes I am afraid politics is the art of the possible, not always the ideal," adding parenthetically under his breath: "Boy, do I know that after a year and a half in coalition government."
(17) Parenthetically, the mirror image operation of lateral segmentectomy could result in devascularization of the medial segment if dissection and ligation were performed within the umbilical fissure instead of well to the left of this landmark.
(18) Parenthetically, the model may also be adapted to the case where the vast majority of individuals in the population are generally subthreshold in relation to the physiological stimulus: such an adaption leads to interesting ways of viewing the mammalian reproductive cycle and the regulation of the preovulatory LH surge.
(19) Among the changes being considered for DSM-IV are to include duration criteria for mania, to separate bipolar II patients (depression and hypomania) from bipolar not otherwise specified, to refine the criteria for hypomania, and to add rapid cycling to the list of parenthetical modifiers for bipolar disorder with mania and bipolar disorder with hypomania.
(20) Parenthetically, a further outcome appears elsewhere in the official report from which the figures came, Employment and Support Allowance: Work Capability Assessment, October 2010 .