What's the difference between disconnect and incomplete?

Disconnect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then the esophagogastric variceal network was thrombosed by means of a catheter introduced during laparotomy, which created a portoazygos disconnection.
  • (2) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
  • (3) A pre-operative diagnosis of otosclerosis was made but at tympanotomy, the stapes crura in each ear was found to be disconnected from the footplate, the ossicular chain being otherwise normal.
  • (4) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
  • (5) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
  • (6) Nearly three quarters (73%) said if they were disconnected, they would find their ability to use vital commercial services, such as shopping and banking, completely disrupted or fairly harmed.
  • (7) Keep asking questions like that and you’re going to get hung up on, like right now,” he said, then disconnected the line.
  • (8) Frontal hypothalamic deafferentation (FHD), which disconnects the anterior hypothalamus from the preoptic area, stops the twice daily surges of prolactin secretion of pregnancy or pseudopregnancy in the rat, and causes rapid luteolysis.
  • (9) The results of these studies support the contention that anterolateral MBH neural connections may constitute a dynamic neural substrate contributing to a gradual improvement in neuroendocrine function observed after early surgical disconnections.
  • (10) O2 has warned that it will disconnect anyone it discovers doing that, though it would not say how it would identify them.
  • (11) For me, the simple reason is I tried a three-day week and found I struggled to keep on top of work, felt disconnected from my colleagues' rhythm, felt guilty about so much time off, and was so bad at freelancing I ended up working many more hours for less money.
  • (12) The stages of recognition are analysed through this case of visual verbal disconnection and the importance of memory in perception is highlighted.
  • (13) Similarities were increased number of lipid droplets in the cumulus cells, widened peri-vitelline space, peripheral displacement or breakdown of the oocyte nucleus and disconnection of the junctions between cumulus cell projections and the oolemma.
  • (14) Attempts to estimate mean skin temperature for subjects during prolonged experiments in field conditions are often made difficult because probes become disconnected or cease to function.
  • (15) Where are Cisco and other companies whose equipment is used to connect the net and by some governments to disconnect it?
  • (16) The emergency operation which has effectively achieved the stopping of the esophageal bleeding has been the porto-azygos disconnection, which allows later a portosystemic shunt with a greater probability of success.
  • (17) Surgery, performed under cardio-pulmonary bypass after epicardial mapping, consisted in atrioventricular disconnection using no special physical agent.
  • (18) Hypoemotionality was found only for visual stimuli, since auditory and tactile modalities were totally spared, suggesting a visual-limbic disconnection mechanism.
  • (19) In the first case the exhaust system intentionally had been disconnected.
  • (20) Forced removals and dumping of millions of people into small, disconnected, barren, poor reserve areas, bereft of adequate medical, psychiatric and public health services (the 'final solution' of the 'native problem') causes widespread malnutrition, infectious and other diseases, and high mortality and mental-illness rates.

Incomplete


Definition:

  • (a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
  • (a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
  • (2) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (3) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
  • (4) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
  • (5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (6) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
  • (7) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
  • (8) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
  • (9) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
  • (10) That is cystoid macular edema is associated with incomplete PVD with vitreous contraction.
  • (11) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
  • (12) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
  • (13) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
  • (14) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
  • (15) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
  • (16) This variation in risk remained when allowance was made for the incomplete nature of some of the reproductive histories.
  • (17) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
  • (18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (19) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
  • (20) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.