What's the difference between disconnected and unconnected?

Disconnected


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Disconnect

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.

Unconnected


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In particular, it is taken into account that the phospholipid membrane is composed of two layers which are in contact but unconnected.
  • (2) The notion of an unconnected unknown like him winning an equivalent prize in Spain was, he said, unthinkable.
  • (3) They possessed a range of absorption ability which was unconnected with HLA-B27 status.
  • (4) Perhaps surprisingly, he feels his choice of career is unconnected to either of his parents: it was just, he said, that he always loved to draw.
  • (5) Even though the reason for a reduced sodium pump function in essential hypertension is not yet clear, it may not be unconnected with the presence of an endogenous inhibitor or with genetic or diet-induced membrane defects, as previously proposed by other workers in this area of research.
  • (6) They may have some role unconnected with DIF signalling.
  • (7) If the carboxylic group is unconnected the retention time increases depending on the pka of the acid with increasing pH if no complete ionization exists.
  • (8) We conclude that the original findings were due to factors unconnected with the nature of the injected material.
  • (9) The secondary rise in CEA appeared to be unconnected with whether or not the primary tumor had been accompanied by raised plasma CEA.
  • (10) This unexpected result focuses two previously unconnected areas of research and suggests that integrins may have a special role to play in the defence of the gut mucosa.
  • (11) Other subjects were shown the same modes but in the form of parallel unconnected lines.
  • (12) An unconnected civil action brought against DS Beechey was settled in a separate legal process, the basis of which means we cannot comment further."
  • (13) These results demonstrate that unconnected CNS neurons quickly display at least some properties of excitability when cultured in a 3-D ECM.
  • (14) Perhaps it's not entirely unconnected that, in a period of enormous political uncertainty, the bestselling publications at the newsagent are reality magazines, and that documentary films are shown at the multiplex and non-fiction flies off the shelves.
  • (15) Through the study of an average of 291 serial sections of each recurrent tumor, it was found that four of eight recurrent basal cell carcinomas contained multiple foci of unconnected tumor.
  • (16) "The moment one is sort of made aware of that sort of thing it feels very… it's very hard to enjoy because it feels so absurd and unconnected to… how do you make use of it, or how do you channel it, or how do you even feel good about it because… because… you're patently aware it's not true."
  • (17) According to a review of the literature half of the cases are unconnected to classical psoriasis, whereas the other half is connected and mostly of (periodic) pustular character.
  • (18) After training, the relative depth thresholds for most figures approach those of the original unconnected parallel test lines.
  • (19) Moreover, a palpebral squamous cell carcinoma developed independently from the right lower lid and, unconnected with the epibulbar tumor, penetrated to the orbit.
  • (20) The essence of the concept has been to link a physically widely dispersed and apparently unconnected series of glandular structures by a common embryological derivation and their secretion of closely similar functional products.