What's the difference between discrete and disparate?

Discrete


Definition:

  • (a.) Separate; distinct; disjunct.
  • (a.) Disjunctive; containing a disjunctive or discretive clause; as, "I resign my life, but not my honor," is a discrete proposition.
  • (a.) Separate; not coalescent; -- said of things usually coalescent.
  • (v. t.) To separate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Therefore, neither of these two regions of the Tat protein appear to be discrete activation domains.
  • (2) Interphase death thus involves a discrete, abrupt transition from the normal state and is not merely the consequence of progressive and degenerative changes.
  • (3) One of the HEF bands can be separated from two others with beta-alanine as discrete spacer.
  • (4) In the heart, myocarditis is often discrete, and may be complicated by perivascular fibrosis and rare foci of myocytolysis; in some cases primary lymphomas may also develop.
  • (5) The p30 proteins of murine viruses also contain a second discrete set of antigenic determinants related to those in infectious primate viruses and endogenous porcine viruses, but not detected in the feline leukemia virus group.
  • (6) These transformants were found to possess discrete Hind III fragments containing human Alu family sequences which were conserved in several independent secondary transformants.
  • (7) These results demonstrate, in living human hearts, that diffuse coronary atherosclerosis is often present when coronary angiography reveals only discrete stenoses.
  • (8) The appearance of an abundant class of polyribosomes was correlated with globin synthesis by demonstrating that a discrete class of polyribosomes arises in cells treated with the inducers hexamethylene bisacetamide and hemin.
  • (9) We conclude that: 1) the effective capillary PO2 in the fetal brain can be significantly reduced by increasing the distance between non-methemoglobin-laden erythrocytes in capillaries and 2) hypoxic inhibition of fetal breathing probably arises from discrete areas of the brain having a PO2 less than 3 Torr.
  • (10) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.
  • (11) Stuart Forman and Keith Miller describe the physiological, biophysical and molecular biological evidence pointing to the location of a discrete allosteric site on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor at which local anesthetics act.
  • (12) The lesion presented as a discrete, palpable mass that led to orchiectomy.
  • (13) There were discrete linear relationships between muscle temperature and isometric endurance associated with cycling at 60% and 80% VO2max.
  • (14) Six discrete 'phased' nucleosomes are present upstream from the gene and are modulated by induction.
  • (15) The anterior division can be further parcellated into dorsal, lateral, and ventral areas, and each of these areas, along with the posterior division, can be thought of as containing more-or-less discrete nuclei embedded within a relatively undifferentiated region.
  • (16) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
  • (17) A CT scan of the brain showed numerous small discrete lesions.
  • (18) The starting dose of paroxetine was 20 mg daily and of amitriptyline 75 mg daily in divided doses; at week 3 these doses could be increased at the investigators' discretion.
  • (19) By using regression analysis on a series of subsets of Ra3 responders and nonresponders, we obtained data supporting the concept of discrete "responder" and "nonresponder" phenotypes.
  • (20) These observations suggest that the inner dynein arms in Chlamydomonas axonemes are aligned not in a single straight row, but in a staggered row or two discrete rows.

Disparate


Definition:

  • (a.) Unequal; dissimilar; separate.
  • (a.) Pertaining to two coordinate species or divisions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Snakes did not only exhibit the major cell- and humoral-mediated immune functions, but these functions appeared to be linked with the degree of MLR disparity.
  • (2) There is a disparity between the number of reported cases of poisoning and the number of chemical analyses performed for the identification and quantitative determination of a particular poison.
  • (3) When there was disparity, gene-probe-positive isolates gave negative results in the corresponding bioassay.
  • (4) Previous work in our laboratory has shown that neural trauma results in a disparity between oxidative and glycolytic rates.
  • (5) I said ‘ periodista, no dispare ’ – it means ‘journalist, don’t shoot’ – ‘ por favor ’.
  • (6) The bone marrow derivation of dThy-1+EC is now well established: dThy-1+EC carry Ly-5 determinants whose expression is restricted to cells of the hemopoietic differentiation pathway, and studies using Thy-1-disparate radiation bone marrow chimeras have revealed the presence of donor-type Thy-1+ cells within the epidermis; by immunoelectron microscopy, these cells represent dThy-1+EC.
  • (7) When a meridional-size lens is used to provide magnification in the horizonal meridan for one eye the resulting stereopsis distortion is readily accounted for in the terms of the binocular disparity caused by changed angular relations.
  • (8) Iraq's beleaguered prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, no longer has the authority to unite the country's disparate sects.
  • (9) A retrospective study was performed to evaluate the effect of recipient-donor trephine disparity on refractive error and corneal curvature post-suture removal in keratoconus.
  • (10) In MCIC the addition of methanol to the mobile phase had disparate effect on protein retention, whereas addition of histidine or glycine, which acted as competing ligands, reduced the retention.
  • (11) Insights into how these seemingly disparate functions may be integrated have emerged from studies that have demonstrated that the mammalian striatum is composed of two compartments arranged as a mosaic, the patches and the matrix, which differ in their neurochemical and neuroanatomical properties.
  • (12) Prism fixation disparity curves were determined in three different experimental situations: the routine method according to Ogle, a method to stimulate the synkinetic convergence (Experiment I, with one fixation point as sole binocular stimulus) and a method to stimulate the fusion mechanism (Experiment II, with random dot stereograms).
  • (13) These results combined with absorption studies suggested a close relationship between fox and dog, but different number and morphology of chromosomes, immunoelectrophoretic patterns of serum proteins, and disparities of the transplantation antigens proved that the fox is a species quite separate from the dog.
  • (14) This study has been carried out by five therapists representing three widely disparate cultures, but all working together in Tanzania.
  • (15) In the majority of the pairs, we found a DPB1 disparity.
  • (16) In 50 young adults, it was found that fixation disparity increased under inadequate illumination and that this was accompanied by symptoms in the form of visual discomfort.
  • (17) Overall surgical case complexity was relatively high in teaching hospitals in 1972, and the disparity with nonteaching hospitals increased during the decade.
  • (18) Comparison of MHC-matched or MHC-disparate rat strains on a PVG background suggested that non-MHC genes determined the principal adult worm rejection characteristics of a given strain.
  • (19) Referencing these dismal truths on the website Race Files , Soya Jung criticised Chua and Rubenfeld for "buying into exceptionalist arguments to explain disparities means endorsing a dehumanising system of racialised norms".
  • (20) The disparity between a single measured diastolic pressure and the mean of many pressure values also leads to errors in identifying individual subjects with mild hypertension.