What's the difference between discriminator and discriminatory?
Discriminator
Definition:
(n.) One who discriminates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical and roentgenographic criteria could not discriminate between patients with and without pneumonia, confirming the findings of previous investigations.
(2) Discrimination errors were used to generate a matrix of interletter and interpattern similarities.
(3) Accuracy of discrimination of letters at various preselected distances was determined each session while Ortho-rater examinations were given periodically throughout training.
(4) For each temporal position of the independent noise, discriminability was a function of the ratio of the duration of the independent noise (tau) to the total burst duration.
(5) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
(6) To determine the diagnostic and discriminative value of these subisoenzymes in polymyositis, we analyzed CK and its MM subisoenzyme forms in serum samples from 22 patients with myositis and from 23 controls.
(7) They retained the ability to make this discrimination when the coloured stimuli were placed against a background bright enough to saturate the rods.3.
(8) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(9) Discriminant analysis was performed with the fourth child in the family as the index case.
(10) Only one part of the theory of Alajouanine and colleagues has been confirmed by our experiments for our results have shown that there is a very close correlation between semantic paraphasias and disorders of semantic differentiation whilst no correlation can be found between phonemic paraphasias and disturbances in auditory phonemic discrimination.
(11) Stimuli presented to this island could be detected and discriminated, although the subject reported he did not see them.
(12) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
(13) Therefore, a hormonal regulatory element can discriminate among closely related transcription start sites.
(14) Kup is a separate K+ uptake system with relatively little discrimination in the transport of the cations K+, Rb+, and Cs+.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(17) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.
(18) Results indicated that participants discriminated the target behavior on video but effects did not generalize to the work setting for 2 participants until they rehearsed the behavior.
(19) Discrimination was possible among these four groups on the basis of the Mahalanobis' generalized distance.
(20) Cape no longer has the monopoly on talent; the stars are scattered these days, and Franklin's "fantastically discriminating" deputy Robin Robertson can take credit for many recent triumphs, including their most recent Booker winner, Anne Enright.
Discriminatory
Definition:
(a.) Discriminative.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the 968 patients, the area under the fasting plasma glucose receiver operating characteristic curve was greater than that under the glucose screening test curve, indicating greater discriminatory value of the former test.
(2) Single neurons in the midbrain tegmentum of rats showed clear discriminatory responses to three tones announcing either food or water or no reinforcement.
(3) The presence of Hollenhorst plaques or retinal artery occlusion did not have any discriminatory diagnostic value since the incidence was similar in both patient groups.
(4) A statistical analysis of the combination assay using CA 125, CA 19-9, tissue polypeptide antigen (TPA), immunosuppressive acidic protein (IAP), ferritin and CEA was carried out by multivariate method (discriminatory analysis) in 45 patients with ovarian carcinoma and 50 healthy subjects.
(5) Examination and documentation of discriminatory practices based on sex points to the areas in which women must direct their demands for equality.
(6) The technique was highly reproducible and discriminatory.
(7) It is concluded that a computerized analysis of sperm swimming speed is a reliable and rapid mode for evaluating semen samples and offers more discriminatory sperm motion characteristics than the RSA.
(8) PyMS is a rapid and relatively inexpensive technique for the investigation of nosocomial S. aureus infection and was more discriminatory than phage typing in this instance.
(9) In this study other biochemical and physical tests were applied to a group of fetuses with deviating BPD growth in order to improve the discriminatory rate between infants subsequently born AGA or SGA.
(10) The fear, sinking to bottom, lack of schooling and non discriminatory pattern in treated fish were because of neurodepression.
(11) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(12) While there were differences in the amide absorption band ratios, these were difficult to relate to the individualization of the hair samples and did not appear to have a sufficient discriminatory value for routine forensic use.
(13) The discriminatory efficacy of one single progesterone determination was independent of the actual HCG level and serial determinations of progesterone did not increase the discriminatory power.
(14) What is worrying is that they are giving me evidence that they are not being treated like normal EU members, that they have to sign specific contracts if they want to continue with new work.” She said this was discriminatory under EU law.
(15) It is impossible to see how a regulator operating under rules imposed by politicians, and enforced by draconian and discriminatory provisions for damages and costs in civil cases, could be said to be either voluntary or independent."
(16) There is no discriminatory role in the immunologic detection of HLA-DR for differential diagnosis of salivary gland tumors.
(17) Stepwise linear discriminant analysis of the data from the first 200 patients identified a significant (p less than 0.001) discriminatory combination.
(18) They must change any discriminatory laws and promote equality and non-violent behaviours.
(19) In this investigation no single factor was discriminatory and it was not possible to predict with any degree of certainty those kidneys liable to delayed function or to non-function.
(20) US supreme court justices strongly challenged a federal law banning recognition of same-sex marriages as discriminatory, motivated by prejudice and diminishing the power of individual states to regulate marriage.