What's the difference between distort and vitiate?

Distort


Definition:

  • (a.) Distorted; misshapen.
  • (v. t.) To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
  • (v. t.) To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.
  • (v. t.) To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
  • (2) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
  • (3) Mild, significant improvement was noted in one of the hearing components, "attenuation," and an adverse effect was shown on "distortion," owing to noise.
  • (4) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (5) Radiologists may encounter patients with fixed dental prostheses that may produce image distortion on MRI scans of the face and jaw.
  • (6) However, fractional addressing introduces distortion.
  • (7) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (8) This raises questions about police integrity and News International's power to distort procedure in a serious criminal matter.
  • (9) However, all these characteristics can be distorted if measured by means of a variable-proportion procedure, in which the amount of one primary is held constant while the amount of the other is varied in order to measure threshold.
  • (10) This could distort the relation between height and forced expiratory volume in 1s (FEV1) as age increases.
  • (11) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
  • (12) These results confirmed that 'punctuated' labeling was not an artefact due to a distortion of the cell's shape by having been dried on glass slides.
  • (13) The data derived have demonstrated the impairment of the function of the indicated system in the test subjects, associated with sexual behavior impairment in the form of exhibitionism which may form the biological basis for distortion of sexual self-consciousness.
  • (14) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
  • (15) The latter, which is external and solvent accessible, is associated with a distortion in the alpha-helix centered around Tyr33 which consists of a significant increase in the CO(i-4)-N(i) and CO(i-4)-NH(i) distances relative to those in the rest of the helix, as well as a significant departure in the phi, psi angles of Tyr33 relative to regular helical geometry.
  • (16) The authors suggest the use of minimal HP filtering so that phase-shift distortion is minimized and a larger response amplitude can be recorded.
  • (17) Fields said: "The assertions that Tom Cruise likened making a movie to being at war in Afghanistan is a gross distortion of the record... What Tom said, laughingly, was that sometimes, 'That's what it feels like.'"
  • (18) Therapeutic application of drugs containing propylene glycol 1.2 as a solvent may distort the results of forensic chemical detection of ethylene glycol from its oxidation products.
  • (19) 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.
  • (20) Synchronization of spontaneous otoacoustic emissions to a cubic distortion frequency fs = 2f1-f2 has been studied.

Vitiate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air.
  • (v. t.) To cause to fail of effect, either wholly or in part; to make void; to destroy, as the validity or binding force of an instrument or transaction; to annul; as, any undue influence exerted on a jury vitiates their verdict; fraud vitiates a contract.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These conclusions vitiate previous explanations for gal3 associated long-term adaptation and noninducible phenotypes.
  • (2) Thus it is concluded that any solution or drug which needs to be injected should ideally be used at 37 degrees C, as temperature lower or higher than that may vitiate the results.
  • (3) Their review is marred by numerous errors which vitiate the potency estimates.
  • (4) Antibiotic therapy prior to hospitalization did not vitiate the validity of the test.
  • (5) The following is concluded: (1) diagnosis of folate and B12 deficiency based on SF, RCF and serum B12 is vitiated in HBT and needs a therapeutic trial; (2) iron overload of a magnitude indicated by TS greater than 50% can aggravate anemia in HBT.
  • (6) The technique is simple but the results may be vitiated by the minutae of preservation, of taking or of staining the cells which are described.
  • (7) Some of the previous results (Ascenzi et al., 1985) indicating a high hemoglobin titer were +vitiated because of an unexpected cross-reactivity of bone extracts with the hemoglobin-unreactive fraction of the antiserum.
  • (8) The authors have classified the various fractures of the pelvis in children by analysing the elements of functional prognosis of these lesions based on the types of fractures and on the particular factors of vitiation reported in the literature, consisting of series which are too short to be truly demonstrative.
  • (9) While the physiological role of these proteins remains to be determined, their presence in gonadal extracts or fluids vitiates assessment of FSH within the gonad by RIA using antiserum against hFSH.
  • (10) It was also found that the protective effect is vitiated by the concurrent administration of paraaminobenzoic acid.These studies indicate a need for further assessment of the antimalarial value of sulfones and sulfonamides, both alone and in combination with other drugs, for prevention and cure.
  • (11) In particular, the extent to which the generality of the model is vitiated by its ignoring the effect of mineralisation on strength was tested.
  • (12) These conclusions are not vitiated by differences in the number of nuclei within capillaries or in satellite cells, by differences in nuclear length or by variation in the degree to which fibres are contracted.
  • (13) Infection or ileal conduit urine vitiate the result as they produce high CEA levels in the urine in the absence of any neoplastic disease.
  • (14) It is argued that despite continued methodological improvements, subjects in the conditions of greater complexity may have found it sufficient to rotate only partial images, thereby vitiating the prediction.
  • (15) The failed bid by prime minister Antonis Samaras to throw off the yoke of international supervision by prematurely exiting the bailout programme has also vitiated his fragile government’s appeal.
  • (16) An investigation of the risky shift phenomenon revealed that an understanding of probability did not vitiate the shift toward greater risk.
  • (17) The several factors which do not depend directly on the orifice area or on the forward stroke volume vitiate the sole use of the orifice formula in the analysis of the dynamics of aortic stenosis.
  • (18) Mutations not detectable by analysis with the method of Southern with pDP1007, may occur in the testicular determinant factor gene vitiating testicular development.
  • (19) It is believed that a.m. are an important drawback contributing to vitiate any formula on the amount of muscle surgery to be performed in patients having no possibilities of restoring normal binocular vision.
  • (20) The stimulatory effect was vitiated by cycloheximide indicating the involvement of intermediate genes in the PLP gene activation.