What's the difference between distorted and garbled?

Distorted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Distort

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.

Garbled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Garble

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
  • (2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
  • (3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
  • (4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
  • (5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
  • (6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
  • (7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
  • (8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
  • (9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
  • (10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
  • (11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
  • (12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
  • (13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
  • (14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
  • (15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
  • (16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
  • (17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
  • (18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
  • (19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
  • (20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.