What's the difference between disturb and unhinge?

Disturb


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest.
  • (v. t.) To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.
  • (v. t.) To turn from a regular or designed course.
  • (n.) Disturbance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subsequently, the study of bundle branch block and A-V block cases revealed that no explicit correlation existed between histopathological changes and functional disturbances nor between disturbances in conduction (i.e.
  • (2) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
  • (3) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (4) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
  • (5) There was no correlation between disturbed gastric clearance, impaired gall bladder contraction, and prolonged colonic transit time in the patients with cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy nor was there a correlation between any disturbed motor function and age or duration of diabetes.
  • (6) Knapman concluded that the 40-year-old designer, whose full name was Lee Alexander McQueen, "killed himself while the balance of his mind was disturbed".
  • (7) Of great influence on the results of measurements are preparation and registration (warm-up-time, amplification, closeness of pressure-system, unhurt catheters), factors relating to equipment and methods (air-bubbles in pressure-system, damping by filters, continuous infusion of the micro-catheter, level of zero-pressure), factors which occur during intravital measurement (pressure-drop along the arteria pulmonalis, influence of normal breathing, great intrapleural pressure changes, pressure damping in the catheter by thrombosis and external disturbances) and last not least positive and negative acceleration forces, which influence the diastolic and systolic pulmonary artery pressure.
  • (8) 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.
  • (9) This method avoids disturbance of the cellular metabolism.
  • (10) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (11) This quantitative characterization of the properties of conduction and refractoriness of both the accessory pathway and ventriculoatrial conduction system and the relation between these characteristics and the accessory pathway location in ART patients provides additional insight into the prerequisites for the initiation and maintenance of this rhythm disturbance.
  • (12) A 68-year-old male was hospitalized because of headache, nausea, and disturbance of consciousness.
  • (13) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
  • (14) Although not common, the disorder is the most frequently diagnosed disturbance of porphyrin metabolism in many countries, and further insight into its unusual pathogenesis may clarify the hepatotoxic effects of the 4 etiologic agents.
  • (15) Dysplasia epiphysealis hemimelica - an epiphyseal developmental disturbance of the skeleton - is combined with exostose-like, tumor-simulating cartilaginous hypertrophy of bone tissue, mainly located at the epiphyses of the lower extremities and at the tarsal bones.
  • (16) Following an encephalopathic illness, a 13-year-old Chinese boy had a partial form of Klüver-Bucy syndrome with emotional disturbance, recent memory loss, hypersexuality, and polyphagia.
  • (17) Moreover, complete absence of rhythm disturbances right up to the beginning of cardiac arrest was as frequent in the patient groups as in the control series (around 20%).
  • (18) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (19) That is why in the patients with disturbances it is necessary to carry out adequate conservative therapy directed at improvement of the metabolism of the neuromuscular structures both before the operation and during the postoperative period, e.g.
  • (20) Then, all had eye movements disturbances and ataxia.

Unhinge


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.
  • (v. t.) To displace; to unfix by violence.
  • (v. t.) To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pick up one book, preferably beginning with the first, Roseanna , because they are best read in chronological order, and you become unhinged.
  • (2) Just right there, in this moment of embarrassing, unhinged, painfully real comic outrage in Portnoy's Complaint, the novel that made Roth famous in 1969, you have the reason why Booker judge Carmen Callil is profoundly wrong to object to Roth getting the International Booker prize – she has withdrawn from the three-person jury over the choice which the other two, male, judges were dead set on.
  • (3) But many other Eritreans have not been so lucky in their attempts to flee a country where President Isaias Afewerki – described as an "unhinged dictator" in the US embassy cables revealed by WikiLeaks – justifies the existence of his large army with the threat of a renewed conflict with Ethiopia, from which Eritrea gained independence in 1992.
  • (4) By virtue of being young, photogenic and not visibly unhinged, Ivanka and Jared have been painted as the great moderators – people with allegedly progressive views on things like women’s rights and climate change, who can temper the effects of Trump’s administration.
  • (5) Invariably, all the winners were delightful – not least Jared Leto, who passed his Oscar round for all of us to hold – whereas the journalists all came across as faintly unhinged.
  • (6) It presents an infected realism, one where the everyday facts of life are unhinged by an intervention from elsewhere.
  • (7) Fortunately for Moyes, Watmore possessed sufficient drive to unhinge that backline courtesy of a startling change of pace and deftly dinked ball which prefaced Van Aanholt sending a half-volley looping into the net.
  • (8) The relatively measured talk on Iraq was the exception, however, in Rubio’s appearance Wednesday, which he otherwise used to sharply condemn a White House foreign policy that he characterized as too passive and “unhinged from its moral purpose”.
  • (9) It should not be seen as Caligula being unhinged – he was saying even the consulship, the highest office in Rome, was in his power.
  • (10) Donald Trump was accused by the Clinton campaign of “unhinged” behaviour toward a former Miss Universe winner on Friday after he fired off a tirade of personal attacks against her in the middle of the night.
  • (11) On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert also examined the media analysis of Trump’s change in tone, saying “he shifted from unhinged narcissist to hinged narcissist”.
  • (12) The controversial figure whose memoir formed the basis of Leonardo DiCaprio's unhinged stockbroker in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-nominated black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street has revealed his debauched life of sex and drugs was "even worse" than shown in the film.
  • (13) Now, it’s entirely possible that these Republicans are endorsing Clinton because Trump is an unhinged maniac who has given people of all political persuasions plenty of reason to not want him anywhere near the levers of power.
  • (14) Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush said Trump was “unhinged”.
  • (15) Bennett made the comments in response to a letter from campaigning parenting website Mumsnet, which wrote to Thompson earlier this week describing the cot death storyline as cynical and ill-informed and likely to reinforce misconceptions about bereaved mothers as "deranged and unhinged".
  • (16) In a secret diplomatic cable written in 2009 , the then US ambassador to Eritrea, Ronald McMullen, wrote: “Young Eritreans are fleeing their country in droves, the economy appears to be in a death spiral, Eritrea’s prisons are overflowing, and the country’s unhinged dictator remains cruel and defiant.” The only political party allowed to exist is the People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ); the 1997 constitution, supposedly the country’s supreme law, has never been implemented.
  • (17) It borders on the demented, to string together a dinner with Clive Palmer and my attending as the communications minister, the launch by a cross-party group of friends of the ABC and say that that amounts to some sort of threat or challenge to the prime minister ... it is quite unhinged.
  • (18) Mallmann's long-term projects for Garzón, including luxury tents with butlers and the conversion of an overgrown Gustave Eiffel railway bridge into a cocktail bar, are unhinged but inspired.
  • (19) Campaigning website Mumsnet described it as cynical and ill-informed and likely to reinforce misconceptions about bereaved mothers as "deranged and unhinged".
  • (20) In interviews, they were also quick to push back against the media portrayal of the protesters as a group of unhinged, violent men – especially considering that many women have come to visit the occupation in recent days.

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