What's the difference between eccentric and outre?

Eccentric


Definition:

  • (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle; as, an eccentric or elliptical orbit; pertaining to deviation from the center or from true circular motion.
  • (a.) Not having the same center; -- said of circles, ellipses, spheres, etc., which, though coinciding, either in whole or in part, as to area or volume, have not the same center; -- opposed to concentric.
  • (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric; as, the eccentric rod in a steam engine.
  • (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end.
  • (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws; deviating from an appointed sphere or way; departing from the usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct.
  • (n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity; an anomalous or irregular person or thing.
  • (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center.
  • (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius.
  • (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
  • (2) Adaptation at 10 deg eccentricity yielded slightly higher threshold elevations than for central vision.
  • (3) An in vitro, eccentric arterial stenosis model was created using 15 canine carotid arteries cannulated with silicone plugs containing special pressure-transducing catheters designed to measure pressure directly, within the stenosis.
  • (4) • Gaddafi's many eccentricities, including phobias about flying over water and staying above ground floor level.
  • (5) These data suggest that older adults experience greater muscle damage following eccentric exercise than young subjects, which may be due in part to the smaller muscle mass and lower VO2max seen in older men.
  • (6) Detection thresholds at 10 Hz and high grating contrasts were approximately 11-15 arcsec in the fovea and 37-47 arcsec at 30 degrees eccentricity.
  • (7) It could be said that Brown's methods were not eccentric but merely attuned to the demands of Eighties and Nineties culture.
  • (8) That detail is inspired by the eccentric Mancunian performer Frank Sidebottom – the film is co-written by the Guardian's Jon Ronson , a former member of Sidebottom's band – but Abrahamson insists the character stands in for all music's outsiders.
  • (9) The relationships between dioptric blur, pupil size, retinal eccentricity, and retinal sensitivity were investigated in the central 5 degrees of the visual field in 10 normal subjects using the Humphrey Field Analyzer.
  • (10) Some say Film Socialism is an eccentric masterpiece ; others that it's an eccentric mess.
  • (11) The neoplastic cells have large, single eccentric nucleus, resembling typical plasma cells.
  • (12) Our threshold vs ISI data can be adequately modeled on the basis of an intrinsic positional uncertainty, which increases with eccentricity, and additive and multiplicative sources of noise.
  • (13) The latter 7 cases had either a dislocation or an eccentration.
  • (14) The term Asperger's Syndrome (AS) refers to a clinical picture characterized by social isolation in combination with odd and eccentric behaviour.
  • (15) With calcium antagonists, a similar extent of dilation of normal coronary arteries and eccentric stenoses can be obtained.
  • (16) The size and the angular tilt of the dark crescent appearing in the subject's pupil are derived as a function of five variables: the ametropia of the eye (Dsph, Dcyl, axis), the eccentricity of the flash, e, and the distance of the camera from the subject's eye, dc.
  • (17) Eccentric catheter location had little effect on phantom or human arterial lumen shape or area when imaging was performed with optimized catheters.
  • (18) Accommodative microfluctuations were found to play a minor role in determining the magnitude of sensitivity out to an eccentricity of 5 degrees; between 5 degrees and 27.5 degrees, the effect of microfluctuations was masked by the mydriasis produced by the drugs used in the study.
  • (19) A sport-specific profile of eccentric and concentric enlargement has been documented in endurance and resistance athletes, respectively.
  • (20) Although containing no obviously extreme items, its cumulative effect may be used to assess the prevalence of bizarre and eccentric thought patterns in psychiatric patients, and as an estimate of psychotic risk in the general population.

Outre


Definition:

  • (a.) Being out of the common course or limits; extravagant; bizarre.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nothing is too odd, too arcane, or too outre (I’ve not researched the tie-in adult sex-toy angle, but I’ll bet there is one) to have the Star Wars logo plastered across it.
  • (2) In the 1980s, this brand of outre humour – then called alternative comedy – went mainstream.
  • (3) Take the Go Compare tenor, a cheery bulbous eejit warbling doggerel set to melodies so basic that the average nursery rhyme sounds like one of Sun Ra's more outre soundscapes by comparison.
  • (4) Still, it was cold comfort at the polls for the local socialists, and people murmured that it was a vote wasted; they had to show the strength of their feelings by tactical voting, and their spirit by attending outre events at the arts centre.
  • (5) To give as good a guide to the man as anything else, here they are: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Mémoires d’outre Tombe by Francoise-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville History of England from the Accession of James 11 by Thomas Babbington Macauley Liberty, Equality, Fraternity by James Fitzjames Stephen Paroles d’un Croyant by Abbé Lamennais The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri Collected Poems by Rudyard Kipling, and The Federal Story by Alfred Deakin By now we can fairly say, that we can see the direction the report of the royal commission on trade union governance and corruption is likely to head.
  • (6) Yet after the tour got to New York, with two triumphant nights at Madison Square Garden, Bowie junked the expensive set (in today’s money it would have cost about $1m a night to stage) and the tour resumed as a slick soul revue, Bowie dressed in suits instead of the outre costumes of glam.
  • (7) As an actor, he juggled outre loss-leaders such as The Orkly Kid with crowd-pleasing breadwinners until the success of Back to the Future enabled him to devote himself to the experimental.

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