What's the difference between eclectic and unspecialized?

Eclectic


Definition:

  • (a.) Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.
  • (a.) Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.
  • (n.) One who follows an eclectic method.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The author uses an eclectic theoretical frame of reference which includes some elements of psychodynamic, object relations, and structural and strategic family therapy theory.
  • (2) More recently, Echinacea angustifolia - a wildflower native to North America and related to the daisy - was studied in depth by the Eclectics, a group of American medical herbalists practising from the 1850s to the 1930s.
  • (3) His eclectic approach to songwriting means he may not produce music that is typically Bahian or even Brazilian, but alongside the likes of Argentina's Juana Molina and Colombia's Bomba Estereo , he's redefining 21st-century Latin music.
  • (4) A successful PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications System) implementation requires an eclectic integration of a number of key technologies.
  • (5) The strategy is based on an eclectic conceptual framework and reflects the progressional nature of the attachment process.
  • (6) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
  • (7) Lisa and Brian converted the old wooden schoolhouse six years ago and the design is bright and eclectic, think retro school desks, a funky red kitchen, a clear geodesic dome in the garden for stargazing and chill-out time and a giant chess set on the lawn.
  • (8) It captures the fact that the eclectic and inventive Adams - who cut his compositional teeth as a member of the minimalist school in the 1970s and 1980s, and then moved on into less strict forms of tonal music - is almost certainly America's most widely performed contemporary composer.
  • (9) They found two clusters of prospective child psychiatrists: one psychoanalytically oriented and the other eclectically oriented.
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  • (11) We have gone from an eclectic program to a systematic behavior modification program.
  • (12) Curative treatment is essentially symptom oriented, while the prevention of such complications demands, in addition to close supervision of patients under this medication, particularly strict eclectism in the selection of indications for its administration.
  • (13) Diana Nagy, a singer from San Francisco, shouted to an eclectic audience of bikers, veterans, pensioners and others.
  • (14) It was led by an SNP member but, contrary to expectations, the other volunteers were an eclectic mix: a Green, two Labour supporters and a former Liberal Democrat.
  • (15) After a cross-comparison arguments are given why there is still a need for a more problem- and patient-oriented, eclectic and limited psychotherapy.
  • (16) An eclectic set of concepts form the third construct in the framework presented here.
  • (17) Joe’s Garage , a tiny eclectic record and bookshop on Westbourne Road, is a place to meet random characters and to flip through vinyls.
  • (18) From a sapphire and diamond brooch to a humble bag of salt, the Queen picked up an eclectic haul of official gifts during the year she became Britain’s longest-reigning monarch.
  • (19) I don’t want a peerage, and I don’t want a job in government.” Davis calls himself an “eclectic” politician.
  • (20) The third independent variable was psychologists' theoretical orientation (psychodynamic, behavioral, or eclectic).

Unspecialized


Definition:

  • (a.) Not specialized; specifically (Biol.), not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The evolution of epidermal glands in gekkonid lizards is reviewed; the cellular dynamics of beta-glands are compared with those of unspecialized epidermis; the possibility that gekkonine epidermal glands respond to quantitative variation in circulating testosterone titers is discussed.
  • (2) They induced the ectoderm to form neural tissue, lentoids and unspecialized epidermis.
  • (3) An apical membrane, containing microvilli and a pronounced glycocalyx, was separated from a relatively unspecialized basolateral membrane by typical tight junctions.
  • (4) Two classes of astrocytes are distinguished: elongated cells whose processes parallel the nerve fiber bundles and cover a rectangular area more than two time longer than wide without vascular contact and stellate cells whose processes conspicuously cross the nerve fiber bundles to cover a slightly oval area and make unspecialized vascular contacts.
  • (5) The other held that they are unspecialized anlage cells which have the potential to store lipids depending on conditions.
  • (6) In the same way, HyperCard is unspecialized but can turn its hand to any kind of task.
  • (7) Taxonomic screening of subgingival plaque organisms with various enzyme assays have shown that Treponema denticola, Bacteroides gingivalis and an unspeciated Capnocytophaga species possess a trypsin-like enzyme (TLE) that can be detected by the hydrolysis of N-benzoyl-DL-arginine-2-naphthylamide (BANA).
  • (8) Public enlightenment programmes in the national medias should be implemented in order to dissuade patients from self-administration of medications and from consulting the unspecialized.
  • (9) By these means, the cells may express their differentiated function, although their cytoplasm has a distinctly unspecialized appearance.
  • (10) Two new anthracyclinone antitumor antibiotics, maggiemycin (6, NSC-D344012) and anhydromaggiemycin (8) have been isolated from a culture of an unspeciated Streptomyces (ATCC No.
  • (11) Immunoelectron microscopy combined with the TARI-method for the demonstration of exocytosis indicates that CDCH-release from collaterals and neurohemal terminals occurs already in S = 10; exocytosis of immunoreactive granule contents takes place from nonsynaptic release sites, unspecialized areas of the axolemma of the collaterals.
  • (12) It more closely resembles the unspecialized connective tissue fibroblast of normal serosal tissue, and thus may be more analogous to a soft-tissue tumor than to the remaining mesothelial-derived neoplasms.
  • (13) The ependymal lining was found to consist of a simple, cuboidal epithelium essentially similar to the unspecialized cuboidal ependyma of the brain ventricles.
  • (14) The remainder consisted of two strains of B. fragilis and 21 unspeciated strains.
  • (15) Compared to acoustically unspecialized mammals (soricids and murids), the middle ear of subterranean insectivores and rodents (twelve species of six families examined) was clearly distinguished and characterized by many common features: rather round and relatively larger eardrum without a pars flaccida; reduced gonial; loose or no connection between the malleus and the tympanic bone; reduced and straightened transversal part of the malleus; enlarged incus; increased and rather flat incudo-mallear joint; rather parallel position of the mallear manubrium and incudal crus longum in some species (and their fusion in bathyergids); reduced or even missing middle ear muscles.
  • (16) A total of 131 strains of S. aureus and 25 strains of unspeciated coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS) initially tested by automated methods for susceptibility to oxacillin were concurrently retested using standardized disk diffusion, reference 2% NaCl-supplemented broth microdilution, oxacillin salt agar, and the MRS test (a commercially prepared broth screening method).
  • (17) The ventral tegument, which in life is applied close to the swim bladder wall, is relatively unspecialized, showing typical ultrastructural features of the digenean surface.
  • (18) liquefaciens, 27 S. faecium, 13 S. durans, 44 S. bovis, and 7 unspeciated S. bovis-like group D isolates were identified.
  • (19) Peripheral couplings are seen at the unspecialized regions.
  • (20) Cultured cells derived from a mouse adrenocortical tumor transplant are unspecialized in appearance, but produce basal levels of steroids and demonstrate a near-immediate steroidogenic response to ACTH.

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