What's the difference between elan and noncommital?

Elan


Definition:

  • (b.) Ardor inspired by passion or enthusiasm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Heseltine himself argued, after the success of last summer's Olympics, "our aim must be to become a nation of cities possessed of London's confidence and elan" .
  • (2) You've shown "elan, dedication, skill and customary energy" while "producing a terrific newspaper and keeping the staff motivated and happy".
  • (3) Joey Barton tweeted with customary elan, "Go on the birds", and for the next 20 minutes GB peppered the Brazilian goal.
  • (4) He loaned me a Pure Elan DX40, a low-end mains-powered table-top model.
  • (5) Susan Elan Jones resigned as shadow Wales office minister.
  • (6) Because SB 1062 is explicitly intended to counteract last year's ruling of Elane Photography in New Mexico , in which Elaine Huguenin, a photographer, turned down a request from a lesbian couple to document their commitment ceremony because same-sex unions were against her religion.
  • (7) His tone at that moment was serious but there was much more to revel in; Southampton won 12 of their final 18 Premier League games and here, eventually picking off a much-changed but willing Crystal Palace , was further evidence of the elan that might have yielded even greater reward had an awkward early winter spell not given them ground to make up.
  • (8) 1.29pm GMT Labour's Susan Elan Jones asks if the increased fines for breaches of the national minimum wage laws will be in place by 1 January.
  • (9) Stout became a non-executive director of another London-listed pharmaceutical company, Shire, and Ingram is chairman of the biotechnology firm Elan.
  • (10) To lose the way she did, with quiet elan and sustained skill under intense pressure, leaving every sweat-drop of effort on court during two and a quarter hours against possibly the best player in the history of the women’s game – such a British defeat – was a victory in itself.
  • (11) Last year, aged 85, with provocatively typical elan, he suggested that a neutron bomb might prove a useful resolution of the situation in Afghanistan.
  • (12) Cary Grant himself could not have pulled off that bacon butty with elan.
  • (13) To my ears, DAB sounds worse than FM, even on the Elan, but my wife either didn't notice or didn't care whether I'd secretly switched the setting to FM.
  • (14) Should City’s fears about Kompany be confirmed, such attacking elan may be required.
  • (15) Kelner also admitted that Alton had edited the paper "throughout one of the most difficult periods of its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy".
  • (16) Kelner added: "Roger has edited the Independent throughout one of the most difficult periods in its history and has done so with elan, dedication, skill and his customary energy.
  • (17) At one of the earliest debates, Carly confronted Donald Trump, a man who in his characteristic understatement said of her, ‘look at that face’ and every one of us remembers the grace, the class, the elan with which Carly responded.
  • (18) For all the claims of his detractors that Stewart is the epitome of East Coast elitism, there is more self-deprecating New Jersey grit here than arrogant Manhattan elan.
  • (19) Her conduct after the attack, bringing together this concert and hosting it with such elan, further underscores her maturity.
  • (20) I’m obviously pleased the UMP can now close the scars of the previous [leadership] election.” Later he added: “It’s now up to him to give the UMP the elan it needs and for that he will have to unify.

Noncommital


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CD4+ T cell clones and IL-2 stimulated surface IgM-IgG+ and IgM-IgA+, but not IgM+IgG- or IgM+IgA- B cells to secrete IgG and IgA, respectively, indicating that they induced a selective expansion of IgG- and IgA-committed B cells rather than isotype switching in Ig noncommitted B cells.
  • (2) The role of the "immunologically noncommitted" cells in graft rejection is unknown.
  • (3) A noncommitted VSD was an incremental risk factor, two (50%) of four dying after repair.
  • (4) The effects of lipid A, outer membrane lipoprotein, and murein were evaluated at several distinct stages: induction of colony-stimulating activity (CSA) in the serum, increase in the number of committed splenic precursor cells (CFU-C) forming granulocyte-macrophage colonies in vitro, and triggering into the cell cycle of noncommitted hemopoietic stem cells (CFU-S) from bone marrow.
  • (5) They also suggest that a second dose of PHA may stimulate some of the original noncommitted lymphocytes to undergo mitosis thus attempting to maintain the in vitro lymphocyte population.
  • (6) Until the cytogenesis of PTC is clarified we propose the noncommitted term "plasmacytoid T-zone cells" for this elusive cell type.
  • (7) We investigated the roles of second messengers in K-562 cell differentiation induced by either commitment-inducing agents (Ara-C, thymidine), or a noncommitment-inducing agent (hemin).
  • (8) The late results were good in the remainder and in the two surviving patients with noncommitted VSD.
  • (9) From these, 18 hearts with potentially noncommitted defects were identified and studied in detail.
  • (10) A case is described which exhibited Double Outlet Right Ventricle (DORV) with l-malposition of the aorta in association with a ventricular septal defect of the noncommitted, atrioventricular canal variety.
  • (11) Individuals who were in committed relationships were better able to cope with the stressors of medical school than their noncommitted colleagues, as evidenced by their reporting fewer depressive episodes and lower use of alcohol and drugs.
  • (12) In cells committed to differentiate, JS-8 caused an arrest at the erythroblast or early reticulocyte stage, followed by premature cell death, whereas proliferation of noncommitted erythroid cells or other hematopoietic cells remained unaffected.
  • (13) A 3-year-old boy underwent successful surgical correction of double-outlet right ventricle (S, D, D), noncommitted ventricular septal defect (VSD) of the endocardial cushion type, and pulmonary stenosis.
  • (14) We report data which demonstrates B-FGF can influence noncommited and specific lineage-derived hematopoietic progenitors when incubated in vitro.
  • (15) Results in patients with noncommitted ventricular septal defect have remained poor.
  • (16) Alternatively, the observed class pattern may be induced by an isotype noncommited helper clone which triggers selected population of B lymphocytes of defined differentiation status toward secretion of a restricted array of isotypes.
  • (17) Conditioned medium derived from peripheral mononuclear low-density cells stimulated with phytohemagglutinin (PHA) supports the growth of noncommitted hematopoietic progenitors from marrow and peripheral blood cells.
  • (18) On the other hand, in the case of heme, a noncommitting inducer of hemoglobin synthesis, induction of hemoglobin synthesis and increase in heme degradation activity may be independent.
  • (19) This discrepancy in the alteration of specific clones of lymphocytes compared to all noncommitted lymphocytes may account for varying reports of the immune status of the pregnant woman.
  • (20) The cell of origin of this tumor appears to be a noncommitted mesenchymal cell present in the areolar tissue subjacent to the mesothelial lining.

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