What's the difference between embrace and refute?

Embrace


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To fasten on, as armor.
  • (n.) To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
  • (n.) To cling to; to cherish; to love.
  • (n.) To seize eagerly, or with alacrity; to accept with cordiality; to welcome.
  • (n.) To encircle; to encompass; to inclose.
  • (n.) To include as parts of a whole; to comprehend; to take in; as, natural philosophy embraces many sciences.
  • (n.) To accept; to undergo; to submit to.
  • (n.) To attempt to influence corruptly, as a jury or court.
  • (v. i.) To join in an embrace.
  • (n.) Intimate or close encircling with the arms; pressure to the bosom; clasp; hug.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The new Somali government has enthusiastically embraced the new deal and created a taskforce, bringing together the government, lead donors (the US, UK, EU, Norway and Denmark), the World Bank and civil society.
  • (2) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (3) Republicans embraced it as a counter to federal school initiatives.
  • (4) Greece sincerely had no intention of clashing with its partners, Varoufakis insisted, but the logic of austerity was such that policies conducted in its embrace could only fail.
  • (5) IDCs sometimes embraced or contacted lymphocytes, suggesting their role in the differentiation of the latter cells.
  • (6) After bone-union the embracing ring device was removed in conjunction with external lotion and active exercises.
  • (7) Slaven Bilic must show West Ham he is more than a rock star manager | Aleksandar Holiga Read more For Sullivan and co, however, it is a nightmare they are embracing, one which has provided a shot at European football and the opportunity for Bilic to begin with an immediate feelgood run.
  • (8) We are not doing it as loudly, we're not embracing it quite as much, but the fact of the matter is we do need a much more stimulative fiscal policy."
  • (9) The indications were initially restrictive but now embrace the quasi-totality of gallstones, complicated or not, and in particular when the patient's general condition is fragile.
  • (10) At birth, most cochlear neurons displayed peripheral arbors that embraced both inner and outer hair cell receptors.
  • (11) The bi-annual Leonard Cohen Event was initially hosted during Cohen’s silent period when the singer embraced Buddhism and entered the Mount Baldy Zen Centre to live in seclusion as a Rinzai monk.
  • (12) Blowing up the flats will on the one hand "serve as an unforgettable statement of how Glasgow is confidently embracing the future and changing for the better", while on the other it will "serve as a respectful recognition and celebration of the role the Red Road flats have played in shaping the lives of thousands of city families for whom these flats have simply been home … " According to David Zolkwer, who as the games' artistic director may have had the idea, the demolition will be "a bold and confident statement that says: 'Bring on the future'."
  • (13) These processes are structurally stable rearrangements of tissue morphology and are spread in the tissue as a wave embracing more and more cells.
  • (14) So, if the Fed is afraid that the fiscal cliff may cause a disruption so big that even the Fed's all-encompassing embrace of the markets can't fix it, then it's Chairman Bernanke's word – and not that of Congress – that carries the most weight.
  • (15) Trump, embracing the spirit of the “lock her up” mob chants at his rallies, threatened: “If I win I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation – there has never been so many lies and so much deception,” he threatened.
  • (16) It represents a temporary drop in traditionally defined living standards, in exchange for a more equitable and sustainable future – a concept that our grandparents' generation embraced, as they endured rationing but also produced the NHS, social housing and social security.
  • (17) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
  • (18) It will highlight the importance of our sport embracing innovation and change as we move forward.
  • (19) Attempts at such prevention inevitably also embrace prevention of the extraosseous consequences of autonomous hyperparathyroidism, such as the effects of hypercalcaemia, need for parathyroid surgery, and, perhaps, toxic effects of the parathyroid hormone.
  • (20) For Davutoglu, this ambition entails a "comprehensive" approach embracing enhanced economic, cultural and social ties as well as political and security relations.

Refute


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
  • (2) The results presented refute arguments that these enzymes proceed by a concerted mechansim and support the intermediacy of aminoacyladenylates.
  • (3) Theories of urea formation during allantoin degradation in Glycine max have been recently refuted.
  • (4) A mitochondriogenic mechanism of calcification could not be confirmed nor refuted by this study.
  • (5) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
  • (6) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
  • (7) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (8) The need for neighboring states to use their data to confirm or refute findings is stressed.
  • (9) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
  • (10) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
  • (11) This did not happen and, on the evidence presented in this paper, the Fry theory of the pathogenesis of the deviated nasal septum is refuted.
  • (12) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
  • (13) This explanation was refuted, as all thymic subpopulations were found to express CD1, albeit with differences in antigen density, whereas all extrathymic subpopulations lack CD1.
  • (14) Location of En at the MN locus would not, however, refute the theory that Wra and Wrb cannot function in the absence of En.
  • (15) The hypothesis that the function of recA gene is to convert the unidirectionally replicating machinery in the free state to the bidirectionally replicating one in the integrated state is refuted accordingly.
  • (16) Observation refutes Freud's often quoted statement that masturbation is further removed from the nature of women than of men.
  • (17) Use of such data led to a false impression of drug efficacy, an impression later refuted when proper control studies demonstrated that the range of disease was much greater than had been previously supposed.
  • (18) Results refute the assertion that people who stutter are more anxious or depressed than those who do not.
  • (19) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
  • (20) Predictions from the chiasma map can be confirmed or refuted only by genetic evidence for which the estimates of this paper serve as initial values to begin maximum likelihood iteration.