What's the difference between enterprising and ingenious?

Enterprising


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Work conditions and the health status in workers of Bashkirian oil enterprises are characterized.
  • (2) Mass examination in organized populations at industrial enterprises made it possible to bring to light a statistically significant different effect of the level of productive labor and sport activity on the prevalence of frequent alcohol consumption as one of CHD risk factors.
  • (3) In this review, the instrumentation essential to any microsurgical enterprise and the sutures available are described.
  • (4) As a result existing job definitions and traditional forms of organization are being challenged and attempts made to restructure work so that it becomes meaningful and rewarding in the fullest sense, to the individual, to the enterprise, and to society.
  • (5) Defining personality and its pathological variants is a hazardous enterprise.
  • (6) "I would go further: where they work properly, open markets and free enterprise can actually promote morality.
  • (7) He said he hoped the eurozone countries would "get their act together" and make it a success, adding: "The last thing we should do is say 'oh in that case we wash our hands of the whole enterprise and we'll get out'.
  • (8) The clinical structure of the revealed neuropsychic disturbances has been studied on the materials of blanket examination of several thousands of employees at a large industrial enterprise.
  • (9) That “social enterprise” is just a figleaf, which canny, profit-driven companies can manipulate (Emma Harrison, founder of A4e, famously used to call it a “social purpose company” before the Advertising Standards Authority, of all people, put a stop to it ).
  • (10) There is no shortage of aspiration-raising initiatives from social enterprises and charities offering the sort of “inspiring visitors” programmes that she proposes.
  • (11) They would work with local enterprise partnerships, set up by the coalition following its abolition of regional development agencies.
  • (12) Sometimes it helps when an enterprise can point to the success of an affiliate in another country.
  • (13) The mode of administration of chemotherapy is evaluated, in conditions of integration, and under strict supervision, in tuberculosis patients in 12 medical dispensaries and in 6 enterprise dispensaries from Craiova over a period of one year.
  • (14) In the international categories, a Nicaraguan company won the energy enterprise award for installing more than 400 kilowatt peak (kWp) of solar photovoltaic energy, often in rural areas without a national grid connection.
  • (15) It is called falling off the swing,” said Soames, when he tried to explain all this to me, “and getting hit on the back of the head by the roundabout.” There are times, when considering Serco, that it begins to resemble Milo Minderbinder’s syndicate, M&M Enterprises, in the novel Catch-22, which starts out trading melons and sardines between opposing armies in the second world war, and ends up conducting bombing raids for commercial reasons.
  • (16) With social enterprises represented in an increasing number of markets, customers are being presented with choices about how they spend their money – and whether by that choice they can help to build a fairer society.
  • (17) The 126 747 examinations for risk factors revealed a succesive increase in the detection indices as follows: 0.76 per thousand among students, 1.36 per thousand in silicogen risk enterprises, 2.07 per thousand among the workers on building sites, 2.22 per thousand among diabetics, 2.76 per thousand among contacts, 2.85 per thousand among hyperergic subjects, 3.89 per thousand among former patients no longer on the files, 4.17 per thousand among alcoholics and patients under psychical treatment, 6.01 per thousand among patients with minimal lesions and 6.82 thousand among those with sequelae.
  • (18) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
  • (19) This infection affected persons working at one of sheep-breeding complexes, as well as at enterprises, technologically linked with this complex.
  • (20) Variables within the referring analyst, patient, candidate, and supervisor are examined in their interaction with the circumstances of the assessment enterprise.

Ingenious


Definition:

  • (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
  • (a.) Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
  • (a.) Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
  • (a.) Mental; intellectual.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Committees too often rubber stamp these ingenious schemes with little real scrutiny.
  • (2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
  • (3) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
  • (4) Gardner has plentiful contacts, a 22-strong network of local churches and ingenious ways of attracting food donations from all parts of the local community.
  • (5) The future is defined by the same old atavistic carnage as ever – which is, as Rosenbaum says, “an ingenious form of doublethink echoed in the very premise of a fantasy of the future beginning with “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ...” Star Wars cast feel the Force after watching new trailer Read more I don’t hate Star Wars – I love the puppetry, just for starters, and all those beautifully dirty, scum-caked robots.
  • (6) But arguably neither is scrapping them, since – even if you could somehow get a political mandate to scrap every private and grammar school in Britain tomorrow – parents would always find a way to game the system; we’d still have selection by house price, or by willingness to feign religious conviction, or some other ingenious new wheeze.
  • (7) The film was backed by an ingenious advertising campaign in which each Python recruited either a relative or friend (Gilliam's mum, Michael Palin's dentist) to present their own radio spot.
  • (8) To deal with this, she adopted an ingenious strategy.
  • (9) Bung enough money at a sufficiently ingenious lawyer and you’re in the club.
  • (10) Then he ingeniously got his bank to give him a loan to open up a fitness club (he advertised in the local paper saying he was opening a club, and membership was free, he got a huge response, then told the bank manager he already had 500 members).
  • (11) The predilection of such lesions to rupture, with resultant hemorrhage, thrombosis, and distal ischemia, has led to constant attempts at surgical management, including ligation and incision, wrapping, wiring, plasticizing, packing, obliterative and reconstructive endoaneurysmorrhaphy, and a wide variety of procedures both ingenious and ingenuous.
  • (12) His style plays to Peter Mandelson's ingenious line (which I don't think Lord Mandelson believes in for a moment) that Cameron is plastic to Gordon Brown's granite .
  • (13) The bombs were so ingenious that they would have evaded airport security.
  • (14) The rich find ingenious ways to avoid paying taxes.
  • (15) That might be the case in the Premier League, though the theory was made to look as shaky as some of the United defending by the superbly mobile and bewitchingly ingenious Barcelona attack.
  • (16) By this shape of holidays the partical sphere of the process of training and education, namely the qualification of those oligophren ones in spending an ingenious leisure, should be noticed and contributed to educating those imbecile boys and girls, who are participating their holidays in a camp for their "relative independence*.
  • (17) What this means is that a truly fascinating picture by Rubens – his fantastical, ingenious portrait of Marchesa aria Grimaldi, and her Dwarf (c 1606) in which a ruff collar takes on the proportions and complexity of the Milky Way and the beautiful Grimaldi is closely accompanied by her jowly retainer – is shown among a host of lesser works.
  • (18) The bladderwort ( utricularia ), incognito like a snapdragon, has an ingenious underground lair, vacuum-sucking insects to chambers where they are acidified; pitchers are outwardly passive, but inside their cavernous depths float a mass of drowned flies.
  • (19) The description of the dependences of consumption coefficients by thermodynamics of irreversible processes allows an ingenious statement of calorimetric measurements of the fermentation process to confirm and to make precise the knowledge deduced from thermodynamics.
  • (20) Regardless of cause, the treatment of an edentulous patient with microstomia is difficult and often ingenious.