What's the difference between essentially and quintessential?

Essentially


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
  • (3) Nucleotide, which is essential for catalysis, greatly enhances the binding of IpOHA by the reductoisomerase, with NADPH (normally present during the enzyme's rearrangement step, i.e., conversion of a beta-keto acid into an alpha-keto acid, in either the forward or reverse physiological reactions) being more effective than NADP.
  • (4) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
  • (5) No significant fatty acid binding by proteins was detected in S. cerevisiae, even when grown on a fatty acid-rich medium, thus indicating that such proteins are not essential to fatty acid metabolism.
  • (6) The UK's standard position on ICC indictees is to avoid all contact unless "essential".
  • (7) In spite of important differences in size, chemical composition, polymer density, and configuration, biological macromolecules indeed manifest some of the essential physical-chemical properties of gels.
  • (8) Most cis AB sera have anti-B activity, essentially at 4 degrees C. In saliva A and H substances are found in normal amounts but B substance is only evidenced by inhibition of autologous cells agglutination.
  • (9) Treatment with trypsin gave essentially one radioactive peptide, the active site peptide, of approximately 2300 molecular weight.
  • (10) We conclude that this enzyme is essentially identical to the native enzyme and should be very useful in the future study of this important hydroxylase.
  • (11) Thus serum ionized calcium in untreated essential hypertensive patients may predict the blood pressure response to the slow calcium channel blocker verapamil.
  • (12) The effects of supervised mild aerobic exercise at the work load of the blood lactate threshold for 10 weeks on serum lipids and apolipoproteins were studied in 24 patients with essential hypertension.
  • (13) No other essential regulatory sequence is located further upstream.
  • (14) Based on the results of the Community AIM Exploratory Action, further collaborative work is required at EEC level to create an Integrated Health Information Environment (IHE) allowing essentially for integration, modularity and security.
  • (15) Ovarian vein sampling for androgen was essential in locating this patient's microscopic tumor.
  • (16) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
  • (17) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (18) Of 55 new open reading frames analysed by gene disruption, three are essential genes; of 42 non-essential genes that were tested, 14 show some discernible effect on phenotype and the remaining 28 have no overt function.
  • (19) Essential characteristics of the composite bone cement included a homogeneous and uniform fiber distribution, and a minimal increase in apparent viscosity of the polymerizing cement.
  • (20) The median blood levels were lower in hyperacidic subjects and higher in hypoacidic patients; the urinary excretion of the digitalis compound showed no essential differences.

Quintessential


Definition:

  • (a.) Of the nature of a quintessence; purest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the words of the Brookings Institution think tank, victory by Trump, the quintessential New Yorker, “would not have been possible without the influence of rural areas and smaller metropolitan areas”.
  • (2) Comprehending the nature of this property which couples ionic fluxions into mentality is the quintessential problem of science.
  • (3) Hussain’s concerns and desires are of course quintessentially British – as Swiss Miss hot cocoa may be American and good galettes Belgian.
  • (4) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
  • (5) Scott delivered a film that glamorised the sleek contours of the military hardware and is powered by rapid-fire editing and a big-hair, big-shoulderpads pop soundtrack, making it one of the quintessential 80s films.
  • (6) But like other American exports, the chain would soon become a quintessentially British institution, with a presence on almost every high street and a unique place in the hearts of the nation's shoppers.
  • (7) We will be bringing a quintessentially British department store with western brands,” said Oddy.
  • (8) The Premier League's chief executive, Richard Scudamore , has insisted it remains "quintessentially English" despite an influx of foreign players, managers and owners over the past two decades.
  • (9) At Maní, this quintessential Brazilian fruit comes in the form of a fuchsia-coloured cold soup with a prawn steamed in cachaça.
  • (10) If all wars ultimately find their own Homer, this brutal, piercing, sometimes darkly funny collection stakes Klay’s claim for consideration as the quintessential storyteller of America’s Iraq conflict,” the judges wrote of the book.
  • (11) Owning an island in the Pacific (Ellison owns Lanai in Hawaii) or the Caribbean (Branson owns Necker Island in the West Indies) shows your need for extreme privacy and luxury – the quintessential expression of a natural aristocrat.
  • (12) They know that his prominence would screw a tight lid on the pot of potential leave support because Farage is the quintessential Marmite politician: repellent to those that do not find him delectable.
  • (13) Waitrose is pledging to expand the current range of 200 "quintessentially British products" to around 500, and will pay a fixed percentage royalty to Duchy Originals on all wholesale and retail purchases.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Sopranos might be the quintessential Catholic Italian family in American pop culture, but we want to hear from some real life ones!
  • (15) It will be a scene as quintessentially Big Apple as Broadway, yellow cabs and the Statue of Liberty.
  • (16) It's a quintessentially childlike sensibility, and one we could all use a bit more of.
  • (17) This song, for me, is quintessential Lou Reed, and is up there with the very best rock 'n' roll songs ever recorded."
  • (18) Scudamore recently asserted that the overseas billionaires who have bought the top clubs are attracted to a game that is still "quintessentially English".
  • (19) He seemed so quintessentially New Labour – a Catholic comprehensive schoolboy from Merseyside who read English at Cambridge, worked as a parliamentary adviser and was elected in 2010.
  • (20) Whether its trajectory follows theirs, or that of nearby Frisco, the quintessential Dallas exurb, hangs in the balance.