What's the difference between excessive and overweening?

Excessive


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 5-Azacytidine (I) stability was increased approximately 10-fold over its stability in water or lactated Ringer injection by the addition of excess sodium bisulfite and the maintenance of pH approximately 2.5.
  • (2) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (3) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
  • (4) Excessive lip protrusion was eliminated, and arch leveled.
  • (5) Ten milliliters of the solution inappropriately came into contact with nasal mucous membranes, causing excessive drug absorption.
  • (6) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
  • (7) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
  • (8) Preliminary studies of different systems suggest several of them may have sensitivity to detect intraepithelial abnormalities in excess of 95%.
  • (9) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
  • (10) Fifty-four cases were analysed, and a two-fold excess of clustering within one year was observed, both within single districts and between adjacent districts.
  • (11) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (12) Addition of methacholine to the substance-P-treated cells caused a rapid increase in [3H]IP3, whereas a second addition of a 10-fold excess of substance P had no effect.
  • (13) It is possible that the marked elevations in obsessive-compulsive symptomatology and in interpersonal sensitivity may reflect in part a sensitization to excessive performance demands.
  • (14) Using the intersection point of these pH-logPCO2 lines as a point of equal hemoglobin-independent "base excess" for each condition, values for true base excess were plotted.
  • (15) This excess in diagnosis comprises, in particular, the ductal type, primarily its most aggressive forms.
  • (16) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
  • (17) IgG-gold also adhered to M cells and excess unlabeled IgG inhibited IgA-gold binding; thus binding was not isotype-specific.
  • (18) The technique did not compromise cancer resection, excessively prolong operating time, or alter postoperative management.
  • (19) The temperature-activated 4 to 5 S EBP transformation is found to be highly reproducible without loss of [3H]estradiol-binding activity in a buffer containing an excess of [3H]estradiol, 40 mM Tris, 1 mM dithiothreitol, and 1 M urea at pH 7.4.
  • (20) The amount of cleavage products depends on the excess of H2O2 used.

Overweening


Definition:

  • (a.) Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.
  • (n.) Conceit; arrogance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pakistan's recently elected prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, centre, will be taking on the country's overweening military not just Pervez Musharraf.
  • (2) Most are decades old – the overweening army, the confused place of Islam, the covert support for jihad, deep-rooted corruption, the poisoned bond with America.
  • (3) "No fundamental rights are worth the paper they are written upon unless they can be enforced, especially against overweening and corruptive authorities.
  • (4) This period is often evoked in the films in which he played an overweening ham in fifth-rate shows.
  • (5) The overweening Edinburgh Comedy Festival brand is officially defunct now, and this proliferation of venues, far beyond the so-called Big Four, is a merry jig on its grave.
  • (6) No stranger to accusations of overweening political influence or questionable tax affairs, the media mogul waded into the scandal over Google’s UK tax affairs by accusing the US tech giant of both.
  • (7) The Treasury has also attacked subsidies for renewable energy, which energy experts and green campaigners maintain would provide a lower-cost alternative to the overweening dependence on fossil fuel.
  • (8) The relationship between the museum and Manifesta has been difficult, not least because of its overweening internal bureaucracy.
  • (9) When a group of anti-war activists broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, on 8 March 1971 they hoped that they would be hitting the bureau’s overweening director, J Edgar Hoover, where it hurt most.
  • (10) We tend to think that were he alive now he would be excoriating those things we think of as Orwellian – CCTV, the communications data bill (AKA snooping bill) that would force email providers to keep records of who messages whom and when, all the choke-holds an overweening state puts on our collective throat.
  • (11) He is a Jew with no religion who has questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel; a naturalised American citizen who is a consistent critic of overweening US power; a person of the left who subscribes to no leftist ideology.
  • (12) We're looking at a situation far worse than the simple avoidance of basic rights such as pensions and paid holiday; it's a system in which poverty is actively enforced by overweening employers whose convenience comes at the price of their employees' dignity.
  • (13) A treason trial would mark the first time in Pakistan's history that a military ruler has been held accountable, and the decision was cheered by many who believe the country's overweening army needs to accept the primacy of elected politicians.
  • (14) They range from patriotic rhetoric, appeals to national sentiment and identity, claims of moral superiority, fear of the other, and the delegitimisation and dehumanisation of the “enemy” to real-time, mass-media communications, mass surveillance, and the overweening power, reach and legal force of a modern-day government.
  • (15) Click image for graphic Illustration: Paul Scruton and Finbarr Sheehy for the Guardian "Smoke and mirrors will not protect media plurality in the UK from the overweening influence of News Corporation," said a spokesman for an alliance of media groups including BT and the publishers of the Daily Mail and the Guardian.
  • (16) In the end, only business could furnish Johnson with the opportunity to build the overweening monuments his ego craved.
  • (17) All the essential elements are there: overweening ambition, a poisoning, a sink of corruption, treachery and blackmail.
  • (18) "Smoke and mirrors will not protect media plurality in the UK from the overweening influence of News Corporation," he said.
  • (19) We're all afraid of the gushing, overweening child inside us.
  • (20) The cathedral echoed with laughter, music, dance – and some sharp rebukes to overweening power: a fitting way to celebrate the 80th birthday of South Africa's spiritual conscience, archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu .