What's the difference between fallax and petty?

Fallax


Definition:

  • (n.) Cavillation; a caviling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Contrary to a previous report, we show that the actin-encoding molecule of O. fallax also codes for a polypeptide 374 amino acids long.
  • (2) As compared to control preparations (like-wise treated with non-immune serum), significant but partial reversion of PLF inhibition was observed in all cases except when bacteria had been incubated with M. fallax antiserum (rapidly growing, non-pathogenic species).
  • (3) We studied the morphological, histochemical and ultrastructural aspects of the hypothalamic-pituitary system in the Alosa fallax nilotica.
  • (4) Heteropolar doublets of the hypotrichous ciliate Oxytricha fallax can encyst, as can monster cells containing multiple copies of at least part of the ciliature.
  • (5) Sequence comparison with a closely related species, O. fallax, shows an 87% sequence similarity in the coding regions and an almost total lack of similarity in the noncoding regions of the molecules.
  • (6) Two species or even two genus of Dermaptera can be parasitized by the same Gregarine; c) The life-cycle, from ingested sporocysts to new sporocysts, is from 13 to 16 days for Gragarina ovata (species with large sporocysts) and from 11 to 13 days for Gregarian fallax (species with small sporocysts.
  • (7) In 1986 D. fallax, D. similis and D. suecicus constituted significant proportions of the fauna in the polluted lake.
  • (8) From the product of abundance and infection rate, the most prevalent rodent hosts of plague appeared to be R. rattus, Otomys angoniensis Wroughton, P. natalensis and Pelomys fallax (Peters).
  • (9) DNA in the macronuclei of Oxytricha fallax, as in other hypotrichous ciliate protozoa, exists as small, achromosomal molecules rather than in chromosomes.
  • (10) Hypotrichous ciliated protozoa, such as Oxytricha fallax, produce tiny chromosomes during generation of the transcriptionally active macronucleus.
  • (11) Such reactions could be completely eliminated by absorption with C. beijerinckii, C. fallax and C. tetanomorphum.
  • (12) The cytostome in exoerythrocytic stages of P. fallax has been observed only in merozoites and does not seem to play the same role in the feeding mechanism.
  • (13) When applied to M3-mycolic acids from Mycobacterium fallax, this method allows for the characterization of a new tri-unsaturated mycolic acid, which has the middle and the remote double bonds separated by two methylene groups.
  • (14) fallax, and Couma utilis) were used intensively during the three seasons covered by the study period.
  • (15) We report studies on O. fallax DNA using physicochemical procedures and nucleic acid hybridization.
  • (16) We, therefore, conclude that for at least some of the ciliary and basal body proteins of Oxytricha fallax, AZM morphological conservation is essentially equivalent to molecular conservation.
  • (17) Macronuclear chromosomes in Oxytricha fallax, a hypotrichous ciliate, are very short.
  • (18) Wandering phagocytes in tissue cultures were attracted to the exoerythrocytic stages, both intracellular and extracellular, of Plasmodium fallax.
  • (19) There are 380 species belonging to 129 families and 322 genus, among which notably Embelia parviflora, Malus doumeri, Panax notoginseng, Polygala fallax, etc.
  • (20) In contrast, three rapidly growing non-pathogenic species (M. smegmatis, M. phlei and M. fallax) presented a low ETZ frequency after phagocytosis and were rapidly degraded.

Petty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Little; trifling; inconsiderable; also, inferior; subordinate; as, a petty fault; a petty prince.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only thing the media will talk about in the hours and days after the debate will be Trump’s refusal to say he will accept the results of the election, making him appear small, petty and conspiratorial.
  • (2) I realize it’s petty, but it’s like the Michael Bolton thing from Office Space.
  • (3) Winston Churchill, when he was offered the role of minister of the local government board in 1906, commented: "There is no place more laborious, more anxious, more thankless, more cloaked with petty and even squalid detail, more full of hopeless and insoluble difficulties."
  • (4) Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point-scoring and pettiness that drifts away in the next news cycle.
  • (5) We took all the feedback from users and put pencil to paper to create our consumer 3D printer built for speed and ease of use,” said Pettis.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest China dismisses Trump call with Taiwan as ‘small trick’ However, Beijing’s public response has so far been measured, with the foreign ministry lodging a “solemn representation” with Washington and the foreign minister, Wang Yi, downplaying the development as “a petty move” by Taiwan.
  • (7) She won’t apologize for whatever makes the New York Times treat her with middle-school levels of petty scorn .
  • (8) The president should have directed the Justice Department to stop taking stupid points and petty appeals.” One reason the Justice Department pursued the habeas cases so hard was its client: the Pentagon.
  • (9) As the locus of many migrants' investments, the village of Los Pinos has experienced a modest growth in the number of full-time jobs paying somewhat above the minimum urban wage and in a variety of petty entrepreneurial activities depending heavily on the patronage of migrant households, themselves heavily subsidized by remittances.
  • (10) Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.
  • (11) Some are retired, others straddle the uncertain worlds of petty trading, agriculture and seasonal migrant labour.
  • (12) Not long ago, the mecca of American tourism was populated by sex workers, transvestites, drug addicts and petty criminals, rather than middle-class tourists.
  • (13) All the petty differences that divide us seem to melt away.
  • (14) Abdeslam relied on a large network of friends and relatives that already existed for drug dealing and petty crime to keep him in hiding,” Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frederic Van Leeuw, told Belgian public broadcaster RTBF.
  • (15) Another said: "The problem with PMQs isn't so much that it's shouty but that the so-called pinnacle of political debate in this country is two men trading petty insults and making nasty jokes about the other while the rest of parliament boos and cheers behind them.
  • (16) They included a former monk, two young men with learning disabilities, a handful of petty criminals and a teacher at a private school in Paris who was "disappeared" by another republican group, the INLA.
  • (17) The study was conducted in the three contiguous counties of Johnson, Lafayette and Pettis in west central Missouri.
  • (18) Edgar Mitchell, the Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot, said that walking on the Moon gives you an instant global consciousness, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it, that international politics look so petty.
  • (19) It also found that some children were put into care without lawful basis, including for petty theft and for being rude.
  • (20) Parents are required to bring up children responsibly, while living in a form of servitude to licensed employers and petty line managers, often themselves at risk of returning to zero-hours.

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