What's the difference between firmless and formless?
Firmless
Definition:
(a.) Detached from substance.
(a.) Infirm; unstable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lactic acid residue, which is structurally incorporated into NAD analogue, improves slightly the binding of dinucleotide, while 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl residue considerably decreases the firmless of binding.
Formless
Definition:
(a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.
Example Sentences:
(1) AA Gill, The Sunday Times's TV critic, said Capaldi's version of the Doctor was "not unlike Richard Dawkins (the scientist), madly science-fictive and theophobic, with selective amnesia and vague formless feelings of charity".
(2) I swear off the aromatics of gin in favour of the cold, formless punch of vodka, better still with a glug of lime cordial.
(3) Hugo was expert at describing the formless suburbs: "that funny, rather ugly semi-rural landscape, with its odd, dual nature, that surrounds certain big cities, notably Paris.
(4) Our campaign believes there is a constructive middle ground between sanitised and formless anger.
(5) By electron microscopic observation hyaluronic acid was 2,000A-5,000A formless mass and the protein complex that had lubricating ability was 200A-300A spherical particle.
(6) Anna's struggle with formlessness, with the seemingly separate and competing parts of herself, mirrored on a first reading my struggle in young adulthood – who was I, who did I want to be?
(7) Study 1 concerned the effects of sound at midline on scanning in darkness and in a lit but formless field.
(8) The teller, the narrator of the book, is a formless, omniscient voice with no elaborate Rothian construct to justify his role.
(9) Despite its apparent formlessness, Andrei Rublev is precisely structured and entirely aesthetically coherent.
(10) Keys's departure is really about the death of the " BlackBerry Keep Moving " project, a formless idea which aimed to get writers (Neil Gaiman), filmmakers (Robert Rodriguez) and musicians (Keys) to bandy the BlackBerry name around and bring young people to the company site, where they could be enthused with the benefits of new phones.
(11) The Dunga years seemed to put the shackles on, but I still remember a few games from that period when they turned into a wildly formless herd of very good footballers.
(12) Macaque monkeys become myopic when raised with fused lids to expose the retina to formless shadows during the period of postnatal eye development.
(13) The meticulous crafting of huge piles of rubbish into tricksy self-portraits - revealed only when light is projected upon the apparently formless heap and shadows are thrown against the wall - in both Dirty White Trash (With Gulls) and The Undesirables - are satisfyingly clever and punning, for example.
(14) In cells fixed while aggregating, few microtrabeculae are observed, although formless thickenings are observed in the cortices, on granules, and between clumped granules.
(15) (Slavoj Žižek calls this comic disjunction the "split between the food's image and the real of its formless excremental remainder".)
(16) Like Trump, they channel their own narcissism to give voice to the wordless, formless rage of the people neoliberalism left behind.
(17) He explained that the apparent "formlessness" of the book came about because he was having to write screenplays at the time, and had become tired of their brevity and their need for "beginnings, middles, and ends".
(18) The knowledge provided by ultrastructural analysis of brain tissue from the human disorders of mental retardation or dementia is "still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection," and only future developments in lacking neurobiology will make possible the dissection of the primary phenomena from the secretory and probably irrelevant findings.
(19) Violence valued only for the aesthetic satisfaction in dismembering persons and things to formlessness suggests an attempt to kill time.
(20) "Every choice I've ever made," says Brook, "has been dictated by a formless hunch rather than by strict logic.