What's the difference between foreign and unfamiliar?
Foreign
Definition:
(a.) Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government.
(a.) Not native or belonging to a certain country; born in or belonging to another country, nation, sovereignty, or locality; as, a foreign language; foreign fruits.
(a.) Remote; distant; strange; not belonging; not connected; not pertaining or pertient; not appropriate; not harmonious; not agreeable; not congenial; -- with to or from; as, foreign to the purpose; foreign to one's nature.
(a.) Held at a distance; excluded; exiled.
Example Sentences:
(1) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(4) It is time to start over with an approach to promoting wellbeing in foreign countries that is empirical rather than ideological.
(5) Foreign antigens conjugated to alpha-2-Macroglobulin (alpha-2-M) were effectively taken up by murine macrophages via alpha-2-M receptors.
(6) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) Obiang, blaming foreigners for bringing corruption to his country, told people he needed to run the national treasury to prevent others falling into temptation.
(9) This is not for the most part revolutionary.” Trump has made some of his least ideological picks in the area of national security and foreign policy.
(10) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(11) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(12) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(13) The 500-bp element arose by duplication of one half of a 180-bp ancestor and insertion of a foreign segment between the two duplicated parts followed by amplification.
(14) In Paris, a foreign ministry spokesman, Romain Nadal, said the French authorities were “fully mobilised to help Serge Atlaoui, whose situation remains very worrying”.
(15) Jack Straw, foreign secretary at the time of the Iraq war, took a less dramatic view.
(16) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(17) Van Rompuy and Ashton got their jobs at the same time as a result of the Lisbon treaty, which created the posts of president of the European council and high representative for foreign and security policy.
(18) Glutathione (GSH) plays a primary role in protecting cells from oxidative stress and in detoxifying foreign compounds.
(19) Frederick Juuko, a Ugandan law professor and critic of foreign influence in Ugandan politics, agrees that homosexuality is a pawn for many in times of desperation, including government.
(20) "We know that a country has tipped when local-to-local connections outnumber local to foreign," he added.
Unfamiliar
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) If placed in a position which seems to require unfamiliar knowledge or expertise, the practitioner need only seek a consultant anesthesiologist for assistance.
(2) Unfamiliar-object-dominant neurons (n = 7) responded more to unfamiliar objects than to familiar objects.
(3) The kinds of audience investigated included the mate, unfamiliar females, other females and males with which subjects had had prior visual and auditory contact, and broody hens with and without young.
(4) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
(5) The results supported most of the predicted self-other differences, but almost all were matched by differences between familiar and unfamiliar others.
(6) Both familiar and unfamiliar (i.e., well-known and unknown) faces were used, and some face pairs were repeated with a mean delay of about 10 min.
(7) Behaviour was unaltered at 30-31 weeks in encounters with unfamiliar males.
(8) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.
(9) To investigate the role of "behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar" as an early temperamental characteristic of children at risk for adult panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDAG), we compared children of parents with PDAG with those from psychiatric comparison groups.
(10) For those unfamiliar with it, the Internet of Things (also known as M2M or machine to machine) refers to an expanding network of interconnected internet-enabled devices.
(11) The failure to demonstrate objective benefits of health status reports in this study may be due to physician unfamiliarity with health status scores, failure to link the report with an office visit, the relative stability of clinical status in the subjects over 1 year and the relatively short time-frame of the study.
(12) Investigations mostly failed to show overt or covert face recognition, but NR performed at an above-chance level in selecting the familiar face on a task requiring a forced-choice between a familiar and an unfamiliar face.
(13) As a teacher I know the importance of analogies in helping students gain a greater understanding of something previously unfamiliar.
(14) Unfamiliarity with the disease is a problem in Haiti.
(15) Prior hormonal, copulatory, or cohabitation experience did not significantly influence sexual responses between females and unfamiliar male partners.
(16) In contrast to existing evidence that maternal depression may be a risk factor for the child's long-term peer relationships, no differences in social behavior were found between children of normal and affectively ill mothers during a brief encounter with unfamiliar peers.
(17) Sure, they speak a different language and use an unfamiliar currency, but they're still people.
(18) It was the ICC's first-ever verdict, and the court is now heading into unfamiliar legal territory as judges must decide on reparations for Lubanga's victims.
(19) The main findings were: 1) PCT increased significantly in response to the tests carried out in unfamiliar environments (OFA and CSC) compared with the response to the home-cage confrontation.
(20) A dual task study of unfamiliar music perception during concurrent right and left hand finger tapping was conducted with a group of left-handed non-musicians.