What's the difference between forewarning and omen?

Forewarning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forewarn

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Appropriate management will then include the doctor taking time to explain the condition and its associated uncertainties, to discuss the treatment options and to forewarn about possible side-effects.
  • (2) This examination leads to eliminate those reproaches because the consumer knows to which he is exposed, being forewarned: -when he is using mineral water at the cure-resort, by the thermal consultant who is watching over him, -when he is using one or the other of the conditioned waters, -either by the medical practictioner, who should give him the contre-indicates; -either by indicating on the label, if not the contre-indicates (like we would hope that they figure on), at least the composition (which now figures within the EEC).
  • (3) The experiment utilized a 2 (high vs. low room density) X 2 (forewarning of a crowded room vs. no forewarning) X 2 (simple vs. complex task) design to examine the effects of anticipation of crowding on task performance.
  • (4) Such patients should be forewarned and should be equipped by their doctors with a covering letter giving full details of their medical condition and its treatment.
  • (5) Clinicians were not forewarned that the study was being undertaken.
  • (6) Dentists should examine the various aspects of communication which will forewarn them of potentially difficult clinical situations, so that they can minimize the patient's anxiety and their own stress.
  • (7) Since routine quality control testing had not forewarned us of this gross lack of radiochemical purity, Tc-99m disofenin kits were subjected to a variety of insults to elucidate the mechanisms of quality control failure.
  • (8) The difficulty in reaching a correct pre-operative diagnosis can lead to an unusual approach to nephrectomy, of which the surgeon should be forewarned.
  • (9) ), even with forewarning of an environmental orientation test.
  • (10) Whether or not this method would have forewarned of a serious decrement in crewmen's health cannot be known because, in fact, they were healthy and remain healthy.
  • (11) It said much for how stretched Ireland’s defence had become that Walters was the nearest Irish player to a striker about whom the visitors could not have been more forewarned.
  • (12) Not that being forewarned aided the Liverpool goalkeeper.
  • (13) Campaigning in Iowa yesterday, Romney added a new line to his stump speech, saying that Obama's slogan 'Forward' should be renamed 'Forewarned', that a second term would look much like the first.
  • (14) The Mail & Guardian described Maharaj's intervention as a "chilling forewarning of what may happen if the protection of state information bill is adopted in its current form."
  • (15) When subjects were forewarned as to the size of the disk to look for (precued trials), signal detection improved (d' increased) for all three groups, and 5-year-olds improved the most.
  • (16) Patients whose ears are included in the field of radiation may have to be forewarned to expect a loss in their acuity of hearing, especially those whose professional life may depend on it.
  • (17) Mental and emotional load consisting of several psychological tests was used in 35 patients with ischemic heart disease to disclose hazardous and latent forms of disorders of cardiac rhythm as possible forewarning of sudden death and to study the role of the psychological factor and stress situation in their origin.
  • (18) The present experiment was aimed at whether subjects, performing a forewarned simple reaction time (RT) task, do voluntarily tense agonist and antagonist muscles during the foreperiod; if so, would such muscle tension co-vary with CNV amplitude or RT?
  • (19) The carrier state of a certain number of genetic disorders can now be detected, so that even before the birth of their first child, a family can be forewarned that they are at increased risk.
  • (20) Flowers can be ordered in, though guests are forewarned not to put them on the marbles or any other exhibits.

Omen


Definition:

  • (n.) An occurrence supposed to portend, or show the character of, some future event; any indication or action regarded as a foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury.
  • (v. t.) To divine or to foreshow by signs or portents; to have omens or premonitions regarding; to predict; to augur; as, to omen ill of an enterprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 7-OMEN was the major fluorescent biliary species, but, by 24 h, N-demethyl menogaril accounted for approximately 40% of biliary drug fluorescence.
  • (2) In this study defibrotide produced a significantly lower pressure inside the circuit compared to the control group and gave a protective effect against those pathological changes which appeared during extracorporeal circulation and that may be considered omens of a state of shock.
  • (3) In the swinging 1960s, Peck's sober style seemed a little out of place, though he appeared in a couple of flashy Hitchcockian thrillers, Mirage (1965) and Arabesque (1966), and adapted to the new Hollywood as best he could, looking rather bothered as the father of a demon in The Omen (1976).
  • (4) Myth is seen as an external representation of man's inner life; omens and the gods are viewed in this context.
  • (5) Maybe it was a bad omen for Los Angeles to hand out white towels to the fans in the stands.
  • (6) Neil Gaiman, with whom he wrote Good Omens (1991), agrees: "He's got better and better over the years – he now follows the story, not the jokes, while I think the early books followed the jokes … He makes it look easy.
  • (7) The opposition would be making a mistake if it refused to engage and they have got to hear what the regime has to say,” he said “The talks have to go ahead even if the omens are not good and it is unlikely there will be much progress.
  • (8) Some see the disintegrating Ceta deal as a bad omen for the UK, which wants to negotiate a post-Brexit free trade agreement with the EU.
  • (9) Multiple, sometimes bilateral FB are frequent and FB of a vegetable nature are of serious omen.
  • (10) It’s Godzilla versus King Kong, and the omens aren’t heartening.
  • (11) The Omen-syndrome is not a disease on its own, but a complication of congenital SCID.
  • (12) Statistical data have shown that both shock and coma are bad prognostic omens and patients presenting with these signs have less than a 50% chance leaving the hospital alive and well, even if they receive optimum emergency management.
  • (13) Kick off very shortly... 1.04am GMT More omens More omens - and they aren't good for NYRB: the Red Bulls haven't won any of the five games that Olave missed this season.
  • (14) Type I trauma includes full, detailed memories, "omens," and misperceptions.
  • (15) 7-OMEN and metabolites were measured by high performance liquid chromatography.
  • (16) 7-OMEN was the predominant fluorescent compound in urine, but four metabolites were also seen.
  • (17) Omen: You may or may not be aware that Uruguayan national team often refer to themselves as "Los Charruas", who were an indigenous people in South America.
  • (18) A good omen for the SNP's #indyref #WhitePaper launch?
  • (19) But the omens are not good: Britain has a grim history of divisiveness in education.
  • (20) It's my terrible dirty secret, a disclosure that almost always prompts an "ah, that makes sense", a stigma that brings with it a sense that somehow I am bad, a little Damien from The Omen , because I was the only one.

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