What's the difference between gently and subtly?

Gently


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a gentle manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Put in a large bowl, add the parsley, oil and lemon juice, and gently toss.
  • (2) Differential and sucrose gradient centrifugation of honey bee thoraces, disrupted by gentle methods and using mannitol-triethanolamine-EDTA buffer at pH 6.5, showed that in the honey bee thorax 92-94.8% of the trehalase was mitochondrial.
  • (3) Despite his gentle demeanour, the 52-year-old director can be a taskmaster on set, according to colleagues.
  • (4) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
  • (5) Maximal expiratory flow-volume (MEFV) curves similar to those obtained in most dogs and in some humans could be produced: a peak followed by a gently sloping plateau ending in a knee, where flow suddenly fell to a much smaller value approaching zero rather slowly over the last 25 to 50% of the expired vital capacity.
  • (6) Ten tissue sections from 10 examples of Bowen's disease were excised from paraffin blocks, rehydrated, and incubated in 90% formic acid at 45 degrees C for 18 h. The epidermis was gently removed with the aid of a dissecting microscope, and the remaining dermis with attached basal lamina was processed for scanning electron microscopy.
  • (7) Varying widely in size and configuration, these structures are usually somewhat ovoid but can be elongated, gently squared, or asymmetric.
  • (8) Less than 2% of humanitarian funds 'go directly to local NGOs' Read more Suggest to her that she’s too outspoken, that her approach is counterproductive and alienates those who are trying to drive change more gently, and she pauses.
  • (9) Rabbit aorta contracting substance (RCS) and prostaglandins were released from guinea-pig isolated perfused lungs by gentle massage and also by infusion of Prosparol.2.
  • (10) Endodontic procedures should be accomplished with judicious precision and gentle.
  • (11) If this coastline ever gets fully developed, I hope it happens in this direction, taking the lead from Punta del Diablo with a gentle development down, rather than large-scale and from Punta del Este upwards.
  • (12) The cell debris from the surfaces of the separated incisors was either gently wiped off with soft facial tissues or chemically removed by treating with NaOH, NaOCl or trypsin.
  • (13) Does he really think, like those daft gender essentialists, that women are innately gentle and men are big brutes out for a ruck?
  • (14) An attempt was made to isolate undegraded hyaluronan from rat skin by gentle methods giving full recovery in order to estimate the molecular weight of the polysaccharide.
  • (15) The adherent cells are easily removed by gentle pipetting; both adherent and nonadherent populations retain immunologic function.
  • (16) Ramos was beaten to it, De Gea did not move and Kalinic jumped to ease in a gentle, back-heel-style volley with the outside of his foot.
  • (17) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
  • (18) My father, Peter Self, who was, oxymoronically, a “political scientist”, wrote numerous books, which, while often technical in character, were nonetheless informed by his own rather gentle and utopian socialism.
  • (19) When we say goodbye, Max turns in the passenger seat, and says, simply: 'Be gentle with her.'
  • (20) 5 Dollop the blackcurrant jam all over the surface of the cooked custard and spread gently to level it.

Subtly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a subtle manner; slyly; artfully; cunningly.
  • (adv.) Nicely; delicately.
  • (adv.) Deceitfully; delusively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is socially very divisive, it is stigmatising, it is subtly slanderous and it is immoral.
  • (2) The other one shows typical characteristics of PKC which responds to Ca2+, phosphatidylserine and diacylglycerol, but shows kinetic properties subtly different from the previously known PKC subspecies.
  • (3) Major intra-abdominal arteriovenous fistulas usually present with a machinery bruit over a pulsatile mass, but may present more subtly with pain and otherwise unexplained hematuria.
  • (4) There was a tendency for the isoechoic cancers and those with subtly hyperechoic areas to more often have poor cellular differentiation and a greater degree of stromal fibrosis, but considerable overlap among histologic types was seen.
  • (5) Half a dozen times now they have produced elaborate redesigns of the old, discredited Press Complaints Commission , each subtly different but none delivering the simple, effective, independent redress that Leveson said was necessary.
  • (6) Owing to its confusional characteristics, envy is always subtly disguised and hardly ever appears in a straightforward manner.
  • (7) Clinton’s involvement in the Iran debate subtly positions the Democratic frontrunner as an Iran hawk who is less hopeful of the diplomatic bargain ending US grievances with Tehran than she is cautious about Washington fracturing a diplomatic coalition needed to enforce punitive measures on Iran.
  • (8) The results indicate that one group of surgeons (34% of those responding) believes each type of surgery has equal survival rates but unknowingly influences the patient to choose modified radical mastectomy, with a subtly biased presentation.
  • (9) But several street signs will have been subtly altered, roads will have slogans painted across them and a prominent wall will bear in large letters the words – "Why are we here?"
  • (10) They discriminated between grossly different figures placed as far out as 30 degrees toward the periphery, and they discriminated between more subtly different figures, which differed only in the shape of their internal elements, out to 10 degrees.
  • (11) For Hague, basking in unaccustomed praise for his "decisive action" in the Commons, this was the successful conclusion of a piece of unorthodox diplomacy – which subtly avoided the use of gunboats.
  • (12) Since the day of the shooting, I have been told the story several dozen times, and it seems that with each retelling the details are subtly different: they grow a little more dramatic perhaps, or a touch more tragic.
  • (13) Moreover, it becomes possible to regulate the therapy more subtly with the help of self-adapting programs and in its consequence to render it more effective than the own management of therapy is able to do it.
  • (14) Cardiovascular problems tend to present subtly years later, when the patient may not recall the prior radiation or may not deem it significant.
  • (15) And beneath the story on the surface there is always another, told more subtly, about the compulsions, desires and anxieties that animate the first.
  • (16) The usually indistinctive and unspecified liquor syndrome requires a subtly differentiated diagnostic distinguishing between vascular brain stem syndromes and brain stem gliomas.
  • (17) What we are seeing is simply a new tier of subtly differentiated schools being grafted on to the existing hierarchy, at the bottom of which Lilian Baylis found itself in 2003.
  • (18) The stories range from the subtly sinister to the outrageously gothic.
  • (19) If Mendelsohn is playing Tarkin, his Imperial-rank insignia and uniform are both subtly different to those sported by Cushing, though it’s possible the character simply picked up a promotion or two somewhere along the way.
  • (20) His army, which tried, subtly and not so subtly, to squeeze the opposition has been found out.

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