What's the difference between germane and pertinent?

Germane


Definition:

  • (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the German Democratic Republic, patients with scleroderma and history of long term silica exposure are recognized as patients with occupational disease even though pneumoconiosis is not clearly demonstrated on X-ray film.
  • (2) He said Germany was Russia’s most important economic partner, and pointed out that 35% of German gas originated in Russia.
  • (3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (4) The Brandenburg Gate was lit up in the colours of the German flag.
  • (5) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (6) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (7) She lived and worked in the German capital and since 2014 had been employed by a logistics company there, according to her Facebook profile.
  • (8) A text generation produces acceptable German reports.
  • (9) We have done well in our last games against them but this German team is much better than the previous sides we have faced.
  • (10) Entries for French fell by 0.5%, compared with a 13.2% fall last year, and entries for German fell by 5.5% compared with a 13.2% fall in 2011.
  • (11) The Italian data seem to fall within the standard of the American (1979) and West German (1978) surveys.
  • (12) Lisette van Vliet, a senior policy adviser to the Health and Environment Alliance, blamed pressure from the UK and German ministries and industry for delaying public protection from chronic diseases and environmental damage.
  • (13) "We estimate that German arrivals will be down by about 25% by the end of the year."
  • (14) In 2001, they filed a $4bn (£2.17bn) lawsuit against the government and two German firms in the US.
  • (15) The European commission has three official "procedural languages": German, French and English.
  • (16) "If Germans start spending more, Germany could start importing more from the periphery [worst hit by the debt crisis]," he said.
  • (17) This in turn meant frantic investment in German coal and lignite – 10 new plants are said to be opening – and a surge in Polish coal output.
  • (18) The presentation of the phagocytic theory of immunity, proposed by Metchnikoff in 1883, was immediately attacked by German pathologists and microbiologists.
  • (19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Although my primary degree is from a German university, I did my postgraduate and general practice training in the UK.
  • (20) Christoph Schäublin said it had “triggered no feelings of triumph” that the of the Kunstmuseum Bern was to take on the artworks that were recently discovered in the home of German recluse Cornelius Gurlitt.

Pertinent


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence.
  • (a.) Regarding; concerning; belonging; pertaining.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (2) This empirical fact has in recent years been increasingly dealt with in pertinent German-language literature, the discussion clearly emphasizing the demand that programmes aimed at the vocational qualification of unemployed disabled persons be provided, along with accompanying measures.
  • (3) Methods are in development that will allow determination of absolute blood flow in pertinent vessels via IV-DSA.
  • (4) Among all subgroups, the odds ratios adjusted for pertinent confounders and interactions fluctuated randomly by about 0.9 and showed no consistent trend with increased alcohol consumption.
  • (5) It seems particularly pertinent to the assessment of the significance of "R on T" type of ventricular extrasystoles in myocardial infarction.
  • (6) The above observations concerning changes in the system of atrial hormones together with pertinent data in the literature suggest that a factor produced by the system may be involved in the complex mechanism of acceleration-induced effects on the animal body.
  • (7) Five clinically and microscopically confirmed cases of cardiac tamponade as the first manifestation of pulmonary adenocarcinoma are reported along with a review of pertinent literature.
  • (8) The pool concentrations are presented as a function of time in conditions in which various pertinent parameters of the system are modified.
  • (9) Pertinent information concerning impression making, sculpturing, coloring, and processing to insure esthetically and functionally accepted prostheses is presented.
  • (10) Three long-time and two ore three respectively shorter observations of scoliotics with syringomyelia are presented and the pertinent literature is discussed including the complex etiopathogenesis.
  • (11) Conventional dietary categories, particularly frugivory, are inadequate for organizing the behavioral and anatomical evidence pertinent to evolutionary adaptation.
  • (12) The varying potency of the nonoxynols with respect to their IC50 values corresponds to the pertinent lipophilic nature of each compound.
  • (13) This communication discusses seven cases of plasma cell tumors isolated to the head and neck and reviews the pertinent literature.
  • (14) Active Surveillance decreases the possibility of misidentifying abuse related deaths as accidental, and allows state agencies to follow abuse fatalities, collecting pertinent information and adjusting policy accordingly.
  • (15) The basic features of this scheme may be pertinent to the mechanisms by which hormone receptors normally modulate adenylate cyclase.
  • (16) The system also allows listing of both the radiographic findings pertinent to a specific diagnosis and all diagnoses in which a particular finding or combination of findings occur.
  • (17) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
  • (18) The case histories are described and the pertinent literature is discussed.
  • (19) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
  • (20) Based on current medical knowledge and on pertinent ethical reasoning, it is argued and recommended that almost always, if possible, aggressive management should be favored.