What's the difference between gibber and incoherent?

Gibber


Definition:

  • (n.) A balky horse.
  • (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
  • (2) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
  • (3) At which point, the righteous rage against big business conveniently diverts towards these moronic corporate wannabes and their tragic, gibbering claims to be “the next Richard Branson”.
  • (4) Journalists write about the wonders of the Chiltern Firehouse like gibbering fanboys, without noting that the vast majority of Londoners will never eat there – and not because the restaurant is full until autumn; without noting that the homeless sit in the streets outside these palaces in greater numbers than before; and without noting that another noble public building – a Victorian gothic fire station, in the case of the Chiltern Firehouse – has been lost to private hands.
  • (5) One of the stranger sights in Britpop documentary Live Forever is that of fans gibberingly clutching copies of Be Here Now as if they were fragments of the Berlin Wall.
  • (6) You might have thought that the Liberals were gibbering paranoids.
  • (7) Cresswell somehow cleared Willian’s attempt from the line in stoppage time, but those missed opportunities merely added to the drama, both managers reduced to gibbering wrecks in their technical areas by the frantic majesty of the contest.
  • (8) We would just gibber on, entertaining ourselves, basically.” Somehow it worked.
  • (9) "Personally," he said, "I find Ed Miliband far easier to listen to … Listening to David Miliband, gibbering on about Iraq and his self-help soundbites, seemed as if we'd been plunged back into 2006."
  • (10) Who will scare the contestants and leave them gibbering with grateful awe now?
  • (11) For example, it reduces normally articulate and sophisticated people to gibbering in the online equivalent of grunts.
  • (12) If Hofstadter were alive today, he would doubtless write about the birther movement, or cast a scornful eye at the gibbering career of Glenn Beck, formerly of Fox News, who has all the traditional anxieties about secret societies and Jews.
  • (13) 2.42pm: Meanwhile Amit, James and Tim are surrounded by gibbering, uncouth, flea-ridden specimens: "Just thought we'd drop you a line to say we've just driven to the southern most point of Africa - Cape Agulhas - and are now driving through the desolate wastelands of rural SA to find a bar to watch the game.
  • (14) The only research worth doing is on why drugs policy reduces British politicians to gibbering wrecks.
  • (15) The distraught king is trapped in a “cage” made of the musicians themselves, and gibbers his agony, sometimes in a cruel parody of a well-known style (Handel’s Comfort Ye is invoked and mocked at one point).
  • (16) It was a physical shock – I was reduced to gibbering and panic – and the striking, persuasive thing was that he didn't care; he had stopped caring what I felt about anything: that was the point.
  • (17) Ranging from standard clown routines (there’s one where they’re competing to wear the same dress) to satirical sketches (an advertising meeting harvesting ideas from a gibbering idiot), Libby Northedge and Nina Smith’s unflinching brand of buffoonery sometimes draws too deeply on our indulgence.
  • (18) The plain-speaking narrator observes how, in his reversed chronology, "the gibbering hippies and spaced-out fatsoes" who go to Vietnam "come back all clean and sane and fine, after a spell in the war".

Incoherent


Definition:

  • (a.) Not coherent; wanting cohesion; loose; unconnected; physically disconnected; not fixed to each; -- said of material substances.
  • (a.) Wanting coherence or agreement; incongruous; inconsistent; having no dependence of one part on another; logically disconnected.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residents had called police after spotting a man wandering around the park and yelling incoherently.
  • (2) He implied that if Salmond lost the referendum, that would then expose different questions about the organisation and survival of the UK, where power has been devolved in, he said, an incoherent way.
  • (3) If the square arrays are superimposed spatially one sees random incoherent motion.
  • (4) Incoherent image formation in human eyes that have scattering eye media is investigated as a function of the particle size and the optical density of the scattering medium and for test targets that differ in form and size.
  • (5) Cho responded with a long, angry and incoherent email.
  • (6) We then aligned the edges again to produce incoherent motion and superimposed a sine-wave grating on the pattern.
  • (7) These results may be extended for imaging incoherent gamma-ray sources.
  • (8) Advantages of laser light compared to incoherent sources with passive filters are discussed.
  • (9) Amid the incoherent responses that make up a bewildering official narrative, the idea that the militants are funded by the government is gaining currency.
  • (10) In international affairs he has found the only posture more dangerous than belligerence – incoherence.
  • (11) His statements to the police were rambling and often incoherent.
  • (12) But there is a problem here: Mr Osborne's policies are incoherent.
  • (13) Now it’s time for clarity on the skyline.” Looming 160m above Fenchurch Street, towering over several conservation areas and butting into the background of most views of London, the Walkie-Talkie is perhaps the most egregious example of such incoherence.
  • (14) Numerous clinicians criticise the insufficiency and imprecision, and the incoherency of the analyses of biological calculations by the usual clinical methods and thus frequently avoid prescribing such an examination.
  • (15) A very inebriated Emin mumbled incoherently that "no real people" would be watching and that she wanted to go be with her mum and friends.
  • (16) These include the intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) model, the intravoxel coherent motion (IVCM) model, and various tracer models.
  • (17) However, in such a study the duration of consumption exercise an important influence because, in this regard, different personality profiles of the two drug-using groups come into play, the users of cannabis presenting a more incoherent picture.
  • (18) When non-identical binaural noise signals suddenly become coherent in the two ears, or coherent noise suddenly becomes incoherent, long latency binaurally evoked potentials (BINEP) are elicited which consist of P70, N130 and P220 components.
  • (19) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
  • (20) To listen to Gordon Brown this morning was to hear a babble of incoherent assertions, delivered very fast and with striking vigour and confidence, which in no way amount to an intellectual case for power.