What's the difference between gnomic and wise?

Gnomic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Gnomical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We have different values and allies,” Rogozin’s caption gnomically declared.
  • (2) 'Positive points are difficult to find today,' he said in that gnomic way of his that falls between irony and mischief.
  • (3) Centre stage was instead ceded to actor Shia LaBeouf whose only utterance was to repeat Eric Cantona's famously gnomic saying – "When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea" – before walking out of the room, to the consternation of his fellow actors.
  • (4) For the second day running , Google Translate hasn't been able to cope with the gnomic utterances of Jock Wallace.
  • (5) "I'm sitting on the gnomic fence," said Jinny Blom, who has designed a sentimental garden of forget-me-nots and baby's tears plants for Prince Harry's Lesotho children's charity, Sentebale.
  • (6) Like David Byrne, Chaz Jankel and Jez Kerr, Dear is one of white funk's great declarers, raffishly making gnomic observations like a pitch-shifted James Mason.
  • (7) He is by no means the simpleton played by Peter Sellers in Being There, but, like Gardiner, every utterance, however gnomic, is now thought to contain a greater truth.
  • (8) All attempts to penetrate the veil of secrecy fail: the rare interviews he gives are pretty gnomic – a state of affairs compounded by his refusal to allow journalists to record their conversations .
  • (9) Rosa portrays himself melodramatically, and with a gnomic tablet saying that silence is the best policy.
  • (10) This essay on the last years of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's life exhibits all of Sebald's strengths as a writer – and all of his strange, gnomic, secretive foibles.
  • (11) Grimacing mystics guffing out plumes of gnomic "wisdom" while using their genitals as a mortar and pestle.
  • (12) "You've seen Bergerac ," my mother replied, gnomically, closing the conversation down, to my infinite confusion.
  • (13) But Wu Lyf resisted all advances, preferring instead to issue, via their website , gnomic utterances and enigmatic mission statements, written in a barely comprehensible language that suggested Wu Lyf – which stands for World Unite!
  • (14) Better known among her nearly 3.7 million Twitter followers for more gnomic 140-character missives – " You are water.
  • (15) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
  • (16) Given the choice, they favour a gnomic utterance over plain speaking.
  • (17) For a band with such mainstream appeal, their lyrics are remarkably gnomic.
  • (18) Compared to her somewhat gnomic boss, she is a model of clarity.
  • (19) Mischievous and mysterious at all times, Jean-Luc Godard presented Cannes with his latest and possibly even last work, Film Socialism , playing in the Un Certain Regard category: it's a complex fragmented poem of a movie, flashing up on to the screen images, sequences, archive-reel material and, as ever with this film-maker, gnomic slogans and phrases, here in bold, sans-serif capitals, white on black.
  • (20) As they sent work-in-progress off to Fincher, who was on location in Europe, the director would respond with gnomic emails.

Wise


Definition:

  • (v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
  • (v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
  • (v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
  • (v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
  • (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
  • (v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
  • (2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
  • (3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
  • (4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
  • (5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
  • (7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
  • (8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
  • (10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
  • (11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
  • (12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
  • (13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
  • (14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
  • (15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
  • (16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
  • (17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
  • (18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
  • (19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
  • (20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.