What's the difference between hazy and nebulous?

Hazy


Definition:

  • (n.) Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent.
  • (n.) Obscure; confused; not clear; as, a hazy argument; a hazy intellect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The distinction between state and private business has become increasingly hazy.
  • (2) Heterotypic staining, consisting of a diffused hazy fluorescence, was observed only at the highest concentrations of conjugate and not above the 1:10 dilution.
  • (3) Major parenchymal features seen at CT included thickened intralobular and interlobular lines, subpleural curvilinear lines, pleural-based nodular irregularities, hazy patches of increased attenuation, small cystic spaces, and small areas of low attenuation.
  • (4) I just thought it was a little beyond me this year.” On those hazy days in London Ennis-Hill had blown away the opposition with a nerveless and spectacularly quick hurdles on the opening morning of competition that left her cruising to victory.
  • (5) When applied the method usually yielded results close to the DIP method and due to its high sensitivity AS determinations in very dilute and hazy solutions are possible.
  • (6) On a clear day you can see the Timahoe round tower to the south, the Wicklow mountains to the east and the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west, but even when the skies are hazy, the views are majestic.
  • (7) The basement membrane zone becomes broader and hazy, later undergoing disintegration and destruction, concomitant with swelling and homogenization of the reticular distribution of fibronectin in the papillary dermis.
  • (8) Serially obtained synovial fluid specimens were yellow and clear or hazy and had good mucinous precipitate quality at all times in all horses, except 2, in which the catheter required readjustment.
  • (9) In freshly plated PMV, keratin appears as hazy staining (less than 4 hr) and later organizes into keratin 'plaques' (4 days) associated with cell-cell contacts; post confluent (greater than 7 days) PMV cultures contain fully assembled cytokeratin filaments which extend to the cell periphery and approach filaments in apposed cells.
  • (10) While TCP was characterized by the frequent occurrence of large, discrete, dense calculi, patients with ACP had typically small, speckled calculi with irregular, hazy margins.
  • (11) Solutions stored in PVC bags became more hazy with time than solutions stored in glass or polyolefin containers.
  • (12) I just have some hazy recollection of seeing a bone sticking out of my left wrist."
  • (13) Information about the suspects, their backgrounds and what their role was in the murder of Nemtsov remains hazy.
  • (14) That would be an unfortunate ending to a process that should have been a timely intervention on a vital issue but now looks likely to splutter to a hazy conclusion.
  • (15) Some fear that the precise effects on the mosquitoes’ ecosystems are still hazy (while they might be our nemeses, there are fish that think they’re delicious).
  • (16) My alarm goes off at 7am and hazy-eyed I throw on my swimming costume and head to the lido across the road from my east London flat.
  • (17) The CT findings include; (1) granular pattern with acino-centric distribution, (2) increase in density of haziness in the lung fields, (3) multiform high density areas, and (4) "subpleural curvilinear shadow" localized posteriorly.
  • (18) After a deliberately hazy and meandering first half – one that lulls both reader and characters into a false sense of security – the second part of the novel barely breathes.
  • (19) Their appearance was granular with indistinct, hazy outlines, and on cross section they were solid rather than tubular.
  • (20) I’ve heard people say it in the past few years about black players and I think: ‘Well, you don’t really understand black players if that’s what your attitude is.’ They have the same goals and ambitions as everyone else.” In the informal, qualification-hazy world of football management, it’s always been about who you know, not what you know.

Nebulous


Definition:

  • (a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pentamidine aerosol was administered with an MA2 jet nebulizer.
  • (2) The sensitivity and specificity of three methods of provocation, ie, histamine, nebulized water, and exercise, were compared in 20 asthmatic and 20 control children between ages 5 and 13 years.
  • (3) To test the hypothesis that nebulized magnesium sulfate reverses methacholine-induced bronchospasm in asthmatic patients.
  • (4) Ten patients had no abnormality associated with isoproterenol hydrochloride or placebo nebulizations.
  • (5) It was concluded that administration of nebulized terbutaline, at a dose of 5 mg, was both safe and effective in treating acute asthma, and may be used as the first line measure in treating acute asthma in children.
  • (6) The sensitivity and specificity of cold air, ultrasonically nebulized distilled water mist (USM), and standard methacholine (MCH) challenges were studied in 21 children with asthma (mean age 11.5 years) and 12 normal children (mean age 14.2 years).
  • (7) The airway responses to histamine, exercise and ultrasonically nebulized hypertonic saline have been compared in ten asthmatic patients.
  • (8) Finally, the removal of the preservatives EDTA and benzylchonium chloride from Atrovent nebulizer solution has removed the risk of paradoxical bronchoconstriction occurring.
  • (9) The antibacterial potential of copper mesh in heated nebulizers was evaluated by simulating clnical usage in the laboratory and comparing the relationship between the copper levels achieved in nebulizer water and the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa organisms.
  • (10) Two radiopharmaceuticals, 99mTc-DTPA (D) and 99mTc-rhenium sulfur (R), were evaluated with a nebulizer delivering submicronic particles.
  • (11) No significant differences were found between the two solutions at any time after nebulization in minimum and maximum changes from baseline value or in the areas under the lung function time curves.
  • (12) The acute effect on lung function of nebulized salbutamol and saline (placebo) has been investigated in preterm infants at follow-up.
  • (13) Each subject was challenged through a nasal mask connected to nebulizer filled with house dust.
  • (14) A solution of hypertonic (7 percent) saline was nebulized.
  • (15) In our patients with uncomplicated chronic obstructive lung disease, nebulization of adrenergic bronchodilators seemed an infrequent cause of cardiac arrhythmias.
  • (16) We studied the frequency of malfunction, variability in rate of nebulization, and effect of this variability on aerosol particle size of eight disposable jet nebulizer models produced by six manufacturers.
  • (17) For DVT prophylaxis following abdominal surgery a single application of nebulized heparin and long acting anabolic steroid is as effective as conventional low-dose subcutaneous heparin administration, but gives less haemorrhagic complications.
  • (18) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
  • (19) Therefore, the inferior response to albuterol administered by ultrasonic nebulizer was at least in part due to the superimposed broncho-constriction occurring with ultrasonically administered saline solution.
  • (20) One-hundred nebulizer trials were performed in 98 adult patients with chronic airflow limitation who had remained symptomatic despite regular use of bronchodilators by metered dose or dry powder inhalation.