What's the difference between hidden and inconspicuous?

Hidden


Definition:

  • (p. p. & a.) from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious.
  • (p. p.) of Hide

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We conclude that gamma-(312-324) is hidden in fibrinogen and is exposed by the formation of fibrin.
  • (2) The unauthorised trades remained hidden for years in so-called umbrella accounts set up to store the funds.
  • (3) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (4) Such inquiries - set up under the Police Act, to look into a matter of serious public concern - are far from common and bring to light facts and opinions that are frequently hidden from view.
  • (5) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (6) Next month we’ll see him in Hidden Figures, the story of the African-American women who powered Nasa .
  • (7) This process is also formulated as a Hidden Markov Model problem and solved by applying the Expectation Maximization algorithm.
  • (8) Glomus tumors in children may be hidden by otitis media and appear more likely to be endocrine active.
  • (9) Reasoning ability in crows was investigated by means of the Revecz-Krushinskiĭ test, in which the bird has to apprehend the rule of stimulus (food bait) displacement: "In each next trial the food bait is hidden in a new place--one step further along the row".
  • (10) "Every exchange you have with a witness will be analysed and considered in order to reveal a hidden agenda.
  • (11) The Tony Abbott lecturing the American president on taxation fairness is, of course, the one who as Australian prime minister is presiding over policies of taxation amnesty for the richest Australians who have themselves offshored their hidden wealth, capping their taxable liability to merely the last four years.
  • (12) A world of hidden wealth: why we are shining a light offshore Read more However, the Nahmad lawyers have also insisted that because the painting is not in New York and the IAC is based in Panama, the court case should not be allowed to proceed in the US.
  • (13) On a dreich November evening in Gourock, a red-coated mongrel is wandering between the seats in a room above a pub, pausing to sniff handbags for hidden treats.
  • (14) This paper describes a series of young patients hospitalized in a psychiatric facility because they presented symptoms indicative of a psychotic disorder when, in fact, the youngsters were dealing with the strain of keeping a family secret hidden.
  • (15) Hidden City writer Karl Whitney on Dublin Read more And now for a pint of the black stuff Ireland’s capital is awash with history but no visit would be complete without a sample of the black stuff.
  • (16) Seeing the faces in my dark room or on my laptop screen brings back the hidden emotions and memories, often leaving me in tears and unable to carry on with my work.
  • (17) Photograph: Casey Orr for the Observer There is money here, but it’s hidden, a golden hare.
  • (18) Here the authors consider the possibility of discovery and evaluation of various hidden conditions of malnutrition in patients suffering of valvular heart disease--depending or not from the cardiopathy itself--and their complex pathogenesis, to correct at the end such condition and offer the patients an optimal prognosis with therapeutical procedures.
  • (19) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
  • (20) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.

Inconspicuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Not conspicuous or noticeable; hardly discernible.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The highest predictive values for the exclusion of TiC are shown by inconspicuous concentration capacity accompanied by normal ammonia excretion, total acid excretion, water diuresis, free water clearance or urine dilution capacity.
  • (2) Mediastinal masses are seldom detected early by conventional radiography since density differences between mediastinal tissues often are inconspicuous.
  • (3) They were inconspicuous and difficult to identify in air-dried Diff-Quik-stained material.
  • (4) RER and Golgi saccules were inconspicuous in these cells and this might indicate decreased production of PRL.
  • (5) 80 per cent of the available ECGs were automatically correctly arranged into groups and all the inconspicuous electrocardiograms were sorted out, since it occurs on no account that an electrocardiogram which was recognized as pathological by means of manual analyses, was analysed as falsely normal by the computer EAC-2.
  • (6) There was no deformity of the nipple or areola after this procedure, and the surgical scars were inconspicuous.
  • (7) In these patterns can be identified: (a) conspicuous behaviors, idiosyncratic for the individual, which often yield to psychoanalytic inquiry to reveal their dynamic-historical antecedents; and (b) inconspicuous background kinesics, habitual to the individual, which ordinarily are opaque to analytic exploration, yet hold rich meaning.
  • (8) Histologically, there is a pattern of irregular, branching venules with inconspicuous lumina and lack of cellular atypia.
  • (9) These phenomena might both be interpreted as non-random, functionally important cell contacts with the inconspicuous 'intercellular clefts' containing unstained material.
  • (10) A collective of 54 patients with uncomplicated delivery and afebrile, inconspicuous puerperium was vaginosonographically examined on the 1st day postpartum and also 6 weeks post partum.
  • (11) Reversible-figure training apparently led to a small but significant overall improvement in inconspicuous word identification but did not at all diminish the age differences in such performance.
  • (12) However, because of the lack of typical Reed-Sternberg cells and due to the presence of polymorphic cells with fine chromatin, regular nuclear borders and inconspicuous nucleoli, these cases were diagnosed cytologically as a benign lymphoproliferative disorder, pseudolymphoma cutis.
  • (13) The 23 biopsies of lupoid leishmaniasis showed rather well organized epithelioid granulomata surrounded by lymphocytes, inconspicuous plasma cells, no amastigotes and no necrosis.
  • (14) The nodules appeared to arise from inconspicuous cell nests, which were rudiments of neonatal NEBs.
  • (15) Authors report differential diagnosis between liposarcomas and other lipomatous tumors such as angiomyolipoma of the kidney (when it is large and only attached to the kidney by an inconspicuous pedicle) and intramuscular lipomas (50% of them are located in the thigh).
  • (16) Lumbar puncture should be repeated when clinical signs of meningitis persists in children, especially in infants with positive blood culture and with inconspicuous cerebrospinal fluid findings in the initial lumbar puncture.
  • (17) The main values of the procedure are the presence of a double vascular supply of both arteries and veins for complex reconstructions, and the fact that a large area of skin and subcutaneous tissue can be procured, with a relatively inconspicuous donor site.
  • (18) If ever there was a time to vote Labour, it is now | George Monbiot Read more Weighed against the perceived unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn , the calculation is that May’s carefully constructed public persona will carry her to coronation, though this plan seems to hinge on making the prime minister as inconspicuous as possible.
  • (19) Q-fever symptoms were evident in 191 cases but inconspicuous or absent in 224 cases.
  • (20) The proband, whose mother and brother had facial clefting, showed inconspicuous abnormalities of the lower lip and a bifid uvula.