What's the difference between identical and selfsame?
Identical
Definition:
(a.) The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing.
(a.) Uttering sameness or the same truth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, the LAP level, identical in preterms and SDB, is lower than in full-term infants but higher than in adults.
(2) The binding properties of formalin-fixed amelanotic melanoma cells were not identical to those of endothelial or unfixed target cells.
(3) Between 22 HLA-identical siblings and 16 two-haplotype different siblings, a significant difference in concordance of reactions for the B-cell groups was noted.
(4) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
(5) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
(6) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
(7) Pain is not reported in the removal area, the clinical examinations show identical findings on both patellar tendons, X-ray and ultrasound evaluations do not demonstrate any change in patellar position.
(8) However, its identity requires further characterization.
(9) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(10) In the process, HDL3 became larger and eluted in a position identical to that of HDL2.
(11) However, both were identical in size when synthesized in COS-1 cells in the presence of tunicamycin or when deglycosylated after their synthesis in Xenopus oocytes.
(12) The reduction rates of peripheral leukocytes, lung Schiff bases and lung water content were not identical in rats depleted from leukocyte after inhalation injury.
(13) In a double-blind, crossover-designed study, 9 male subjects (age range: 18-25 years) received 25 mg orally, four times per day of either S or an identically-appearing placebo (P) 2 d prior to and during HA.
(14) In these bitches, a strain of E coli identical to the strain in the infected uterus was isolated.
(15) Identical results were obtained in adult and 30 d-old male rats.
(16) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(17) After immunoadsorbent purification, the final step in a purification procedure similar to that adopted for colon cancer CEA, two main molecular species were identified: 1) Material identical with colon cancer CEA with respect to molecular size, PCA solubility, ability to bind to Con A, and most important the ability to bind to specific monkey anti-CEA serum.
(18) This cDNA was obtained because of an identical 10 bp match with the 3' end of one of the GnRH primers.
(19) Sera from three of these patients gave a precipitin band in gel diffusion tests identical to that produced by a monospecific rabbit anti-E. granulosus antigen 5 serum, when tested against whole hydatid fluid.
(20) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
Selfsame
Definition:
(a.) Precisely the same; the very same; identical.
Example Sentences:
(1) And of course this selfsame lack of clarity is one reason why broadcasters and politicians increasingly wheel and deal in a world where demarcation lines can be drawn in private, far from the three-ring circuses of transparency, openness and due diligence.
(2) HBsAg particles of a hybrid subtype, adyr, were sandwiched between monoclonal antibody against d and that against y, thereby indicating that they possessed both d and y determinants on the selfsame particle.
(3) As seen on ultra-thin sections of marker nucleolus organizer chromosomes, the densely packed regions may correspond to G-bands detected in the selfsame chromosomes by standard methods of differential staining.
(4) It is a sense of "selfsameness and continuity in time" and of embeddedness in the "environment" (Erikson 1959, 1968).
(5) I will describe some of the factors which seem to be essential for the sense of selfsameness, and examine the manner in which continuity is preserved during transitional phases.
(6) Skill in solving simple AR tasks is highly correlated with skill in solving simple perceptual Perspective-taking (PT) tasks; this suggests the hypothesis that the ability to represent the selfsame stimulus in two different, seemingly incompatible ways may underlie both skills.
(7) It also goes without saying that those selfsame banks would benefit from financing any the trade deals made with the Modi government of India.
(8) Perhaps you can replay that selfsame record today in the wake of Ukip advance from South Shields to deepest Surrey.
(9) Her portrayal might shine light on Matt Lucas's comedic talent, but her transformation into a signifier for a pretty hideous archetype - that selfsame Pram Face, supported in her fecklessness by a generous welfare state - speaks volumes about the people we now consider to be fair game.
(10) The presence of subtypic determinants on the selfsame particle was ascertained by sandwiching HBsAg between two monoclonal antibodies of distinct subtypic specificities.
(11) "But I think he's got to understand that when the public have seen the disgusting revelations that we've seen this week the idea that this organisation, which engaged in these terrible practices, should be allowed to get that 100% stake without the criminal investigation being completed and on the basis of assurances from that selfsame organisation, I'm afraid that won't wash with the public."
(12) When cells were transfected with the genomes of subtypes adw and adr simultaneously, however, subviral particles were produced that possessed w and r determinants on the selfsame particles.
(13) Nor is it the simple formula for bashing the tabloids that ordinary folk tell pollsters they endorse (before 19 million of them go out and read the selfsame slime sheets each morning).