What's the difference between imminent and incipient?

Imminent


Definition:

  • (a.) Threatening to occur immediately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril.
  • (a.) Full of danger; threatening; menacing; perilous.
  • (a.) (With upon) Bent upon; attentive to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As collapse was imminent, MAP increased but CO and TPR did not change significantly.
  • (2) A few years later, I marched in protest at the imminent invasion of Iraq and felt the same exhilaration at being part of a collective.
  • (3) That assessment was echoed by senior administration officials briefing reporters separately on Tuesday, who emphasised that, by contrast, they do not see an imminent domestic threat to the US from Isis.
  • (4) If Microsoft partnered with a major local brand it could help drive Windows Phone momentum but, with the Nokia takeover imminent, this does not look likely to happen anytime soon.
  • (5) "The feeling is that it is not imminent," said one senior media buying agency executive.
  • (6) Labour respects the result of the referendum and the will of the British people and will not frustrate the process for invoking article 50,” said Jeremy Corbyn in a statement that swiftly closed off any meaningful likelihood of enough MPs opposing the government’s imminent Brexit bill.
  • (7) Virgin Trains, which looked set for imminent extinction, is now confident it will be allowed to run the west coast service in the interim, and Branson said he hoped a new, transparent process would mean his company could also soon target the east coast line again .
  • (8) Here, we give our verdict on 10 new towers, built and imminent, counting down to the very worst offender … 10.
  • (9) Further, he suggests that there are theoretical reasons why one could expect that one set of circumstances--those which typically apply in the short-term emergency commitment of mentally ill persons predicted to be imminently violent--may be exempt from the systematic inaccuracy found in the current research.
  • (10) The inspector general had no obligation to inform the White House until publication of the audit was imminent, Carney said, adding that the White House had been told in April.
  • (11) In 4 patients leukemia developed within 2-4 months from the diagnosis ('imminent leukemia'), in 13 patients leukemia or smouldering leukemia developed between 4 and 25 months after the diagnosis ('true preleukemia').
  • (12) Does the recent fall in the unemployment rate to 7.6% in the third quarter of 2013, faster than the Bank's earlier forecasts, means an interest rate rise is more imminent than we though?
  • (13) Athens was unravelling into chaos, unable to form a government and forced into fresh elections , plunging the markets into freefall as Europe's leaders abandoned any pretence that a Greek exit from the euro might not be imminent.
  • (14) Veterans of the last Heathrow protests are drawing up plans for imminent action after claims that the Airports Commission will recommend additional runways at Britain's biggest airport.
  • (15) The fluctuations of these marker levels in patients with recurrent tumors reflects the progress of the disease, with a sudden elevation in values indicating imminent death.
  • (16) The word ‘planning’ [used in the PM’s statement] suggests it’s not imminent; the word ‘directing’, however, suggests it might have been.
  • (17) 12.01pm GMT Egypt solution 'imminent' The Egyptian justice minister, Ahmed Mekki, says a resolution is imminent to the political crisis stemming from the president's move to give himself sweeping new powers.
  • (18) The Wellcome Trust announced it was funding the first human trials of a third vaccine , to start imminently, so that it can be tested in health workers and burial teams in west Africa in December, alongside two others.
  • (19) Since an understanding of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension is unlikely to be imminent, there is little chance that antihypertensive therapy will become curative in the near future.
  • (20) Halifa Sallah, the spokesman for Barrow’s coalition, said he expected Jammeh to change his defiant position when he saw that the military were no longer with him, which he thought would happen imminently.

Incipient


Definition:

  • (a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) IgG1 and IgG4 have a similar molecular weight but a different pH (about 9 and 4.6 respectively); a change in their ratio in the urine of diabetic patients may indicate a progressive deterioration of kidney function at the stage of incipient diabetic nephropathy.
  • (2) By this method, one can screen for potential stroke in its incipient stages.
  • (3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
  • (4) Thus, the estimation of the STI proved helpful and reliable in the early detection of incipient heart failure and in the selection of high risk patients in children receiving ADR treatment.
  • (5) IDDM patients with incipient and overt nephropathy have been found to exhibit an overactivity of RBC sodium-lithium countertransport.
  • (6) At the present time, the following parameters can be recommended for "early diagnosis" of phosgene overexposure: Phosgene indicator paper badges, to be worn by all persons involved in handling phosgene (these badges permit immediate estimation of the exposure dose in each individual case); Observation of the initial irritative symptoms of the eye and the upper respiratory tract after phosgene inhalation can provide a rough indication of the inhalation concentration and dose; X-ray photographs of the lungs make it possible to detect incipient toxic pulmonary edema at an early stage, during the clinical latent period.
  • (7) These included one 65-year-old with incipient ARDS at operation, and a 40-year-old with preoperative liver and kidney insufficiency who was transplanted in septicemia.
  • (8) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
  • (9) The surface features of incipient caries lesions around bonded orthodontic brackets were assessed longitudinally.
  • (10) The echocardiograms suggested an incipient dilated myocardiopathy and also atrial septal aneurysm.
  • (11) However, these specimens have also shown incipient cracks in the acrylic cement that emanate from and connect defects in the cement mantle and at the metal-cement interface.
  • (12) administration of N-ethyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (ENNG), and the morphology and modes of cell proliferation in an incipient stage of cancer growth were studied with bromodeoxyuridine (BrdUrd) incorporation.
  • (13) This distribution of newly synthesized acid mucopolysaccharide at the sites of incipient cleft formation suggests that surface-associated acid mucopolysaccharide is involved in the morphogenetic process.
  • (14) This deficiency coincided with early clinical signs of sepsis, the severity of which was not clinically apparent prior to overwhelming sepsis and incipient shock.
  • (15) The pharmacological study of dopamine was conducted on 14 patients: eleven normal patients and three with incipient myocardiopathies.
  • (16) Already at the stage of incipient nephropathy (microalbuminuria) a moderate but gradually increasing rise in blood pressure is noticeable.
  • (17) In a preliminary study in nine patients the technique gave satisfactory results in the prophylactic treatment of four cases of incipient closed-angle glaucoma and of two cases of iris bombé following uveitis.
  • (18) Incipient mental illness and emotional disturbance appear to have contributed substantially to academic failure, poor performance during and after medical school, and premature death.
  • (19) The pathology study of the last of the 6 ewes followed up for 2 years showed a bridge between both sites of incipient regeneration, indicating bone healing.
  • (20) On average 1.9 surfaces had frank cavities or recurrent lesions and 13 surfaces had incipient lesions.