What's the difference between immovable and unalterable?

Immovable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being moved; firmly fixed; fast; -- used of material things; as, an immovable foundatin.
  • (a.) Steadfast; fixed; unalterable; unchangeable; -- used of the mind or will; as, an immovable purpose, or a man who remain immovable.
  • (a.) Not capable of being affected or moved in feeling or by sympathy; unimpressible; impassive.
  • (a.) Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n.
  • (n.) That which can not be moved.
  • (n.) Lands and things adherent thereto by nature, as trees; by the hand of man, as buildings and their accessories; by their destination, as seeds, plants, manure, etc.; or by the objects to which they are applied, as servitudes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
  • (2) Right now, with Kabila already 10 years in power and looking immovable, despotism seems to have democracy on the ropes.
  • (3) There were two principles on which James was immoveable: that the intricacy of a plot could never make up for poor writing ("I find with my own reading, that it doesn't matter how exciting a book is: if it's badly written one just can't be bothered with it.
  • (4) The procedure of resecting the heads of the metatarsal bones according to Lelièvre seems to be recommendable in order to prevent immovability, especially in case of advanced inflammable alterations of the joints in the forefoot.
  • (5) Though it "was inevitable that Spain would face lean years as it learned to live within its means", Krugman argued, "Germany's immovability was an important contributor to Spain's pain".
  • (6) As I said at the end, I’d ideally like some Frankenstein-esque combination of her willingness to stare into the void with JC’s immovable principles.
  • (7) For this purpose a moulded jacket was designed which could hold the inhaler in an immovable position during actuation.
  • (8) [It] provokes the Greek people,” he said on Friday, insisting that the loan effectively ended the British Museum’s argument that the Greek antiquities were immovable.
  • (9) One day the British were there, immovable, complete masters; next day, the Japanese, whom we derided, mocked as short, stunted people with short-sighted squint eyes.” After the second world war when the British were trying to reestablish control: “... the old mechanisms had gone and the old habits of obedience and respect (for the British) had also gone because people had seen them run away (from the Japanese) ... they packed up.
  • (10) As Tristan Cooper, sovereign debt analyst at Fidelity Worldwide Investments, noted: "The irresistible force of German austerity has clashed with the immovable object of Greek popular resistance."
  • (11) But there sometimes comes a point where we start to think we are pushing an immovable object.
  • (12) The text agreed next week will no doubt recommend policy changes but these are likely to be too little, too late because there appears to be an immovable political obstacle to considering changes before 2020 (did someone say Poland?)
  • (13) Photograph: François Duhamel This is a great premise for a movie, and the scenes in which the unstoppable force of Walt Disney meets the immovable object of PL Travers are terrific – as are those in which she is driven around by a needlessly chirpy chauffeur (Paul Giamatti), and faces down screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and songwriting brothers Robert and Richard Sherman (BJ Novak and Jason Schwartzman).
  • (14) Choosing among ‘the vulnerable of the vulnerable’ The US places a strict, but not immoveable, ceiling on the number of refugees it admits annually.
  • (15) Think hard-force-meets-immovable-object and you'll have some idea of what it was like.
  • (16) While the friction measured in vitro with immovable brackets and in vivo without occlusal load did not differ significantly, additional tooth movement by occlusal load resulted in significant reduction of friction magnitude.
  • (17) The stiff osteosynthesis with immovable plates realize a therapeutic dissociation between the skeletal stage and the basal alveolo-dental stage.
  • (18) Since Ed Balls backed Vince Cable's mansion tax, Labour should have seized this easy chance to embrace Clegg's wealth tax and build on it – it's popular and right to tax immovable wealth.
  • (19) Luzhkov was once an immovable feature against the protean backdrop of Russia's domestic politics.
  • (20) This method is proving to be useful, particularly for electrophysiological and pharmacological studies on immovable cells such as those in culture.

Unalterable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Nick Bostrom, the head of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford and a leading transhumanist thinker puts it, transhumanism "challenges the premise that the human condition is and will remain essentially unalterable".
  • (2) After suppression of prolactin, statistically signific1nt circadian rhythms in PC and PA have been detected with a moderate decrease of PA concentration, while the PC level remained unalterated.
  • (3) The following resolutions were adopted:– "That we, a monster meeting of the Orangemen of Newtownards and of the surrounding districts, recognise, with gratitude, the exertions of our brethren in time past, and declare our unalterable determination to stand or fall by the principles of our Order in defence of Her Majesty the Queen and of the British Constitution.
  • (4) General distrust of genetic methodologies as well as the belief that genic disorders are unalterable appear to be salient factors in explaining the neglect of those areas by social scientists.
  • (5) Unalterable numerical and alphabetical symbols have been developed to apply a registration number to the animal.
  • (6) Oxygen consumption is usually considered to be predictable and unalterable at a fixed work intensity.
  • (7) We conclude that the preliminary diagnosis is frequently sufficiently certain to be unalterable by US.
  • (8) Who have that hunger for something permanent and unalterable?
  • (9) Comparison of the spermiograms of unalterably vasectomized men with findings from additional rinsings with physiological saline solution and nitrofurantoin showed that the instillation of the vas deferens leads to a swift, mechanically dependent, emptying of the distal sperm depot.
  • (10) Most of the toxicity is due to an indirect effect developed with unalterable electrodes in the presence of chlorides in the medium.
  • (11) He was an open and unsophisticated operator, whose chief characteristic was an unalterable commitment to his cause.
  • (12) At the beginning of a comprehensive and systematic therapy the panorama X-ray photograph is an unalterable requirement.
  • (13) If he fails to do this, his features become frozen and unalterable, like the Person, the mask of the classic Greek theatre.
  • (14) Analysis of the virus specific proteins by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed that the synthesis of G1 was unalterable, and N was stimulated.
  • (15) Mental retardation is the major unalterable cause for failure to develop independence; some lesser emotional causes can be modified by encouragement.
  • (16) In this manner, newly found patients can be treated prophylactically before unalterable morbidity or mortality occurs.
  • (17) Although intrinsic, unalterable defects occur in the aging immune system and nonspecific host defenses, there are factors that physician and patient can concentrate on to reduce the risk of infection.
  • (18) This review identifies 10 unalterable, 6 conditionally alterable and 9 treatable characteristics which were found to be associated with an elevated risk.
  • (19) When the dilemma is unalterable, explaining this insoluble conflict-hives phenomenon to the patient will ameliorate symptoms.
  • (20) R56865 1 microM reduced the increase in resting tension produced by ouabain 300 microM and left unalterated the inotropic effect evoked by ouabain 3 and 300 microM that was reduced by higher concentrations (3 and 6 microM) of R56865.