What's the difference between immovable and unshiftable?

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.

Unshiftable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may /ot be shifted.
  • (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This reveals the unshifted Nai signal and allows the NMR monitoring of Nai in isolated perfused hearts and other systems.
  • (2) The unshifted peaks reflected the intracellular 23Na and 1H signals, while the shifted peaks reflected the extracellular signals.
  • (3) Growth rates, measured as rates of cell volume increase, were constant throughout the cycle in unshifted acetate control cultures.
  • (4) SDS PAGE analysis of integral and peripheral membrane proteins (separated from each other by condensation in Triton X-114) revealed a unique and restricted subset of proteins when compared with lysosomes, the unshifted free flow electrophoresis peak, and total cell protein.
  • (5) Whereas psbDII transcripts increased 500% relative to unshifted control cells, psbDI-psbC transcripts remained unchanged.
  • (6) 23Na spectra in the presence of a paramagnetic shift reagent (dysprosium tripolyphosphate) consisted of two resonances, an unshifted one corresponding to intracellular Na+ and a shifted one corresponding to Na+ in the extracellular medium, including the periplasm.
  • (7) Some of the non-Watson-Crick base pairs have unusual unshifted standard chemical shifts after the ring current contributions calculated from the crystal coordinates were subtracted.
  • (8) A statistically significantly lower circaseptan amplitude (less than 50%) and acrophase advance of over 120 degrees or 56 h (p less than 0.001) characterizes the mixed cultures, as compared to the original unshifted cultures, a finding that could mean that G. polyedra communicates along a circaseptan frequency.
  • (9) The amplitude of the first shifted cycle was less than four control NAT profiles measured in rats kept in the original (unshifted) light-dark cycle.
  • (10) Next, the unshifted rats were subjected to a 6-h advance in their LD cycle.
  • (11) On constant routine the rhythm after the shift was cross-correlated with the original rhythm, either with variable delay (or advance) or with an additive mixture between this variably shifted rhythm and the unshifted or a fully shifted rhythm.
  • (12) During these probes, unshifted timed-fed rats ran more than their free-fed controls at 0600-1200 h, but delayed timed-fed rats ran more than their controls at 1200-1500 h, i.e., 6 h later than unshifted rats.
  • (13) However, rapid exchange of water across the cell membrane results in only a single 2H2O resonance at a chemical shift which is a weighted average of the shifted extra- and unshifted intracellular water resonances.
  • (14) Na-23 spectra collected during the infusion showed two shifted peaks that were assigned to intravascular Na+ and extracellular muscle Na+, respectively, and one unshifted peak assigned to intra- and extracellular brain Na+ and cerebrospinal fluid Na+.
  • (15) Changes in Nai were determined by integrating the area under the unshifted Na peak at each measurement and expressing differences as a ratio relative to baseline.
  • (16) While resonances of most Phe, Tyr and Trp residues were unshifted by the substrate dTdA from those found in the enzyme-La(3+)-3',5'-pdTp complex and the enzyme-Ca(2+)-3',5'-pdTp complex, proton resonances of Tyr-85, Tyr-113, Tyr-115, and Phe-34 were shifted by 0.08 to 0.33 ppm and the 15N resonance of Tyr-113 was shifted by 2.1 ppm by the presence of substrate.
  • (17) This complex is found to be paramagnetic, as deduced both from its EPR spectrum and from the significant broadening, though almost unshifted, proton and phosphorus resonances.
  • (18) The strongest support for a linear cell volume increase during the cell cycle of E. coli in slowly growing acetate cultures, however, was obtained in unshifted cultures, in complete agreement with earlier observations of cell volumes at much more rapid growth rates.
  • (19) Haloperidol decreased overall lick frequency, but this decrease occurred proportionately in shifted and unshifted rats, leaving contrast intact.
  • (20) D2 protein levels in thylakoid membranes from wild-type cells increased to 250% of those of the unshifted control cells 12 h after a shift to high light intensities.

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