What's the difference between impressive and outstanding?

Impressive


Definition:

  • (a.) Making, or tending to make, an impression; having power to impress; adapted to excite attention and feeling, to touch the sensibilities, or affect the conscience; as, an impressive discourse; an impressive scene.
  • (a.) Capable of being impressed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate accumulation response was less impressive in glomeruli than the guanylate cyclase response in IMCD tissue.
  • (2) Of all materials evaluated, Xantopren Blue and Silene silicone impression materials provided the best results in vivo.
  • (3) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (4) Nwakali, an attacking midfielder, was the player of the Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, which Nigeria won, and at which his team-mate Chukwueze, a winger, also impressed.
  • (5) Ketazolam was found to be significantly better than placebo in alleviating anxiety and its concomitant symptomatology as measured by the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale, three Physician's Global Impressions, two Patient's Global Impressions, and three Target Symptoms.
  • (6) Personal experience is recorded with two cases and the positive impressions of this operation.
  • (7) His words surprised some because of an impression that the US was unwilling to talk about these issues.
  • (8) It’s the small margins that have cost us.” There is more to it than that, of course, and Rooney gave the impression he had been hard on himself since the Uruguay game.
  • (9) The most reproducible instrument was the combination of Regisil, an elastic impression material, and a Rinn XCP bite block.
  • (10) (4) Electrical stimulation by cutaneous devices or implants can give much benefit to some patients in whom other methods have failed and there are indications, not only from anecdote and clinical impression but also now from experimental physiology, that it may benefit by mechanisms of interaction at the first sensory synapse.
  • (11) This is what we hope is the best golf tournament in the world, one of the greatest sporting events, and I think we will have a very impressive audience and have another great champion to crown this year."
  • (12) The orchestrated round of warnings from the Obama administration did not impress a coterie of senior Republicans who were similarly paraded on the talk shows, blaming the White House for having brought the country to the brink of yet another "manufactured crisis".
  • (13) Systolic time intervals measured after profuse sweating can give a false impression of cardiac function.
  • (14) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (15) The author differentiates between two modes of perception, one is the "expressive" mode, stabilizing and aiming at constancy, the other is the "impressive" mode, penetrating the self and aiming at identification with the percept.
  • (16) The results obtained by combined superficial freezing and intralesional stibogluconate injection were much more impressive than those obtained by each of the two modalities when used alone.
  • (17) Findings and impressions of a member of a British medical support group who toured the health services in newly independent Mozambique in September 1975.
  • (18) Forty impressions were poured with the disinfectant dental stone and a similar number were poured with a comparable, nondisinfectant stone.
  • (19) Our older population is the most impressive, self-sacrificing and imaginative part of our entire community.
  • (20) Two recently reported large scale clinical surveys support the impression that the new non-ionic low osmolality iodinated radiographic contrast media are indeed significantly safer for intravascular use than conventional agents.

Outstanding


Definition:

  • (a.) That stands out; undischarged; uncollected; not paid; as, outstanding obligations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The authors suggest that the outstanding high sensitivity of the above mentioned two tests applied parallelly reveals that they highlights partially different aspects of coronary artery disease, and that is why the overlapping between the methods is relatively small.
  • (2) The results obtained in a pilot study (42 patients with 74 lesions), a multicenter trial (254 patients with 553 lesions) and a prospective study still outstanding (29 patients with 38 lesions) allow to consider this system as suitable for clinical application.
  • (3) The outstanding morphologic feature of cortical cells exposed to microunit ACTH concentrations for 40 min was the abundance of electron-dense granules (0.2-0.4 mum).
  • (4) "The victims are very clear that those outstanding matters of detail – which are not on the charter but on the legislation surrounding the incentives mainly – is just as important to them than any detail in the charter."
  • (5) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
  • (6) An outstanding antiallatal effect was produced by 7-propargyloxy-P1 in vitro.
  • (7) The outstanding advantages in microsurgery are as follows: (1) After moderate hemodilution had been performed, blood stickiness was so reduced that the resistance of blood stream was decreased.
  • (8) In fact, the overall efficacy of CSFs has been outstanding for disorders hitherto viewed as otherwise refractory.
  • (9) Ipsa also released information about 25 MPs who had sums outstanding as of this week.
  • (10) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
  • (11) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
  • (12) The former Friends star Lisa Kudrow won the Webby for outstanding comedic performance as the star, co-writer and co-producer of online show Web Therapy.
  • (13) Comment is free contributor Jack Monroe made the Guardian shortlist and got one commenter's You Tell Us award for Outstanding Excellence in the field of Talking Sense .
  • (14) "In terms of targeting there are similarities [with Dave], it has continued to deliver outstanding numbers but it relies on a lot of UK specific humour.
  • (15) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
  • (16) Not so in 2012, with the shortlist for outstanding achievement in dance revealed as Edward Watson for The Metamorphosis at Covent Garden; Sylvie Guillem for 6,000 Miles Away at Sadler's Wells and Tommy Franzen for Some Like it Hip Hop at the Peacock.
  • (17) Disturbed wound healing, arterial insufficiency and malignant rheumatoid arthritis are the outstanding risk factors.
  • (18) Boyle, who on Sunday night received an outstanding contribution prize at the Empire awards, said he was not a fan of stereoscope on film and doubted it would survive.
  • (19) This, together with his remarkable intellect, enabled him to produce outstanding research work within a large spectrum of sciences more or less directly related to ophthalmology.
  • (20) The Huddersfield half-back, who is on a shortlist of three to be crowned Man of Steel as the outstanding player of the Super League season on Monday night, has never been a favourite of the England coach, Steve McNamara, who omitted Brough from the 30-man training squad announced in March .