What's the difference between inaudible and indistinct?

Inaudible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An inaudible voice variable, known to be influenced by stress-arousal in adults, was recently discovered to differ significantly among four situationally defined types of infant vocalizations.
  • (2) "My writing is maybe so badly [inaudible] that you can't read it and I'm sorry.
  • (3) But the recordings were all but inaudible – and the judge, Mohamed Nagy, was forced to admit that he could not make out what was being said.
  • (4) First, when SOAEs were suppressed, the tinnitus was inaudible.
  • (5) Subsequently, the Independent police complaints commission said on Tuesday that Rowland, of all the officers involved in an affair that had turned "an inaudible altercation into a national scandal", had not wanted to pursue the matter further and had been content with the apology he received from Mitchell.
  • (6) Nearly 1,400 people have complained to the BBC about inaudible dialogue in drama Jamaica Inn, which lost 2 million viewers, a third of its audience, over its three-part run.
  • (7) Results revealed that ADHD children were delayed in private speech development in that they engaged in more externalized, self-fuiding and less inaudible, internalized speech than normal youngsters.
  • (8) In case 1, with inaudible prosthetic clicks, thrombosis of the cage and immobility of the ball were suggested by echocardiographic studies and confirmed at surgery.
  • (9) After they are pronounced married, Frank pulls Ready close, says something inaudible and his eyes well up.
  • (10) If supplied with a microphone, he would often speak more quietly to maintain the same level of general inaudibility.
  • (11) A woman at the back of the nave shouted something inaudible but clearly theological and angry.
  • (12) If this could be attained, the hours in a hospital on rounds or at lectures would be better spent and ultimately, the speaker, too, would derive more satisfaction from his work if he were rewarded with stimulating questions from an appreciative audience instead of the perfunctory applause of somnolent, noncomprehending colleagues, driven almost to distraction by unending cacolalia complicated by lightning speed and rank inaudibility.
  • (13) Amplitudes of inaudible "subjective" signals are inferred from tone-on-tone masking measurements.
  • (14) Her words were almost inaudible and I only pieced together the meaning once she had pulled away from me.
  • (15) This pulse-generated runoff (PGR) system generates blood flow in patent calf arteries by means of a pulsatile cuff even if the existing Doppler signal is inaudible.
  • (16) But the worst thing would be if somebody said I was inaudible.
  • (17) The cheering was inaudible in the rows of tarpaper shacks you see as you land at Mumbai airport and in myriad villages denied basic technology, such as light and safe water.
  • (18) The Tory leader's list of successes, inaudibly subtitled "don't let Labour ruin it" – the repatriation of Abu Qatada, a small i mprovement in unemployment , populist changes to benefits , a hint of a hint of a recovery – will send his backbenchers off for summer in better spirits than they have been in for a while.
  • (19) Those officers who may be responsible for turning a largely inaudible altercation lasting less than a minute into a national scandal plainly have a case to answer for gross misconduct.
  • (20) An employee at the public security bureau could be overheard telling a colleague: "This person is asking what happened in [inaudible] Square."

Indistinct


Definition:

  • (a.) Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance.
  • (a.) Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused; imperfect; faint; as, indistinct vision; an indistinct sound; an indistinct idea or recollection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The main lesions of the tegument included indistinct of the matrix, vacuolization and peeling, while vacuolization of perinuclear cytoplasma in tegumental cells, focus lysis in muscle bundles, and destruction in collection ducts and flame cells were also seen.
  • (2) Importantly, although not pathognomonic, the high-resolution CT finding of centrilobular, peribronchiolar, indistinct nodules should suggest the diagnosis of chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
  • (3) Radiologically it appeared as an osteolytic lesion with marginally indistinct borders in the epimetaphyseal region of the proximal tibia.
  • (4) The infantile fibrosarcoma affected children below the age of seven years in this series and was characterized by proliferation of immature fibroblasts forming indistinct bundles, frequently exhibiting areas of an angiosarcoma-like pattern and cavernous blood vessels.
  • (5) Indistinctness of risk factors, especially workplace factors, is the principal reason for the poor results of intervention epidemiology: very few primary prevention programs and no educational programs ("low back school") have been shown to be really effective.
  • (6) It is proposed that all indistinct hyponatremias be thoroughly analysed and that urinary ADH be tentatively considered as a tumor marker for colon carcinoma.
  • (7) In an indistinct room, with a blurred painting in the background, the US-educated politician pledged to continue street actions alongside the Venezuelan people, while acknowledging he faces the risk of being jailed.
  • (8) were found and they had no embryos and indistinct opercula.
  • (9) Collagen occurs in the extracellular matrix of the bovine vitreous as fibers which have a fairly uniform diameter of approximately 195 A and exhibit an indistinct axial periodicity.
  • (10) All seven neoplasms were histologically similar, being composed of large cells with large nuclei, a moderate amount of cytoplasm, and indistinct cell borders.
  • (11) While this is all well and good, a counter-narrative could easily be presented: "I watched in quiet horror as the ultrasound flickered, showing the still-indistinct at 14-week mass focusing in and out on the screen.
  • (12) This may lead t o prominence and indistinct borders of the optic disc.
  • (13) The sonograms showed a small peripheral malformation that was indistinct on selective renal angiography.
  • (14) The above results suggests that in high myopia the optic disc was tilted and the rim-cup border was indistinct and there are some problems in the estimation of the morphometric parameters.
  • (15) Bronchial brushing smears contained clusters of cells exhibiting abundant diffusely granular cytoplasm with indistinct borders.
  • (16) Records of responses obtained from the DOC-treated sugar receptor showed long response latencies that gradually became indistinct with recovery.
  • (17) Follicles also were classified as clear or cloudy; cloudy was associated with flocculent material in the follicular fluid or with an indistinct follicular wall.
  • (18) Probably as a consequence of depressed structural-protein synthesis, very few progeny virions are released and the mutant makes tiny or indistinct plaques even after prolonged incubation.
  • (19) The usually indistinctive and unspecified liquor syndrome requires a subtly differentiated diagnostic distinguishing between vascular brain stem syndromes and brain stem gliomas.
  • (20) In cross-sections of the SOL muscle one group of fibres showed indistinct M-bridges, whereas distinct M-bridges were seen in the other fibres and in all observed EDL muscle fibres.