What's the difference between incompatible and irreconcilable?

Incompatible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
  • (a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
  • (n.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It should be noted that about a half of the plasmids (11 out of 21) belonged to the incompatibility group P-7 which up to the present time was conditional, since was represented by a single plasmid Rms 148.
  • (2) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
  • (3) The application of further purified albumin solutions might reduce the frequency of incompatibility reactions.
  • (4) Skin grafts from Xenopus isogeneic to the donors of the MHC-incompatible larval and adult thymus implants are always tolerated by Tx hosts.
  • (5) Some derivatives of pIJ101, a 8.9 kb Streptomyces multi-copy plasmid, can co-exist with each other at similar copy numbers but others are strongly incompatible.
  • (6) It was recently noted, however, that certain commonly used assays of antibody to PRP produced incompatible results.
  • (7) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
  • (8) If these recordings are repeated before or at the same time as other signs of fetal distress have been found we must think of pathological features such as intrauterine growth retardation, post-maturity, infections, rhesus incompatibility and diabetes.
  • (9) The results indicate connection between plasmid incompatibility and their replication.
  • (10) The plasmid has a copy number of about 25 per cell, and belongs to the inc5 incompatibility group.
  • (11) It appears that at least two clones of T lymphocytes are involved, the first in the non-self recognition through HLA-D differences, and the second in immunization against the HLA-A and B incompatibilities.
  • (12) Removing an acoustic schwannoma using the translabyrinthine approach has previously been considered incompatible with hearing preservation.
  • (13) We infer from these results that sequences in addition to the two flanking copies of IS1, in particular the upstream region including REPI, have been instrumental in the preservation and possible spread of aerobactin genes among ColV plasmids and other members of the FI incompatibility group.
  • (14) In other combinations, however, single region incompatibilities may be sufficient.
  • (15) cynodontis, with several plasmids in the IncP incompatibility group from gram-negative bacteria.
  • (16) This situation has contributed to exposure of sandblasters to hazardous levels of respirable free silica, and is reviewed here to prevent a continuation of the incompatibility of these and other standards for respiratory protection with the actual exposures to various noxious inhalants in the workplace.
  • (17) Unresponsiveness to Hh incompatible bone marrow grafts was induced in mice by single or multiple injections of various tissues from a prospective donor before irradiation and bone marrow grafting.
  • (18) The discovered plasmid was not shown to belong to IncP1 incompatibility group.
  • (19) This finding was incompatible with our case having a neurologically based global memory disorder during the fugue state.
  • (20) These results are incompatible with the clockface model of positional information and demand a modification of other current models.

Irreconcilable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not reconcilable; implacable; incompatible; inconsistent; disagreeing; as, irreconcilable enemies, statements.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conclusion In this case there has always been and, despite the efforts of the prosecution team to resolve issues, there remains an irreconcilable conflict between Dr Patel on the one hand and the other experts on the other as to the cause of death.
  • (2) "The irony of welcoming to the London 2012 Olympic Games an individual who is alleged to have led an organised and brutal repression of athletes because they peacefully exercised their internationally recognised right to freedom of expression and association during Bahrain's Arab Spring would be a blow to all athletes around the world, and irreconcilable with the UK commitment to human rights and claimed support to peaceful pro-democracy movements," the ECCHR said.
  • (3) In the News Corp report , Rafter said the rift with Tomic remained deep and possibly irreconcilable after his dumping from Australia’s Davis Cup team over his Wimbledon post-match outburst.
  • (4) As the documents reveal, there are now “irreconcilable” differences between the European Union’s and America’s positions.
  • (5) Valls himself has long referred to what he called two “irreconcilable” wings of the party.
  • (6) The overall outcome from the different viewpoints has been almost irreconcilable contradiction.
  • (7) "The reason for your involuntary separation of employment was based upon on irreconcilable conflict between the laws, discipline, and teaching of the Catholic Church and your relationship – formalized by an act of marriage in Iowa – to a person of the same sex," the Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph said in its letter of dismissal.
  • (8) Senior Liberal Democrats are already jockeying for position to replace Tim Farron, after he stepped down as party leader, citing an irreconcilable conflict between his deeply held Christian beliefs and political leadership.
  • (9) For those who do not accept this necessity, I contend that it is necessary metatheoretically, in order to deal with those moral agents with irreconcilably different notions of the morally good.
  • (10) Those who are already notionally opposed to Abbott, Pearson and Mundine on these issues, and many more besides, will be permanently irreconcilable on any initiative, symbolic or practical, that Abbott now proposes in the Indigenous space.
  • (11) After discussing conflicts of obligation, it is asserted that loyalties are divided only when the demands of the various relationships involved are irreconcilable.
  • (12) If the UK returns to a system of bilateral arrangements with EU countries, we may find ourselves once again exporting criminals to Spain, like we did before the EAW came into force, because of irreconcilable differences between our criminal justice systems.
  • (13) I appreciate that simultaneously being London's mayor and serving as Conservative leader are apparently irreconcilable (though there is certainly no difficulty about being the mayor while also sitting as an MP).
  • (14) So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly irreconcilable truths that war is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.
  • (15) In the case of Ladele against Islington council we have a clash of two irreconcilable moral frameworks: one that sees human worth and dignity derived from God and one derives them from the nature of humanity.
  • (16) Indeed, even Miliband’s most irreconcilable critics are clear why they should avoid plotting of the non-lethal variety.
  • (17) If inter-agency differences are irreconcilable, as a last resort CEQ can submit the referral and its response together with its recommendation to the President for action.
  • (18) And Oliver Cromwell’s inclusion, which part of me approves of and another part cannot stomach, arouses irreconcilable passions too.
  • (19) "There's an attempt among this section of the political class to try to find a balance between what the powers-that-be will accept and what the square will accept, but the reality is that those two things are completely irreconcilable."
  • (20) "China's recent behaviour, as demonstrated by its advance into the surrounding waters … is irreconcilable with the existing order in many ways."