What's the difference between incomplete and incomprehensive?
Incomplete
Definition:
(a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
(a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.
Example Sentences:
(1) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
(2) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(3) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
(4) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
(5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
(6) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
(7) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(8) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
(9) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
(10) That is cystoid macular edema is associated with incomplete PVD with vitreous contraction.
(11) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
(12) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
(13) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
(14) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
(15) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
(16) This variation in risk remained when allowance was made for the incomplete nature of some of the reproductive histories.
(17) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
(18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
(19) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
(20) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.
Incomprehensive
Definition:
(a.) Not comprehensive; not capable of including or of understanding; not extensive; limited.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a generation of young Germans, raised under the crushing, introspective guilt of postwar Germany , the sight of such facile antics was simply incomprehensible.
(2) Kerry added that it would have been “offensive and incomprehensible” to leave Bergdahl in Afghanistan, where Obama is quickly winding down the US military presence – a process he recently said would be complete by the end of 2016.
(3) Old people and young people have always regarded one another with suspicion and incomprehension.
(4) An attorney for Crawford’s family described their decision as “absolutely incomprehensible”.
(5) It does get to be a bit of an atmosphere of an extended family of people who have this process in common that is such a major part of their life – and yet almost incomprehensible to the outside world.” Like all family gatherings, things can get emotional.
(6) It is no longer possible to assess the quality of most products on the basis of physical examination, and labels often carry information that is incomprehensible to lay persons.
(7) According to Freud our actions and behaviour are often unconsciously motivated and frequently incomprehensible for ourselves.
(8) All the interviews supported the notion of an arbitrary norm for pay, which almost all firms felt was grossly and inappropriately high … The general view of search firms is that a lower norm would not materially affect what happens.” One headhunter said: “I think there are an awful lot of FTSE 100 CEOs who are pretty mediocre.” Another added: “I think that the wage drift over the past 10 years, or the salary drift, has been inexcusable, incomprehensible, and it is very serious for the social fabric of the country.” The findings are being made public just as an analysis by the High Pay Centre thinktank shows that the average pay of a chief executive – including pensions, share options and bonuses – stands at about £4.6m.
(9) FDA delay in approval of propranolol for essential hypertension is totally incomprehensible.
(10) Admittedly, it was not as bad as Miles' frankly incomprehensible hair, to say nothing about the self-harm-inducing scene in which they all "threw shapes" to the Manic Street Preachers, but relative improvement is not exactly a recommendation.
(11) Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader, added that he found it incomprehensible that an inquiry had not been mounted by the government into whether there had been a breach of the code.
(12) For five nights, Saturday to Wednesday, the Ferguson city and St Louis county police departments betrayed hostility, incomprehension and fear as they confronted protesters, heedless that the militarised response had stoked anger and radicalism over Brown's death.
(13) Utterly incomprehensible,” he told reporters in Canberra.
(14) The new analyses of text that were introduced in the 1960s have rendered the subject, at its cutting edge, incomprehensible to all but the initiated.
(15) In fact, about 3 hours before and 15 minutes after the third dose of flumequine (2 tablets of 400 mg), this makes the total dose taken over 12 hours is equal to 400 x 4 = 1,600 mg, the patient developed an intense discomfort with blurred vision accompanied by nausea, followed by a state of restlessness and incomprehensible speech.
(16) Pyne on Saturday called on the opposition leader, Bill Shorten, to join the government in strongly condemning the "incomprehensible" behaviour of the students who were protesting on Friday against proposed cuts to higher education funding.
(17) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(18) The public have waited long enough and will find it incomprehensible that the report is not being published more rapidly than the open-ended timetable you have now set out.
(19) "Their exclusion from the government's shortlist of technologies being assessed is utterly incomprehensible," said FOE Cymru director Gordon James.
(20) "The grief of a stillbirth is unlike any other form of grief: the months of excitement and expectation, planning, eager questions, and the drama of labour – all magnifying the devastating incomprehension of giving birth to a baby bearing no signs of life."