What's the difference between incorrigible and uncorrectable?

Incorrigible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not corrigible; incapable of being corrected or amended; bad beyond correction; irreclaimable; as, incorrigible error.
  • (n.) One who is corrigible; especially, a hardened criminal; as, the perpetual imprisonment of incorrigibles.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
  • (2) But more importantly, the museum's exhibitions keep surfacing the "incorrigible plurality" – as the poet Louis MacNeice put it – of human beings and how that manifests in the communities, nation states and empires they build.
  • (3) Journalists have colluded in the self-pleasuring of Boris Johnson by obsessing over which side of the fence that incorrigible attention-seeker will fall.
  • (4) Police suspect global Project was actually made-up: a cover story or “legend” designed to disguise the real purpose of Kovtun and Lugovoi’s trip to London, which was to murder a man long regarded by the Kremlin as an incorrigible traitor.
  • (5) For a start, it is impossible: incorrigibility is the defining characteristic of the hardcore Kippers.
  • (6) Exarticulation according to Syme was resorted in order to cope with an incorrigible abnormal position of the foot and for leg length inequality.
  • (7) And there are entries that point to Peel as an incorrigible collector and tireless champion of the recherche: with all due respect to an oeuvre that included the piquant-sounding Fuckin' 4 Bucks and I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, how many albums by Washington DC splattercore pioneers the Accüsed does one man really need?
  • (8) But they are more or less ignorant, and it is that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill."
  • (9) Eve Ensler and her incorrigible team have done so much to bring about this campaign.
  • (10) After she accused a neighbour of attempting to rape her, the 10-year-old Holiday, an incorrigible truant, was sent to a Catholic reform school until her mother secured her release.
  • (11) In fact, being drawn so narrowly from the category Occasion Wear, the costumes and photographs could scarcely have been better chosen to overlay memories of the surge of royal-blaming that Diana’s death inspired in 1997 – of her own reinvention as a global charity envoy and amateur healer, of her appointment as feminist heroine as well as tabloid goddess and, above all, of her magnificent achievements as the royal family’s incorrigible, lead tormentor.
  • (12) Continental Europeans often assume that England is, in its heart of oak, incorrigibly hostile to Europe.
  • (13) Later the infant will be operated, longer be will keep glottal stops may be incorrigible.
  • (14) It wasn't just that I was blind, which people seemed to find very interesting and therefore took a lot of notice of me, which as an incorrigible showoff I liked.
  • (15) He was described as seeming almost to be ‘obsessed with women’, and an ‘incorrigible womaniser’.” One female editorial member of the team gave evidence about “the almost daily sexual harassment” experienced at the hands of Hall.
  • (16) As trade secretary, he would be incorrigibly illiberal, refusing landing rights to Freddie Laker's Skytrain and being duly overruled by the high court.
  • (17) It can be traced back to Karl Jaspers who was the first to mention the three criteria of delusions, which are to be found in the textbooks ever since: (1) certainty, (2) incorrigibility, and (3) impossibility or falsity of content.
  • (18) As Marston sails for Europe, watching America recede into his past, Fitzgerald offers a closing meditation nearly as incantatory as the famous conclusion of Gatsby: "Watching the fading city, the fading shore, from the deck of the Majestic, he had a sense of overwhelming gratitude and of gladness that America was there, that under the ugly débris of industry the rich land still pushed up, incorrigibly lavish and fertile, and that in the heart of the leaderless people the old generosities and devotions fought on, breaking out sometimes in fanaticism and excess, but indomitable and undefeated.
  • (19) There's something incorrigibly Manchester about them in the same way that Happy Mondays are also typically Mancunian.
  • (20) Seven principles under Talmudic Law are discussed which were used by the Court to help determine whether or not an individual was in fact an incorrigible delinquent.

Uncorrectable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Equivalent viewing power (EVP), field of view, and working distance (WD) were calculated for 4 different magnifier equivalent powers, four magnifier-to-eye distances, and for uncorrected spherical ametropias varying from +20.00 to -20.00 D in 0.25 D steps.
  • (2) Myopia ranged from -1.0 D to -9.0 D. Forty-two eyes (53%) achieved uncorrected visual acuity (VA) of 1.0 or better and 73 eyes (92%) better than 0.5.
  • (3) In a multivariate Cox model analysis, the independent correlates of long-term survival were emergent operation with cardiogenic shock (multivariate mortality rate ratio [RR] = 14.0), use of a postoperative intraaortic balloon pump (RR = 3.9), ejection fraction less than 50% (RR = 2.4), preoperative history of congestive heart failure (RR = 2.2), cardiopulmonary bypass time (RR = 1.4 for each 30-minute increment), uncorrected mitral regurgitation (RR = 1.5 for each increment of angiographic gradation), left main coronary artery narrowing (RR = 1.7) and diabetes (RR = 1.6).
  • (4) Discrepancies found in uncorrected measurements could be correlated with morphology of the nuclei concerned.
  • (5) The plates were viewed directly in an inverted UV microscope or were inspected and photographed bottoms up with a conventional UV microscope mounted with an old-fashioned uncorrected objective (20 X) which, because of its shorter length, permitted proper focussing.
  • (6) Uncorrected refractive error (particularly anisometropia), strabismus, ptosis, and corneal exposure problems are an invitation to the development of amblyopia.
  • (7) Uncorrected p values of the BW39, A9, and B8 antigens were also statistically significant.
  • (8) Uncorrected 5-year actuarial survival rate was 78% for centro-pelvic tumors and 46% for late stage II and stage III.
  • (9) But the term private investigator was used uncorrected in the questions and responses in parliament, suggesting the terms may be interchangeable.
  • (10) Analytical and intra- and inter-individual components of variation were assessed over a 40-week period in 15 apparently healthy subjects, seven men and eight women, for serum creatinine, urine creatinine expressed in both concentration and output terms, and creatinine clearance, both uncorrected and corrected to standard surface area of 1.73 m2.
  • (11) Corrections of creatinine clearance for body weight and calculated lean body mass remove the sex difference seen in the uncorrected clearances, but creatinine clearance corrected for surface area, although not significantly different between the sexes, give appreciably different reference ranges.
  • (12) In this subset, 39 patients have had uneventful aortoiliac, femoropopliteal or distal extremity procedures, compared to an operative mortality of 23% for 13 others with uncorrected or inoperable CAD (p = 0.015).
  • (13) Special education students had a higher incidence of uncorrected hyperopia and binocular dysfunction.
  • (14) Finally, in a prospective study of mortality among lawyers, uncorrected HO scores were a significant predictor of all-cause mortality; K-corrected scores were not.
  • (15) Although prematurity remains to be an important factor in the survival of infants with major surgical or medical disease, the more important risk factor in esophageal atresia and tracheoesophageal fistula concerns: a. Severity of associated anomalies that are uncorrectable and fatal b.
  • (16) A comparison of twin deliveries from 1966 to 1971 (140 = 1,23%) and from 1972 to 1974 (65 = 1,07%) indicates a decrease of the uncorrected perinatal mortality from 10,35% to 6,15% caused by early diagnosis, gestation prolonging measures, diagnosis of placental insufficiency and management of delivery.
  • (17) As compared with the uncorrected SPFs, corrected SPF levels resulted in a more significant survival difference between breast cancer patients with above and below median SPF (p = 0.0014 vs. p = 0.014) and in a higher relative risk (RR) of death (4.5 vs. 3.1).
  • (18) If untreated and uncorrected the result, with progressive frequency over a period of 10-15 years, is increased morbidity, especially with pregnancies, structural damage to the kidneys, kidney stones, uremia, hypertension, and premature death.
  • (19) The Sibley and Ahlquist uncorrected data indicate that Pan is genetically closer to Homo than to Gorilla, but that Gorilla may be genetically closer to Pan than to Homo.
  • (20) 2) Axons typically ascend to layer 1, turn asymmetrically in one direction, and travel for long distances in this layer (1.10-4.30 mm; dimensions uncorrected for shrinkage).