What's the difference between indecipherable and unclear?

Indecipherable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gomatraciens awoke one July morning to an indecipherable low rumble as hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus shuffled through the town, broken, exhausted and silent as they fled the Tutsi rebel victory across the border.
  • (2) He screams some indecipherable lines from the front row before clambering back onstage to whip his hair like a metaller.
  • (3) It's really easy to get carried away by the science and use technical vocabulary and indecipherable acronyms.
  • (4) He glances around the room, with its indecipherable glyph-strewn whiteboards.
  • (5) A decade later when I met him again in a hotel suite in London, it was more Mona Lisa than Cheshire Cat - coolly supercilious, ultimately indecipherable.
  • (6) It’s not about a platform to which no one hews, or about some words on a teleprompter, or even some indecipherable language in a bill.
  • (7) Not only is this an interesting location, it's also a good place for non-Japanese speakers to take a break from the aisles of aisles of indecipherable domestic games.
  • (8) You will see greatly reduced resources available to make critical legal needs across the United States.” Advocates say legal services funding is essential because equality before the law is not possible in a system that is indecipherable for non-professionals and in which one side almost always has lawyers while the other side almost always does not.
  • (9) Meanwhile, the crackling was so bad I could hardly use it – and messages left were indecipherable, leading me to exceed my limit on my mobile phone.
  • (10) And, the biggest group this, there are Polish and eastern European builders, shouting indecipherable jokes, ready for their prompt Saturday morning start, jumping off to plaster and marble and artfully distress the kitchens and bathrooms of the £10m houses that edge the heath along this route.
  • (11) "And so immediately thereafter," she says, "all of the toys began to have shows associated with them, and the ties between the toy industry and the entertainment industry became virtually indecipherable.
  • (12) Called the Jolly Roger, its walls were lined with real cutlasses and its leatherette-bound menus were decorated with compass points and written in an indecipherable copperplate script that made ordering an ice-cream float feel like a hunt for buried treasure.
  • (13) His handwriting, which I knew before meeting him (having seen it in facsimiles, in autographs), had become almost indecipherable, but its message was as luminous as can be: "My deceased, you may imagine, are all those ancestors I remember (very few) and all those I am unable to (the great majority).
  • (14) If it's not an error quite up there with that of the London gopher who, tasked with processing Robert Capa 's photographs from the Normandy landings, went for a too-liquid lunch and left them in the drying-oven an hour too long and thus rendered them all but indecipherable, it still, historically, irks.
  • (15) The Fabian report has some interesting analysis, but no solutions other than chasing an indecipherable “cultural ‘middle’”.
  • (16) I filled endless diary pages, sent snail mail to several pen pals, even invented secret symbols to ensure notes passed in the classroom were indecipherable by enemy eyes.

Unclear


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
  • (2) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
  • (3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
  • (4) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
  • (5) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
  • (6) Factors contributing to a more aggressive form of carcinoma are unclear and require further study.
  • (7) Two people were injured and taken to hospital, but it is still unclear who was responsible.
  • (8) The benefit of routine preoperative CT in patients with otherwise resectable colonic or rectal cancer remains unclear.
  • (9) Whether we are dealing with true Osborn waves is unclear.
  • (10) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
  • (11) Although the mechanism(s) of Vb depolarization in OMCD is unclear at the moment, this depolarization suggests that OMCD is responsive to peritubular pH alterations.
  • (12) Poor prognostic factors included associated chondromalacia and an unclear preoperative diagnosis.
  • (13) Because the mechanism whereby Shigella dysenteriae I enterotoxin induces intestinal secretion is unclear, the effect of this toxin on adenylate cyclase activity in rabbit ileal mucosa was studied under various in vitro and in vivo conditions.
  • (14) The factors predisposing to and complicating acute renal failure (ARF) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU), and their relative influence on outcome during ARF are unclear.
  • (15) Preliminary studies using amino acid and ion inhibition studies suggested that transporter I was a system ASC-type carrier, transporter III a system L carrier, while the nature of transporter II was unclear.
  • (16) However the mechanisms responsible for these phenomena are unclear.
  • (17) Hyperferritinemia, an unclear mechanism, is frequently observed in chronic alcoholics.
  • (18) Previously, we found resting metabolic rate increased at high altitude but the mechanism and consequences of this increase were unclear.
  • (19) The mechanism behind this increased thyroid volume is unclear, as most patients had normal serum thyrotropin levels and no thyroid autoimmunity.
  • (20) These data notwithstanding, the role of SIV genetic variation in the pathogenesis of AIDS in monkeys remains unclear.

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