What's the difference between indefinite and undefine?
Indefinite
Definition:
(a.) Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise; uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite time, plan, etc.
(a.) Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
(a.) Boundless; infinite.
(a.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.
(2) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
(3) In contrast, administration of anti-Lyt-2 mAb alone (MST = greater than 47 days) or together with anti-L3T4 mAb (MST = greater than 50 days) caused prolonged or indefinite graft survival in all recipient mice.
(4) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(5) The authors insist on the interest of the latter prosthesis, made concurrently, easily and solidly fixed, and immediately and indefinitely well tolerated.
(6) It is concluded that maintenance treatment of ulcerative colitis with sulphasalazine should be continued indefinitely unless contraindicated by side effects.
(7) Explicit expressions are derived which describe the binding of a univalent ligand to equivalent and independent sites on each state of an acceptor undergoing indefinite self-association that is governed by an isodesmic equilibrium constant KI.
(8) Upon infection with the adenovirus 12-simian virus 40 hybrid virus, primary human epidermal keratinocytes acquired an indefinite life span in culture but did not undergo malignant conversion.
(9) It stores up a problem: you can spread staff thinner for a short period of time but unless there is a managed staff restructuring a department could struggle to ask colleagues to fill in indefinitely.
(10) Concomitant administration of ART-18 and ART-65 to recipient animals in relatively low doses exerted a strikingly synergistic effect, with 30% of the transplants surviving indefinitely and 50% undergoing late rejection over 50 d. These studies provide evidence that anti-IL-2-R mAbs selectively spare phenotypically distinct T cells with suppressor functions.
(11) IHMS appears complicit in plans to detain children and adolescents on Christmas Island long term (indefinitely),” the doctors write.
(12) Since these cells are of indefinite origin, there is no way to predict which HCO3- transporting system is operable in these cells and, hence, what effect HCO3- will have on the pHin and the response of pHin to mitogens.
(13) Acid fast rods, constituting chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria, could be repeatedly cultivated and isolated and propagated indefinitely in vitro from fish actinomycotic macrophage granuloma from the massive epizootics of ulcerative disease syndrome of fish in eastern India during 1988-90.
(14) The other patient may use this technique indefinitely.
(15) With appropriate management, androgen levels can be maintained within the normal range indefinitely.
(16) Statistical analysis of an accelerated storage test by extrapolation of viral degradation indicates that the lyophilized viruses are stable indefinitely at or below room temperature.
(17) It is concluded that, at the present time, antibiotic coverage for an indefinite period of time may be indicated for surgically or functionally asplenic patients.
(18) I think it’s unlikely that they have an H-bomb at the moment, but I don’t expect them to keep testing basic devices indefinitely, either,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
(19) Reduced CCT was found in chronic degenerations of leutic, tuberculous or indefinite nature.
(20) We consider that the long-term use of topical mechlorethamine may be a safe form of therapy, but that a continuous indefinite follow-up of patients on this medication should be mandatory.
Undefine
Definition:
(v. t.) To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.
Example Sentences:
(1) These methods can be applied to the purification and characterization of the as yet undefined secretory and circulating forms of PTHrP.
(2) The data dissociate two 1,25(OH)2D effects, direct attenuation of activation of Ns via the PTH receptor and interference with the as yet undefined mechanism(s) of GC augmentation.
(3) Differences in the degree of inhibition of the binding of the two MABs by individual anti-A or -A,B samples indicate that polyclonal reagents are composed of varying proportions of up to 3 (or more) different antibody specificities, each recognizing a distinct epitope: PL41-like, AL62-like and a third (as yet undefined) category of antibody.
(4) Beijing says the island outposts will serve maritime search and rescue missions, disaster relief, environmental protection as well as undefined military purposes.
(5) Thus, IVBAT appears to be a low-grade malignant mesenchymal neoplasm, composed of poorly differentiated mesenchymal cells, whose exact nature remains undefined with the currently used cell-type markers.
(6) This result suggests the presence on the peptidoglycan of gram-negative bacteria, of other undefined antigenic determinants.
(7) Genetic and biochemical evidence indicates that the product of the ros locus is a negative regulator of Ti plasmid genes and is related to undefined chromosomally encoded functions that are involved in the mutant phenotype.
(8) This enzyme was originally found as an undefined protein kinase, which could be activated by limited proteolysis by a Ca2(+)-dependent neutral protease, calpain.
(9) The nature of these undefined opioid binding sites is discussed.
(10) L3T4 may be an early component of the system that transduces the activation signal from the T-cell receptor complex to the cytoplasm, a cell-surface receptor for a yet undefined natural ligand that delivers a negative signal to the killer T cell, or it may modulate the avidity of the antigen-specific T-cell receptor through a direct physical association with it.
(11) Although, their insensitivity to low Cd2+ concentrations and sensitivity to Ni2+ ions would support the involvement of T-type calcium channels, the lack of effect of amiloride suggests that they belong to a yet undefined class of calcium channels.
(12) If, as a result of recent accomodations between man and the group A streptococcus, the risk of rheumatic fever is less, an undefinable risk nevertheless remains.
(13) The pathological events leading to the formation of an intracerebral hematoma following the evacuation of a chronic subdural hematoma still remain undefined.
(14) The data point to the presence of an as yet undefined CD4+ T cell-derived granuloma-inducing factor and favor the hypothesis that CD8+ T cells, in collaboration with circulating phagocytes, mediate immunity by rapidly liberating listeriae from permissive cells or protecting them from becoming infected.
(15) It is proposed that serum myoglobin is a reliable measure of myocardial necrosis and serves to detect a hitherto undefined population of small-size acute myocardial infarction, with its attendant clinical and prognostic implications.
(16) The generation of the stimulatory factor(s) present in glucocorticoid-conditioned medium is apparently dependent upon undefined cellular alterations which result from the subcultivation-procedure; confluent or low-density quiescent cultures did not generate media stimulatory to cell growth in the presence of glucocorticoids.
(17) Comparison of these data versus the known structure-activity relationships of alpha-MSH related to CNS bioactivities suggests the existence of nonclassical alpha-MSH receptor-mediated pathways or, perhaps, a yet undefined endogenous neuropeptidergic pathway(s) having different selectivities for alpha-MSH analogs.
(18) A normal electrical control activity frequency was present in three patients, one with a proven neuropathy and two with undefined pathology.
(19) These latter antibodies may recognize HLA DR or another as yet undefined gene product within, or closely associated to, the human MHC.
(20) Activation of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D formation may be secondary to hypophosphatemia or other, as yet undefined, factors.