What's the difference between indiscriminate and undiscerning?
Indiscriminate
Definition:
(a.) Not discriminate; wanting discrimination; undistinguishing; not making any distinction; confused; promiscuous.
Example Sentences:
(1) While we cannot administer aid indiscriminately, our ability to provide swift, effective humanitarian aid is one way in which we can demonstrate that we are truly relevant in the Third World.
(2) This suggests that cytokeratin 14 acts as an indiscriminate type I cytokeratin in filament formation in the established cell lines.
(3) In 1987 the WI's main concern, writes Robinson, was the "aggressive and indiscriminate sale of credit".
(4) "This is a massive and indiscriminate lack of trust that symbolises the rejection of the government," said Frédéric Dabi, deputy director general of pollsters Ifop.
(5) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(6) These results suggest that an acidic and a neutral amino acid are reabsorbed to a similar extent, that reabsorption is not stereospecific, but that it does not occur indiscriminately for all amino acids or for all molecules of similar size.
(7) Nobody can offer, let alone embrace, any rationale for the Newtown assault: it was random, indiscriminate, senseless and deliberate slaughter of innocents.
(8) Using uv absorption signals at 280 nm to determine indiscriminate folate activity, absorption signals at 350 nm are used to identify folic acid and dihydrofolate derivatives and signals at 258 nm are used to identify 10-formyltetrahydrofolate derivatives.
(9) The more indiscriminate generation of radicals can be of great use too in protective devices, for example, in the production of cross-linked polymers, or in the generation of oxygen radicals.
(10) As to the famous " margin of appreciation ", the right of states in certain situations to decide for themselves how to incorporate controversial rulings involving social policy, the court affirmed – indeed, following Frodl v Austria, effectively put back in place – the principle that states should be able to decide for themselves how to remove indiscriminate bans on prisoners voting.
(11) All patients with right hemisphere insult often attribute specific features indiscriminantly to any member of the same category, resulting in anomalous pictures like a "potato bush."
(12) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
(13) "We have seen the illegitimate and indiscriminate use of teargas," Heba Morayef, a researcher with Human Rights Watch in Cairo, said, of Egypt's most recent street protests, as well as the original revolution in February.
(14) Antimicrobial therapy should never be used indiscriminately, nor can it take the place of meticulous surgical technique.
(15) The medical profession has been criticised for applying technology indiscriminately and at vast expense to a relatively small group of patients.
(16) Indiscriminate use of these antibiotics should be avoided.
(17) In this paper we discuss a type of visual stimulus (the stereokinetic effect display) that is computationally far less complex than a true three-dimensional transformation but yields an equally compelling depth impression, often perceptually indiscriminable from the true spatial transformation.
(18) Hamas had also violated international humanitarian law by firing rockets indiscriminately into Israel, sometimes from densely-populated areas, Pillay said.
(19) The frequency of cerebral embolism of cardiac origin, the simplification of the diagnostic approach by non-invasive investigations and the precision of ultrasound techniques explains the tendency towards the indiscriminate generalisation of this attitude.
(20) We propose that within a region being edited, there are cycles of indiscriminate cleavage, U addition or deletion, and religation; sites that become correctly edited would be protected from further modification by duplexing with short RNAs complementary to the edited sequence.
Undiscerning
Definition:
(n.) Want of discernment.
Example Sentences:
(1) A restitution undiscernible from normal was found in only 3 patients.
(2) It is possible to exaggerate the danger, for the public is not undiscerning.
(3) 24,25(OH)2D3-treated and control animals were undiscernible in this respect.
(4) 13 seems to have a migratory pattern similar to the other strains examined and induces muscle fibre changes undiscernible from those of the 3 other strains.
(5) A discrepancy of diagnosis was being analyzed according to the 3 largest groups: tumours, disorders of circulation, malignant brain tumors and undiscerned complications of the main disease and accompanying disorders.
(6) Both types of grafts were undiscernably AChE-positive, but only septal grafts provided the denervated hippocampus with a significant AChE-positive fiber ingrowth.
(7) However, the fact that the distance between the components of the narrowest doublet was close to the resolution limit of the light microscope left open the possibility that undiscernible doublets of submicroscopic separations might exist in the premyofibril stages.
(8) Virus particles entered the nucleus between 2 and 12 h after infection, were still detectable in the nucleus at 24 h after infectionand becamse morphologically undiscernible at 30 h after infection, suggesting that a nuclear uncoating mechanism was active between 24 and 30 h after infection.
(9) The discrepancy was due to visually undiscernible comigrating fragments, and serves to point out a potential source of error if fewer than two enzymes are used to size a genome.
(10) Even marginal and undiscernable vitamin deficiency interferes with healing processes and increases the rate of complications since vitamins are involved in a variety of ways in wound healing, regeneration processes and immune function.
(11) The abdominal lymph nodes undiscernible on lymphograms, were visualized in CT and USG, the sensitivity of USG was higher than that of CT. An optimum scheme for examination of patients with Hodgkin's disease with USG as the chief method was proposed.
(12) Apple is claiming that Samsung attempted to fool the public (not the specialist public, but just the general, undiscerning public) by making a number of its smartphones look like the iPhone 3G and 3GS, and some of its tablets like the iPad.
(13) We report a case of hepatocellular carcinoma that entirely involved the common bile duct, the hepatic involvement was undiscernible at operation or ultrasonography.