What's the difference between indispensable and inextricable?

Indispensable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
  • (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
  • (a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She was organised, good with people, very grown up and quickly proved herself to be indispensable.
  • (2) The lack of any easy clinical characteristic objectivisation often prevents easy recognition and complex diagnostic investigation is therefore indispensable.
  • (3) Duplex and color Doppler sonography have become indispensable for evaluating the major vessels of the abdomen.
  • (4) The data presented here indicate that renal clearance is not indispensable for eliminating etoposide.
  • (5) Therefore, observance of the generally accepted withdrawal time of 10 days is indispensable.
  • (6) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.
  • (7) It is indispensable to establish a close cooperation between the public health authorities and the private physician, and we therefore wish to sincerely thank all colleagues and Public Health Officers for their collaboration.
  • (8) Treasury secretary Tim Geithner called her an "exceptional talent" whose broad experience would "provide invaluable leadership for this indispensable institution at a critical time for the global economy".
  • (9) These changes facilitate radium therapy which remains an indispensable arm for sterilizing primary lesions.
  • (10) "We will take part as requested … An agreement is indispensable for Europe, and not just Europe ," UniCredit chief executive Federico Ghizzoni told reporters in Rome, according to Reuters.
  • (11) A careful physical examination is indispensable, and masses should be evaluated with consideration given to mobility, location, consistency, contour, and site.
  • (12) Using this scoring system it is possible to establish comparable groups of patients - which seems indispensable for a critical examination of various therapeutic procedures.
  • (13) indispensable to attain normal reaching motor functions.
  • (14) This case shows that new or recurrent spinal cord symptoms may be due to a mechanical deformity of the cord rather than shunt malfunction, that restricting the length of the shunt catheter which is used to decompress PTSCCs is important, and that IOSS is an indispensable tool for visualizing the changes in spinal cord morphology during shunting procedures.
  • (15) In 46 patients the standard series was sufficient for diagnosis of allergic occupational contact dermatitis, but in thirty three cases it was indispensable to test them with additional subsances.
  • (16) That is a sign for increasing waste of reciprocal control of adrenal gland and liver, that is indispensable to maintenance of corticosteroid hemostasis.
  • (17) In order to establish whether the periaqueductal gray (PAG) is indispensible for peptide-induced excessive grooming, lesions were placed in the dorsal part of this structure.
  • (18) Polymodal pattern of regulation of this parameter is suggested which includes indispensable participation of both thermal and non-thermal factors of selection.
  • (19) Play is indispensable to human progress and good for individuals.
  • (20) Ultrasound is an indispensable tool for preliminary diagnosis ('filter function'), during treatment ('monitoring function') and in the followup examinations ('follow-up function') after shock wave lithotripsy of gallstones.

Inextricable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being extricated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion.
  • (a.) Inevitable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An Ofsted for universities Read more Too often a commitment to learning and teaching is presented in opposition to engagement with research and scholarship, but the two should be inextricably linked.
  • (2) Caring is inextricably bound to the belief system and practice of nursing.
  • (3) Moreover, the development of neoliberalism in the UK is inextricable from the politics of Britishness.
  • (4) And for kids born post-smartphone, they’re the diary that us (comparative) olds kept on paper, the disposable camera that cost us £7.99 and seven days to develop at Boots: an inextricable part of how young people live their lives.
  • (5) HCA and low-intensity conflict activities will therefore be discussed as one topic, as they were inextricably intertwined.
  • (6) In problem-based learning, process and content are inextricably linked, with the three cardinal elements being the students, the tutors, and the problems.
  • (7) They became as inextricably part of his identity as his rebelliousness, morbidity and homosexuality, all of which made up his outward and possibly inward self-image as the "outsider on the inside" that was an integral part of his work.
  • (8) It sought to examine alternative models in a context sensitive to the inextricable connections between health and society, their persistence through time, and their link to demographic changes.
  • (9) These films were a blithe rebuttal of the critic Edward Said’s insight that, in a novel like Mansfield Park, the “English” story necessarily concealed the story, located elsewhere but inextricable from the main narrative, of a West Indian sugar plantation.
  • (10) Just as certain songs become inextricably associated in our minds with certain eras (before the invention of iPods, that is, after which everyone could walk around every day with all the songs in the world on shuffle), so too do silly trends.
  • (11) In Germany, brown remains a colour inextricably linked with the Nazi uniform.
  • (12) But we can do so now, at a time when keeping the UK within the EU is high on the agenda of the EU leadership and at a time when the EU narrative is currently inextricably linked to the issue of reform.
  • (13) Because cancer and aging are, thus, inextricably linked, the American Cancer Society should encourage submission of research proposals that address the mechanisms of aging and how aging alters cancer development.
  • (14) Effects on nerve cells of fields generated by remote electrodes are given primary attention, although methods for obtaining field solutions in biological media are discussed in detail only where the issue is inextricably linked to the use of a particular neural model, or relates crucially to experimental validation.
  • (15) Forty years on, and now a cross-bench peer, his name has become inextricably linked with the controversial cause of legalising people's right to be helped to die.
  • (16) Only reformists dare to say openly that bread-and-butter problems are linked inextricably to foreign policy.
  • (17) It forms part of a pair of games that are inextricably linked.
  • (18) The Russian president, Vladimir Putin , is expected to allow the issue on to the agenda for dinner, reflecting the reality that the fate of the world economy is inextricably intertwined with the risk of a Middle East conflagration.
  • (19) Scrutiny of the approach suggests that the psychopathology of these patients was inextricably intertwined with issues of racism, unemployment, poverty, and substandard housing.
  • (20) It is shown in this article that the inextricability of the mind-body problem is essentially conditioned by (apart from other factors) the (non-permissible) equating of philosophical and empirical propositions: psychic or mental = mind and somatic = soma or body.