What's the difference between indispensable and substantial?

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.

Substantial


Definition:

  • (a.) Belonging to substance; actually existing; real; as, substantial life.
  • (a.) Not seeming or imaginary; not illusive; real; solid; true; veritable.
  • (a.) Corporeal; material; firm.
  • (a.) Having good substance; strong; stout; solid; firm; as, substantial cloth; a substantial fence or wall.
  • (a.) Possessed of goods or an estate; moderately wealthy; responsible; as, a substantial freeholder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
  • (2) 10D1 mAb induced a substantial proliferation of peripheral blood T cells when cross-linked with goat anti-mouse Ig antibody.
  • (3) Estimates of potential for gastrointestinal side effects using the rat enteropooling assay and in vivo monkey effects indicate that diarrhea will be substantially reduced with retention of uterine stimulating potency.
  • (4) Previous studies in this laboratory with particulate Mn3O4 have shown that preweanling rats have substantially higher tissue Mn concentrations than similarly treated adults, indicating possible differences in uptake or elimination or both.
  • (5) A more substantial decrease was found in Aberdeen and the larger towns near to Aberdeen than in the smaller towns further from the city.
  • (6) In contrast, human breast milk contained substantially increased levels of immunoreactive PTHrP.
  • (7) It was found that there was a substantial increase in mortality rates in the area under the jets where there was large noise radiation.
  • (8) But the amount of time spent above SPA has differed substantially between men and women due to women both living longer, and reaching state pension age earlier.
  • (9) Although statistical analysis did not show dramatic changes in all these parameters, some individual extreme values were substantially altered.
  • (10) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (11) Accordingly, LPA proved an extremely stable characteristic which did not show any substantial variations in the course of five years.
  • (12) This hypothesis is difficult to substantiate with direct measurements using human subjects.
  • (13) Mitogen-stimulated cells always contain substantially higher levels of LDL receptor messenger RNA than corresponding resting cells.
  • (14) Considerable glucose 6-phosphatase activity survived 240min of treatment with phospholipase C at 5 degrees C, but in the absence of substrate or at physiological glucose 6-phosphate concentrations the delipidated enzyme was completely inactivated within 10min at 37 degrees C. However, 80mM-glucose 6-phosphate stabilized it and phospholipid dispersions substantially restored thermal stability.
  • (15) Amine metabolites, 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid (5HIAA), and homovanillic acid (HVA) were not substantially affected by sleep deprivation, although there was a significant interaction of clinical response and direction of 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG) change.
  • (16) The department of dietetics at a large teaching hospital has substantially reduced its food and labor costs through use of computerized systems that ensure efficient inventory management, recipe standardization, ingredient control, quantity and quality control, and identification of productive man-hours and appropriate staffing levels.
  • (17) Substantial percentages of both physicians and medical students reported access to drugs, family histories of substance abuse, stress at work and home, emotional problems, and sensation seeking.
  • (18) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
  • (19) The family members of depressed patients with six or more groups of DSM-III symptoms of major depression exhibited substantially higher rates of mood disorders than the family members of depressed patients with fewer than six groups of symptoms and the family members of patients with nonaffective disorders.
  • (20) The results presented here substantiate the hypothesis that in S. cerevisiae trehalose supplies energy during dormancy of the spores and not during the germination process.