What's the difference between infinite and vast?

Infinite


Definition:

  • (a.) Unlimited or boundless, in time or space; as, infinite duration or distance.
  • (a.) Without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence; boundless; immeasurably or inconceivably great; perfect; as, the infinite wisdom and goodness of God; -- opposed to finite.
  • (a.) Indefinitely large or extensive; great; vast; immense; gigantic; prodigious.
  • (a.) Greater than any assignable quantity of the same kind; -- said of certain quantities.
  • (a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated.
  • (n.) That which is infinite; boundless space or duration; infinity; boundlessness.
  • (n.) An infinite quantity or magnitude.
  • (n.) An infinity; an incalculable or very great number.
  • (n.) The Infinite Being; God; the Almighty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
  • (2) After 14 days of storage the reduction factors were infinite, 30 and 5, respectively.
  • (3) The culture pattern presented by the primary cultures did not appreciably change after passaging in vitro for periods of up to 2 years, even after infinite cell lines were established.
  • (4) At infinite dilution both steroids are well resolved, the trans isomer being eluted before the cis isomer.
  • (5) However, the maximal lysis of target cells at an infinite number of effectors was significantly less for normal compared with leukaemic targets.
  • (6) But the character – compounded of piercing sanity and existential despair, infinite hesitation and impulsive action, self-laceration and observant irony – is so multi-faceted, it is bound to coincide at some point with an actor’s particular gifts.
  • (7) In this (proliferative) model small doses of weakly antigenic tumors grow infinitely large (i.e.
  • (8) The aim was to create an infinite number of ways in which the story could be read – though Pears emphasised that Arcadia was not an interactive novel.
  • (9) We have found that the frequency of the allele which favours recombination increases in finite populations, and decreases slightly in infinite populations.
  • (10) I believe there are infinite paths to accepting Jesus Christ as your personal saviour.
  • (11) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
  • (12) The theoretical function described coherences between recording sites of small separation for linear, non-dispersive, dissipative waves moving on an infinite homogeneous plane medium, and driven by spatio-temporally noisy inputs.
  • (13) The changes in the integral of the extracellular action potentials (EAPs) generated by an infinite homogeneous fibre in an infinite homogeneous and isotropic volume conductor were studied at different radial distances (yo) from the fibre axis, depending on the propagation velocity (v), duration (Tin) and asymmetry of the intracellular action potential (IAP).
  • (14) The Macdonald-Dietz model for superinfection in malaria is a time-dependent infinite-server queue.
  • (15) The deterministic model (assuming infinite population size and random mating) predictions of the final gene frequency were exceeded only if there was reproductive compensation.
  • (16) Differential pencil beam (DPB) is defined as the dose distribution relative to the position of the first collision, per unit collision density, for a monoenergetic pencil beam of photons in an infinite homogeneous medium of unit density.
  • (17) Using fundamental concepts of hydrodynamics in porous media, we have rederived the Lumpkin-DèJardin-Zimm (LDZ) model for the gel electrophoresis of reptating, infinitely long, worm-like chains, such as DNA.
  • (18) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
  • (19) Pressure-volume curves from nine ferrets (including the above six) revealed almost infinitely compliant chest walls so that lung and total respiratory system curves were essentially the same.
  • (20) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.

Vast


Definition:

  • (superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
  • (superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
  • (superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
  • (superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
  • (n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
  • (2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
  • (4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
  • (5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
  • (6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
  • (7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
  • (10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
  • (11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
  • (12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
  • (13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
  • (14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
  • (15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
  • (16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
  • (17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
  • (18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
  • (19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
  • (20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.