What's the difference between infinitive and verbal?

Infinitive


Definition:

  • (n.) Unlimited; not bounded or restricted; undefined.
  • (n.) An infinitive form of the verb; a verb in the infinitive mood; the infinitive mood.
  • (adv.) In the manner of an infinitive mood.

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.

Verbal


Definition:

  • (a.) Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimony.
  • (a.) Consisting in, or having to do with, words only; dealing with words rather than with the ideas intended to be conveyed; as, a verbal critic; a verbal change.
  • (a.) Having word answering to word; word for word; literal; as, a verbal translation.
  • (a.) Abounding with words; verbose.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a verb; as, a verbal group; derived directly from a verb; as, a verbal noun; used in forming verbs; as, a verbal prefix.
  • (n.) A noun derived from a verb.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
  • (2) Heart rate, blood pressure and verbal reports of emotional experience were measured.
  • (3) This paper reports two experiments concerned with verbal representation in the test stage of recognition memory for naturalistic sounds.
  • (4) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (5) A group of pregnant women received video and verbal feedback during three ultrasound examinations.
  • (6) Response requirements are manual rather than verbal so that, in addition to monitoring heart rate, subjects' exhaled air may be collected throughout the task in order to determine oxygen consumption.
  • (7) Although the greater vulnerability of the verbal intelligence of the younger radiated child and the serial order memory of the child with later tumor onset and hormone disturbances remain to be explained, and although the form of the relationship between radiation and tumor site is not fully understood, the data highlight the need to consider the cognitive consequences of pediatric brain tumors according to a set of markers that include maturational rate, hormone status, radiation history, and principal site of the tumor.
  • (8) During the initial 6-hour efficacy evaluation, analgesia was measured using verbal and visual scriptors and vital signs, and acute toxicity information was recorded.
  • (9) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (10) Verbal activity was measured by counting the number of times each patient was MA during the course of the group.
  • (11) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
  • (12) They are most commonly described as conduct disordered and hyperactive, appear heir to a variety of deficits in verbal and abstract cognition, and perform more poorly in the academic environment.
  • (13) The verbal coding and recognition of colours of a group of chronic schizophrenics and their normal controls were investigated.
  • (14) The nonverbal task was administered to the patients with PD, patients with AD and normal control subjects studied with the verbal task.
  • (15) Neuropsychological functioning in 90 male and female alcoholics and 65 peer controls was examined using both accuracy and time measures for four basic types of neuropsychological functioning: verbal skills, learning and memory, problem-solving and abstracting, and perceptual-motor skills.
  • (16) Correlations with other measures indicated strong association with tests of spatial visualization and virtually no association with tests of verbal ability.
  • (17) Verbal feedback training consisted of instructing the patient to squeeze the vaginal muscles around the examiner's fingers and providing her with verbal performance feedback.
  • (18) This paper presents a comparison between three different modes of simulation of the diagnostic process-a computer-based system, a verbal mode, and a further mode in which cards were selected from a large board.
  • (19) This more recent system has developed embedded wlithin the posteriorly located analytic and mnemonic cortical tissues and provides for communications between individuals within the species at symbolic, verbal levels.
  • (20) This correlation appeared strongest for those with high verbal IQ.