What's the difference between innards and inwards?

Innards


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rather than the aesthetic, it was the innards that intrigued and inspired.
  • (2) Fifa 15 takes much better advantage of the PS4 and Xbox One’s number-crunching power, while finally ditching the legacy code from old consoles which could still be found in creaking away within Fifa 14's innards.
  • (3) Instead, the irritation simmers inside and causes terrible corrosive damage to a Brit’s innards.
  • (4) 4 Whirled in motion The iPhone 5's innards also include an M7 "motion coprocessor" designed to collect data from its accelerometer, gyroscope and compass.
  • (5) The building's exposed innards caused widespread palpitations when it was built in the 1980s and Stirk recalled "a very, very mixed reaction".
  • (6) It's difficult being a half-arsed feminist in a movement that seems to demand both your innards and your soul, but I think I've been pulling it off with panache.
  • (7) There were many times during Sky1's Pineapple Dance Studios when I observed Andrew "I'm A Triple Threat" Stone mooing on about the unknowable margins of his talent and thought quietly to myself, "This show would be better if Andrew was being attacked by slobbering dogs, or having his innards ruptured by a professional wrestler, or simply having machetes fired at his silly face while he sings Steppenwolf's Born To Be Wild."
  • (8) I wondered aloud – though I already knew the answer – whether his own coldness, a glacial disdain that could freeze a man's innards from 100 paces, was a similar act.
  • (9) This gives easy access to the Mac's innards: a major change for a company which traditionally encouraged consumers to leave system alterations to Apple professionals.
  • (10) Considering much of Brunton Park’s innards require reconstructive surgery – Everton had to change in temporary buildings in the car park – and a new playing surface was needed, the club’s ability to host Roberto Martínez’s team appeared a miracle in itself.
  • (11) More interesting is what Paczkowski says of the new iPad mini, which "will be upgraded with a retina display and also likely see the A7 incorporated into its innards".
  • (12) The sleekness of the gadgets that dominate our lives gives little hint of the chaos that lies beneath – not just their innards, which include rare-earth materials such as neodymium (magnets) and europium (which makes your phone glow), but their backstories.
  • (13) For all three trace elements, a decrease of their concentration with increasing age could be observed in the individual parts (blood, adipose tissue, innards, meat, bones) and in the whole body.
  • (14) The content of nucleic acids is especially high in the innards of veal, pork and beef.
  • (15) Prince’s ability to provoke an audience was illustrated when he supported the Rolling Stones in San Francisco, and was pelted with shoes and chicken’s innards.
  • (16) Their photographs capture what has become a topos of post-war urban ruination: the exposed innards of buildings.
  • (17) A geyser of liquefied innards exploded from the pig.
  • (18) From a vantage point to the south of the site it is easy to see the mangled innards of reactor buildings No 3 and 4 and, behind them, the vinyl shroud covering the No 1 reactor – the first unit to suffer a hydrogen explosion last March.
  • (19) A sample of the weapon effects in Destiny – some of the more exotic examples do serious damage The start point is “Rocket Yard”, a techno burial ground littered with the rusting innards of old spacecraft, which provide handy cover points for the opening exchanges.
  • (20) Others rip upwards, allowing the fat red, purple and grey of the innards to spill onto the flagstones.

Inwards


Definition:

  • (a.) Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
  • (a.) Into, or toward, the mind or thoughts; inwardly; as, to turn the attention inward.
  • (adv.) See Inward.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The maximum amplitude of the inward Na+ current, normalized by cell capacitance, is about sixfold larger, on the average, in LP lactotropes than in SP lactotropes.
  • (2) In contrast with oligodendrocytes, [Cl-]i in astrocytes is significantly increased (from 20 to 40 mM) above the equilibrium distribution owing to the activity of an inward directed Cl- pump; this suggests a different mechanism of K+ uptake in these cells.
  • (3) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
  • (4) This response seemed to be triggered mainly by the influx of Ca2+ through L-type Ca2+ channel activated by membrane depolarization, which was caused by the ATP-induced inward current.
  • (5) I have equated nationalism with racism, xenophobia, inward-looking-ness and militarism.
  • (6) From this, and previous studies indicating a dependency of contraction frequency on the inward verapamil-sensitive Na influx, it is suggested that the drugs modify the automaticity of this preparation by a primary influence on membrane Na exchange.
  • (7) We used two experimental techniques to study the effect of lidocaine hydrochloride on the early inward transient (sodium) current as it is reflected by the maximum rate of change of action potential phase 0 (Vmax).
  • (8) Ca2+ inward currents evoked by membrane depolarization have been studied by the intracellular dialysis technique in the somatic membrane of isolated dorsal root ganglion neurones of new-born rats.
  • (9) Furthermore, clonidine can abolish, in reversible fashion, the acetylcholine-activated inward current determined with patch-clamp.
  • (10) In the type II response kainate caused prominent inward currents at -60 mV in Na(+)-free, 10 mM-Ca2+ solution.
  • (11) The kinetics of the membrane current during the anomalous or inward-going rectification of the K current in the egg cell membrane of the starfish Mediaster aequalis were analyzed by voltage clamp.
  • (12) L-type ICa, an inward-going sustained current, was activated with depolarization more positive than -25 mV.
  • (13) Displacements of the hair bundle towards the taller stereocilia generated inward-going m-e.t.
  • (14) At low concentrations, the current-voltage relations are inwardly rectifying, but they become more ohmic if a small amount of divalent cations is added externally.
  • (15) Divalent cations (2 mM-Ni2+, 1 mM-Ba2+ or 2 mM-Ca2+) reduced only the outward current in the Tris Na(+)-free solution, while in the 150 mM-Na+ solution, they reduced both the inward and outward components of the current which had a reversal potential of around -10 mV.
  • (16) Large negative-going pulses elicited proportionally larger inward currents that decayed during the pulse with voltage-dependent kinetics.
  • (17) In the absence of Ca2+ (but with Mg2+ present) the inward current disappeared but a large, inactivating outward current appeared when V greater than 0 mV.
  • (18) -57 mV) induced a large voltage-dependent inward current which has been identified as the K current through the anomalous rectifier (Ianomal.).
  • (19) In most cells superfused with 10 mM-Ca2+, a transient inward Ca2+ current was evoked by a step depolarization to potentials more positive than -65 mV from a holding potential of -100 mV.
  • (20) In the affective realm, the Rorschach scores reflected the predicted decrease in uncontrolled expression of affect, increase in controlled expression of affect, and increase in inwardness.