What's the difference between innovative and novel?

Innovative


Definition:

  • (a.) Characterized by, or introducing, innovations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that 80% of an engineer's time is spent on the day job and 20% pursuing a personal project is a mathematician's solution to innovation, Brin says.
  • (2) An innovative magnetic resonance imaging technique was applied to the measurement of blood flow in the abdominal aorta.
  • (3) This is about the best experience for our users: the idea that the experience was lacking, the innovation was lacking and we weren't reaching that ubiquity."
  • (4) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
  • (5) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
  • (6) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
  • (7) However, it remains clear that new and innovative techniques are necessary in the therapeutic, adjuvant, and palliative settings in the comprehensive care of the patient with hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • (8) Two recent innovations in time-dose models are reviewed: the linear-quadratic (L-Q) and the variable-exponent Time-Dose Factor (TDF) models.
  • (9) For creativity to flourish, schools have to feel free to innovate without the constant fear of being penalised for not keeping with the programme.
  • (10) Dustin Benton Dustin Benton, head of resource stewardship, Green Alliance Creating a circular economy will take action in three areas: the economy, policy and politics, and innovation.
  • (11) Study 2 provides evidence that an innovative weighted scoring approach, based on current medical consensus, can be used to produce a reliable, general index of pathology that is independent of the number of procedures used to evaluate patients.
  • (12) It has given momentum to innovative tendencies in psychiatry.
  • (13) We want it because it improves performance, innovation, values.
  • (14) Pioneers (41% of Britons) are global, networked, like innovation and believe in the importance of ethics.
  • (15) We now hope that our support of the offer will play its part in the future success of the bank under the innovative hybrid structure which enshrines co-operative values while providing sound governance and access to capital markets."
  • (16) Many other innovations are also being hailed as the future of food, from fake chicken to 3D printing and from algae to lab-grown meat.
  • (17) An innovative approach to treatment planning is described in which a planned dose distribution is evaluated in terms of prescribed limits of acceptability, and any discrepancies (referred to as "regions of regret") are displayed in the form of a contour diagram in which colors are used to represent different types and degrees of regret.
  • (18) Mobile phone technology has come a long way since the first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago – but there is a lot more innovation ahead, according to one expert.
  • (19) The resections necessary are often more extensive than predicted preoperatively, which provides an opportunity for innovative approaches using radiation therapy.
  • (20) He added: "Jobs and innovation and skills are really at a premium and are so needed, particularly in a place like the UK."

Novel


Definition:

  • (a.) Of recent origin or introduction; not ancient; new; hence, out of the ordinary course; unusual; strange; surprising.
  • (a.) That which is new or unusual; a novelty.
  • (a.) News; fresh tidings.
  • (a.) A fictitious tale or narrative, professing to be conformed to real life; esp., one intended to exhibit the operation of the passions, and particularly of love.
  • (a.) A new or supplemental constitution. See the Note under Novel, a.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Moreover in MIT-1, the size of the novel polypeptide was not that predicted of the precursor (44.9 kDa) but was about 39 kDa, the same size as the authentic GS gamma polypeptide in CYT-4.
  • (2) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
  • (3) A novel prostaglandin E2 analogue, CL 115347, can be administered transdermally on a long-term basis.
  • (4) The lipid A moiety was shown to be responsible for this novel biological activity of the LPS molecule.
  • (5) Experiment 3 showed that the color-induced increase in odor intensity is not due to subjects' preexperimental experience with particular color-odor combinations, because the increase occurred with novel ones.
  • (6) This novel mechanism of receptor regulation, named transmodulation, should be distinguished from the reduction in total receptor number caused by the homologous ligand (downregulation) and from the change in affinity produced by the binding of agonists or antagonists to the same receptor site.
  • (7) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
  • (8) Cyclosporine is a fungal endecapeptide of novel chemical structure that causes preferential inhibition of T helper cells.
  • (9) As novel antibody therapeutics are developed for different malignancies and require evaluation with cells previously uncharacterized as antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) targets, efficient description of key parameters of the assay system expedites the preclinical assessment.
  • (10) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (11) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
  • (12) Moreover, the most recent combined application of the rat interstitial cell testosterone (RICT) bioassay and a novel multiple-parameter deonvolution model has allowed investigators to dissect plasma concentration profiles of bioactive LH into defined secretory bursts, which have numerically explicit amplitudes, locations in time, and durations, and are acted upon by determinable subject- and study-specific endogenous metabolic clearance rates.
  • (13) The extensive conversion of anti-BPDE to B[a]PT-10-sulfonate under conditions where sulfite enhances diolepoxide mutagenicity, when coupled with this enhancement of diolepoxide mutagenicity by B[a]PT-10-sulfonate in the reverse mutation assay, supports this novel B[a]P derivative as a mediator of the sulfite-dependent enhancement of B[a]P genotoxicity.
  • (14) This novel coumarin derivative significantly inhibited skin tumor initiation by DMBA in SENCAR mice when given at a dose of 200 nmol, 5 min (69% inhibition) or 24 h (76% inhibition) prior to initiation.
  • (15) Using a novel method for joining DNA sequences, we have exploited this difference between the two enzymes to identify the regions of the RT that contribute to the compounds' inhibitory activities.
  • (16) It may thus represent an artifact of the labeling procedure rather than a novel basophil-derived prostaglandin.
  • (17) Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a novel vasoconstricting and cardiotonic peptide that is synthesized by the vascular endothelium.
  • (18) These observations indicated a novel mechanism that in the absence of light-dark schedule, mothers taught the circadian rhythm to the pups as they raised them.
  • (19) Pretreatment with a novel CRF antagonist, alpha-helical CRF9-41 (130.9 nmol i.t.v.
  • (20) Prions are novel, transmissible pathogens causing degenerative diseases of the central nervous system both in humans and in animals.