What's the difference between innumerable and numerable?

Innumerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being counted, enumerated, or numbered, for multitude; countless; numberless; unnumbered, hence, indefinitely numerous; of great number.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
  • (2) The striking nature of skin angiomas in some patients is illustrated by a mother-daughter pair with innumerable lesions of early onset.
  • (3) Most examples measure less than or equal to 0.5 cm and are composed of a partially encapsulated mass of bland Schwann cells and innumerable tiny axons arranged in interlacing fascicles.
  • (4) The results of the meanwhile innumerous studies were found to be at variance and often controversial.
  • (5) There are innumerable pitfalls in the intense learning process of residency training that may result in a deficient resident.
  • (6) Today a visitor to Google Book Search can read on screen or download the full text of Oliver Twist, The Wealth of Nations or innumerable other out-of-copyright titles.
  • (7) At this time, innumerable oligodendrocytes were observed producing BP simultaneously in the major white fiber tracts.
  • (8) One hour after blood reinfusion, the mucosal blood flow in the corpus was increased markedly, and innumerable hemorrhagic erosions appeared in this region.
  • (9) There are innumerable examples around the world where content that is declared illegal under the laws of one country, would be deemed legal in others: Thailand criminalises some speech that is critical of its King, Turkey criminalises some speech that is critical of Ataturk, and Russia outlaws some speech that is deemed to be ‘gay propaganda’.
  • (10) The resected right lower lobe of the lung contained innumerable lesions varying in size from microscopic to 3.7 cm in diameter, all of which were diagnosed as "sclerosing hemangioma."
  • (11) The surface of the articular cartilage of 12 months and 20 months old cats was populated by innumerable pits.
  • (12) Patterns of involvement were classified as (a) innumerable small polyps carpeting large areas, (b) scattered varying-size polyps, and (c) sparse involvement with few small polyps.
  • (13) On gross examination, the uterus was typically symmetrically enlarged due to almost complete replacement of the myometrium by innumerable, poorly defined, confluent nodules.
  • (14) There are innumerable practical applications of these combined modalities to the clinical management of patients with pacemakers.
  • (15) Women make innumerable trivial decisions throughout pregnancy, hundreds of which may affect their unborn.
  • (16) It contains innumerable small cysts, giving it a honeycombed appearance.
  • (17) Multiple mucosal and submucosal carcinoids were seen in combination with innumerable hyperplastic and dysplastic growths of argyrophil endocrine cells disseminated in the entire acidopeptic mucosa.
  • (18) A unilateral rosacea-like chronic dermatitis of the right side of the face was shown to harbor innumerable Demodex folliculorum and D. brevis.
  • (19) Unperturbed by these and innumerable other illustrations of our fabled “yearning for democracy”, respectable commentary continued to laud President George W Bush for his dedication to “democracy promotion”, or sometimes criticized him for his naivete in thinking that an outside power could impose its democratic yearnings on others.
  • (20) In psycho-pathology, this paradigm puts in evidence the innumerable interrelations which intervene at all the levels to create disturbances in the functions, inducing troubles of communications with the consciousness resulting in diminution or non-function of the latter, type psychosis, or in its activation, type neurosis.

Numerable


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Capable of being numbered or counted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The taxonomic relationship of strains H4-14 and 25a with previously described Xanthobacter strains was studied by numerical classification.
  • (2) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
  • (3) There have been numerous documented cases of people being forced to seek hospital treatment after eating meat contaminated with high concentrations of clenbuterol.
  • (4) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
  • (5) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (6) Numerical results for the population of England and Wales are shown.
  • (7) Transmission electron microscopy demonstrated that these blebs were devoid of organelles and microvilli; scanning electron microscopy revealed that the blebs were highly wrinkled and more numerous than were the projections observed in tissue from animals treated with testosterone alone, or in tissue from unoperated controls.
  • (8) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
  • (9) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
  • (10) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
  • (11) An efficient numerical algorithm based on the cyclic coordinate search method to solve the latter is explained.
  • (12) History contains numerous examples of government secrecy breeding abuse.
  • (13) The numerical chromosome values in 53 human tumors were determined and compared with the modal DNA values as measured by flow cytometry.
  • (14) Electron microscopy revealed the presence of a hitherto unreported peculiar "pilovacuolar" inclusion in numerous mitochondria, composed of an electron dense pile or rod within a vacuole, while globular or crystalline inclusions were absent.
  • (15) There are numerous other male protagonists out there in desperate need of a sex change.
  • (16) This force will be numerically similar to the net driving Starling force in small pores, but distinctly different in large pores.
  • (17) However, when beta-xyloside-treated cultures were supplied with exogenous basement membrane, Schwann cells produced numerous myelin segments.
  • (18) Though the problems associated with Robin sequence may be numerous, especially if the primary cause of the sequence is a multiple anomaly syndrome, the most acute problems in affected newborns is upper airway obstruction.
  • (19) 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.
  • (20) However, almost all of the numerous compounds found to inhibit ammonia oxidizers also inhibit methanotrophs, and most of the inhibitors act upon the monooxygenases.