What's the difference between insurmountable and invisible?

Insurmountable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being passed over, surmounted, or overcome; insuperable; as, insurmountable difficulty or obstacle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Residual technical problems remain which should not prove insurmountable.
  • (2) It presents a challenge, but not an insurmountable one.
  • (3) They serve only to create insurmountable barriers that effectively eliminate medical abortions as an available option."
  • (4) The following myths are discussed and refuted: (1) There is an insurmountable community-research chasm.
  • (5) This speech was designed to allow progressives once again to see Barack Obama as they have always wanted to see him, his policies notwithstanding: as a deeply thoughtful, moral, complex leader who is doing his level best, despite often insurmountable obstacles, to bring about all those Good Things that progressives thought they would be getting when they empowered him.
  • (6) loxtidine and lamitidine, are insurmountable H2-receptor blockers.
  • (7) The challenges sometimes feel insurmountable, Tousif says.
  • (8) David Cameron is preparing to bow to insurmountable political opposition by putting the coalition's flagship NHS reform bill on hold beyond Easter, and possibly for as long as three months.
  • (9) In the pithed rat, EXP3892 showed selective and insurmountable AII antagonism.
  • (10) Recent data suggest that hyperacute rejection may not represent an insurmountable barrier to discordant xenotransplantation.
  • (11) The scale and depth of the climate challenge may seem insurmountable, and politicians will tell us with no irony, that they cannot sell, and no one will buy the policy ticket necessary for our own environmental rescue.
  • (12) The study of agonist-antagonist interactions may be aided by the use of these procedures, as descriptions of insurmountable antagonism may be complemented by the identification of stimulus conditions associated with the antagonist, as well as those conditions that represent novel stimulus states.
  • (13) The authors conclude that though the process to primary mental health care will be a long one, the problems are unlikely to be insurmountable.
  • (14) No insurmountable problems in the development of the artificial heart have been identified.
  • (15) The reliance on scientific evidence appears to present almost insurmountable problems of proof of causation to the plaintiff.
  • (16) That problem might not have been insurmountable had it presented itself at another point in our history.
  • (17) In one case, a further increase in buspirone dose resulted in an insurmountable antagonism, i.e., increasing APO dose still resulted in primarily saline-appropriate responding.
  • (18) Taken together, these results show that GRI17289 is a potent, specific, selective and insurmountable antagonist at angiotensin AT, receptors.
  • (19) But if Pope Francis has his way, a deal to bridge what many believe is an insurmountable divide between the Roman Catholic church and the communist Chinese government could be announced within the next 30 days.
  • (20) Shareable cities These may seem like fairly insurmountable obstacles.

Invisible


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible.
  • (n.) An invisible person or thing; specifically, God, the Supreme Being.
  • (n.) A Rosicrucian; -- so called because avoiding declaration of his craft.
  • (n.) One of those (as in the 16th century) who denied the visibility of the church.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Long-standing providers preferred a categorical approach in order to maintain a diverse political coalition for an historically invisible service.
  • (2) Warts were confined to the lips in 27 (56%) of 48 patients with meatal warts; in an additional 5 patients with meatal warts the warts arose from deep in the fossa navicularis and in 16 patients with meatal warts there were additional warts in the fossa navicularis invisible on clinical examination.
  • (3) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (4) Following his exposure of racism in Invisible Man, a sequel, Juneteenth, was left uncompleted at his death in 1994.
  • (5) But while he may remain fairly invisible on the campaign trail for a while longer, his presence is already being felt behind closed doors.
  • (6) This model of care treats the general milestones of pregnancy while completely ignoring the patient, making their needs almost invisible to the health system.
  • (7) He seemed to have his finger on an invisible button, hardwired into the brains of the Fleet Street editors, driving them into an apoplectic frenzy of rage each time he chose to push it.
  • (8) The 154 grossly invisible foci of argyrophil cell microproliferation thus detected were classified into three stages of microproliferations (I, II, and III), and the last stage was definitely a microcarcinoid.
  • (9) In 35 tumors smaller than 2 cm, invisible tumors were 66% and nonpalpable tumors were 63%.
  • (10) I can't pull an invisibility cloak over my house – nor would I wish to," she said, a little wistfully, as if she really wished she had Harry Potter's magic powers.
  • (11) The best senior staff are discreet, disciplined, hard-working, collaborative and almost invisible.
  • (12) You can date the phrase back further, to 1998, when Peggy McIntosh used the word "privilege" in her essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack .
  • (13) Her one-off two-hour drama To Walk Invisible, based on the lives of the three Brontë sisters, will debut this month.
  • (14) What differentiates Internet of Things devices from the PCs, tablets and smartphones that came before them is their invisibility.
  • (15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
  • (16) The rate of invisible metastasis to the diaphragm was 20% in our experimental study.
  • (17) Yet it seems to be that aspect of the invisibility of the URLs that's really troubling the people who are lobbying Mandelson (because this is obviously not something he's discovered from surfing the net; I do, a lot, and I've not seen anyone complaining about the Evil of Cyberlocker Copyright Infringement).
  • (18) "It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboatbobbing sea."
  • (19) Wendy Mead, who chairs the corporation’s environment committee, said: “Diesel was sold as an environmental solution but it is in fact an invisible killer.
  • (20) Other cities, such as London, have cleaned their rivers not just of visual garbage but also invisible pollutants.