What's the difference between interfering and meddlesome?

Interfering


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interfere

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas the growth and division of normal cells is carefully regulated to meet the needs of the body, tumor cells proliferate autonomously and continually, eventually interfering with and destroying the functions of normal tissue.
  • (2) Agents that lower total plasma or LDL cholesterol in hypercholesterolaemic patients by interfering with cholesterol reabsorption from the gut (cholestyramine, cholestipol) or reduction of hepatic VLDL release (fibrates) do not appear to interfere with platelet hyperreactivity and do not change platelet-derived thromboxane formation.
  • (3) Interfering macromolecular serum components were left outside the capsule during the centrifugation or forced dialysis.
  • (4) To facilitate detoxification, the centrifuge is employed to provide plasma rich in toxins, but void of potentially interfering blood components such as platelets and whole blood cells.
  • (5) Exceptions are only those foods exhibiting interfering peaks from coextractives already in the uncooked form.
  • (6) Substitution with the immunoglobulin heavy-chain enhancer allowed replication in B lymphoid cells but interfered with replication in 3T6 cells and mastocytomas.
  • (7) SCH 13521 definitely interfered with the localization of the radioactivity of these steroids in the prostate and indicated a competitive situation between SCH 13521 and the steroids.
  • (8) Black males with low intentions to use condoms reported significantly more negative attitudes about the use of condoms (eg, using condoms is disgusting) and reacted with more intense anger when their partners asked about previous sexual contacts, when a partner refused sex without a condom, or when they perceived condoms as interfering with foreplay and sexual pleasure.
  • (9) Mechanisms that modulate gonadotropin and nucleotide activation of adenylate cyclase without interfering directly with the catalytic unit are implicated in the changes that accompany luteolysis.
  • (10) More likely, AP inhibits HPV by interfering with the purine metabolism.
  • (11) In case of extractions from blank plasma samples interfering peaks are not observed.
  • (12) When monocytes and lymphocytes were treated separately with OP, washed, and recombined, it appeared that these OP mediated their suppressive effects by interfering with a monocyte function rather than acting directly on lymphocytes.
  • (13) Phosphatases bound to subcellular particles or fragments seem to be the most important inhibitors in the milk interfering with the RNA-directed DNA polymerase assay.
  • (14) 4 It is concluded that clomipramine acts as an antagonist to these actions of delta9-THC by interfering with entry of delta9-THC into tryptaminergic neurones.
  • (15) Simultaneous overproduction of VirD1 and D2 proteins, endonuclease acting on the border repeats, interfered with the promoter functions of the border segments.
  • (16) During the measurement, the values of previously selected features of sensor output signal are determined; then they serve as the input data for computation of concentrations of glucose and of interfering substances.
  • (17) Due to the high reactivity of the chemical species and the presence of multiple potentially interfering substances, the measurement of oxygen-derived free radicals in biological material requires highly developed techniques.
  • (18) This seems related to the contractile effect of the peptide itself on the longitudinal muscle which interfers non specifically with the development of contractions induced by any other agonist.
  • (19) It was concluded that the heat-induced substance(s) from leukocytes, which being highly possible the Hsps, interfered the mobility of wash human sperm and the inhibition might be antagonized by seminal plasma.
  • (20) They appear to do this largely by interfering with the sleep of caregivers.

Meddlesome


Definition:

  • (a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Then I was seen as someone who, when she was in power, didn’t want anything to do with them.” She was portrayed as meddlesome and pushy, with an undue influence on both Hollande’s policies and his wardrobe.
  • (2) What worries me is that all this meddlesome injunctioneering could soon threaten the fabric of reason itself, causing a black hole of logic that sucks everything in the universe through to neverwhere.
  • (3) In a memorable exchange, Senator Angus King of Maine asked: “When a president of the United States in the Oval Office says something like ‘I hope’ or ‘I suggest’ or ‘would you,’ do you take that as a directive?” Comey replied: “Yes, it rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’” – a reference to King Henry’s II’s kiss of death to Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
  • (4) Professionals, unionised workers and meddlesome politicians need to stand aside and allow the system to become rational, transaction-oriented and incentivised.
  • (5) Their fathers tended to be away from home, and mothers were conspicuously overprotective and meddlesome.
  • (6) Even when David Cameron swore he would not introduce "any more meddlesome top-down restructuring" he pushed through another.
  • (7) He dumped Every Child Matters: it was, he noted in February 2012, "meddlesome".
  • (8) No one could be accused of "meddlesome" intervention in the life of Daniel Pelka.
  • (9) The size of the hammer taken to Defra revealed more about the government’s approach than simply its antipathy to the meddlesome pursuit of environmental protection.
  • (10) 1 example of "meddlesome medicine" is the widespread use of "therapeutic abortion."
  • (11) While this sort of front office juggling and decision-making waffling isn't entirely uncommon and not really too newsworthy, Sports Illustrated's Chris Mannix reported details that made Pera's recent behavior as being less meddlesome and more just flat out eccentric : • Pera wanted more influence in deciding the playing time for certain players, particularly fourth-year power forward Ed Davis.
  • (12) Simon Callow stars as Godfrey, the mischievously meddlesome narrator, while Enfield plays a sinister creep who seduces grieving widows, via tip-offs from a corrupt undertaker, in order to steal their life's savings.
  • (13) Minor surgery is usually meddlesome and often followed by local recurrence which is hard to control.
  • (14) At 64 years of age, the lazy and meddlesome Cloquet stopped operating and writing.
  • (15) Laparotomy is unnecessary and potentially meddlesome.
  • (16) It's a useful reminder, if one were needed, that there's no technique too mendacious, too meddlesome or too unpleasant for people who think other woman's reproductive organs are de facto their business.