What's the difference between intricate and onerous?

Intricate


Definition:

  • (a.) Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
  • (v. t.) To entangle; to involve; to make perplexing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (2) These channels form an intricate network throughout the submucosa.
  • (3) A large number of samples can be analyzed without specialized equipment or intricate experimental steps.
  • (4) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
  • (5) The program helps easy study of the different parameters on the conducting rate of the permeable ion through the channel which otherwise would demand intricate experimental set-ups.
  • (6) The results appear to offer pharmacological evidence for the recently evolving intricate innervation pattern of the urethra including its distal portion, where the alpha-adrenergic system is believed to be important.
  • (7) Neuroimaging data are particularly complex owing to (a) the high number of potential dependent variables (i.e., regions of interest) coupled with the practical limitations on sample size; (b) the known physical properties of scanners (e.g., resolution) interacting with the intricate and variable structure of the human brain; and (c) mathematical properties introduced into the data by the physiological model for quantification.
  • (8) Bungie says it has a vast and stable infrastructure, which it has intricately tested.
  • (9) Age, height and weight are intricately related to performance in a specific sporting activity.
  • (10) In brief, the results suggest that the categorical usage of relative terms involves a rich and intricate knowledge system and that it takes children considerable time to acquire and organize the relevant pieces of knowledge.
  • (11) Further experimentation is likely to be technically demanding because of indications that intricate hormone-prostaglandin-cytokine networks regulate uterine macrophage activities.
  • (12) Arsenal responded in the only way they know, with Ramsey, Mesut Özil, Jack Wilshere and Oxlade-Chamberlain all involved in intricate passing patterns on the edge of the area, though there was no end product to bother Tim Howard apart from another long shot from Oxlade-Chamberlain that drifted wide.
  • (13) Worldwide literature and ten or so personal cases are reviewed as a basis for distinction or intrication of two aspect of post-hydatid sclerosing cholangitis; that of a localized lesion of diffuse lesions of the biliary tract.
  • (14) It was found that underweight children showed significantly less favourable indices in all of the above categories except stool parasitology suggesting an extremely intricate and complex interaction of a host of ecological variables in the causation of undernutrition.
  • (15) What at first appeared to be a frustrating, difficult-to-control case of diabetes mellitus was later revealed to be an intricate drama involving multiple voices and issues: marital, life stage, family, religious, occupational, regional, economic, and physician family-of-origin.
  • (16) To analyze intricate roentgeno-diagnostic complexes the need for application of frequency-contrast characteristics (FCC) is generally acknowledged at present.
  • (17) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
  • (18) "In Trapani, the mafia and the masons are intricately linked," Principato said.
  • (19) Qualitative analyses resulted in the identification of descriptors of fatigue, conditions under which fatigue occurs, an intricate repertoire of strategies used to prevent and manage fatigue, and the consequences of chronic fatigue.
  • (20) It appears, then, that the interrelation between glial cell lines during differentiation is more intricate than previously suspected and is closely dependent, for each line, upon the integrity of axons.

Onerous


Definition:

  • (a.) Burdensome; oppressive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Onerous new regulations could threaten the shale energy revolution, America’s role as a global energy superpower, and the dramatic reductions in CO2 emissions made possible by an abundant and affordable domestic supply of clean-burning natural gas,” Jack Gerrard, president of the American Petroleum Institute, said in a statement.
  • (2) Picking positives from a third successive league loss, the first time Chelsea have endured that since Gianluca Vialli’s stewardship, must have felt onerous even if Willian was excellent once again and Eden Hazard – for all that he has gone 1,375 minutes without a Premier League goal – arguably produced his best performance of the season.
  • (3) The retailer has also taken a £70m hit from onerous leases, and distribution centre closures in Harlow and Weybridge cost £30m.
  • (4) Bank credit is available, but only at a price, and on conditions businesses consider too onerous.
  • (5) With the growing AIDS problem, the serious TB burden in sub-Saharan Africa may become even more onerous and may critically overload the stressed African health care systems.
  • (6) But that was a clear demotion, unlike Hague whose decision to stand down at the election paved the way for a less onerous cabinet post.
  • (7) The radiologic and histologic problems of differential diagnosis, and the subtle distinction between benign and malignant make decision an onerous task for surgeons, orthopedists, pathologists, oncologists and radiotherapists.
  • (8) The most onerous challenge for the Football Association in its search for a new England manager may no longer be whittling down a list of impressive coaches, but convincing the successful candidate that they will still have a career of note when it all falls apart.
  • (9) Conservative MP David Morris, the government’s ambassador for small businesses, warned that the self-employed were concerned the new system would be onerous and lead to overpayments in some cases.
  • (10) The onerous terms of the deeply unpopular “memoranda”, agreed with foreign lenders to keep insolvent Greece afloat, would be overturned.
  • (11) If the government lifted its gag orders on the companies, the co-operation would appear "a lot less onerous and problematic for civil liberties.
  • (12) Over-onerous rules, such as borrowers having to be experienced landlords or earning significant minimum incomes have eased a little, making buy-to-let an even more attractive investment."
  • (13) "Our ratios put a cap on the salaries staff can be paid because of onerous requirements on numbers.
  • (14) Issues with buying Five, which made losses of €41m last year, include onerous foreign programme deals such as a lifetime series commitment to contribute to the production of Home & Away and its TV sales operation increasingly suffering against larger rivals in the market.
  • (15) Trying to follow through a complaint in relation to a non-Queensland police officer, either interstate or internationally, would be an onerous task and unlikely to generate a reasonable outcome,” he said.
  • (16) Many financial firms will be exempt from the most onerous requirements of the Financial Services Authority's new code on bonuses, it emerged today – just as David Cameron stepped up his rhetoric against City pay.
  • (17) As lead singer, Michael's schedule was more onerous than that of his brothers.
  • (18) I don’t think six months is unduly onerous.” The trust’s public value test – the first time it has used such a procedure to look at the closure of a service rather than the launch of a new one – will look at how the proposals will impact on licence fee payers and look at value for money, reach, quality of service and whether it is an effective use of public funds.
  • (19) Yet dealing with AIDS in this traditional society is an onerous task.
  • (20) Worse, the debt is structured so that the compound interest rate effect of not paying it off early makes it even more onerous, an effect vastly more likely to hit students from disadvantaged homes.