What's the difference between inveterate and veteran?

Inveterate


Definition:

  • (a.) Old; long-established.
  • (a.) Firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; deep-rooted; of long standing; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse.
  • (a.) Having habits fixed by long continuance; confirmed; habitual; as, an inveterate idler or smoker.
  • (a.) Malignant; virulent; spiteful.
  • (v. t.) To fix and settle by long continuance.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is noteworthy that intracardiac evaluation is necessary when there is longstanding and inveterate tachyarrhythmia in otherwise healthy children.
  • (2) Graham, an inveterate jokester, slightly undermined the moment by joking shortly afterwards: “I feel like I’m on Oprah.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lindsey Graham wipes away tears while speaking at the Family Leadership Summit.
  • (3) Authors describe the operative method of Iselin for the treatment of inveterated extensor tendon injuries over the DIP joint and their results.
  • (4) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (5) The Man Who Can't Keep His Clothes On ( Thursday, 10pm, C4 ) catalogues his achievements while following this inveterate attention-seeker as he plans his testicular swan song.
  • (6) Cyril Smith , the late Liberal MP, accused since his death in 2010 of being an inveterate child abuser, was said to visit the property.
  • (7) It is the authors' opinion that, taking into account the late results following operative reduction of inveterate femoral dislocation, the operation of arthrodesis of the coxa is felt to be more rational in such cases.
  • (8) What the authors mean by locked dislocation of the shoulder is an inveterate posterior dislocation of the humeral head which remains locked within the glenoid cavity as a result of anatomopathological lesion.
  • (9) This action may prove of value in the treatment of ulcer patients who are inveterate smokers, alcohol users or who are compelled to consume non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for pain relief from rheumatic and allied diseases.
  • (10) This method has been used in the complex treatment of 12 patients with acute and inveterate injuries of the thoracic and the thoracolumbar departments of the spinal column and of the spine.
  • (11) Correction osteotomy of the bones of both forearms with excision of the radial head is recommended for inveterate cases.
  • (12) This technique, based on transganglionic regulation--a novel neurobiological principle discovered by Csillik and Knyihár-Csillik-, alleviated pain in both fresh and inveterated PHN cases.
  • (13) Personally, I’ll believe we’re getting somewhere when Channel 4 puts on Corporate-Benefits Street – with White Dee replaced by Amazon founder and inveterate tax-dodger Jeff Bezos.
  • (14) The authors report 9 cases of acetabular fracture, 6 recent complex and 3 inveterate, treated surgically through the lateral incision of Letournel.
  • (15) A tall, well-built man with an imposing physical presence, Sherrin was an inveterate first-nighter, always enjoying a couple of stiff Martinis before the show and a good supper afterwards.
  • (16) A chronic slip of the upper femoral epiphysis (also called by the authors inveterate epiphysiolysis) is a rare, but not an extremely rare, occurrence.
  • (17) The number of daily cigarettes consumed by inveterate smokers is considerably and lastingly reduced, and 27 p. cent of the patients quit smoking.
  • (18) Nevertheless, the high incidence of often serious complications makes the combined anterior-posterior approach preferable for severe inveterate fractures of the acetabulum.
  • (19) The authors present an analysis of the results of operative treatment for inveterate femoral dislocations in 13 patients, in 6 of them open reduction of the dislocation was performed, in 6--arthrodesis of the coxa, in 1--subtrochanteric osteotomy.
  • (20) In a 25-year-old female patient with right-sided adnex tumour and inveterate infection on the urinary tract a benign cystic teratoma (dermoid cyst) perforated into the lumen of the urinary bladder could diagnosed cystoscopically.

Veteran


Definition:

  • (a.) Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and the duties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteran officer or soldier; veteran skill.
  • (n.) One who has been long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Veterans admitted to a 90-day alcoholism treatment program were administered the MMPI, and those who completed the program were retested before discharge.
  • (2) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
  • (3) Also on Saturday, the VA said it would allow more veterans to obtain healthcare at private hospitals and clinics.
  • (4) We reviewed the pre-Vietnam contents of the service medical and personnel records of 250 Vietnam combat veterans, in an attempt to identify factors predisposing to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
  • (5) To identify the responsible virus and the consequences of the epidemic, during 1985 we interviewed and serologically screened 597 veterans who had been in the army in 1942.
  • (6) While circulating the quarries is illegal – you risk a fine of up to €60 – neither the IGC nor the police seem to mind the veteran cataphiles who possess a good knowledge of the underground space, and who respect their heritage.
  • (7) It also pledged support to a veterans’ group that rejected a request by a gay, lesbian and bisexual group to march in the St Patrick’s Day parade in Boston.
  • (8) For most causes of death, the observed number of deaths of veterans and of non-veterans was less than expected from Australian population death rates, and for no cause was there a statistically significant excess of deaths compared with that of the Australian population.
  • (9) Eight cases of congenital dermoid cysts over the anterior fontanelle have been encountered in Chinese children at the Veterans' General Hospital, Taipei, in the past 4 years.
  • (10) People want real graphics, real Hollywood-type experiences,” said Collins, a games industry veteran before founding SuperAwesome.
  • (11) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
  • (12) Another military veteran, Brett Puffenbarger, 29, said: “I jumped on Trump train fairly early on.
  • (13) As part of two Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Trials, we obtained angiographic patency data for internal mammary artery (IMA) and saphenous vein grafts to the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery at 1 year after coronary artery bypass surgery.
  • (14) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
  • (15) Sometimes in the other team’s half, sometimes in front of his own box, sometimes as the last man.” Die Zeit singles out Bayern’s veteran midfielder Schweinsteiger for praise: “In this historic, dramatic and fascinating victory over Argentina , Schweinsteiger was the boss on the pitch.
  • (16) It appeared Dunaway and Warren Beatty had an envelope containing a card naming a previous award won by La La Land, prompting visible hesitation between the two veteran actors before Dunaway went ahead and named La La Land.
  • (17) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (18) Afghan veterans, believed to include men who fought the Americans in Somalia, have also returned.
  • (19) It is argued that for Resistance veterans only the intrusive reminiscences of the stressful events discriminate this constellation of symptoms from subjects with an anxious-depressive symptomatology.
  • (20) The prevalence of a history of post-traumatic stress disorder was 1 percent in the total population, about 3.5 percent in civilians exposed to physical attack and in Vietnam veterans who were not wounded, and 20 percent in veterans wounded in Vietnam.