What's the difference between irrelevant and regardless?

Irrelevant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
  • (2) At this point that is largely an irrelevance,” he said.
  • (3) That idea may seem irrelevant to those of us who live a broadband lifestyle, but Justin Smith – who tracks the company's movements on the Inside Facebook blog – says that it makes perfect sense.
  • (4) Mammary tumors in dogs related to oral contraceptives are now widely considered to be irrelevant as a model or predictor for human tumors.
  • (5) We conclude that transformation by transfection with human tumor DNA does not require persistence of the BKV viral genome, suggesting that either BKV virus was irrelevant to original oncogenesis, in analogy with models proposed by others for herpesvirus oncogenesis.
  • (6) The search for the Na-K-ATPase inhibitor has been hampered by the lack of specificity of most assays which demonstrate the presence of many irrelevant Na-K-ATPase inhibitors.
  • (7) Ratios of MoAb 273-34A to a nonspecific, irrelevant MoAb 135-14 are 250 to 285 times higher in the lung than in the serum.
  • (8) But what has really been lost is a sense of the density and interdependence of human life, which can neither be reduced to a formula nor brushed aside as irrelevant.
  • (9) It isn't, of course; but to make the primary complaint that he is using his view of the first world war to make political points is asking us to make history irrelevant to all but academics.
  • (10) As arousal level increases, so does selectivity, and attention is diverted away from irrelevant task components.
  • (11) New analysis by the climate think tank Sandbag predicts that by 2020 the ETS could be so over-supplied with tradable permits that it will be almost completely irrelevant.
  • (12) The actual rights and wrongs of it are almost irrelevant.
  • (13) When the three-tone patterns were embedded in longer sequences of seven or eight tones, the identification performance was best when the pattern occurred at the beginning or the end of the sequence, and when the range of frequencies from which the irrelevant background tones were chosen lay outside the range of pattern frequencies.
  • (14) The “right to be forgotten” ruling allows EU residents to request the removal of search results that they feel link to outdated or irrelevant information about themselves on a country-by-country basis.
  • (15) Using this methodology, no non-allogeneic reactive T cells remain in the responding cells: after restimulation by autologous LCL, no IL-2-SC could be seen and no cytotoxic activity could be observed against autologous, irrelevant or LAK sensitive targets.
  • (16) Blocking is an established animal learning procedure, thought by some researchers to reflect selective attention; decreased blocking indicates increased processing of irrelevant stimuli.
  • (17) There was a significant but clinically irrelevant increase in mean pulse rate before and 1 min after early bronchoscopy.
  • (18) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
  • (19) The precise identities of the alleles are irrelevant to the linkage analysis so long as identity-by-descent and linkage-phase information are preserved.
  • (20) And the fact that the disclosures have led to the highest journalism rewards, have led to historic reforms in the US and around the world – all of that would be irrelevant in a prosecution under the espionage laws in the United States.” Snowden also could face an untold number of additional charges if he returned to the United States.

Regardless


Definition:

  • (a.) Having no regard; heedless; careless; as, regardless of life, consequences, dignity.
  • (a.) Not regarded; slighted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, within 5 min potassium overcame the vanadate potentiation of ouabain binding regardless of the order in which it was added to the reaction mixture.
  • (2) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
  • (3) Minimal breast cancer should include lobular carcinoma in situ (lobular neoplasia) and ductal carcinoma in situ regardless of nodal status, and (tentatively) invasive carcinoma smaller than 1 cm in total diameter, if axillary lymph nodes are not involved.
  • (4) In this study we tested the hypothesis that regardless of concentration pattern and exposure rate the same exposure dose of O3 will induce the same spirometric response.
  • (5) The results indicate that, regardless of the photoperiod, no clear functional relationship can be found between the avian pineal gland and thyroid function, although a transitory increase in T4 levels was seen in both pinealectomized and sham-operated birds shortly after the operations.
  • (6) The results of conventional sciatic nerve stretching tests are usually evaluated regardless of patient age, gender or movements of the hip joint and spine.
  • (7) Cytoplasmic accumulation of such mRNAs as or c-fos, c-myc, beta-actin an ornithine decarboxylase occurred in serum-stimulated cells regardless of the presence of cytochalasin D, whereas that of thymidine kinase and histone H3 was blocked by the drug.
  • (8) Regardless of the habitual diet, a test meal accentuated the rate of triacylglycerol appearance in whole plasma and in the very low density lipoproteins of Triton WR-1339-treated monkeys, and the rate of increase of the protein component after feeding was slightly higher.
  • (9) The time for cervical dilatation from 7 to 10 cm and duration of the second stage of labor did not influence maternal morbidity or fetal outcome, regardless of the method of anesthesia.
  • (10) Infection in the granulocytopenic patient is often life-threatening, and the frequency and severity of infection are increased regardless of the cause of leukocyte suppression.
  • (11) The GI averaged approximately 1.0 throughout the study regardless of which mouthrinse was used.
  • (12) In contrast, complexes of both subclasses inhibited phagocytosis by human monocytes, regardless of the subclass of the inducing antibodies.
  • (13) The low incidence of pneumonia regardless of the type of therapy may be attributable to vigorous, vigilant respiratory care in a population at high risk for developing pneumonia.
  • (14) All other broad-spectrum benzimidazole anthelmintics, regardless of substituent at the 2 position (methyl carbamate or thiazolyl group), are flat.
  • (15) These data demonstrate that PTH induces bicarbonate and phosphate excretion regardless of whether carbonic anhydrase is intact or nearly 100% inhibited by acetazolamide.
  • (16) Although the entire cohort of neck patients, regardless of group assignment, improved significantly on all the outcome variables over the 6-week period, patients receiving intermittent traction performed significantly better than those assigned to the no traction group in terms of pain (P = 0.03), forward flexion (P = 0.01), right rotation (P = 0.004) and left rotation (P = 0.05).
  • (17) Immunoprecipitates were analysed by SDS-PAGE and considerable heterogeneity in antigen recognition between individual animals was observed, regardless of infection regimen.
  • (18) There was no difference in bile flow or biliary excretion rate, regardless of which bile acid sulfate was tested.
  • (19) Regardless of age, smoking pack-years, and nasal allergic reactions, the prevalence of asthma was significantly associated with the use of carbamate insecticides (prevalence odds ratio = 1.8, 95% confidence interval: 1.1 to 3.1, p = 0.02).
  • (20) The FLE and FE were present for all suspensions regardless of osmolality.