What's the difference between irrelevant and unessential?

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.

Unessential


Definition:

  • (a.) Not essential; not of prime importance; not indispensable; unimportant.
  • (a.) Void of essence, or real being.
  • (n.) Something not constituting essence, or something which is not of absolute necessity; as, forms are among the unessentials of religion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These data indicate that the adrenal medulla is unessential for normal endurance exercise as long as liver glycogen is available.
  • (2) On the basis of these results, limbic regions of the cat's brain might be considered unessential for intact learning and mnemonic functions.
  • (3) Because the mutant can successfully infect nonpermissive cells, phage-induced deoxynucleoside monophosphate kinase appears to be an unessential function for phage production.
  • (4) Trp-155 in bovine DNase A (EC 3.1.4.5) appeared to be unessential for the enzymatic activity for the following reasons: (1) A unique peptide which suggests the environmental difference of Trp-155 was obtained from porcine pancreatic DNase A.
  • (5) Two of 13 histidyl residues were modified irreversibly due to Bamberger's cleavage reaction, but these two residues were found to be unessential for RNA polymerase activity.
  • (6) Although cyclic AMP has been shown to be unessential for growth of E. coli under optimal laboratory conditions in glucose-containing medium, it undoubtedly can play a role in survival.
  • (7) This can be either the consequence or cause of the unessential loss of body weight well before death.
  • (8) A genetic map of the prophage was established using defective, heat-induced lysates of int- lysogens both in vegetative crosses with sus mutants of essential genes and in transduction of the four unessential genes to lysogenic recipients.
  • (9) The abrasion is minimal, the tissue reaction to abrasion products is unessential.
  • (10) For complex formation, the isoprenoid side chain and hydroxy group of alpha-tocopherol are unessential and, rather, the methyl groups attached to the aromatic ring of the chromanol moiety seems to be responsible.
  • (11) The phenomenon is also an important part of the mechanisms whereby those unessential factors pathologize making various kinds of 'itis'.
  • (12) The interpeak--intervals only unessentially differ from the standard group.
  • (13) One transformant contained a plasmid that encoded an unessential gene, STP1, that in multiple copies enhanced the suppression of SUP4(G37) and caused increased production of mature SUP4(G37) product.
  • (14) This analysis has permitted a functional map of the protein to be drawn and classifies five segments of the protein, which together contain 48% of the sequence, as unessential to the biological activity of the protein.
  • (15) The unessential genes lI, iny, cII and, at least to some extent, even the integrase gene int are not subject to negative control by the repressor, the product of gene cIII.
  • (16) The bacteriophage T4 unf gene, known to be involved in the arrest of transcription from cytosine-containing DNA, is unessential except in Escherichia coli strains containing plasmid pR386.
  • (17) Thus, Lys-50 and Lys-82 are unessential for enzymatic activity while Lys-60 may play a minor role.
  • (18) We conclude that chemotactin-induced aggregation is similar to the other chemotactin-induced PMN functions in the requirements for proper temperature and intact glycolytic pathways; in contrast, however, and intact cytoskeletal microtubular system appears unessential for this response.
  • (19) Nor have you been afraid to divest whatever is unessential in order to regain the authority and trust which is demanded of ministers of Christ and rightly expected by the faithful,” he said.
  • (20) After blocking the unessential thiol groups with NEM, the essential cysteine was labeled with N-(4-dimethylamino-3,5-dinitrophenyl)maleimide (DDPM).