What's the difference between irretrievable and retrievable?

Irretrievable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not retrievable; irrecoverable; irreparable; as, an irretrievable loss.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anaerobically, lactaldehyde is reduced by an NADH-COUPLED REDUCTASE TO L-1,2-propanediol, which is lost into the medium irretrievably, even when oxygen is subsequently introduced.
  • (2) To define more clearly a salvageable patient for possible utilization of a left ventricular assist device prior to multiple organ failure and irretrievability during postcardiotomy intra-aortic balloon pumping (IABP), we made prospective and retrospective analyses to determine prognostic indices for survival.
  • (3) Many ministers believe his position is irretrievable, while others believe Brown may eventually recover if voters look to the future.
  • (4) In his strongly worded judgement, Wildblood listed the council’s multiple mistakes point by point and warned that the child’s chance of a permanent family had been irretrievably shattered.
  • (5) Complications in the furture are likely to be progressive sclerosis from irretrievable fragments and knots of the artificial materials and conceivably malignant degeneration of tissues of the scalp.
  • (6) Inhibitor activity was registered even if sera were not present in cell culture continuously but only 6 hours of preincubation; then their action was irretrievable.
  • (7) His lack of communication and isolating people and strictly controlling all information has made your party less effective.” Labor MP Nicole Manison said the government was “irretrievable.” “It has been very clear.. that there are some deep problems within the government and they are not going to be fixed, it’s gone too far,” she said.
  • (8) He said: "The [MoJ] proposals will undermine the position of the independent bar, irretrievably and forever.
  • (9) He was also dissatisfied with Moody’s role and it quickly became apparent during his talks with Parish that the damage was irretrievable.
  • (10) Clarity on this point would enable Britain to start making a crucial point to our counterparties: the four freedoms of the single market are neither immutable nor irretrievably interdependent.
  • (11) In the divorce filing released on Wednesday, Murdoch's lawyers said that the "relationship between husband and wife had broken down irretrievably".
  • (12) Bruce is understood to have left with a heavy heart but felt his position had become untenable and that his much-soured relationship with Ehab Allam, the vice-chairman, was irretrievable.
  • (13) With the game seemingly irretrievable, Rodgers sent on Daniel Sturridge at half-time.
  • (14) Cytoplasm and organelles become entrapped in the upward movement of granules towards the cell apex, become irretrievably isolated, and are sloughed into the crypt lumen.
  • (15) He said formal consultation with Indigenous leaders, which has not yet begun, ought to have begun months ago, and the relationship between the government and leadership structures in the Kimberley had now “broken down irretrievably”.
  • (16) Clegg will try to persuade the electorate the party has changed irretrievably, saying: "The past is gone and it isn't coming back.
  • (17) Surgical therapy has three roles in disseminated atheroembolism: prevention of further atheroembolism with its attendant peripheral or visceral organ damage; amputation or resection of irretrievably damaged tissue; and provision of chronic hemodialysis access.
  • (18) The UK would be irretrievably damaged and could face separation if the electorate votes to leave the European Union in the referendum planned by David Cameron after next year’s general election, a leading pro-Europe Tory has said.
  • (19) Thus, it appears that most CTL precursor cells may be lost or irretrievably inactivated in the spleens of late TBH mice.
  • (20) Carelessness will result in evidence being irretrievably lost.

Retrievable


Definition:

  • (a.) That may be retrieved or recovered; admitting of retrieval.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We attribute this in part to early diagnosis by computed tomography (CT), but a contributory factor may be earlier referrals from country centres to a paediatric trauma centre and rapid transfer, by air or road, by medical retrieval teams.
  • (2) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
  • (3) As evidence, they show no mediated semantic-phonological priming during picture naming: Retrieval of sheep primes goat, but the activation of goat is not transmitted to its phonological relative, goal.
  • (4) New developments in data storage and retrieval forecast applications that could not have been imagined even a year or two ago.
  • (5) All the patients underwent oocyte retrieval and 94.3% of the harvested oocytes were preovulatory.
  • (6) Amniotic fluid was retrieved by amniocentesis from 148 women: patients at term with and without labor, patients with preterm labor with and without intraamniotic infection, and women in the second trimester of pregnancy.
  • (7) It is postulated that in case vasopressin affects retrieval processes the site of action is located in the amygdala and the dentate gyrus of the hippocampal complex with dopamine and serotonin as the respective neurotransmitter systems involved.
  • (8) The clinical data thus entered is highly organized, easily legible and retrievable in many ways.
  • (9) Levels of both free and total androstenedione increased significantly from the second day of the menstrual cycle until oocyte retrieval in non-conceptional IVF cycles, whereas levels in conceptional IVF cycles and unstimulated cycles showed no increase.
  • (10) This was interpreted as a drug-induced impairment of memory retrieval.
  • (11) Retrieval was manipulated by representing a proportion of the old picture and word items in their opposite form during the recognition test (i.e., some old pictures were tested with their corresponding words and vice versa).
  • (12) An interactive image-processing workstation enables rapid image retrieval, reduces the examination repeat rate, provides for image enhancement, and rapidly sets the desired display parameters for laser-printed images.
  • (13) Specific kinds of maternal behaviour such as nesting, retrieving, grooming and exploring, are seen in non-human mammalian mothers immediately before, during and after delivery.
  • (14) There appears to be a perceptual limitation in olfaction relative to vision that influences stimulus encoding and stimulus retrieval processes but that does not affect retrieval of associated responses.
  • (15) Work with colleagues to retrieve, centrally store, check permissions and give new life to these assets.
  • (16) The specific problems addressed pertain to the storage and retrieval of historical information, physical signs and diagnosis.
  • (17) In laparoscopic oocyte retrievals, a negative correlation was observed between duration of CO2 exposure and follicular fluid pH, whereas in ultrasound-guided retrievals, the pH remained unchanged.
  • (18) Printed-word comprehension appeared to involve prior retrieval of a phonological code for less frequent words.
  • (19) From the patients' performance we make the following theoretical claims: that some arithmetic facts are stored in the form of individual fact representations (e.g., 9 x 4 = 36), whereas other facts are stored in the form of a general rule (e.g., 0 x N = 0); that arithmetic fact retrieval is mediated by abstract internal representations that are independent of the form in which problems are presented or responses are given; that arithmetic facts and calculation procedures are functionally independent; and that calculation algorithms may include special-case procedures that function to increase the speed or efficiency of problem solving.
  • (20) This case illustrates: (1) acid medium, chymotrypsin, or sucrose are not needed for the procedure of zona cutting; (2) the zygotes resulting from zona cutting survive through freezing and thawing; and (3) oocyte retrieval can be done concomitant with conservative surgery for endometriosis.

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