What's the difference between kinda and somewhat?

Kinda


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Haley Barbour, the Republican former governor of Mississippi, said Mourdock's remarks were "kinda crazy".
  • (2) I thought that what he said was kinda crazy," Barbour said.
  • (3) A future I needed to avoid.” While Raskopoulos came out to her family, friends and bandmates last year, and has appeared on stage as a woman at a handful of small comedy shows over the past few months – “I was kinda surprised by the lack of reaction, one way or the other.
  • (4) Instead of inching my way along a busy B-road in the drizzle, wearing a hard hat and a hi-vis jacket, I was on a black-and-white pony in the wild west, riding alongside men with names like Cody who talked kinda slow and carried lariats on their saddles.
  • (5) "My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain and she liked him and I kinda liked him.
  • (6) "My character got flipped from being a puppeteer kinda guy to someone who wanted to be besties with Ryan.
  • (7) I'm kinda of that school of thought - movies that I produced were more centrist, stylistically very normal, even though the ideas were more controversial.
  • (8) You know what, I kinda missed the early games without all of this fouling going on.
  • (9) Baines kinda showed in the friendlies he can defend against top players and despite his cross and free-kicks could be a liability.
  • (10) This is kinda a reverse of the Strasburg situation.
  • (11) A lot has failed, but no matter how woeful it is, it's nearly always at least kinda something.
  • (12) October 28, 2013 It's kinda like the "crossing the streams" rule in "Ghostbusters", yes.
  • (13) Despite its disappointing box office turn-out, Warners shipped 320,000 rental copies of The Shawshank Redemption in the US, a figure which they happily admit was 'kinda outta whack' with its poor performance in cinemas.
  • (14) However, her disjointed 33-minute speech – in which she described President Barack Obama as an “overgrown little boy who is acting kinda spoiled”, and declared “the man can only ride you when your back is bent” – received poor reviews even from some conservatives.
  • (15) It is kinda far, but luckily the plane does much of the work and they didn't fly coach.
  • (16) Similarly, if you’re trying to work out why The Merchant of Venice isn’t allowed in Guantánamo Bay, then Melvyn Bragg is kinda your guy – he knows that stuff.” Scottish novelist Welsh’s work has also been banned from Guantánamo.
  • (17) "Kinda," he says, before adding, with a touch of embarrassment, "That was prior to all this happening."
  • (18) You can send them via email to Hunter.Felt.Freelance@theguardian.com or tweet them to @HunterFelt if you're in a "140 Characters Or Less" kinda mood.
  • (19) I mean, what other reason could there be to pick up a phone and ask the Prime Minister if he would play a holding midfield player, and if Owen Hargreaves is worth his place ("Er, look, I kinda think at this stage you get behind them").
  • (20) Colts 15-29 Patriots, 6:18, 3rd quarter Ridley gets the two point conversion, I kinda love those (or hate extra points, to be more precise) and... And there's a bit of scrimmage on the field.

Somewhat


Definition:

  • (n.) More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something.
  • (n.) A person or thing of importance; a somebody.
  • (adv.) In some degree or measure; a little.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (2) Neuroleptics (chlorpromazine, reserpine and haloperidol) had not such an influence, though they somewhat increased the general activity of the animals.
  • (3) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
  • (4) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (5) These data were in agreement with those from a previous comparative study which had a very different research design and a somewhat different type of schizophrenic population.
  • (6) The elongation of helix III with the addition of helix II at the N-terminus somewhat stabilizes the ordered structure.
  • (7) In presence of oxygen (air) the phototactic reaction values are somewhat lower than in its absence.
  • (8) Somewhat more children of both Head Start and the nursery school showed semantic mastery based on both heard and spoken identification for positions based on body-object relations (in, on, and under) than for those based on object-object relations (in fromt of, between, and in back of).
  • (9) Similarly, it appears that acute hydronephrosis or worsening of an existing hydronephrosis has been somewhat overlooked as a possible cause of uncertain abdominal pain during pregnancy.
  • (10) Somewhat surprisingly then, in view of the mechanisms in mammals, birds do not seem to use this seasonal message in the photoperiodic control of reproduction.
  • (11) This inhibition is counteracted by the somewhat slower increase of NE turnover resulting in normalization of LH levels.
  • (12) Richard now is presented, albeit somewhat inconsistently, as evil in response to social ostracism because of his ugly deformities.
  • (13) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
  • (14) The vascular risk profile associated with insulin appears somewhat different in apparently healthy men and women.
  • (15) Although differing somewhat in their responses to various biochemical and biophysical tests, all strains were assigned to the genus Flavobacterium.
  • (16) Simple reperfusion of the infarcted myocardium, however, does not necessarily guarantee myocardial salvage, and preliminary studies have been somewhat confusing as to its beneficial effects.
  • (17) In addition, the transcriptional behaviour of this tRNALeuCUG gene in various in vitro systems is described and it seems that, although the gene is transcribed in all test systems, the very A + T-rich 5'-flanking sequence of this particular gene may be somewhat inhibitory to transcription in vitro.
  • (18) Myelosuppressed (cyclophosphamide-pretreated) mice were somewhat more susceptible to C. perfringens as contrasted with mice that had been pretreated with either carrageenan type II or with zymosan.
  • (19) Children 1 to 6 months old had over twice the morbidity from diarrhea if assigned to the antimicrobial group as compared to placebo, while the toddler group (7-30 months) taking the antimicrobial had somewhat less diarrhea.
  • (20) Our results showed an approximately two- to threefold increase in the level of the type I cAMP-dependent protein kinase and a somewhat smaller increase in the type II kinase in extracts of the "old" IMR-90 cells (population doubling greater than 48) as compared to that of the "young" cells (PDL 22-27).

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