What's the difference between lack and understatement?

Lack


Definition:

  • (n.) Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.
  • (n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food.
  • (v. t.) To blame; to find fault with.
  • (v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need.
  • (v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc.
  • (v. i.) To be in want.
  • (interj.) Exclamation of regret or surprise.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here we have asked whether protection from blood-borne antigens afforded by the blood-brain barrier is related to the lack of MHC expression.
  • (2) tRNA from mutant IB13 lacks 5-methylaminomethyl-2-thio-uridine in vivo due to a permanently nonfunctional methyltransferase.
  • (3) BL6 mouse melanoma cells lack detectable H-2Kb and had low levels of expression of H-2Db Ag.
  • (4) Treatment termination due to lack of efficacy or combined insufficient therapeutic response and toxicity proved to be influenced by the initial disease activity and by the rank order of prescription.
  • (5) In the past, the interpretation of the medical findings was hampered by a lack of knowledge of normal anatomy and genital flora in the nonabused prepubertal child.
  • (6) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (7) The present study examined whether the lack of chronic hemodynamic effects of ANP in control rats was due to changes in vascular reactivity to the peptide.
  • (8) Since it was established, it has stoked controversy about contemporary art, though in recent years it has been more notable for its lack of sensationalism.
  • (9) Inadequate treatment, caused by a lack of drugs and poorly trained medical attendants, is also a major problem.
  • (10) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
  • (11) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
  • (12) The detection of these antibodies is difficult owing to the lack of standardization and of specificity of the laboratory tests.
  • (13) Core enzyme, lacking omega subunit, catalyzed this reaction at a rate less than 1% that of holoenzyme.
  • (14) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (15) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
  • (16) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (17) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
  • (18) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
  • (19) The functional capacity to present antigens to T cells was lacking in normal resting B cells, but was acquired following LK treatment.
  • (20) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.

Understatement


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) RBS chief executive Ross McEwan apologised to consumers: “To say I’m angry would be an understatement.
  • (2) To say that the loss of BB King is devastating to the blues community is an understatement.
  • (3) With understatement, he added: "I don't feel comfortable."
  • (4) Heaton’s recollections are heavy on understatement.
  • (5) Since that strangely undeserved result in Madrid last November, PSG have gone on a run that makes convincing seem like an understatement.
  • (6) With some understatement, Thompson said: "We've weathered a series of lively storms and been through some trying as well as some very successful times together.
  • (7) In light of the opening episode, that seems like an understatement.
  • (8) That the act outraged public decency is an understatement.
  • (9) Unfortunately, we had to lower the number of people,” he says, in something of an understatement, adding that he used redeployment and natural turnover as much as possible.
  • (10) He starts by discussing the economic climate – saying that eurozone economic growth remains "weak" (an understatement), with fears over the crisis weighing on confidence and sentiment.
  • (11) Furthermore, perhaps calling Corbyn a “harsh critic” is an understatement in light of some of his statements.
  • (12) Courtesy the estate of Richard Hamilton That Hamilton was anti-capitalist is an understatement.
  • (13) That is an understatement because the expectations were high.
  • (14) To say that the 170-year history of the Co-op Group is complicated would be a howling understatement.
  • (15) Late-night tales: how a new crop of TV hosts is reinventing an old format Read more First, to say it’s a “hit” is an understatement – it’s a phenomenon.
  • (16) And to say Fifa has been dismayed by this burst of democratic dissent is an understatement.
  • (17) It will be difficult to keep them all happy.” That might be the understatement of the year.
  • (18) Volunteer complaints panel To say the public has little faith in the Independent Police Complaints Commission would be an understatement.
  • (19) With the organisation reeling from a string of corruption allegations against 10 of the 24-man executive committee, Jérôme Valcke , Fifa's secretary general, admitted with grim understatement that Fifa's reputation is: "Not at its highest."
  • (20) Fits like a brick To say that it is unclear quite how Beats and Apple would fit is be an understatement.