What's the difference between lame and uncool?

Lame


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.
  • (superl.) To some degree disabled by reason of the imperfect action of a limb; crippled; as, a lame man.
  • (superl.) Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.
  • (v. t.) To make lame.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
  • (2) Five horses raced successfully and lowered the lifetime race records, 1 horse was sound and trained successfully, but died of colic, and 1 horse was not lame in early training.
  • (3) The highest cost for veterinary services related to episodes of disease were for dystocia, lameness, and ocular carcinoma.
  • (4) The LDET biopsies resulted in little discomfort whereas the SFT biopsies led to temporary lameness.
  • (5) Three dogs admitted for evaluation of lameness were determined to be infected with a neutrophilic strain of Ehrlichia.
  • (6) The main symptom "incoordination" (ataxia, asynergy, paresis, paralysis) is used by us more precisely only in case of impairment of nervous system by neoplastic infiltrations and does not signify as possible symptoms of general physical weakness, for example faltering, staggering, tumbling or lameness.
  • (7) Historically, both horses had intermittent lameness that had responded to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and brief rest periods.
  • (8) Analgesic potency of aspirin was decreased to the level of sodium salicylate by injection of prostaglandin E2 into the inflamed rat paw in the adjuvant-induced lameness test.
  • (9) Specific clinical signs of disease such as nervous disorders and lameness were also observed.
  • (10) Children were examined for lameness in the Danfa Project district of rural Ghana to assess the impact of endemic poliomyelitis and to test a widely held hypothesis that paralytic poliomyelitis is relatively rare in such districts (less than 1 per 1000 children affected).
  • (11) Seven horses, 2 to 4 years of age, were examined because of moderate-to-severe forelimb lameness, mild effusion of the middle carpal joint (3 horses), and pain on palpation of the origin of the suspensory ligament (4 horses).
  • (12) Fourteen dogs were using the treated limb within 1 day and eight dogs within 2 days, although some lameness may have persisted for several weeks.
  • (13) Six of the orally infected P. maniculatus developed clinical signs including ruffled hair coat, inappetence, reluctance to move, and lameness in the rear legs.
  • (14) In two cases, the detachment occurred unilaterally; one was a gilt showing severe lameness which precluded mating and the other was a uniparous sow which showed only slight lameness.
  • (15) Disseminated aspergillosis attributable to Aspergillus deflectus was diagnosed in a Springer Spaniel with lethargy, lameness, anorexia, weight loss, pyrexia, lymphadenopathy, hematuria, and urinary incontinence.
  • (16) Congenital malformation of the carpal joint in a young dog resulted in a progressive lameness.
  • (17) The narrative drivers are pretty slack – improbable dialogue ("I'm a very wealthy man, Miss Steele, and I have expensive and absorbing hobbies"); lame characterisation; irritating tics (a constant war between Steele's "subconscious", which is always fainting or putting on half-moon glasses, and her "inner goddess", who is forever pouting and stamping); and an internal monologue that goes like this … "Holy hell, he's hot!
  • (18) Normal and osteochondrotic humeri and femurs were obtained from five normal and ten lame adolescent boars to study cartilage proteoglycans.
  • (19) Among his many recommendations, Laming called for improvements in the exchange of information between the various authorities.
  • (20) A female juvenile rhesus monkey experienced a 3-wk period of vague lameness and limb disuse, followed by a severe attack of acute polyarthritis resulting in marked radiographic changes.

Uncool


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lubbock-born Maines resisted joining the sisters initially because she thought they were so uncool, and her arrival was met with scepticism by the band's core Texas audience.
  • (2) They’re deeply uncool, and will probably also make people fear for the future of the country.
  • (3) Incredibly, despite countless opportunities for a career reassessment, from the guilty pleasures phenomenon to the seemingly endless 1980s revivals of recent years, Dire Straits have somehow remained steadfastly uncool.
  • (4) Stop them reading what they enjoy or give them worthy-but-dull books that you like – the 21st-century equivalents of Victorian 'improving' literature – you'll wind up with a generation convinced that reading is uncool and, worse, unpleasant."
  • (5) Further, for News Corp to buy into such an untamed media property is to risk ruining it by making it corporate and by definition 'uncool'.
  • (6) With a reader equipped with an uncooled PM tube it was possible to measure doses of X- and gamma-rays in the range from a few rad to about 100 krad.
  • (7) Becoming a teenager carried with it an unspoken order to pass on school, collect 20 Marlboro Lights, and proceed to the playing field to master the art of inhaling without coughing up a lung and being tarnished with the original sin of being uncool.
  • (8) And yes, he is urban and slick and a bit cool, but at the same time he is conservative and Christian and serious-minded and a bit uncool.
  • (9) The distance the new uncooled milk had to be transported, especially during the hot summer months, increased the chances of milk-borne diseases infecting infants.
  • (10) The fertility of sperm cooled to 5 degrees C was not affected (p less than 0.05) as compared to fertility of uncooled sperm.
  • (11) A study was conducted to determine whether water-cooled floor perches would be utilized by commercial broilers exposed to a constant hot ambient environment; and subsequently, whether utilization of these perches would improve performance beyond those provided uncooled floor perches.
  • (12) After cooling and warming the larvae were transferred to 21 degrees C and the survival of larvae, success of pupariation, and adult emergence were monitored at daily intervals in comparison to an uncooled control sample.
  • (13) One young man asks who he's listening to these days and he gives a typically honest, uncool answer.
  • (14) Ihope my high-school sweetheart will forgive me for revealing an intimate secret about our teenage relationship: one that makes us so retrospectively uncool that some of our classmates may regret ever having allowed us to sit at their tables in the school canteen.
  • (15) So when I heard the news about its imminent demise I went to my corner newsagent and did something I'd been way too scared and uncool to do when I was 14: I bought a copy for myself, as opposed to waiting for my best friend to buy one and then nicking it off her.
  • (16) "Facebook is officially 'out', as in uncool," was the verdict of another California tech pioneer, Jason Calacanis, chief executive of the question-and-answer website Mahalo, calling for a boycott of the "not trustworthy" site.
  • (17) DOX disposition from skin and plasma was studied by high-pressure liquid chromatography in both cooled and uncooled groups of animals.
  • (18) "For Apple to be cool again," she wrote, "it has to admit that it is in danger of becoming uncool."
  • (19) We were trying to escape that thing you have at school where one of you will think Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs is great and someone who's got all the old stuff thinks you're uncool 'cause it's the first time you've heard them.
  • (20) Arcade Fire's trajectory is interesting for many reasons, not the least being that there is something refreshingly uncool about the band – their unflagging onstage exuberance, their typically Canadian politeness, their penchant for pre-show group hugs.

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