What's the difference between lame and uninteresting?

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.

Uninteresting


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Scott insisted he was an abstract painter in the way he felt Chardin was too: the pans and fruit were uninteresting in themselves; they were merely "the means of making a picture", which was a study in space, form and colour.
  • (2) "Anne Hathaway at least tried to sing and dance and preen along to the goings on, but Franco seemed distant, uninterested and content to keep his Cheshire-cat-meets-smug smile on display throughout."
  • (3) I went to the US point of arrival and opened the manhole they come up through: it was heavily piped, dark, uninteresting.
  • (4) But some who have been at lobbying events with Miliband claim he is disengaged, uninterested, and sometimes appears not to have done his homework on the attendant money men.
  • (5) The UK press is uninterested in "regional" stories while the Scottish press is often weak and compromised when it comes to oversight of our representatives.
  • (6) The British citizen says he was also interrogated by two British men who declined to identify themselves and who appeared uninterested in his complaints of mistreatment.
  • (7) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (8) Not because they are uninteresting to me, but because I am making space for all the other questions, the questions about falling in love, about the taste of water in the air, about the blue-black feathers and crimson eyes of the koel bird.
  • (9) You might think Mohamed is an unusual case, an outlier in a nation of apathetic young people disengaged from politics and uninterested in the world around them.
  • (10) Whether the issue is anti-democratic developments in Asia and in and around Russia or, for example, using US leverage to help create a unified, democratic Palestinian state, Obama has often appeared personally detached , even uninterested.
  • (11) "If he had started the negotiations in July (when they were chasing an uninterested ‘Cesc) then fine.
  • (12) Assigning patients at random to treatments and no treatment who are uninterested, who desire particular treatments, or who are in need of specific treatments is impractical and socially unacceptable.
  • (13) Dacre is uninterested in the web, famously dubbing it "bullshit.com" .
  • (14) That’s little comfort to victims of online harassment, who still face uninterested or uninformed law enforcement officers when they report, a patchwork of laws that makes harassment difficult to prosecute across state let alone international lines, and a civil process that is expensive and time-consuming even when it works at all.
  • (15) On the basis of the present findings it was concluded that the problem of rotation was not of importance and scientifically uninteresting and that the hierarchical factor solutions were highly stable.
  • (16) "Another is the way Iranians appear uninterested but will rush and vote at the last minute."
  • (17) Various alternatives have been proposed, in particular the Gini coefficient which clearly answers a different, possibly rather uninteresting, question.
  • (18) As the Obama team conducted its post-mortem, his campaign advisers faced questions about why Obama had appeared tired and uninterested, and about his failure to match Romney's aggression.
  • (19) Speaking in a rare TV interview, Eminem seemed woefully uninterested in his forthcoming record, The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
  • (20) If England had not hung in until they started to win matches, if the home side had made a mid-tournament exit as they have done so many times since, the event as a whole could easily have been dismissed as uninteresting by the television audience at large.