What's the difference between meritable and veritable?
Meritable
Definition:
(a.) Deserving of reward.
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(3) The concept of almost total breast biopsy has great merit in the discovery of occult carcinoma.
(4) A new figure of merit, the limit of identification, is introduced.
(5) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
(6) The results of this study, combined with those of previous studies, suggest that factor VII may be a useful additional marker of the risk for ischemic heart disease and merits further investigation.
(7) Patients with normal blood lipid livel merit special attention.
(8) Response to norepinephrine was 15, 20, 18, and 15% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers and response to epinephrine was 12, 20, 14, and 50% greater in high genetic than low genetic merit heifers at 30, 60, 180, and 349 d postpartum.
(9) Since no evaluation of the relative merits of electro and chemical cautery has been reported, a prospective randomized study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of electro-cautery and cautery with silver nitrate.
(10) The finding is at variance with others that ascribe haemostatic changes observed to increased oestrogen content in a given pill formulation and so merits confirmation in a larger study.
(11) The surest way for either side to capture the mood of a cash-strapped country would be to give ground on those of their demands which have least merit.
(12) Frequency of sensitivity to foods, preservatives, colouring agents, medical substances, principally shown by provocation tests (the latter present a considerable interest, and merit frequent use); importance of bacterian, mycotic, parasitic origins; little importance of atopy; frequency of minor psychogenic disorders.
(13) The merits of formaldehyde, formaldehyde-glutaraldehyde combinations, and glutaraldehyde in phosphate buffers have been compared as fixatives that will give easy and satisfactory preservation of tissues for routine automated histologic processing and yet keep them suitable for electron microscopical studies after prolonged storage at room temperature.
(14) In the late post-operative period these patients developed complications which merited a surgical reintervention.
(15) Each of the five hospitals denied the doctors privileges without reaching the merits of the doctors' qualifications.
(16) However, submucosal resection of the septum is a rapid, but traumatic surgical method, which has its merits in duration and tradition.
(17) To assess quantitatively the merits of internal standardization, an amino acid mixture of known composition has been analyzed by conventional automated amino acid analysis before and after being subjected to total acid hydrolysis.
(18) Uefa has said it is open to proposals about the future of the competition, amid disquiet from clubs outside England about the spending power of Premier League clubs in the wake of their £8.3bn TV deal, but is expected to strongly resist any move to propose qualification should be on anything other than merit.
(19) Assumptions, bases for choice, and relative merits of these two modeling strategies are discussed.
(20) The increased frequency during the initial stage of the endoscopy, which may assume an already dangerous dimension for patients with coronary heart disease, merits particular attention.
Veritable
Definition:
(a.) Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only was an alarming amount of fissile material going missing at the company, Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (Numec), but it had been visited by a veritable who's-who of Israeli intelligence, including Rafael Eitan, described by the firm as an Israeli defence ministry "chemist", but, in fact, a top Mossad operative who went on to head Lakam.
(2) As far as the loss is concerned, the burned area may lead to a veritable "calorific haemorrhage", arising in cases where more than 30 to 40% of the body surface is affected.
(3) It sends "excess" military equipment to local police departments, and combined with the Homeland Security operation that provides grants to purchase such equipment, we've got a veritable firearms sale funnelling from Washington on down to the local station house.
(4) Attentive listening, reassurance and non-submission of the esteem to the performance of expression should lead to a veritable reassessment of the challenges of expression.
(5) In his final congressional testimony before retiring next week, Mullen said success in Afghanistan is threatened by the Pakistani government's support for the Haqqani network of militants, which he called a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
(6) The results that have been obtained in the experimental appeared to be negatively but veritably correlated with the age of examined animals.
(7) Barbara Beese, Julia Campbell, Verite Reily Collins, John Furse, Jim Grealy, Merril Hammer, Karl Hevera, Ian Irvine, Tina Mackenzie, Craig Nicol, John Ralph, Linda Robinson, Teresa Schaefer, Heinz Schumi, Margaret Spector, Alexandra Veres, Martin Woodford 38 Degrees Chelsea and Fulham Group • Sustainability and transformation plans are being drawn up in conditions of secrecy imposed by NHS England – as its North Midlands director of commissioning operations, Wendy Saviour, told a recent meeting of Shropshire clinical commissioning group: “STPs are not meant to be published at all.
(8) The values as obtained in the experiment appeared negatively but veritably correlated with ages of the animals.
(9) Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armchair experts lurk on comment threads the world over, eager to pour scorn on climate science.
(10) The plotting emerged from my own skipping, stumbling life as a just-out gay man in San Francisco, that veritable asparagus garden of carnal delights.
(11) "What's at stake in Yemen is not just the risk that the country's unity could disintegrate, but the very real danger that Islamist extremists, like al-Qaida, will take advantage of Yemen's divisions to turn it into a veritable sanctuary for international terrorists," said Harry Sterling, a former Canadian diplomat, who worked in Yemen.
(12) 5-In the last phase, a veritable desquamation of the pneumocytes then of the endothelial cells is produced which is very frequently lethal.
(13) For a man once widely dismissed as a loser and a lightweight, it was a veritable transformation.
(14) Every biological woman who has become pregnant, regardless of title or claim to the throne, will have to face the potential of piles, fat ankles, leaky boobs and a veritable daily lottery as to how our bowels will behave.
(15) The past several years have been characterized by a veritable explosion of knowledge concerning the globin structure genes, and the structure, transcription, processing and function of globin mRNA in erythroid cells.
(16) In his book 'Paragranum' he waves the ethics as a virtue into his succint concept of a 'new topical and veritable medical science'.
(17) Meanwhile, Prensa Latina in Cuba ( plenglish.com ) led its site with "Fidel Castro: The empire has created a veritable killing machine" - the empire being the US under George Bush.
(18) Abnormalities associated with trace elements have not received much attention from clinicians in the past; however, in the past few years there has been a veritable explosion of knowledge about trace elements which are associated with abnormalities in experimental animals as well as in humans.
(19) The superficial temporal artery and its branches run within the fascia which acts as a veritable vessel carrying sheet.
(20) The two albums that followed, I See A Darkness and Ease Down The Road, are his best, and most consistent, collections - the former dark and wintry; the latter, in contrast, is a veritable paean to the carnal joys of infidelity.