What's the difference between misdirect and undirect?
Misdirect
Definition:
(v. t.) To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
Example Sentences:
(1) This technique was used to bring misdirected urinations in a severely retarded male under rapid stimulus control of a floating target in the commode.
(2) I argue that these lines of argument are conceptually misdirected and have no bearing on the bare permissibility of voluntary euthanasia.
(3) These "misdirected wiping responses" have been explained in terms of two alternative hypotheses of nerve regeneration: nerve respecification or selective reinnervation.
(4) One school of thought, the "eliminative materialistics," see FP as a misdirected and scientifically redundant approach to the mind which should be discarded; the "functionalists," in contrast, consider FP categories, such as belief, to be essential.
(5) These aberrant connections, which may represent misdirected corticospinal fibers, help to explain the impairment of voluntary movements experienced by these subjects.
(6) The sympathetic block of the nerves supplying the head, neck, and arm (Horner's syndrome) resulted from a misdirected intraoral local anesthetic injection.
(7) In a case of general fibrosis syndrom we found almost normally contracting vertical recti, which is compatible only with a supranuclear or misdirectional cause.
(8) Progress had been made with these methods and it is suggested that remediation may be misdirected if the primary language retrieval problem is overlooked in such cases.
(9) b) Management of trichiasis: Electrolysis of misdirected lashes leads to contraction and renewed misdirection.
(10) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
(11) When, however, neurotic fears, secondary gain, or guilt underlying the inhibited or misdirected will are thoroughly analysed, patients are enabled to strive for their long-range aims, as clarified during the course of their analysis.
(12) The Tory administration, being determined to secure contracts for both its arms manufacturers and the construction company Balfour Beatty, misdirected some £200m to finance a white elephant dam in Malaysia, through an obscure funding mechanism called the Aid and Trade Provision.
(13) You too can perfectly well continue to use Facebook, and even adopt Facebook Home, as long as you make sure to "curate" your data trail with appropriate misdirection.
(14) Opponents, close to the Kremlin, claim he was misguided and misdirected by Berezovsky and others.
(15) But the most insidious, most outrageous and grandest misdirection being put forward by those responsible is that nobody could have seen this coming.
(16) Saccade latency, in the saccade task, and the percentage of errors (misdirected saccades made towards the visual target), in the antisaccade task, were compared in each group of patients with the values of 20 control subjects.
(17) It was concluded that misdirected reflexes are mediated via dorsal nerve branches occupying normal mid-dorsal areas of the back.
(18) When the dam-16 allele is present together with mutD5 a reduced efficiency of repair as well as loss of strand discrimination and misdirected repair results in the appearance of transition mutations at high frequency.
(19) The clinical and electromyographic signs of the misdirection syndrome after oculomotor palsy are described.
(20) On 'valid' cue trials, the cue directed attention to the target's spatial coordinates; on 'invalid' cue trials, the cue misdirected attention.
Undirect
Definition:
(v. t.) To misdirect; to mislead.
(a.) Indirect.
Example Sentences:
(1) To demonstrate the feasibility of the approach tRNA was represented as a simple undirected graph containing all relevant information represented in the usual cloverleaf secondary structure and nine base-base tertiary interactions.
(2) All three agonist stimulated release of the secretory protein lactoperoxidase, but only carbachol significantly accelerated Na+ undirectional influx.
(3) She went straight into the theatre, where she earned a reputation for being headstrong and undirectable.
(4) In vitro, exposure of the mucosal side of the isolated canine gastric mucosa to 5, 10, and 20 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for 1 h or of 1 mM aspirin (pH 3.0) for longer than 1 h resulted in marked permeability changes, i.e., increases in the undirectional fluxes of Na+ and Cl-, as well as inhibition of net ion fluxes.
(5) More than 25% of undirected percutaneous liver needle biopsies that are performed in search of metastatic neoplasms yield false negative specimens.
(6) The data obtained suggest the possibility of reflex activation of the anticoagulating system by beta-thrombin or undirectly by alpha-thrombin generated by beta-thrombin activation at early stages of blood coagulation.
(7) The role of both SFFV- and F-MuLV-specific antigens in the neutralization of SFFV suggests that this defective virus could be an antigenic mosaic and that viruses in the FV complex may participate in a undirectional form of phenotypic mixing.
(8) Studies of the undirectional influxes of Na andCl indicate that acetazolamide inhibits the neutral, coupled NaCl influx process at the mucosal membranes.
(9) ENG was found to be abnormal in 49 (39%) of the patients: 19 with unilateral vestibular hyporeactivity, eight with directional preponderance, 12 with spontaneous or undirectional positional nystagmus, eight with abnormal smooth pursuit, and 13 with other abnormalities.
(10) By a rapid, undirectional, unfiltered and yet non-injurious process, plasma exudates cross the mucosal lining to appear on the airway surface at the site of challenge.
(11) Creatine-phosphorylcreatine system operates as a undirectional shuttle for approximately P and as a control system regulating energy production according to demand.
(12) The drainage is strictly undirectional: ventralward by the anterior, middle and posterior ventromedial, the posteromedial and posterolateral hypothalamic veins, all ending in the basal vein.
(13) Addition of 0.5 mM NH4+ to the basolateral side when the mucosal side was bathed in mock urine (2 mM NaCl) significantly increased undirectional mucosal-to-serosal Na+ flux, and the increase was blocked by mucosally added amiloride.
(14) These behaviors in a thermal gradient represent true thermokinetic responses for an organism with undirectional locomotion.
(15) As there was no apparent cell membrane leakage or rupture of duct lumina, it is concluded that the acinar cells adjacent to fat necrosis release their granules by undirected basolateral extrusion.
(16) This characteristic caused introduction of a high frequency of undirectional transversions, A-T leads to -CG, into the DNA of the strain harboring it.
(17) PEGG inhibited undirectional MLR by acting on the stimulating cells.
(18) They have received relatively little attention in the context of subjective awareness of a undirectional dimension of time, and then mainly in relation to nonhuman sensorimotor rhythms and hippocampal theta waves.
(19) The undirectional movement of sodium and water into the lumen of the colon also increased but to a lesser extent.
(20) Use of the most recessive genotype as a reference point causes all of the contributions of single loci to be undirectional and positive, and all the allelic and nonallelic interactions to be unidirectional and negative, in accord with our Model 2.2.