What's the difference between missive and omissive?
Missive
Definition:
(n.) Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.
(n.) Missile.
(n.) That which is sent; a writing containing a message.
(n.) One who is sent; a messenger.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include two leading Republican hopefuls for the presidential race in 2016, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio; three of them enjoy A+ rankings from the NRA and a further eight are listed A. Rand Paul of Kentucky The junior senator's penchant for filibusters became famous during his nearly 13-hour speech against the use unmanned drones, and he is one of three senators who sent an initial missive to Reid , warning him of another verbose round.
(2) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(3) This week another couple of reader missives piqued our attention.
(4) The letter follows a missive that Murphy sent a month ago to Nascar boss Brian France, asking him to reconsider the NRA sponsorship.
(5) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(6) Perhaps not, if this missive from our an at Wembley, Davidde Corran, is anything to go by: From the Wembley seats to the San Francisco 49ers fans occupying so many of them, the first of four annual Jacksonville Jaguars games has quite the red tinge.
(7) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.
(8) Not only does it beggar belief that Ms Proudman could have inferred any slight from such an innocuous missive, it also makes me fear for the next generation of women.” She also criticised the “armies of Feminazis” who had supported Proudman.
(9) Wilshaw complains in his monthly missive that rule changes about overseas schools are making the problem worse.
(10) This was strange enough – not least since his missives to me were peppered with the sort of text abbreviations used by teenagers (such as "Wrong u r ...").
(11) Its existence only came to light in October when the man who delivered the missive, Mansoor Ijaz, a mysterious American businessman of Pakistani origin, wrote about it, kicking off the current storm, which quickly made it all the way to the Pakistani supreme court.
(12) The subject of and reason for most of these letters follow a theme which needs a little explanation even though the author converses clearly and precisely in his missives.
(13) Meanwhile their two sons were trying out their own trash-talking skills in this rather bizarre green screen face off (presumably allowing chroma key footage of dinosaurs and car chases to be added in later): Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Though by the time Mayweather had endured that final bout of dad-dancing at the press conference, even the man who lives for showmanship seemed to have lost his appetite for it: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 3.38am BST Kevin is back All those knockdowns in the last fight were probably rather avoidable, as Kevin is quick to point out in his latest missive: The referee in the junior-feather (super-bantam in our argot) fight between Leo Santa Cruz from LA and the old Venezuelan Alexander Munoz was one Vic Drakulich.
(14) Just time for another missive from Niki Betkerur (54 min), who's here to make me feel guilty for comparing her to a Glasgow drunk from the 1970s.
(15) U voted for air strikes in Syria,” this historic missive read .
(16) So it gives me great pleasure to include this missive from a man who scored one of the best hat-tricks I've ever seen at Bramall Lane against Stockport in 1997 – Jan Aage Fjortoft .
(17) The last missive said simply, "You are a massive waste of space."
(18) "For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin," he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week.
(19) In a missive replete with the same awesome dignity he brought to Cheggers Plays Pop and that Channel 5 naked gameshow, Mr C referred me to his website, saying: '"I say yes to everything'!!!
(20) Look for low-missivity glass with a high energy rating – the Energy Saving Trust recommends B or above.
Omissive
Definition:
(a.) Leaving out; omitting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Omission of K(+), Ca(++) or Mg(++) had no effect on uptake.
(2) The omission of Crossrail 2 from the Conservative manifesto , in which other infrastructure projects were listed, was the clearest sign yet that there is little appetite in a Theresa May government for another London-based scheme.
(3) I hope this two days off gives him the stimulus.” The omissions left a manager who cherishes control at risk of falling foul of the “law of Murphy” that he had already bemoaned this season.
(4) These changes were suppressed by omission of extracellular Ca2+.
(5) The omission of glucose induced a marked increase in the efflux of [3H]GABA, which was antagonized by TTX (1 microM), but not by MK 801 (1 microM) or DNQX (100 microM).
(6) The omission of Ca2+ from the superfusion medium or the addition of ouabain (5 X 10(-3) M), a (Na+ + K+) stimulated adenosine triphosphate (ATP) phosphohydrolase [(Na+ + K+)-ATPase] inhibitor, almost completely abolished the DN-1417- or TRH-induced DA releasing effect.
(7) In the presence of hexamethonium, or after omission of external calcium, the resting release fell by 50 and 55 per cent, respectively.
(8) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(9) It might therefore appear an omission on the part of David Cameron if, at the Conservative party conference in Manchester, he fails to make his own contribution to the current redefining of the political debate.
(10) There were, though, large omissions and ambiguities that will need to be filled in and clarified as polling day nears.
(11) Upon omission of poly(U), the affinity of the P site is lowered by 2-4 orders of magnitude, depending on the ionic conditions, while A site binding is not detectable anymore.
(12) Here the meaninglessness of material not only favoured its omission but also often indicated important psychopathology.
(13) Release was abrogated by omission of myeloperoxidase or H2O2, heating of MPO, or addition of azide, cyanide, or catalase.
(14) Whereas addition of amiloride had a similar, but less pronounced effect, omission of Cl- resulted in moderate alkalinisation.
(15) Omission of extracellular Ca2+ abolished the effects of 10 nM TPA and partially inhibited those of 100 nM TPA on insulin release and 45Ca2+ efflux.
(16) The omission of the musculo-skeletal system examination, in contrast to the almost universal inclusion of other systems' examination, demands correction.
(17) The present studies were performed to determine if the omission of prefixation would provide a better method for localizing adenylate cyclase in cardiac muscle.
(18) It was on that occasion that then-opposition leader Tony Abbott said , “we have never fully made peace with the first Australians ... we need to atone for the omissions and for the hardness of heart of our forbears to enable us all to embrace the future as a united people”.
(19) Type of error depended upon which hemisphere received the problem, with the right hemisphere yielding more errors of commission and the left more errors of omission.
(20) Omission of sodium ions in the incubation medium reduced uptake of 3H-Ch by about 90 per cent at 1 microM Ch in the incubation medium and the proportion of 3H-ACh to 3H-Ch was only 10 to 20 per cent while the proportion of 3H-PhCh increased from insignificant amounts to between 20 to 30 per cent.