What's the difference between myriad and unique?

Myriad


Definition:

  • (n.) The number of ten thousand; ten thousand persons or things.
  • (n.) An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.
  • (a.) Consisting of a very great, but indefinite, number; as, myriad stars.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Using a marketing model, it is argued that in New Zealand both groups will survive and spread best by selecting, from the myriad of patient need options, those that most closely match their skills.
  • (2) At present, the toxicity of most IL-2 regimens is severe and prohibitive for clinicians not intimately familiar with the myriad of side effects associated with its use.
  • (3) Once the fungus enters the hair cortex just above the hair bulb, it produces myriads of spores that remain trapped and hidden beneath the cuticle for the length of the intact hair.
  • (4) Guy said the 28,000 issues reported to Citizens Advice in 2013, plus the 102,000 who sought help online, revealed that people are experiencing a myriad of problems with mobiles.
  • (5) Like many British shoppers, she finds she has to play a cat-and-mouse game with Tesco's myriad offers (some real, some less authentic) to keep costs down.
  • (6) Efforts to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality have led clinicians to use a myriad of ventilatory support modalities.
  • (7) Of ourse, men traverse them in myriad ways, as a result of differences in class, ethnicity, personality, and other factors.
  • (8) Some, hired from myriad unregulated subcontractors, had to pay for their own work clothes on a salary of £149 a month.
  • (9) There is evidence for the animosity the document cites around the country in myriad small protests.
  • (10) Privilege comes in a myriad of forms, including race, gender, wealth, physical fitness, safety, and educational attainment and indeed height.
  • (11) Militants led by energy minister Panagiotis Lafazanis say any rupture with Europe would be better than signing up to an accord that crossed Syriza’s myriad red lines.
  • (12) A few weeks ago, myriad gossip sites published photos of the Malibu home he just bought, going through the place room by room.
  • (13) These maneuvers have been chosen from the myriad dietary interventions in the experimental and clinical literature and are not meant to be all inclusive.
  • (14) Recent elucidation of a few of the myriad functions of these saccharides has finally opened a crack in the door to one the last great frontiers of biochemistry.
  • (15) Taken together, these myriad aspects add up to create a fabulously singular and peerless holistic experience that stands alone in its creativity and innovation,” organisers said.
  • (16) Efforts to unite the disparate groups have until now been lost in a myriad of competing ambitions and decades of political turmoil.
  • (17) Over the last 50 years, Ballard's indiscriminate and unflinching gaze has worked hard to penetrate the myriad surface realities of our disturbed modernity and to tap into its unconscious energies.
  • (18) Aging is accompanied by a myriad of changes in cell structure, function, and composition.
  • (19) The doubts that he is presidential material have come from myriad quarters, though many serve as an acknowledgement of how much he is feared by potential rivals.
  • (20) Radiolucent filling defects within the renal pelvis are common findings in diagnositc urography, and because of their myriad causes the diagnostician is often faced with a challenging problem.

Unique


Definition:

  • (a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
  • (n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
  • (3) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
  • (4) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (5) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
  • (6) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
  • (7) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (8) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (9) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (10) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
  • (11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (12) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
  • (13) These neurons can be identified uniquely by 3H-thymidine exposure during the week preceding the neurogenesis of cortical layer 6.
  • (14) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
  • (15) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (16) Although GD1a was also found in the lung, heart, kidney, and spleen, its expression within the murine immune cells under investigation was unique to TH2 lymphocytes.
  • (17) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (18) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
  • (19) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
  • (20) The testing of this program with HSIRPR cDNA release (EMBL data bank) indicated the presence of unique features in the signal peptide coding region.