What's the difference between natural and nonnatural?
Natural
Definition:
(a.) Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color.
(a.) Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death.
(a.) Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology.
(a.) Conformed to truth or reality
(a.) Springing from true sentiment; not artifical or exaggerated; -- said of action, delivery, etc.; as, a natural gesture, tone, etc.
(a.) Resembling the object imitated; true to nature; according to the life; -- said of anything copied or imitated; as, a portrait is natural.
(a.) Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
(a.) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
(a.) Begotten without the sanction of law; born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard; as, a natural child.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the lower or animal nature, as contrasted with the higher or moral powers, or that which is spiritual; being in a state of nature; unregenerate.
(a.) Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1.
(a.) Produced by natural organs, as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a key which has neither a flat nor a sharp for its signature, as the key of C major.
(a.) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
(n.) A native; an aboriginal.
(n.) Natural gifts, impulses, etc.
(n.) One born without the usual powers of reason or understanding; an idiot.
(n.) A character [/] used to contradict, or to remove the effect of, a sharp or flat which has preceded it, and to restore the unaltered note.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
(2) In Patient 2 they were at first paroxysmal and unformed, with more prolonged metamorphopsia; later there appeared to be palinoptic formed images, possibly postictal in nature.
(3) We conclude that the priming effect is not a clinically significant phenomenon during natural pollen exposure in allergic rhinitis patients.
(4) Quantitative determinations indicate that the amount of PBG-D mRNA is modulated both by the erythroid nature of the tissue and by cell proliferation, probably at the transcriptional level.
(5) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(6) Here, we review the nature of the heart sound signal and the various signal-processing techniques that have been applied to PCG analysis.
(7) To investigate the immunomodulating properties of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) (CDDP), we studied the drug's effects on natural killer (NK) lymphocyte cytotoxicity.
(8) Examined specific relationships, as they occur in nature, between particular dietary variables or groups of variables and specific MMPI subscales.
(9) Natural tubulin polymerization leads to the formation of hooks on microtubular structures.
(10) Trichostatin C is presumably the first example of a glucopyranosyl hydroxamate from nature.
(11) The present study was undertaken to find out the nature of enzymes responsible for the processing of DV antigen in M phi.
(12) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(13) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(14) Further exploration of these excretory pathways will provide interesting new insights on the numerous cholestatic and hyperbilirubinemic syndromes that occur in nature.
(15) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(16) The nature, intracellular distribution, and role of proteins synthesized during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes in vitro have been examined.
(17) Natural killer cells (CD8+CD57+) as well as activated T cells (CD3+HLA-DR+) were significantly increased in patients with sarcoidosis.
(18) In certain cases, the effects of these substances are enhanced, in others, they are inhibited by compounds that were isolated from natural sources or prepared by chemical synthesis.
(19) Analysis of 156 records relating to patients at the age of 15 to 85 years with extended purulent peritonitis of the surgical and gynecological genesis (the toxic phase, VI category ASA) showed that combination of programmed sanitation laparotomy and intensive antibacterial therapy performed as short-term courses before, during and after the operation with an account of the information on the nature of the microbial associations and antibioticograms was an efficient procedure in treatment of severe peritonitis.
(20) There is no convincing evidence that immunosuppression is effective, also because the natural history of the disease is characterised by a spontaneous disappearance of the factor VIII-C inhibitor.
Nonnatural
Definition:
(a.) Not natural; unnatural.
Example Sentences:
(1) These results suggest that the species specificity of HBV infection is not due to the inability to replicate in nonnatural host but to the lack of receptors or factors needed for virus adsorption and internalization.
(2) The effects of 3,4-dihydroxyphenylserine (DOPS), a nonnatural precursor of noradrenaline, on the sleep-wakefulness patterns of rats were studied.
(3) Within a pyrimidine triple-helical motif, the relative stabilities of natural base triplets T.AT, C + GC, and G.TA, as well as triplets, D3.TA and D3.CG, containing the nonnatural deoxyribonucleoside 1-(2-deoxy-beta-D-ribofuranosyl)-4-(3-benzamido)phenylimidazole (D3) were characterized by the affinity cleaving method in the context of different flanking triplets (T.AT, T.AT: T.AT, C + GC: C + GC, T.AT: G + GC, C + GC).
(4) Synthetic nonnatural carbohydrates and heterochain polyions with controlled structure (PAA, PVP, polyconidine quarternary salts) were shown to act as immunopotentiators, substituting the helper signal of T-cells.
(5) Ethanol has been detected in the majority of medical examiner cases involving nonnatural death and in a substantial number of natural deaths.
(6) Incorporation of the nonnatural amino acid L-3-[125I]iodotyrosine into the model polypeptide was assessed by quantitative and unambiguous determination of suppression efficiency, read-through, and site specificity of incorporation.
(7) The "naturally occurring" enantiomer with R absolute configuration was rapidly hydrolyzed in the presence of phospholipase C while the "nonnaturally occurring" enantiomer with S configuration was slowly hydrolyzed only after a long induction or "lag" period.
(8) Mammograms were performed in 519 victims of nonhospital, nonnatural or unexplained deaths in New Mexico.
(9) Herpes virus saimiri (HVS) immortalizes T lymphocytes from a variety of primates and causes acute T cell lymphomas and leukemias in nonnatural primate hosts.
(10) This represents the first instance in which a nonnaturally occurring analogue of l-carnitine has been shown to undergo transport via this mitochondrial translocase, suggesting the possibility that cyclic carnitine analogues may find utility as agents in the treatment of myocardial ischemia.
(11) Substitution of the nonnatural XIII alpha isomer of biliverdin for the IX alpha isomer affords a synthetic holophytochrome adduct with blue-shifted difference spectra.
(12) Hydrolysis, followed by oxidation, led to the N-oxides of indicine, intermedine, lycopsamine, and the new nonnatural product, respectively.
(13) The latter were divided into 6 categories: 1) penetrating incised wounds; 2) multiple injuries; 3) gunshot wounds; 4) craniocerebral injuries; 5) various miscellaneous nonnatural causes of death; and 6) natural causes of death.
(14) A nonnatural immunophilin ligand, 506BD, which contains only the common structural elements of FK506 and rapamycin, was synthesized and found to be a high-affinity ligand of FKBP and a potent inhibitor of FKBP rotamase activity.
(15) The presence of this synthetic tRNA during in vitro translation of mRNA containing a nonsense suppression site (e.g., a UAG termination codon) results in the incorporation of the nonnatural amino acid L-3-iodotyrosine into the polypeptide exclusively at the position corresponding to that site.
(16) The prostaglandin-synthesizing system can convert a large number of nonnatural substrates, leading to the formation of substituted prostaglandins, some of which have interesting pharmacological properties.
(17) Other nonnatural residues, including N-methylphenylalanine, D-phenylalanine, and phenyllactic acid, were tested in the assay under these same conditions.
(18) (Phosphonomethyl)-phenylalanine (Pmp) is a nonnatural analogue of phosphotyrosine in which the > C-O-PO3H2 moiety is replaced by > C-CH2-PO3H2.
(19) The potency of these peptides as inhibitors of MLCK has been enhanced by the incorporation of synthetic nonnatural amino acids into the sequence.
(20) The naturally occurring analogues "pseudo B12," "factor A," and the nonnaturally occurring analogue desdemethyl B12, were produced by guided biosynthesis with Propionibacterium arabinosum.