What's the difference between negligible and unimportant?

Negligible


Definition:

  • (a.) That may neglicted, disregarded, or left out of consideration.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Since all human cadaveric tissue is fixed whilst on the skeleton, we may assume that shrinkage of the muscles in such specimens is negligible.
  • (2) In group C there was a negligible increase of LVSWI despite a marked rise in PCWP.
  • (3) From this, it was suggested that a negligible amount of oestradiol was released from these compounds and that the oestradiol moiety was useful as a carrier for the nitrogen mustard moiety.
  • (4) However, the phosphorylation of a 73 kDa double band, which is negligible in the absence of added NaC1, is stimulated by this salt.
  • (5) Although T cells exposed to antigen in B-depleted LN of mu sm and irradiated mice gave negligible T proliferative responses in vitro, low but significant levels of primed T helper function were detected in a sensitive T helper assay in vivo.
  • (6) Factors of negligible importance prognostically were: complete sterilization at mammary and axillary level after radiotherapy, persistence of florid cancer tissue at mammary level and histiocytosis of the axillary lymph nodes.
  • (7) In addition, the trends in the three sets of data for the catalytic subunit indicate that ionic bonds are involved in binding PALA to the active site, and that non-productive binding by L-Asp is negligible under these experimental conditions.
  • (8) We feel that the above technique is simple and definitive with negligible complications.
  • (9) Activity peaked during the period corresponding to evening twilight and was negligible during the morning twilight period; in contrast, death feigning peaked during the morning twilight period.
  • (10) The adverse effects were negligible--one patient had light urticarial rash and pruritus.
  • (11) In contrast, corticosterone, testosterone, progesterone and oestradiol showed negligible ability to displace [3H]1 alpha,25-(OH)2D3 from its receptor.
  • (12) Despite its negligible amount, the DIssE RNA in virions appears to serve as the template for the synthesis of DIssE RNA in infected cells.
  • (13) Facial pain is a very constant phenomenon which does not- or only to a negligible degree--change over an agelong course.
  • (14) An abrupt decrease of the liver glycogen was found as well as a negligible rise of the blood sugar.
  • (15) In conclusion, respiratory morbidity is not negligible.
  • (16) The influence of sample preparation for electrophoresis was found to be negligible.
  • (17) "This age group feeds Radio 4's core audience and it would in my judgment be negligent not to [look at this]," Liddiment added.
  • (18) As far as the cardiovascular systems of the fetus and neonate are concerned the effects in the dosage used are negligible.
  • (19) Desaturation by 4 M MgCl2 indicated that the amount of endogenously bound hormone was negligible in our membrane preparations.
  • (20) With monoclonal antibody AA1, immunostaining was entirely specific for mast cell granules, and there was negligible background staining in a range of tissues including lung, tonsil, colon, gastric mucosa, skin, and pituitary.

Unimportant


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amount of EB or progesterone injected seemed unimportant but, in either case, had to be given within a limited diurnal period of sensitivity.
  • (2) For example, we hypothesize that competition can be unimportant even if it is very intense: no such hypothesis is possible unless importance is distinguished from intensity.
  • (3) A comparison of the time course of this time-locked response with that of the kernel prediction indicated that nonlinear temporal effects of order higher than two are unimportant.
  • (4) Nucleotide pyrophosphatases seem to play an unimportant role in guanylyl imidodiphosphate conversion, while alkaline phosphatase is possibly of more importance.
  • (5) Moreover, M1-muscarinic receptors appear to be relatively unimportant in mediating the effects of carbachol on short circuit current (ISC).
  • (6) Cl measured with each method exceeded Crs (p less than .05), but the magnitude was clinically unimportant.
  • (7) According to these results the acetylator phenotype seems to be an unimportant factor in therapy with dihydralazine.
  • (8) Snoring usually is trivial and unimportant, but it can turn into a social or medical problem.
  • (9) Analysis of this time delay as a function of the factor Xa concentration indicates that the gain of the feedback loop of factor V activation by thrombin is so high that the contribution of factor V activation by factor Xa is relatively unimportant for factor Xa concentrations in the nanomolar range.
  • (10) This is unusual, although clinically unimportant muscle involvement in trypanosomiasis has been described.
  • (11) But he is warm and sharp, and the punchlines begin to feel unimportant when the journey there is so much fun.
  • (12) Since this phenomenon is associated with high concentrations of contrast media in nonflowing blood, the high shear rate in arteries and arterioles make it unimportant in the in vivo situation.
  • (13) Didn't they realise how unimportant it all was, compared with what we'd been through?"
  • (14) The contribution made by cytotoxicity to the overall antiviral effect (measured by 24 h yield) was negligible in Flow 2002 cells, and was relatively unimportant in BHK cells.
  • (15) Safety was very satisfactory: patients complained only rarely of trivial and clinically unimportant side effects; no variations in laboratory tests were noted.
  • (16) Our results suggest that the osmotic and free-radical scavenging properties of hexoses are relatively unimportant in relation to their antiarrhythmic effects.
  • (17) Items loading on the first three factors were thought to be generally important, and those on the last three relatively unimportant.
  • (18) The basis of the program is a valid 'partial' statistical description of the EEG; that description is then used to produce a digital representation of a signal which, if plotted sequentially, might or might not by chance resemble an EEG, that is unimportant.
  • (19) The involvement of General Practitioners in the care of epilepsy was found to be small, but not unimportant.
  • (20) Pocket elimination by the use of surgical procedures (gingivectomy, flap operation with bone surgery) may be preferred in regions of the mouth where the aesthetic result is unimportant and where the removal of alveolar bone does not jeopardize the periodontal support of neighbouring teeth.