What's the difference between noble and urbane?

Noble


Definition:

  • (superl.) Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart.
  • (superl.) Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid; as, a noble edifice.
  • (superl.) Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.
  • (n.) A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer.
  • (n.) An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.
  • (n.) A European fish; the lyrie.
  • (v. t.) To make noble; to ennoble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
  • (2) The current literature, for the most part, cites the use of noble alloys as controls for trials of alternative materials.
  • (3) In October, Amazon announces a digital partnership with DC Comics, prompting Barnes & Noble to remove its comic books from its shelves.
  • (4) The absolute mutant number and the induced mutant frequency quantitated from a treated culture is generally higher in BBL compared to Noble agar.
  • (5) Colonies plated in BBL agar tend to appear significantly earlier on the plates than those cloned in Noble agar.
  • (6) Ray Noble, a solar adviser at the UK-based Renewable Energy Association, said that the technology was relatively straightforward but the only reason to build floating farms would be if land was very tight.
  • (7) The foundation years debate focuses on what seems to be the most promising way of achieving that noble ambition.
  • (8) The potential was found to shift to a less noble state when the system of the chlorophyll-naphthoquinone electrode was inserted into NAD solution with illumination.
  • (9) A concept so noble in the drawing rooms of Manhattan has degenerated into a sickening prelude to more bloodshed.
  • (10) Fast migrating properdin (P) represented activated properdin and occured as a result of activation of properdin in the Noble agar medium used for electrophoresis provided sufficient cofactors, including Mg2+, were present.
  • (11) Dr Noble and Professor Mason, explore the incidence of incest and society's attitudes to it from legal, anthropological, medical and social viewpoints.
  • (12) Higher endpoint dilutions were obtained by the use of 1% Noble agar in immunoosmophoresis than with 1% Ionagar no.
  • (13) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
  • (14) European elections have a noble history of delivering such temporary bloody noses.
  • (15) What campaigners for euthanasia often fail to realise is that, however noble it is in theory, conferring the right to die always runs the risk of diminishing the right to live.
  • (16) The company hired by Royal Dutch Shell plc in 2012 to drill on petroleum leases in the Chukchi — Sugarland, Texas-based Noble Drilling US LLC — in December agreed to pay $12.2m after pleading guilty to eight felony environmental and maritime crimes on board the Noble Discoverer.
  • (17) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
  • (18) For centuries, kings and queens had no option but to contract out courts, taxes, roads, prisons, to nobles and business folk.
  • (19) Stopping the boats” and avoiding people dying at sea is a noble motive if its combined with solutions that place the rights of refugees first.
  • (20) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.

Urbane


Definition:

  • (a.) Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Friday night, in a stadium built in an area once deemed an urban wasteland, the flame that has journeyed from Athens to every corner of these islands will light the fire that launches the London Olympics of 2012.
  • (2) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
  • (3) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
  • (4) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
  • (5) Cigarette consumption has also been greater in urban areas, but it is difficult to estimate how much of the excess it can account for.
  • (6) Urban hives boom could be 'bad for bees' What happened: Two professors from a University of Sussex laboratory are urging wannabe-urban beekeepers to consider planting more flowers instead of taking up the increasingly popular hobby.
  • (7) Since then the intensive development of anti-malaria campaigns in urban areas over about ten years led temporarily to a considerable decrease in the level of endemicity, while in rural areas it remained unchanged.
  • (8) The urban wasteland ecosystem contained in outdoor lysimeters employed as a model gives valuable information and has considerable value in predicting the ecological fate of industrial chemicals.
  • (9) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (10) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
  • (11) A 12-month epidemiological survey of attacks of acute myocardial infarction was carried out in a large urban population.
  • (12) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
  • (13) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (14) 58% of the urban population has access to drinking water.
  • (15) Since the first sections opened, the project has been heralded as a model example of urban redevelopment and the line has contributed to the gentrification of Manhattan’s Lower West Side.
  • (16) This article compares patterns of health care utilization for hospitalizations and ambulatory care in a sample of 1855 urban, elderly, community residents who report obtaining their health care from one of four types of arrangements: a fee-for-service (FFS) physician, a hospital-based health maintenance organization, a network model HMO, or a preferred provider organization (PPO).
  • (17) Urban ambulance systems emerged in the second half of the 19th century as an outgrowth of military experiences in both Europe and America.
  • (18) Trichotomic classification of communities throws some light on the problem of causes of death of the rural and urban population.
  • (19) The 180-acre imperial palace appears to send ripples through the surrounding urban grain like a rock thrown into a pond, forming the successive layers of ring-roads.
  • (20) Nurses are an indispensable part of these urban health teams and, if they are not already, should start now to become involved in urban policymaking and planning and consider how their national nurses' association can individually or collaboratively support healthy city projects and national healthy city networks.