What's the difference between nonnatural and otherworldly?
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.
Otherworldly
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Summer's vocal is no less wonderful – ethereal and otherworldly.
(2) It makes us believe that mental illness is something otherworldly.
(3) A veteran Westminster player, he lives in Salisbury, not London, most of the week, in the same otherworldly cathedral quarter as the former residence of Edward Heath.
(4) By the time kids are filling out Ucas forms or heading off to find a living, "computer stuff" has usually been relegated to the otherworldly realm of nerds.
(5) But the price paid for Autonomy was otherworldly – it smacked of a management team that was too anxious to make a hardware-for-software switch.
(6) Croatia, Morocco and Iceland also provide otherworldly backdrops to the backstabbing and bribery of Westeros and beyond.
(7) The show launched an actor, who – fictional superpowers aside – looks somehow tweaked, airbrushed, otherworldly, with eyes so powerfully transfixing they threaten to bore holes through your screen.
(8) "Of all the sites, it was the most depressing and slightly sordid," she says, "while other places often had an air of melancholy or seemed slightly otherworldly at dawn.
(9) He has suffered from alopecia - hair loss - since childhood, and his otherworldly air is heightened by an eerie lack of eyebrows.
(10) and Greyjoy fight one another while otherworldly ice demons rise in the northern tundra, and the Westerosi equivalent of nuclear weapons – dragons – are reaching maturity on a distant continent.
(11) I can only vouch for the R&R to be found in its calm, otherworldly landscape.
(12) She doesn’t date, is a vegan, sleeps very little, quotes Jane Austen by heart, works nonstop, dresses like Steve Jobs and as the New Yorker helpfully informs us: “several times a day she drinks a pulverized concoction of cucumber, parsley, kale, spinach, romaine lettuce and celery.” She sounds like someone who is tremendously fun to have at Scrabble night, and absolutely otherworldly … in fact, she sounds like a unicorn.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘An extraordinary, alien, otherworldly creature’: David Bowie 1947-2016 - video tribute After a 1962 schoolyard punch-up, the pupil in David’s left eye remained permanently dilated, having the serendipitous effect of lending him a vaguely unearthly appearance (the thrower of the punch, George Underwood , remained a close friend and later designed Bowie’s album artwork).
(14) The shaman sings these ancient South American chants and shakes this palm branch, and it sounds crazy-otherworldly.” Ayahuasca has gained something of a cult reputation among celebrities from Sting and Paul Simon to Lindsay Lohan and the Klaxons, though it remains illegal, and its implication in the death of a British teenager in Colombia earlier this year has cast a shadow over the rapturous accounts made by some of those who have tried it.
(15) In the first, St Matthew and his fellow taxmen, all in contemporary dress, are sitting at a table in a darkened room when Christ enters and, pointing (in a gesture taken from Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling), calls on him to join the church: at this moment of revelation the startled Matthew is spotlit by a diagonal shaft of otherworldly light.
(16) Which may or may not be a good idea depending on your view of that mix-and-match defence testing its weak points against Barcelona’s otherworldly attacking trio, the football equivalent of riding out to face the three musketeers with a breadstick in each hand.
(17) Residents say they never tire of gazing at the city centre's sublime, otherworldly architecture.
(18) "The TV shows are so good, so intriguing, that it's almost otherworldly."
(19) These have an otherworldly feel to them, as if formed by a giant poking his rough fingers deep into the island from above in a misguided mission to supply its inhabitants with swimming pools.
(20) It begins in an abyss of double-bass sonority, and builds to a screaming, discombobulating climax of mind-bending power; then there's a quieter, otherworldly section, before the terror of the first section returns.