What's the difference between obverse and verso?

Obverse


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the base, or end next the attachment, narrower than the top, as a leaf.
  • (a.) The face of a coin which has the principal image or inscription upon it; -- the other side being the reverse.
  • (a.) Anything necessarily involved in, or answering to, another; the more apparent or conspicuous of two possible sides, or of two corresponding things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) After a brief survey of applications of video in psychiatry, the author describes the original methodology elaborated by the French-speaking section of the AMDP under the direction of the Liège team: semi-structured interview, combination of a "clinical" analysis of the reasons for a poor interrater-reliability (through one or several "observers" of the discussions which follow a projection) and of a multivariate statistical analysis adapted to single cases (through a modification of the obverse factor analysis or Q-technique), "consensus" item scores and final "reference" rating of a patient.
  • (2) Testable inferences from this hypothesis are proposed, including the suggestion that clinically and neurophysiologically, schizophrenia and psychosomatic disorders are the obverse of one another.
  • (3) The enzyme is very thermostable; about 90% of activity remains after being heated at 70 degrees C for 10 min, and no effect of Ca-2's obversed.
  • (4) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
  • (5) We sought to verify whether the obverse was true, i.e.
  • (6) This was the obverse of the expected results if ATP4- were to be the sole form of ATP to effect channel closure.
  • (7) Because it is possible to argue that energetic dirt-digging is the obverse side of the uncovering of genuine scandals."
  • (8) Middle-class Swedes have more money and more choice than they used to have, yet the obverse of their greater choice is that others in Sweden have less in the way of life chances than before.
  • (9) Identification of participating genes and clarification of their mechanisms of action will help to elucidate the universal cellular decline of biological aging and an important obverse manifestation, the rare escape of cells from senescence leading to immortalization and oncogenesis.
  • (10) The obverse of these we called the hyporeactive immunologically deficient disorders resulting from defects of the cell or serum components of the immunological reactions, of which many examples have also been found.
  • (11) Where there was disagreement, combination of postiive inhalation test and a negative RAST was much more frequent (33.6%) than in the obverse (3%).
  • (12) Twenty-four male and female deaf and hearing adolescents learned lists of paired associates that were either high visual and low auditory imagery words or the obverse.
  • (13) The results are consistent with release rate of the drug from microspheres (obversely, rate of drug delivery to the tumour), being a determinant of potency in these systems.
  • (14) His Calvinist imagination, quick to conjure doom, and possibly the looming shadow of debt that would end in his expulsion from the paradise garden at Concord, provoked Hawthorne to create something very like its obverse: namely a garden of death.
  • (15) Thus these judgments are not equivalent obverse aspects of a unitary judgmental process.
  • (16) Reasons given for opposing blind review included the following: blinding not possible, identification will not influence judgment, and its obverse, identification assists judgment.
  • (17) A recent alternative asks the obverse; given a mass of tissue that may be developed and maintained at a particular cost, what predictions do physical principles permit about its placement.
  • (18) The synthesis of mitochondrial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells has been examined during conjugation, in preconjugal conditions, and in control cultures that were not exposed to obverse diffusible sex factors.
  • (19) If you are continually rewarded for bad behaviour you will probably continue to do it but if the obverse is true you might consider changing behaviour.

Verso


Definition:

  • (n.) The reverse, or left-hand, page of a book or a folded sheet of paper; -- opposed to recto.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For electron microscopy, the immunogold procedure was applied to sections of lowicryl-embedded samples; simultaneous detection of GABA- and TH-immunoreactivities was enabled by recto-verso double labelling with gold particles of distinct diameters.
  • (2) It is published by Verso priced £25, and is available from the Guardian bookshop for £20.50 including free UK p&p .
  • (3) Verso , for example, sells ebooks directly, many at a great discount, and also offers a free ebook download when customers buy a printed copy.
  • (4) This is an edited extract from The Revenge of History: the Battle for the 21st Century by Seumas Milne, published by Verso.
  • (5) Robin Verso, the Warwickshire probation trust chairman, has told the Tory minister that the risks involved in the current timetable for outsourcing 70% of the probation service's workload are unacceptable: "Our assessment is that performance is bound to be damaged and that public protection failures will inevitably increase."
  • (6) Living in the End Times is published on 5 July by Verso, £20.
  • (7) The Dilemmas of Lenin by Tariq Ali is published by Verso, priced £16.99.
  • (8) Hill was honoured by an OUP festschrift, Puritans And Revolutionaries, when he retired from Balliol in 1978, and Verso published a series of tributes and criticisms, Reviving The English Revolution, 10 years later.
  • (9) I suppose we have nothing more to lose.” Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Žižek is published on September 30 (Verso Books).
  • (10) · Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary Theory is published by Verso (£20)
  • (11) Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman is published by Verso.
  • (12) • Tariq Ali ’s The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Rebellion is published next month by Verso.
  • (13) Paul Mason's book Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere is published by Verso in January
  • (14) But a recent Verso survey estimated that barely 12% of books are discovered from social networks whereas 50% are passed on via personal recommendations.
  • (15) Application of a double, recto-verso, immunogold labelling method in electron microscopy revealed systematic colocalization of GABA and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) immunoreactivities in the axons innervating the intermediate lobe; in the neural lobe, almost all GABA-immunoreactive axons were also labelled for TH.
  • (16) This dream was the backdrop to my novel Fear of Mirrors , which I began writing soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall ( and has been recently republished by Verso ).
  • (17) • The new and updated edition of James Meek’s Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs To Someone Else, shortlisted for the Orwell prize, is out now from Verso at £8.99 rrp.
  • (18) Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture , by Justin McGuirk, is published by Verso • The tragedy of Tampico: a city of violence, abandoned to the trees
  • (19) His latest book is Inequality and the 1%, published by Verso
  • (20) Her book Dispatches from the Dark Side is published by Verso at £9.99.

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