What's the difference between obvious and tangible?

Obvious


Definition:

  • (a.) Opposing; fronting.
  • (a.) Exposed; subject; open; liable.
  • (a.) Easily discovered, seen, or understood; readily perceived by the eye or the intellect; plain; evident; apparent; as, an obvious meaning; an obvious remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (2) The usefulness of the proposed method is obvious in cases where the composition of a precipitate on LM scale is to be compared with the LM appearance of the surrounding tissue.
  • (3) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (4) This difference becomes more obvious in women on HRT with less than three children compared to a similar group not taking HRT.
  • (5) Thus, it is obvious that new measures will have to be taken if lives are to be saved in future events of this nature.
  • (6) Some women have clinically obvious cervical incompetence and may benefit from a cerclage operation, but criteria for early diagnosis are not universally agreed upon.
  • (7) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
  • (8) Obviously it’s good to have all voices on the field.
  • (9) "This will obviously be a sensitive topic for the US administration, but partners in the transatlantic alliance must be clear on common rules of engagement in times of conflict if we are to retain any moral standing in the world," Verhofstadt said.
  • (10) Obvious restitution of the thymic medulla was evident about 14 days after withdrawal of FK506.
  • (11) The content and design of the treatment obviously had a positive influence on patient satisfaction.
  • (12) Symmetrical cases (the so-called siamese twins) have an obvious predominance (92.3%).
  • (13) He said: "While the strike on 30 November will obviously cause disruption, the figures suggested by ministers are fantasy economics.
  • (14) Uterine lavage affords the potential for non-invasive human blastocyst recovery, with obvious potential for preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
  • (15) Gallium-67 imaging is useful in the management of patients with malignant lymphoma, despite its obvious limitations.
  • (16) Future increasing segments of females addicted to tobacco smoking will obviously markedly influence sex difference in morbidity.
  • (17) Successful treatment of hypertriglyceridemic states obviously normalizes the changed composition of the lipoprotein fractions and in consequence effects also the atherogenicity.
  • (18) The thigh and hip manifestations can obscure the primary intra-abdominal process either due to the obvious emphysema or to the obtunded abdominal signs secondary to associated neuropathy.
  • (19) He praised the obvious disgust of local people in parts of south and west Manchester, where gang problems have been concentrated.
  • (20) The most obvious observation was a higher early mortality.

Tangible


Definition:

  • (a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
  • (a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A vigorous progressive physical and occupational therapy program producing tangible results does more for the patient's morale than any verbal encouragement could possibly do.
  • (2) These incentives provided employees with evidence of tangible support for continuing education.
  • (3) In what is being hailed as one of the first tangible signs in a change of outlook for Greece, the European Investment Bank has also agreed to inject up to €750m into the cashed-starved Greek economy with immediate effect.
  • (4) Tony Abbott and Barack Obama: the Australian PM hopes the G20 can achieve something tangible under his presidency.
  • (5) This week, Shenhua Australia chairman, Liu Xiang, turned up the pressure on Hunt, telling Guardian Australia that, after eight years, “Shenhua has spent $700m and has little tangible progress to show for this investment in NSW.” If Hunt gives the green light, Shenhua will begin work on the first of three pits covering 3,500 hectares, from which it will export nearly 270m tonnes of coal over the next 30 years.
  • (6) The tangible, emotional and informational functions of social support were measured as aggregate values across support sources.
  • (7) She is, like a lot of women are, supported by organizers working to keep momentum going for tangible, systemic change, even in the wake of such collective, ongoing pain.
  • (8) One procedure employed a tangibly reinforced operant-conditioning paradigm for pure tones, and the other test was based on a modification of operant conditioning for obtaining speech-reception thresholds.
  • (9) We're asking you to test this thing which is less tangible and less transactable, which is your privacy."
  • (10) Recent work of the Health Education Project (HEP) at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark, has demonstrated tangible ways of eliminating some of the barriers that limit consumers in receiving health services in an out-patient setting.
  • (11) I haven't seen Good Morning Britain because it's on in the morning, a time of day I dismiss as mere myth, as tangible as the eighth dimension, but it had a controversial debut.
  • (12) The focus is on how commissioning can add tangible value and make positive changes for our healthcare clients.
  • (13) Park has repeatedly said the door to dialogue with Pyongyang is open, but insists the North must first take tangible steps towards abandoning its nuclear weapons programme.
  • (14) If it is to be successful, any behaviour change approach that aims to encourage the take-up of a product or service will have to provide real, personal and tangible advantages for today’s new consumers.
  • (15) Tangible, emotional and information support did not change pre- and postnatally for women who breastfed.
  • (16) Last, and this is just a hunch as a career-long only-digital nerd: perhaps after more than a decade of digital influx, people are yearning a bit more for the physical, the tangible object, the easy-to-understand.
  • (17) Examples of social marketing are then provided from developing countries and are analyzed in groupings defined as tangible products, sustained health practices, and service utilization.
  • (18) For longer-term planning, make sure you have tangible, realistic objectives.
  • (19) This paper discusses in qualitative terms these tangible and intangible benefits and the factors that impact their realization and maximization.
  • (20) Kiir and Machar met last weekend in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for the latest push to strike a peace deal, but rebel spokesman Mabior Garang said they “failed to bear any tangible results”.