What's the difference between omnipresent and universal?

Omnipresent


Definition:

  • (a.) Present in all places at the same time; ubiquitous; as, the omnipresent Jehovah.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) GAD and ChAT omnipresence may indicate constant GABAergic HCII and its cholinergic efferent synapses, their raised content, appearance of GABA-containing HCI and related cholinergic boutons in higher vertebrates.
  • (2) Without their omnipresent shadow, politics has been able to evolve spontaneously amid the post-revolution uncertainty.
  • (3) Omnipresent disease, Burkitt's lymphoma is the most frequent non-Hodgkin malignant lymphoma in children (NHML).
  • (4) The EMG in general consists of an omnipresent oscillatory electrical control activity (ECA) and spikes or other potentials that result in contractions of the smooth muscle.
  • (5) To do so, however, the Congress must recognize scientific uncertainty as an omnipresent element of causation in cases of toxic substance pollution.
  • (6) But over here, where corruption, like pollution, is both omnipresent and invisible , major corporations can commit almost any white-collar crime and get away with it.
  • (7) The data suggest that we may not be forced to cope with an omnipresent DNA segment coding for malignancy.
  • (8) Women soon discovered that the enemies of women's rights were as omnipresent as dust, god and corruption.
  • (9) In the era of omnipresent smartphones and tablets, these sacharrine treats are nigh-on inescapable, and as breakthrough hits are guaranteed millions of dollars in revenue (Candy Crush Saga alone generated $1.5bn last year), it's no wonder developers are employing increasingly clever psychological tricks to give their creations a crucial edge.
  • (10) Almost as striking as the lack of young faces on its subdued streets is the omnipresence of senior citizens who can be seen tending to fields, staffing shops, driving taxis or, like 72-year-old Ge Fangping, giving lessons at the University of the Aged.
  • (11) In the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was omnipresent.
  • (12) The second, "automatic language analysis", aims to exploit two characteristics of medical language, its omnipresence in the case record and its reliability, in view of its status as the spontaneous vehicle of communication between physicians.
  • (13) The omnipresence of the minarets and the muezzin's call – particularly around 5am – are a vivid reminder for the non-devout of the dominant deity's importance.
  • (14) All parts of the colon exhibited 6 patterns of electrical activity: spikes, oscillations, omnipresent regular slow waves, and three composite patterns, i.e.
  • (15) The electrical oscillatory activity of this layer is variable in frequency from 1 to 60 cpm, variable in amplitude, and not omnipresent.
  • (16) God is omnipotent and omnipresent, he will take care of everything.
  • (17) In the long run, full resolution of these issues will probably require the unravelling of the basic mechanisms by which the fibers induce cancer; unfortunately, despite recent progress, this understanding is probably too far off to be of use in the solution to the very real, omnipresent clinical and public health cancer-control problems.
  • (18) The question hung in the air, invisible but omnipresent, like the smell of a garbage fire from a nearby town.
  • (19) Despite it being the second day of 30C-plus daytime heat and desert dust whipped up by the wind, accompanied by the omnipresent reek of strong weed, there are no sparked-out casualties to be seen.
  • (20) We are deeply concerned that one in five people on this planet, or over one billion people, still live in extreme poverty, and that one in seven—or 14 percent—is undernourished, while public health challenges including pandemics and epidemics remain omnipresent threats.

Universal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal good; universal benevolence or benefice.
  • (a.) Constituting or considered as a whole; total; entire; whole; as, the universal world.
  • (a.) Adapted or adaptable to all or to various uses, shapes, sizes, etc.; as, a universal milling machine.
  • (a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient.
  • (n.) The whole; the general system of the universe; the universe.
  • (n.) A general abstract conception, so called from being universally applicable to, or predicable of, each individual or species contained under it.
  • (n.) A universal proposition. See Universal, a., 4.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Behind her balcony, decorated with a flourishing pothos plant and a monarch butterfly chrysalis tied to a succulent with dental floss, sits the university’s power plant.
  • (2) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (3) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (4) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (5) Another interested party, the University of Miami, had been in talks with the Beckham group over the potential for a shared stadium project.
  • (6) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (7) Migrant voters are almost as numerous as current Ukip supporters but they are widely overlooked and risk being increasingly disaffected by mainstream politics and the fierce rhetoric around immigration caused partly by the rise of Ukip,” said Robert Ford from Manchester University, the report’s co-author.
  • (8) "The proposed 'reform' is designed to legitimise this blatantly unfair, police state practice, while leaving the rest of the criminal procedure law as misleading decoration," said Professor Jerome Cohen, an expert on China at New York University's School of Law.
  • (9) Results demonstrate that the development of biliary strictures is strongly associated with the duration of cold ischemic storage of allografts in both Euro-Collins solution and University of Wisconsin solution.
  • (10) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
  • (11) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
  • (12) A previous trial into the safety and feasibility of using bone marrow stem cells to treat MS, led by Neil Scolding, a clinical neuroscientist at Bristol University, was deemed a success last year.
  • (13) The records of all patients treated for thymoma in the Department of Radiotherapy of the University of Torino between 1970 and 1988 were reviewed.
  • (14) Blood gas variables produced from a computed in vivo oxygen dissociation curve, PaeO2, P95 and C(a-x)O2, were introduced in the University Hospital of Wales in 1986.
  • (15) Of 3,837 canine neoplasms from case records at Kansas State University, only 4 were of carotid body tumors.
  • (16) Type I and Type II mast-cell degranulation was noted but was not universal.
  • (17) By using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), we have developed a system for type-specific as well as universal detection of genital human papillomaviruses (HPVs).
  • (18) 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.
  • (19) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (20) The autopsy findings in 41 patients with University of Cape Town aortic valve prostheses were studied.