What's the difference between opportune and untimely?

Opportune


Definition:

  • (a.) Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.
  • (v. t.) To suit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) These results indicate that diaphragmed fenestrae are inducible structures, and provide an opportunity to study them in vitro.
  • (3) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (4) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (5) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (6) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
  • (7) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
  • (8) The opportunities for infection are often strong in areas of high population within a city – schools, for instance.
  • (9) This study suggests that laparoscopy has a role in adhesiolysis of mild and moderate adhesions and SLL provides further opportunity to relyse reformed adhesions in some cases.
  • (10) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (11) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (12) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
  • (13) Assessment opportunities can be identified or structured in any milieu.
  • (14) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (15) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (16) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.
  • (17) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
  • (18) We are looking at all opportunities and every opportunity."
  • (19) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
  • (20) Recent progress with familial adenomatous polyposis illustrates some of the opportunities for prevention of colorectal cancer which may arise with syndrome recognition in the future.

Untimely


Definition:

  • (a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
  • (adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
  • (2) The nitrogen : creatinine ratio in an untimed urine sample was closely related to the ration in the 24-hr urine (r = 0.914).
  • (3) The ability of an albumin-to-creatinine ratio, measured in a single untimed urine specimen, to indicate the likelihood of developing overt diabetic nephropathy was determined in 439 Pima Indians (134 men, 305 women) aged 25 years or older with non-insulin-dependent diabetes.
  • (4) The failure of bulbar rhythmogenic mechanisms to maintain an orderly and synchronous recruitment of respiratory drive, which led to untimely and chaotic activations of respiratory muscles, was apparently the underlying cause of various ataxic breathing patterns and a reduced ventilatory efficiency.
  • (5) Twitter and Facebook are plumbed in to compare your scores to friends, and there is also an untimed mode for practice.
  • (6) By pneumonia or granulation in the anastomosis region 11 rats died or had to be sacrificed untimely.
  • (7) The law also penalised untimely and discriminatory layoffs.
  • (8) Not withstanding the concern for the health consequences of early sexual activity, early untimely pregnancy results in expulsion from school at the rate of 10% annually in Kenya and economic advancement practice, and reproductive health of 1513 females and 1803 males aged 12-19 was conducted in 1985 in 7 rural and 2 urban districts and represents the 8 major ethnic groups in Kenya.
  • (9) First of all, conditions are listed in which the occurrence of a single case of disease or disability or a single untimely death would justify asking, "Why did it happen?"
  • (10) The patient with multiple fractures presents complex modifications in the biochemical blood and biohumoral pictures and untimely intervention may definitely compromize the normal automatic or artificial resolution of metabolic and electrolytic imbalances.
  • (11) No.” As it is, Gareth Bale’s untimely buttock injury and Suárez’s lack of match fitness have postponed the ultimate in forward-line set-tos, but this is still Leo Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar against Karim Benzema, with Suárez, James Rodríguez, Ivan Rakitic and Toni Kroos all entering the frenzy for the first time.
  • (12) Atheromatous disease of the arteries is progressive and often results in untimely morbidity and premature death.
  • (13) Based on our experience and on the experience of others in the treatment of such fractures, we have realized that every poorly executed manual reposition, inadequate and too long an immobilization, untimely and delayed operation, leaves serious consequences not only on physical activity but also on the psychologic development.
  • (14) In dead patients (average age 70 years) there is a trend of a risk to an untimely death in the presence of pathologic AT III-activity (despite a good anticoagulation of an individual mean quick test from greater than or equal to 0.20 to less than or equal to 0.30) or a bad anticoagulation (mean individual quick tests greater than or equal to 0.30 to 0.35), but a normal AT III-activity.
  • (15) The analysis of the data on 744 patients with thyroid tumors showed inadequate examination to be the main cause of untimely diagnosis of cancer of the organ.
  • (16) Therefore, in the authors opinion the performed kill of the cross Limousine and Hereford bulls as well as Limousine heifers, is somewhat untimely and unreasonable.
  • (17) Marguerite Champendal (1870-1928), one of the first Swiss nationals to graduate, created a school for nurses that she directed until her untimely death.
  • (18) Therapy should be given with a great deal of caution in patients with decompensated liver disease, as one may precipitate the untimely demise of the patient even though viral replication is decreased.
  • (19) Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” It is particularly untimely for the museum to have introduced the diktat when it is about to unveil an exhibition devoted to the act of copying at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
  • (20) The MRT was administered under standard, timed conditions and under untimed conditions.