What's the difference between outcast and outlast?

Outcast


Definition:

  • (a.) Cast out; degraded.
  • (n.) One who is cast out or expelled; an exile; one driven from home, society, or country; hence, often, a degraded person; a vagabond.
  • (n.) A quarrel; a contention.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The problem of the achondroplast arises when his surroundings, right from the start, reject his disorder, connoting it with destructive anxiety: this seriously harms the subject's physical image, making him an outcast.
  • (2) Effect of immobilization stress on myocardial ultrastructure has been studied in rats occupying, according to the behavior, dominant, subdominant and "outcast" position in the group.
  • (3) A few floors above Baumanns’ cafe the teenage outcast was studying mass killers and preparing for murder himself, police said.
  • (4) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
  • (5) You become an outcast," said Wada president, John Fahey.
  • (6) M from dominant rats under normal conditions were shown to exhibit higher energy and to possess better respiratory energy regulation than those of "outcast" rats.
  • (7) "They have run out of money, face daily threats to their safety, and are being treated as outcasts for no other crime than losing their men to a vicious war.
  • (8) At Cambridge, Oliver says not entirely jokingly, he felt "outcast and angry"; in his first week there he met Richard Ayoade , later to star in The IT Crowd, and they bonded over "not feeling particularly comfortable about being exposed to the top end of the class system".
  • (9) Community leaders vowed to organise and form a better defence for subsequent nights, helped by members of the Outcast and Dominant Breed motorcycle clubs who lined their bikes up in front of stores.
  • (10) Thousands of children in west Africa have been orphaned by Ebola and are at risk of becoming outcasts from communities frightened of the infectious disease, according to Unicef.
  • (11) The suit alleged that the film portrayed people living in the mountains, who are often of mixed Native American and white heritage and were once known by the derogatory term “Jackson Whites”, as inbred social outcasts.
  • (12) Season two crafted complex characters racked with existential ambivalence – heroines marked for the abyss, fragile, flammable outcasts and desolate prodigies, all of whose private pain was as palpable as the crimson bloodbath head witch Evelyn Poole soaks in.
  • (13) But the most dramatic rebellion was staged two months later on July 22 when the Tory outcasts attempted to scupper the treaty by voting with Labour in favour of the European social chapter.
  • (14) Growing up in 1940s French Algeria, the young Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent dreamed of Paris: a bullied outcast at school, he escaped into fantasy at home – devouring his mother's fashion magazines, sketching endlessly, and predicting (in the safety of his adoring family circle, at least) a future of spectacular fame.
  • (15) If you don’t have a job, you are made to feel like an outcast from your community,” Jean-Pierre says.
  • (16) They tell us that the authorities have 86% support, loyalty to Putin is total, [governing party] United Russia enjoys colossal popularity, and the opposition is a bunch of outcasts that can only exist within [downtown Moscow] on Twitter and Facebook and don’t know how to communicate with the people,” Yashin told the Guardian after a campaign stop.
  • (17) Without papers, status or rights, they are outcasts.
  • (18) There are perhaps exceptions to the rule, but Queens Park Rangers aren't one of them and at some point today Harry Redknapp is expected to bring Tottenham Hotspur outcasts Emmanuel Adebayor and Benoît Assou-Ekotto , who are both triffic fellas, to Loftus Road on loan.
  • (19) They don’t want to be punked out of their own neighbourhood.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson greets members of the Outcast motorcycle club before a vigil in Ferguson.
  • (20) His 1964 album Bitter Tears, subtitled Ballads Of The American Indian, included Cash's memorable treatment of Pete LaFarge's Ballad Of Ira Hayes, and was the first of many instances of his willingness to speak up for outcasts and underdogs.

Outlast


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reduction in 5-HIAA was transient after potassium infusion, but outlasted the infusion of veratridine or aconitine by several hours.
  • (2) The EEG effects of the low dose were smaller than those of the middle and high doses, whose peak effects did not statistically differ; but the high dose produced more persistent effects, which outlasted the infusion period for a longer time.
  • (3) However, after in vivo administration, NA uptake was inhibited only in synaptosomes from imipramine-treated rats, suggesting that imipramine, or its metabolite desipramine, binds to the NA carrier in a manner outlasting the preparation of synaptosomes, whereas mianserin is washed away.
  • (4) However, it appeared that the duration of these responses was rather short; in 23 of 36 radiation treatments with a follow-up of more than 4 months, progression of the tumour was seen within that time, while the palliative effect outlasted the survival of the patients in only four cases.
  • (5) Also, whereas the duration of EP effect did not exceed 5 min for Iso and For, it was markedly sustained for VIP, outlasting its contractile but paralleling its vasodilatory effect.
  • (6) The peak effect of THC on the central nervous system coincided well with the reduction of intraocular pressure induced by the drug; hypotony, however, outlasted euphoria.
  • (7) These outlasted clinical remission for many years, sometimes up to the age of 16.
  • (8) Neurokinins caused a slow, prolonged excitation which outlasted the period of application.
  • (9) The obtained data suggest that exposure to CVP may lead to functional changes in the brain outlasting the period of ChE depression.
  • (10) This was done because optokinetic nystagmus typically outlasts cessation of an optokinetic stimulus.
  • (11) In the case of granule cells, depression of IPSPs by (-)baclofen outlasted an only small membrane hyperpolarization, conductance increase or outward current.
  • (12) With Johnson due to step down in January, Duncan may end up outlasting his chairman after all.
  • (13) The prolonged onset period and persistent analgesic effects outlasting the period of stimulation--features that have been reported in other studies of brain stimulation-produced pain suppression--were observed in the present study.
  • (14) How or if Mayweather outlasts that exponential increase in pressure may either blur or enhance his reputation.
  • (15) Inhibition did not appear to outlast the midbrain stimulation period.
  • (16) The trains also triggered a prolonged potential, negative at the dendritic pole of our electrodes, which far outlasted the pulse-evoked response.
  • (17) Last summer, I spent several days in the British Library reading austerity cookbooks: survival manuals for housewives who had to cope with the rationing that would outlast the war by several years (butter, cheese, margarine, cooking fats and meat did not come off the ration until 1954).
  • (18) Unlike the brief (approximately equal to 1 ms) openings in mode 1, mode 2 openings tend to be longer (greater than 10 ms) and often outlast the test pulse.
  • (19) For example, kindling-induced potentiation can far outlast LTP.
  • (20) The dermal electrodes were best tolerated and outlasted the corneal in repeated use.

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