What's the difference between perennial and timeless?

Perennial


Definition:

  • (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains.
  • (a.) Continuing without cessation or intermission; perpetual; unceasing; never failing.
  • (a.) Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant.
  • (n.) A perennial plant; a plant which lives or continues more than two years, whether it retains its leaves in winter or not.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (2) consider the X-ray findings verified in 3 groups of subjects: with Hayfiber, with perennial rhinitis and the last one being a control group.
  • (3) Eleven children with severe perennial asthma and a poor clinical response to disodium cromoglycate were studied in a 4-month, double blind trial involving 1 month's treatment with placebo, disodium cromoglycate, betamethasone 17 valerate, and both drugs combined according to a predetermined random design.
  • (4) Cruden Farm, Victoria The 54-hectare Murdoch family estate in Langwarrin south of Melbourne, Australia, features magnificent gardens complete with ponds, lemon-scented gum trees and two walled gardens and perennial borders.
  • (5) In this study, the authors evaluate the inhalant substances of the house, emphasizing the importance of Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus to cause perennial allergic rhinitis.
  • (6) A panel of human CD4+ T cell clones specific for the house dust mite was isolated from an atopic individual with perennial rhinitis.
  • (7) Patients who had both perennial symptoms and summer seasonal exacerbations had a higher incidence of a positive family history of atopy and developed symptoms earlier in life than those patients who had summer seasonal or perennial symptoms only.
  • (8) Patients with perennial rhinitis had a more vigorous response than the controls.
  • (9) The immediate changes in regional ventilation and pulmonary blood flow were studied in seventeen adults with perennial asthma and in two control persons, who were challenged by histamine inhalation (histamine induced asthma (HIA)).
  • (10) Twenty-eight patients with allergic perennial rhinitis treated for 2 years with parenteral semidepot immunotherapy were divided into two groups of 14 patients: group A receiving conventional aerosol nebulization (TNE), and group B, which received TNAI using a type F aerosol electrocompressor.
  • (11) We have something to say and something to offer on perennial political dilemmas.
  • (12) Specificity was 87% for pollens and 90% for perennial antigens.
  • (13) Overnight, Russia has moved from perennial rival to trusted friend, while Nato’s future is in peril.
  • (14) More males than females had summer seasonal symptoms whereas more females than males had perennial symptoms.
  • (15) The old-fashioned dining room, unpretentious atmosphere, and the three-course menus under €30 make it a perennial favourite.
  • (16) But Howitt says that while it is a problem that so much farmland has shifted from more adjustable crops to perennials like almonds, he has a simpler solution: better management of groundwater.
  • (17) They are the identification of factors causing severe disease as opposed to heavy infection; the effects of seasonal as opposed to perennial transmission; and the importance of transplacental transmission of microfilariae or soluble antigens.
  • (18) Together with his late wife Janet, he wrote 37 titles including perennial favourites The Jolly Postman and Burglar Bill, and by himself he is the author of many more, including The Pencil, and Woof!
  • (19) It seems that perennial rhinitis probably arises from abundance of domestic antigens more than for the other allergic manifestations, as the nose is the first filter to receive foreign particles.
  • (20) However, PAC differed from SAC in several respects: a history of exacerbation on exposure to house dust (PAC 42 per cent; SAC none) and an association with perennial rhinitis (PAC 75 per cent; SAC 12 per cent) were more common in PAC.

Timeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
  • (a.) Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave.
  • (a.) Having no end; interminable; unending.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (2) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (3) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
  • (4) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (5) Scarcely a single witness had seen more than one Velázquez, and many testified to the extraordinary surprise of this one, the face of the long-dead prince flashing up into a timeless present.
  • (6) The actor's slightly imperious manner and timeless face suited period roles.
  • (7) One drawback of the timelessness of Bond – maintained by a movie franchise that keeps 007 in a permanent present – is how easy it is to forget that Fleming was writing in, and therefore about, a very specific period.
  • (8) Playhouse Presents … Timeless is on Thursday 19 June at 9pm on Sky Arts
  • (9) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
  • (10) In the meantime, its fortunes rest on the British public's insatiable appetite for reality TV shows – and the timeless televisual appeal of dancing dogs.
  • (11) You might have read a couple of articles in fashion magazines of late attempting to big up the DD look, no doubt with references to denim's "timelessness", "1950s teenage sense of freedom" and, lest we forget, "Americana".
  • (12) Under marihuana the stories had a timeless, non-narrative quality, with greater discontinuity in thought sequence and more frequent inclusion of contradictory ideas.
  • (13) A short visit to a medical consulting room as it may have looked one hundred years ago, illustrates some aspects of medical practice of this time, outlines in scraps and fragments an idea of this medicine and tries to encourage reflexions about contemporary and timeless problems of medical practice.
  • (14) Stores such as Cos for cool, offbeat minimalism or Jane Shepherdson's Whistles, where Celine-style trousers sit alongside timeless workwear, have upped the ante.
  • (15) Because the terrorists can only succeed if they swell their ranks and alienate America from our allies, and they will never be able to do that if we stay true to who we are; if we forge tough and durable approaches to fighting terrorism that are anchored in our timeless ideals.
  • (16) Shakespeare refuses to take sides, and that's why it works so timelessly.
  • (17) The timeless modernity and topicality of Rudolf Virchow's postulations on tumor pathology is based on his general conclusions which as key propositions have retained general validity throughout more than a century.
  • (18) But she's not bad as the partner of an Iraq-bound soldier in Timeless: perhaps a bit plummier than you might expect a squaddie's wife required to live with her irascible great-grandmother in a tiny house to be, but certainly nothing like the disaster the world has come to expect from supermodels demonstrating their polymath abilities.
  • (19) "Then you have this classic repertoire of great music that feels like it's coming from this other, timeless place.
  • (20) This procedure brings forcibly to the fore issues of separation and individuation, in the psychological context of the ultimate termination of life; it counteracts passive, timeless waiting for change to come without the assertion of one's own will and action, and it highlights a variety of ways people characteristically behave with respect to endings.