What's the difference between practical and unpractical?
Practical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
(a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
(a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
(a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
Example Sentences:
(1) This selective review emphasizes advances in neurochemistry which provide a context for current and future research on neurological and psychiatric disorders encountered in clinical practice.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(4) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(5) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
(8) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
(9) The first phase evaluated cytologic and colposcopic diagnoses in 962 consecutive patients in a community practice.
(10) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(11) This article is intended as a brief practical guide for physicians and physiotherapists concerned with the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
(12) Practical examples are given of the concepts presented using data from several drugs.
(13) "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.
(14) Beyond this, physicians learn from specific problems that arise in practice.
(15) This observation, reinforced by simultaneous determinations of cortisol levels in the internal spermatic and antecubital veins, practically excluded the validity of the theory of adrenal hormonal suppression of testicular tissues.
(16) Implications for practice and research include need for support groups with nurses as facilitators, the importance of fostering hope, and need for education of health care professionals.
(17) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(18) Single dose therapy is recommended as the treatment of choice for bacterial cystitis in domiciliary practice.
(19) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
(20) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
Unpractical
Definition:
(a.) Not practical; impractical.
Example Sentences:
(1) In his essay “ The Soul of Man Under Socialism ” (1891) Oscar Wilde puts this rather well: acknowledging the objection that his vision of a happy realm peopled by aesthetical and egalitarian individualists is impractical, he writes: “It is unpractical, and it goes against human nature.
(2) Although the vaccination procedure was unpractically heavy these results lend encouragement to the possibility of developing vaccines against filarial infections.
(3) In experiment 1 subjects stood in a large open field and attempted to judge the midpoint of self-to-target distances of between 4 and 24 m. In experiment 2 both highly practiced and unpracticed subjects stood in the same open field, viewed the same targets, and attempted to walk to them without vision or other environmental feedback under three conditions designed to assess the effects on accuracy of time-based memory decay and of walking at an unusually rapid pace.
(4) However, active immunization of cancer patients would require that a tumour cell line be obtained from each patient, a most unpractical prospect.
(5) However this dose is unpractical and at present it is not recommended in the management of diabetes mellitus.
(6) Due to the disadvantages, xenon-enhanced CT is regarded as an unpractical examination.
(7) However, both drugs are unpractical: lidocaine can only be used intravenously, and tocainide may exhibit serious haematological side effects.
(8) Central set was varied by providing subjects with prior experience of postural stimulus velocities or amplitudes under 1) serial and random conditions, 2) expected and unexpected conditions, and 3) practiced and unpracticed conditions.
(9) The present study analyses in humans the control principles of sequential, unpracticed pointing movements in a 2-dimensional space.
(10) The control of pointing arm movements in the absence of visual guidance was investigated in unpracticed human subjects.
(11) For many unpracticed subjects, the slopes of the resulting RT X Set Size functions are too shallow to be consistent with Treisman's feature integration model, which proposes serial, self-terminating search for conjunctions.
(12) A rapid scan flicker photometric procedure is described whereby continuous spectral sensitivity functions are measured from unpracticed observers in 30 min.
(13) The method facilitates colour matching by unpracticed observers.
(14) Unexpected or unpracticed stimulus amplitudes, however, were associated with significant late activation of ankle antagonist, tibialis.
(15) Twenty-eight pelvic scans were also graded by two "unpracticed" radiologists not involved in the development of the scale.
(16) It always looks very unpromising to an unpracticed observer, but it’s astonishing what can come out of a pile of debris.
(17) For the unpracticed radiologists the percentage agreement was 61% and the weighted kappa was 0.55.
(18) In the implementation of a computer-aided data documentation and processing system the application of one central PC is unpractical.
(19) are not removed by the determination of myocardial level, which is quite unpractical and does not offer clear advantages in comparison to the conventional plasma monitoring.
(20) Data are presented from four unpracticed observers age 12 to 42 years.