What's the difference between slanted and tendentious?

Slanted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Slant

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Epicanthal folds were present in 46%, mongoloid slanting of the lids in 72% of cases.
  • (2) This study suggests that the BD VACUTAINER agar slant is an acceptable alternative to the Septi-Chek system for routine blood cultures.
  • (3) Revised culturing methods utilizing the elements carbon dioxide, sodium chloride, calcium and magnesium in Sabouraud's Agar slant aerobically may help recover the adult micro-organism for positive identification.
  • (4) In experiment 2 newborns were desensitized to changes in slant during familiarization trials, and subsequently strongly preferred a different shape to the familiarized shape in a new orientation.
  • (5) On the basis of their symptoms, it is suggested that infantile eczema is not an essential sign of the disorder, whereas the high frequency of hernia, strabism and upward slant of the palpebral fissures is underestimated in the literature.
  • (6) Comparison of this patient with thirteen previously published cases of this trisomy reveals a pattern of common features including: peculiar craniofacial dysmorphism--facial asymmetry, antimongoloid slant, narrow or short palpebral fissures, prominent nose, long upper lip, micro or retrognathia, high arched palate, low set ears, malformed ears, protuberant occiput--, abnormal fingers and toes, short neck, mental and growth retardation, cardiopathy, respiratory distress etc..
  • (7) Normal quantitative circumferential profile limits were established for a 30 degrees bilateral rotating slant-hole (RSH) collimator tomographic system.
  • (8) Mutant strains were genetically stable and did not revert spontaneously for at least 1 year when stocked on nutrient agar slants.
  • (9) We report on a Japanese girl with short stature, malar hypoplasia, up-slanting palpebral fissures, blue sclerae and thin, stiff and slightly brownish hair.
  • (10) Nowhere was this truer than him lavishing tens of thousands of pounds on slanted private polling rather than in helping friends and colleagues get elected."
  • (11) We also conclude that vertical declination is responded to globally as a slant around a horizontal axis but that other forms of orientation disparity are ineffective.
  • (12) SPECT of the brain was performed 30 minutes after intravenous administration of 74 MBq (2 mCi) 123I-IMP using a rotating gamma camera equipped with a 30-degree slant-hole collimator.
  • (13) A proximal 19q duplication was observed in lymphocytes of a young boy with mental retardation, dysmorphism (weight excess, macrocephaly, downward slanted palpebral fissures, hypertelorism, broad nose, typical mouth), without visceral malformation.
  • (14) Similarly a line segment of constant length, a bar, rotating on the frontal plane appears slanted in depth.
  • (15) Rapid presumptive identification of S. aureus, particularly on the agar slant of biphasic blood culture bottles can be performed by modified slide clumping factor tests.
  • (16) The extent of coverage and the slant put on a particular case by a newspaper in Duluth, Minnesota, is closely examined in support of the thesis.
  • (17) Jordan Henderson justified his selection but Lallana is becoming an elegant frustration and Hodgson’s attempts to put a positive slant on the match did not extend to Wilshere’s performance.
  • (18) Organisms grown in a liquid overlay on a semisolid slant (biphasic medium) showed slow logarithmic growth and the presence of chromatoid material.
  • (19) Seeking to fast-track a controversial, Islamist-slanted constitution, Morsi awarded himself total executive control , allowing himself to bypass judicial procedures to ensure the text was put to a public vote without further debate.
  • (20) Koenderink and van Doorn's theory, that the basis of stereoscopic slant perception is the deformation component of the disparity, field, was tested for slant around a horizontal axis, which produces images with a vertical ramp of horizontal disparity (horizontal shear) characterised by a global orientation disparity at the vertical meridian.

Tendentious


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Functions in the large intestine seem to be important for the effect of NT supplements, as NT supplements to the diet of intact animals tendentially had a positive effect on N, Ca and P balances, IRA animals, however, showed a contrary effect.
  • (2) Despite a tendential superiority of the pentoxifylline plus training group, there was no statistically significant difference between groups II and III.
  • (3) This lack of physical contact and encounter, encouraged at times by the disintegration of our cities, can lead to a numbing of conscience and to tendentious analyses which neglect parts of reality.
  • (4) The Kusta activation parameter indicated a tendentially stronger manifestation in the case of clomipramine.
  • (5) (A1-P)% of P (mean polyuria), were significantly different only in D3 as compared to N. Precisely, the LVP-effect to reduce Cc was blunted; moreover a LVP-effect to reduce renal sodium and chloride fractional excretions and a tendentiously enhanced LVP-effect to reduce water fractional excretion were observed.
  • (6) To persist with such a claim is a tendentious representation of the research on which it is based,” says the report, which quotes £12.8bn a year as a more plausible figure for the maximum regulatory savings from a potential Brexit.
  • (7) The time to reach the minimal residual gallbladder volume was only tendentiously prolonged in diabetics with autonomic cardiovascular dysfunction.
  • (8) From the outset he went on the offensive, striking a combative posture and attacking media coverage as biased, intrusive, and tendentious.
  • (9) The prime minister and his defenders have variously depicted the claims, and Israeli media's alleged obsession with Mrs Netanyahu, as "tendentious", "evil gossip" and misogynistic.
  • (10) Voltage clamp studies have suggested that this decrease in conductance occurs within a range of relatively negative membrane potentials and probably consists in the blocking of voltage-dependent, tendentially repolarizing ion channels (perhaps potassium).
  • (11) Asked what languages he understood, Mladic explained tendentiously he understood his mother tongue of Serbian, pointedly adding he understood Macedonian – essentially the same language.
  • (12) Transhepatic cholangioscopic monitoring of the healing process on the 15th, 20th, 30th and 40th day showed that while both types of anastomosis were equally secure, the extramucosal suture after excision of excess mucosa produced wider anastomoses and is therefore advisable in all cases of bilioenteric anastomosis (BEA) but especially when the biliary ways are narrow or tendentially thin-walled.
  • (13) There was a tendential (not statistically significant) decrease in cutaneous tocopherol, ubiquinol + ubiquinone 9 and ascorbic acid levels, either indicating direct photodestruction or consumption by reaction products of photooxidative stress.
  • (14) Critics warn that both programs sweep up substantial intelligence about Americans in a way that relies on tendentious interpretations of the law.
  • (15) The delay in the development of the language often found in twins is usually interpreted as being strictly connected with the twinning situation and on the assumption that a model of verbal, tendentially cryptophasic, communication would more easily exist between twins.
  • (16) Simple liner regression showed a negative correlation between insulin doses and fundus, a tendentially positive correlation between platelet adhesion and fundus.
  • (17) As expected in the hypothesis 97.6% of the sample showed M values below the norm, and 68.3% had Ban values higher than normal, whereas the conformity index was positive and tendentially positive in 65.9% of cases.
  • (18) On academies, free schools and the possibility of allowing for-profit providers to run schools (to which he has "no principled objection" and which he thinks will probably happen eventually), Bell sometimes uses almost exactly the words and phrases Gove uses, albeit without the tendentious political rhetoric.
  • (19) The specific radioactivity of DNA measured in several brain regions was tendentially lower in NL rats, but significance was achieved only in the cerebellum in the comparison between NL rats and C rats.
  • (20) The latest charges arising from his New York Times article, of “deliberate dissemination of false news and spreading tendentious rumours that undermine the prestige of the state”, could see any sentence extended further.