What's the difference between solitary and unique?

Solitary


Definition:

  • (a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
  • (a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
  • (a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
  • (a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
  • (a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
  • (a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
  • (n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
  • (2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
  • (3) No substance P binding sites were present in the central region of the parvocellular subdivision or the solitary tract.
  • (4) In solitary ulcers the ratio male: female was 1.1:1, while it was 2.2:1 in the cases in which a duodenal ulcer had been demonstrated, earlier or simultaneously with the gastric ulcer.
  • (5) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
  • (6) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (7) Twenty-six of 41 patients with solitary liver cysts, some of them with ventriculation, received surgical treatment.
  • (8) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
  • (9) The radiological differential diagnosis includes neuroblastoma, leukaemic infiltration, lymphoma, histiocytosis X, solitary and multifocal osteosarcoma and other deposits.
  • (10) Thus the solitary experience seems to be more influenced by disturbed individual dynamics, but in other cases social factors seem to be crucial.
  • (11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
  • (12) During the autopsy of a 24 year old woman, who died of cardiorespiratory insufficiency a large solitary tumour was found extending into the right ventricle of the heart and obstructing the pulmonary valve subtotally.
  • (13) Eighteen patients received implants for recurrent malignant astrocytoma (Group II) and 3 for recurrent solitary cerebral metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung (Group III).
  • (14) For whites, in addition to health and solitary activities, interaction with family and sex were also found to be significant.
  • (15) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
  • (16) These results suggest distinct operating mechanisms of fast and slow rhythms in the solitary complex in vitro.
  • (17) With one probable exception all of the tumours were solitary.
  • (18) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
  • (19) Solitary abnormalities on bone scan or chest film serve as an excellent examples of this dilemma.
  • (20) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.

Unique


Definition:

  • (a.) Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole.
  • (n.) A thing without a like; something unequaled or unparalleled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
  • (2) Chromatographic maps of DNA adducts demonstrated unique patterns of DNA adducts for each of the regions.
  • (3) A sperm whale myoglobin gene containing multiple unique restriction sites has been constructed in pUC 18 by sequential assembly of chemically synthesized oligonucleotide fragments.
  • (4) The temporary loss of a family member through deployment brings unique stresses to a family in three different stages: predeployment, survival, and reunion.
  • (5) This is a report concerning a unique combination of Alzheimer's disease with the following refluxes: buccosalivary, gastroesophageal, vesicoureteral, urethroprostatic and urethrovesicular, along with neurogenic bowel and neuropathic bladder.
  • (6) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
  • (7) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (8) The presence of a previously unreported dipeptide transport mechanism within blood leukocytes and the selective enrichment of the granule enzyme, DPPI, within cytotoxic effector cells of lymphoid or myeloid lineage appear to afford a unique mechanism for the targeting of immunotherapeutic reagents composed of simple dipeptide esters or amides.
  • (9) The problem-based system provides a unique integration of acquiring theoretical knowledge in the basic sciences through clinical problem solving which was highly rated in all analysed phases.
  • (10) Radio-immunoprecipitation and partial proteolytic digest mapping showed that the monoclonal antibodies each recognized a unique epitope.
  • (11) Structural studies indicate that caveolae are decorated on their cytoplasmic surface by a unique array of filaments or strands that form striated coatings.
  • (12) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
  • (13) These neurons can be identified uniquely by 3H-thymidine exposure during the week preceding the neurogenesis of cortical layer 6.
  • (14) But it is a huge logistical problem – unique in the world.
  • (15) A basic premise is that emotional process is not unique to homo sapiens and that human behavior might better be understood by observing this process in the broader context of all natural systems.
  • (16) Although GD1a was also found in the lung, heart, kidney, and spleen, its expression within the murine immune cells under investigation was unique to TH2 lymphocytes.
  • (17) "Our black, Muslim and Jewish citizens will sleep much less easily now the BBC has legitimised the BNP by treating its racist poison as the views of just another mainstream political party when it is so uniquely evil and dangerous."
  • (18) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
  • (19) Because each linkage project is different, the modular nature of the software allows for better control of the programming process and development of unique strategies.
  • (20) The testing of this program with HSIRPR cDNA release (EMBL data bank) indicated the presence of unique features in the signal peptide coding region.