What's the difference between unambiguous and unequivocal?

Unambiguous


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The efforts to identify the initiating reactions of the blood coagulation process have not been unambiguously successful.
  • (2) More than anything else, though, we need a clear and unambiguous commitment to end the housing crisis within a generation.
  • (3) We were not able to unambiguously determine the map position of this mutant locus.
  • (4) Unambiguous mapping and rigorous determination of the nature of the initiation triplet for IF2 beta, the smaller form of IF2, is critical for future mutagenesis of this codon, required for investigating the biological importance of both IF2 alpha and IF2 beta.
  • (5) The 18S data provide the principal signal that supports the more basal divergences, but the data do not unambiguously address relationships among taxa in the clade that includes most colonial flagellates and Chlamydomonas taxa representative of the Euchlamydomonas group (sensu Ettl).
  • (6) We have now reexamined this in greater detail and report that it is due to GSH trapping of an electrophilic oxidized SPL species to form an adduct that we have isolated and unambiguously characterized by mass spectral analyses as the glutathionyl-SPL adduct (SPL-SSG).
  • (7) While compound 42 has been unambiguously characterized as an actual human metabolite of tiospirone, the role of 42 in the observed antipsychotic activity of the parent drug, if any, has not yet been determined.
  • (8) However, in surgery the results have to be displayed in a practically applicable, unambiguous way.
  • (9) To unambiguously identify the COOH-terminal amino acid sequence of the product, its factor Xa digestion products were separated by reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography.
  • (10) Several problems are encountered when studying the tonoplast: the small quantities of membrane material recovered, the contamination by other membranes, and the lack of an unambiguous marker.
  • (11) Solid-state 15N nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of this peptide and uniformly labeled [15N]gramicidin A' oriented in hydrated lipid bilayers have been obtained, allowing unambiguous assignment of the [15N]Ala3 resonance in the latter.
  • (12) A hypothesis of a borderline personality structure in PD patients, based on psychodynamic literature, was tested, but was not unambiguously supported.
  • (13) If such errors are to be rectified systematically to provide a sustainable improvement in field placement accuracy over a course of treatment, the origins of the errors require unambiguous identification.
  • (14) Faced with ever growing hostility to the EU, and to immigration, Clegg has decided to present the Liberal Democrats unambiguously as the party of "in" and of openness.
  • (15) Three analogues of the tridecapeptide amide H-Leu-(Glu)5-Ala-Tyr-Gly-Nle-Asp-Phe-NH2 were synthetized with alpha-deuterated glutamate residues in specific positions in order to assign unambiguously the 1H nmr spectrum of the parent peptide in water and in water-trifluoroethanol mixtures.
  • (16) Victims of the Great Depression were there in plain sight, the unemployed queuing up in breadlines, their plight unambiguous.
  • (17) Composting loos should be the answer to the world's toilet crisis Read more The water and sanitation target is simple and unambiguous: by 2030 every man, woman and child – whether at home, school, hospital or their workplace – should have access to a safe water supply and be able to go to the toilet in a clean space with privacy.
  • (18) Application of a highly specific antiserum against GABA to whole-mount preparations of the guinea pig and rat myenteric plexus resulted in discrete and unambiguous immunolabeling of a subpopulation of myenteric neuronal cell bodies and fibers.
  • (19) With the exception of the methoxy derivatives of the chlorodibenzofurans, it appeared that the mass fragmentation patterns of the structural isomers of each class of compounds were very specific and allowed unambiguous assignment of the position of the methoxy group in the molecule.
  • (20) Examination of the original descriptions of the species of Sarcocystis in cattle, sheep, and swine, and of isosporid oocysts shed sporulated by dogs, cats, man, and other carnivores, has shown that it is not possible in most instances to identify unambiguously recently recognized taxa.

Unequivocal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A throat swab from one patient grew group A, beta haemolytic streptococci, and in each case unequivocal evidence of seroreaction to streptococcal antigens was present.
  • (2) The possibility of unequivocally detecting syncytium-inducing strains after only a few days of coculture will make this detection routine and rapid.
  • (3) Although an unequivocal decision is not possible from existing knowledge, psychomotor or complex partial seizures of temporal lobe epilepsy would be the most tenable diagnosis.
  • (4) However, the test by itself should not be construed as an unequivocal measure of hysteria as defined psychologically by the MMPI.
  • (5) This provides unequivocal evidence that partitioning is the dominant form of retention for small nonpolar solutes.
  • (6) Derivatization of two glucuronides with 2-ferrocenylethylamine, followed by chromatographic separation and measurement of hydrodynamic voltammograms with an electrochemical detector was carried out for unequivocal identification.
  • (7) The NMR spectra of the two tRNA species in the region between 0 and 4 ppm below 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid (DSS) (methyl and methylene region) were the same except for the absence of the lowest field peak at 3.8 ppm in tRNAMet f3, thus unequivocally identifying this resonance at the methyl group of m7G47 of tRNAMet f1.
  • (8) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (9) Unequivocal interstitial deposits were infrequent and IgM was present in blood vessels in one patient only.
  • (10) It is demonstrated that the wall thickness-to-lumen diameter ratio or any similar parameters cannot be used as an unequivocal indicator of vascular change, therefore neither muscular coat hypertrophy, nor narrowed lumen should be regarded as proven in cases of arterial hypertension.
  • (11) Furthermore, the value of the flux ratio for this substance under conditions of zero electrochemical potential across the bowel wall unequivocally demonstrates active transport.
  • (12) Whereas the diagnosis unequivocally could be established by semithin sections the diagnosis was doubtful using material fixed with Bouin's solution and overlooked when the material was fixed with 4% formaldehyde solution.
  • (13) Despite the small number of patients studied, these results suggest the importance of limiting the prescription of 25 OH D3 to children suffering from renal osteodystrophy only after having assessed unequivocally an osteomalacic component by histodynamical criteria.
  • (14) Such attachment was unequivocally demonstrated in stereo pairs.
  • (15) What is needed is decisive action, and a clear and unequivocal policy on maintaining and fully enforcing UN sanctions against the Eritrean regime.
  • (16) However, there was unequivocal chronic arsenic intoxication.
  • (17) Although the neuroleptic drugs appear to act via an inhibition of dopamine receptors, measurements of dopamine metabolites in vivo, or of the transmitter and its receptors in post-mortem brain tissue, do not provide unequivocal evidence of a hyperactivity of dopaminergic neurotransmission in the disease.
  • (18) Fifteen patients had unequivocally normal left ventricular function by all these parameters.
  • (19) If CT scan also fails to enable an unequivocal diagnosis, the next step must be laboratory investigations.
  • (20) When the results were compared with human heavy-chain sequences, all the dog and cat proteins could be unequivocally assigned to the V(H)III subgroup.