What's the difference between unbeknown and unknown?

Unbeknown


Definition:

  • (a.) Not known; unknown.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unbeknown to the therapists, half received a description in which the patient's age was 28 and the other half received a description of the same patient but with the age as 78.
  • (2) "Unbeknown to us Fulham were in the middle of a financial crisis and in serious peril of merging with QPR, with Craven Cottage to be sold for residential development, all courtesy of the club chairman (and, quite conveniently, property developer) David Bulstrode.
  • (3) Unbeknown to the group, they were joined by another member who had been secretly recording their activities for the FBI since February and would continue monitoring them until their arrest in October.
  • (4) His tomb was one of four graves located in the search for Richard, although unbeknown to them the king's grave was the one they found in the first half hour of the excavation.
  • (5) O’Dwyer had appeared with several dogs in the semi-final of the show, but during the final, and unbeknown to viewers, a dog called Chase replaced Matisse in the tightrope act.
  • (6) Unbeknown to his pupils, father-of-two Macphallen Kuwale had a secret narcotics factory in his home in Cardiff .
  • (7) Unbeknown to the gunman, Morton-Hoffman had been slipping written messages to the police under the fire door, which he now feared Monis would find.
  • (8) My husband had guaranteed our house, unbeknown to me, so we lost that, too.
  • (9) All four of the Brighton jihadis had travelled from the UK and crossed into Syria via the Turkish border to take up arms unbeknown to their parents.
  • (10) Unbeknown to Chua, Brown was on bail, but still attempted to sell Chua 100,000 tonnes of diesel for $42m.
  • (11) The amount of test organisms (Sarcinae), introduced into the kitchen (unbeknown to the housewives) by experimentally contaminated minced meat was only reduced by common cleaning procedures, in sofar as nearly half of the original contaminations could be demonstrated to be still present.
  • (12) One of the other most remarked-upon features of Lessing's life is that, along with Muriel Spark, who unbeknown to her at the time lived nearby in Rhodesia, she is one of literature's most famous bolters - something for which she has been given a hard time, for refusing to demonstrate insufficient breastbeating.
  • (13) "That was because, unbeknown to him and in the two weeks prior to his birthday, his wife had been treated to a string of advertisements on her Facebook page, each carefully chosen to appeal to the wife of a jolly, Welsh, bearded, rugby loving, cider-making public professional.
  • (14) Unbeknown to Clark, Brown gave £100,000 to the party in early February 2005 through the British subsidiary of his Swiss-based company 5th Avenue Partners.
  • (15) Unbeknown to him or the Treasury, a credit boom triggered by financial deregulation would offset his ludicrous, pro-cyclical, recession-inducing budget.
  • (16) Unbeknown to any of us at the time, two Nazi soldiers had been asked to make a photographic document of the deportation of Hungarian Jews from the moment they got off the train – through the entire system of arriving, going to the bath house and getting their prison clothes – so I ended up in a picture at the very moment I was separated from my sister.
  • (17) Unbeknown to the lending banks and auditors, Rastogi was in control of more than 200 supposed trading counterparties at "brassplate" addresses in more than 20 different countries.
  • (18) However, unbeknown to the group, one of their flatmates had mentioned the term to a journalist friend.
  • (19) Unbeknown to us, one of the teachers had unplugged all of our food mixers so they could get a head start and win, which made the children laugh.
  • (20) There was never a long enough gap in IRA violence to allow a sensible face-to-face discussion to happen, but unbeknown to officials at the government end of the link, Duddy insisted on setting up a meeting in April for "Fred" and the head of MI5 in Northern Ireland to talk to McGuinness and Gerry Kelly, a leading republican who had been imprisoned for the Old Bailey bomb of 1973.

Unknown


Definition:

  • (a.) Not known; not apprehended.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reference library used in the operation of a computerized search program indicates the closest matches in the reference library data with the IR spectrum of an unknown sample.
  • (2) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
  • (3) Second, the unknown is searched against the database to find all materials with the same or similar element types; the results are kept in set 2.
  • (4) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
  • (5) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
  • (6) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
  • (7) We therefore conclude that widely spaced (and unknown) parts of the protein chain are required for the intersubunit interactions that eventually lead to functional assembly of the receptor.
  • (8) An atheroma is often associated with saccular aneurysms, but its effect on this pathological process is still unknown.
  • (9) The ophthalmic headache's crisis is caused, in fact, by a spasm of convergence on an unknown exophory of which the amplitude of fusion is satisfying, and the presence of which can only be seen with test under screen.
  • (10) The mechanisms responsible for changes in absorption in vitro are unknown.
  • (11) The pathoanatomy and factors associated with transient mitral regurgitation (MR) induced by myocardial ischemic stress are unknown.
  • (12) The evaluation of the data of unknown test persons of a pilot study in 96% resulted in a correct classification in patients with heart and circulatory diseases or persons with healthy heart and circulation, the classification in the above mentioned groups of diagnosis was performed on an average to 57%.
  • (13) Silicon, a relatively unknown trace element in nutritional research, has been uniquely localized in active calcification sites in young bone.
  • (14) Several pedigrees have been reported in which defects of the insulin gene result in glucose intolerance or diabetes in affected members, but the role of insulin gene mutations in NIDDM is unknown.
  • (15) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (16) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (17) Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology with protean manifestations.
  • (18) Their incidence cannot be estimated--only the possibility of recoverable renal function in an unknown number of involved patients.
  • (19) The results indicate that the effect of EGF on the growth of cancer cells is very complicated and may involve an unknown regulatory mechanism of cancer cell growth.
  • (20) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.

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