What's the difference between unco and weird?

Unco


Definition:

  • (a.) Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.
  • (adv.) In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very.
  • (n.) A strange thing or person.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In recent years the auditory brainstem evoked response (BSER) has become an established aid in assessing hearing in unco-operative subjects.
  • (2) The test heat treatment led to neurological complications, ranging from unco-ordinated use of the forelegs to paralysis of both forelegs.
  • (3) Using it on young children which are unco-operative the Auto-Refractor is not as sufficient as we hoped it to be.
  • (4) The former editor of the New York Times, Bill Keller, is the target of special ire for his allegedly unco-operative attitude, described as "a moral pygmy with a self-justifying streak the size of the San Andreas fault".
  • (5) The managers' efforts to identify unmet need were often piecemeal and unco-ordinated, and this may have been, in part, because managers were facing difficulties in meeting existing demands for services.
  • (6) Pregnancy outcome improved markedly in the latter years, possibly owing to non-exposure to warfarin, less immunosuppression, and improvement in neonatal care, and four of the five mothers who suffered deterioration in renal function were notoriously unco-operative in their medical care.
  • (7) The uncal or the unco-parahippocampal branches of the anterior choroidal artery were divided into rostral and caudal; the former were present in 70.6%, and the latter were present in 94.1%.
  • (8) The use of Ketalar as a general anesthetic in dental treatments particularly in extractions of unco-operative children of 2-5 years was studied.
  • (9) The existence of co-operation between species has been cast as a problem to the selfish-gene view of evolution: why does co-operation persist, when it would seem that individual selection should favor the unco-operative individual who exploits the co-operative tendencies of its partner and gives nothing in return?
  • (10) At the onset of purposeless, unco-ordinated movements of the entire body, blood samples were obtained to determine the CNS excitation-threshold plasma concentration (ETPC) of laudanosine.
  • (11) The results indicate that changes in blood-flow patterns and loss of marginal definition of basal vessels are unreliable signs of left-sided insufficiency in old patients or in unco-operative patients, in the presence of a high diaphragm and in the supine position.
  • (12) A method for securing nasoenteric tubes in the unco-operative patient is presented.
  • (13) A series of 40 patients with degnerative discopathy was effectively treated to means of trans-unco-discal approach, which is a combined anterior and lateral approach to cervical discs.
  • (14) The author of that report, Graham Badman, called for "authoritative social work practice" whereby social workers actively and robustly challenged unco-operative or violent clients.
  • (15) The uncal or the unco-parahippocampal branches of the internal carotid artery, which originated 1.4 to 4.2 mm from its bifurcation site, existed in 58.8%.
  • (16) The electron spin resonance spectrum, g 4.25, and the low molar relaxivity, 473m(-1).s(-1), of water H(+) suggest the presence of high-spin Fe(III) unco-ordinated to water in the enzyme.
  • (17) Minor neurological symptoms were observed one day after 75 min at 42.3 degrees C. The incidence and severity of the neurological symptoms (ranging from unco-ordinated use of the forelegs to paralysis) increased with increasing temperature and duration of the hyperthermic treatment.
  • (18) Vigorous grunts of approval came from Joe Rukin (video) , national co-ordinator of Stop HS2 who was wrestling with the elephant's unco-operative generator.
  • (19) CNIL also criticised the company for being unco-operative in its responses to queries from the commissioners.
  • (20) Like a rich country fruit cake, Kidnapped is seasoned throughout with handfuls of dialect words, "ain" (one), "bairn" (child), "blae" (cheerless), "chield" (fellow), "drammach" (raw oatmeal), "fash" (bother), "muckle" (big), "siller" (money), "unco" (extremely) , "wheesht!"

Weird


Definition:

  • (n.) Fate; destiny; one of the Fates, or Norns; also, a prediction.
  • (n.) A spell or charm.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to fate; concerned with destiny.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to witchcraft; caused by, or suggesting, magical influence; supernatural; unearthly; wild; as, a weird appearance, look, sound, etc.
  • (v. t.) To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (2) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
  • (3) They were ravaged by injuries at that point, although Park and Rafael in the centre was weird.
  • (4) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
  • (5) In Niki Savva’s book The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, Credlin has even been compared to Wallis Simpson, a deeply weird analogy.
  • (6) "Weirdly, we sold it to lots of European countries where there's not only the issue about knowing who Steve and Rob are, but I assume all the impressions are slightly lost on them.
  • (7) Party conferences are always weird melanges of loyal door-knockers, lobbyists, journalists and parliamentarians enjoying a few days of stolen glamour.
  • (8) As Alice Ross of the FT points out: Alice Ross (@aliceemross) Weird that Hollande is talking about an exchange rate that matches "true state" of ezone economy.
  • (9) I don't have any weirdness about it, or any of them."
  • (10) Weirdly, the muffled Doppler effects of several thousand passing SUVs was quite soothing.
  • (11) "Brr, that was weird, but we were cheeky little kids.
  • (12) As the weirdly brilliant TV show Fashion Police – hosted by the late, great Joan Rivers, who, along with various randoms, passed judgment on clothes worn by celebrities that week – demonstrated, people have different takes on clothes.
  • (13) "If viewers think something is false or weird, that's when they reject it," says Gary Knight, commercial content director at ITV.
  • (14) Are the 'Set Piece' binders to stay like we are playing a weird version of American Football?'
  • (15) Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of the Marché du Film, the world's biggest movie market.
  • (16) They occupy that weird middle ground between anonymity and celebrity; they're from well-regarded restaurants, but they're not at the level where, say, James Martin can be obnoxious at them on Saturday Kitchen.
  • (17) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
  • (18) I know some people will think it's weird to be so organised but I did it last year for the first time, and I found it very relaxing to know I had everything wrapped up by the end of November.
  • (19) It’s all well and good standing in a gallery and stroking your chin, but if you cast your eyes to the left and summon the concentration it takes to read the little rectangle of artistic blurb next to it, all of that context and explanation really helps transform that weird bit of twisted wire your kid could make into something deep and primal pulled from the soul.
  • (20) Away from the violence and the weirdness, Korea supports a healthy contingent of award-winning auteurs, like Hong Sang-soo , Im Sang-soo or Lee Chang-dong.

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