What's the difference between unfamiliar and versed?

Unfamiliar


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If placed in a position which seems to require unfamiliar knowledge or expertise, the practitioner need only seek a consultant anesthesiologist for assistance.
  • (2) Unfamiliar-object-dominant neurons (n = 7) responded more to unfamiliar objects than to familiar objects.
  • (3) The kinds of audience investigated included the mate, unfamiliar females, other females and males with which subjects had had prior visual and auditory contact, and broody hens with and without young.
  • (4) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
  • (5) The results supported most of the predicted self-other differences, but almost all were matched by differences between familiar and unfamiliar others.
  • (6) Both familiar and unfamiliar (i.e., well-known and unknown) faces were used, and some face pairs were repeated with a mean delay of about 10 min.
  • (7) Behaviour was unaltered at 30-31 weeks in encounters with unfamiliar males.
  • (8) Pigeons are able to home from unfamiliar sites because they acquire an olfactory map extending beyond the area they have flown over.
  • (9) To investigate the role of "behavioral inhibition to the unfamiliar" as an early temperamental characteristic of children at risk for adult panic disorder and agoraphobia (PDAG), we compared children of parents with PDAG with those from psychiatric comparison groups.
  • (10) For those unfamiliar with it, the Internet of Things (also known as M2M or machine to machine) refers to an expanding network of interconnected internet-enabled devices.
  • (11) The failure to demonstrate objective benefits of health status reports in this study may be due to physician unfamiliarity with health status scores, failure to link the report with an office visit, the relative stability of clinical status in the subjects over 1 year and the relatively short time-frame of the study.
  • (12) Investigations mostly failed to show overt or covert face recognition, but NR performed at an above-chance level in selecting the familiar face on a task requiring a forced-choice between a familiar and an unfamiliar face.
  • (13) As a teacher I know the importance of analogies in helping students gain a greater understanding of something previously unfamiliar.
  • (14) Unfamiliarity with the disease is a problem in Haiti.
  • (15) Prior hormonal, copulatory, or cohabitation experience did not significantly influence sexual responses between females and unfamiliar male partners.
  • (16) In contrast to existing evidence that maternal depression may be a risk factor for the child's long-term peer relationships, no differences in social behavior were found between children of normal and affectively ill mothers during a brief encounter with unfamiliar peers.
  • (17) Sure, they speak a different language and use an unfamiliar currency, but they're still people.
  • (18) It was the ICC's first-ever verdict, and the court is now heading into unfamiliar legal territory as judges must decide on reparations for Lubanga's victims.
  • (19) The main findings were: 1) PCT increased significantly in response to the tests carried out in unfamiliar environments (OFA and CSC) compared with the response to the home-cage confrontation.
  • (20) A dual task study of unfamiliar music perception during concurrent right and left hand finger tapping was conducted with a group of left-handed non-musicians.

Versed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Verse
  • (a.) Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced.
  • (a.) Turned.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But as a former Eurocrat, he is well-versed in the weaknesses and believes it is right to highlight them in stark language.
  • (2) The simplicity of the method, in particular, the solution by the graphic method for estimation of the apparent volume of distribution, might be specially useful for clinicians not well versed in mathematics in applying clinical pharmacokinetics to drug therapy.
  • (3) At the same time, he is keen to do everything in his power to help Palace pick up three crucial points, right down to giving Pulis chapter and verse on the Cardiff players he knows inside out.
  • (4) His controversial 1988 book The Satanic Verses, which provoked a religious opinion or fatwa, from the Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for the author's killing as punishment for blasphemy, is still banned in India.
  • (5) No wonder the European Union has banned the use of the term on packaging unless it can be backed up with scientific chapter and verse.
  • (6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
  • (7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.
  • (8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.
  • (9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
  • (10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
  • (11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.
  • (12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.
  • (13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
  • (14) He gives the team and the club a good presence, and you could see that from what he gave to us here.” Leeds are a club well versed in setting records, and they have now not won at Elland Road for 11 matches, stretching back to March.
  • (15) For those not versed in 800m times, that's remarkably quick considering his age and the conditions.
  • (16) "His 'official' laureateship verse was published in the Times and even included a poem on the assassination of John F Kennedy.
  • (17) This last point seemed to draw some sympathy from Justice Anthony Kennedy, who hails from California and is well versed in the central role of the initiative process in the state's political culture.
  • (18) The show will also see him discuss topics including "pogonophobia, underpants and the human condition", pognophobia being a fear of beards – something Paxman is well versed in following the public outcry at his beard-sporting last year.
  • (19) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
  • (20) Two divergent viewpoints, central verses peripheral, provide insight into possible mechanisms.