What's the difference between uninhabited and wilderness?

Uninhabited


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.
  • (2) Japan already controls the uninhabited islands, which it refers to as the Senkaku and China calls the Diaoyu, but announced plans to buy them from their private owners this week .
  • (3) Their brains enjoy a wide, uninhabited space that emboldens them to come up with and pursue novel ideas.
  • (4) Everything changed last September when a Chinese trawler rammed a Japanese coastguard ship near the Senkaku islands, an uninhabited but disputed archipelago.
  • (5) • Laziomar runs regular ferries from Terracina and Formia Santo Stefano Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Silvia Marchetti Today this jet-black rock, the tiniest of the Pontines, is uninhabited, but until 1965 thousands of criminals, mafiosi and anarchists were jailed and tortured here.
  • (6) The two countries are locked in a long-running territorial dispute over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea , known as the Diaoyu to the Chinese and Senkakus to the Japanese, and China complains Japan has failed to fully atone for its brutality in the second world war.
  • (7) China’s first space lab was most likely to land in the ocean or in an uninhabited area, Dorman admitted.
  • (8) Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton , almost uninhabitable.
  • (9) Of the three reserves proposed by the coalition of conservationists, the least likely is one around the uninhabited South Sandwich islands because of its proximity to the Falklands.
  • (10) Government workers with machetes cleared fallen trees from streets while a vast number of uninhabitable houses prompted residents to erect makeshift shelters.
  • (11) But the hostile body-language between the two men suggest tensions still run deep and not just because disputed claims about uninhabited islands in the east China sea.
  • (12) China described Japan's decision to buy three of the uninhabited islets, which are thought to be surrounded by huge deposits of natural gas , as a violation of its sovereignty.
  • (13) Saadiyat Island ("Happiness Island" in Arabic), a once uninhabited stretch of coastal desert close to Abu Dhabi's city centre, is steadily being converted by tens of thousands of migrant workers into a $27bn (£16.5bn) cultural metropolis.
  • (14) China was backed strongly by the G77 group of 130 countries and the Alliance of Small Island States (Aosis), made up of Caribbean and Pacific countries which expect to be made uninhabitable in the next few generations if a strong climate agreement is not secured.
  • (15) Zembra is an uninhabited, hardly accessible island, north of the bay of Tunis and is a part of a large, protected zone of natural reserve.
  • (16) The area is part of a chain of uninhabited barrier islands in the Breton national wildlife refuge.
  • (17) "Satellites have transformed our knowledge of what is happening to these distant and uninhabited parts of the planet.
  • (18) The residents were forced to abandon their homes in the hours after the tsunami on 11 March; those living closest to the plant have been told their former neighbourhoods could remain uninhabitable for decades .
  • (19) But the sale of the house in Chester was held up for several months by a freak accident, a burst water main under the foundations which flooded the ground floor and made it uninhabitable.
  • (20) Countries can acquire territory by discovering uninhabited land, signing a treaty – as with Khrushchev’s transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954 – or occupying an area peacefully over a long period of time.

Wilderness


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
  • (v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
  • (v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
  • (2) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (3) But Lyndon Schneiders, national campaigns director of the Wilderness Society, says the new data shows Australia is “lying to the world and lying to ourselves” about the true state of greenhouse emissions.
  • (4) The closest town of any size is Burns, population 2,806, where you should stock up on petrol, food and water before heading south into the wilderness on the 66-mile Steens Mountain Backcountry Byway.
  • (5) Wilderness areas throughout the Western hemisphere.
  • (6) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
  • (7) In France last year, Marine Le Pen scored 18% in the presidential election and is now powering ahead against François Hollande, while in the Netherlands Geert Wilders' Freedom party is polling at 15%.
  • (8) The movements that produced Brexit and Trump won about half the vote; Wilders’ is forecast to get below 20% (more from the Peilingwijzer poll aggregator here ).
  • (9) There is a god who protects me, and I just don’t believe Hofer will send me to a concentration camp.” Like Marine Le Pen’s Front National, the Freedom party has actively tried to distance itself from its antisemitic past since at least 2010, when it joined a cross-party alliance in the European parliament with Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom and Italy’s Northern League.
  • (10) At a club that has become used to selling its best players at the end of the season – more often than not to Liverpool in recent times – his arrival looks like a continuation of the smart managerial appointments that have taken Southampton from the wilderness of League One to one of the Premier League’s most consistent sides.
  • (11) I felt like a fugitive, a voice in the wilderness of televisual parody.
  • (12) Fashion moves fast, and four years is a long time in the wilderness.
  • (13) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (14) Peter Owen, the Wilderness Society’s South Australia director, said: “An oil spill in the Great Australian Bight from a deep-sea well blowout would be a disaster for fisheries, tourism and marine life.
  • (15) Off message David Davis, untamed Tory SAS man, now living rough in the political wilderness.
  • (16) The past year has also witnessed the rise of ultra rightwing movements such as Reclaim Australia and the Australian Liberty Alliance (ALA), the local offshoot of a party inspired by the Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders.
  • (17) And, as was the case with almost every other director in Less Than Meets The Eye, Wilder did knock out a few classics; to my count, four: Double Indemnity, Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and the just re-released The Apartment .
  • (18) It said the policy was rooted in a 1994 Clinton-era Border Patrol strategy called “Prevention Through Deterrence” which sealed off urban entry points and funneled people to wilderness routes risking injury, dehydration, heat stroke, exhaustion and hypothermia .
  • (19) Geert Wilders , the Dutch politician who faces trial for inciting racial hatred, repeated the sentiment that Europe is now “at war”.
  • (20) The whole listing in 2013 by [former environment minister] Tony Burke and the Greens was an ideological one aimed to destroy the forestry industry.” Colbeck said the government “will look at the decision further from here” but added “I don’t think community values would accept logging in wilderness World Heritage areas.