What's the difference between unread and unready?

Unread


Definition:

  • (a.) Not read or perused; as, an unread book.
  • (a.) Not versed in literature; illiterate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Their activities, for the most part undocumented, have been forgotten or taken for granted, and notes, if written, remain unread.
  • (2) A toe-curling pause followed and Achebe's family looked on with unreadable expressions.
  • (3) The proportion of unreadable ultrasound results increased linearly with increase in skin thickness and the variance of ultrasound readings increased as inflammatory skin thickness increased; by contrast caliper variance remained constant.
  • (4) Lenin used to get cross with young Bolsheviks visiting him in exile, during the inter-revolutionary years between 1905 and 1917, when they teased him about Chernyshevsky’s book and told him it was unreadable.
  • (5) The compound that oversaw industry during the boom years now has a fading, almost unreadable sign and a deathly hush.
  • (6) In seven, very strong non-specific fluorescence made the result unreadable.
  • (7) Intelligence such as the Phoenix memo – which warned in July 2001 that terrorist suspects had been in flight schools and urgently requested further investigation – went unread.
  • (8) The most unreadable books I have read recently were Stephenie Meyer 's Twilight series.
  • (9) In this photograph, however, his face is an unreadable mask.
  • (10) The lawyer said Baluchi turned the book over to him, unread.
  • (11) Similarly, drawing on Henley Centre research, he says every home has a filter point — whether it is the kitchen table, or the bowl containing the keys by the front door, at which unsolicted material get stopped, and as such literature mounts in an election it remains increasingly unread.
  • (12) The clinical severity of those with unreadable roentgenograms was significantly greater.
  • (13) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
  • (14) The only listing for a piece of paper reads: “1-white piece of paper with BREEZO & tel#329-4789 and unreadable printing on the obverse side.” When contacted by the Guardian, Boyd’s cousin Joe Kelly recalled the slip of paper with the FedEx stamp.
  • (15) And could we, maybe, identify some of those earlier, unreadable Bookers, to which Rimington and Mullin intend to be the corrective?
  • (16) A shelf with unread books Toby: Isn’t the future of libraries dependent on not having gatekeepers who are scary, on libraries not looking ancient, and not being about distant, old knowledge?
  • (17) Panicking that she may be discharged before engineering their reunion, she forcibly ruptures her wound to prolong her stay - a feat of self-harm almost unreadable for its violence, and ultimate futility.
  • (18) "A map that tries to answer every question for every person is effectively unreadable."
  • (19) However approximately 5% of the sera were positive by ELISA and the EIF test while the CF test result was either negative or unreadable because of serum anticomplementary activity.
  • (20) It is anyway increasingly clear that Lord Justice Leveson is aware that all previous proposals on press reform lie unread and unimplemented on the bottom shelf – just like the Calcutt report.

Unready


Definition:

  • (a.) Not ready or prepared; not prompt; slow; awkward; clumsy.
  • (a.) Not dressed; undressed.
  • (v. t.) To undress.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The adolescents males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%).
  • (2) But with just 10 days to go, only 20 countries out of 192 have signed up, with many clearly unready or unwilling to put their name to the document.
  • (3) I have standards and I expect the same from customers: do not come and see me in a state of unreadiness.
  • (4) But he needs to start making his presence felt or run the risk that he instead becomes stamped with other labels which can be just as corrosive, labels like "Vague Ed" or "Unready Eddie".
  • (5) Harlow's Robert Halfon called Labour's approach "more Ethelred the Unready than Nixon in China" – one of the day's more enigmatic remarks.
  • (6) If the polls are right, Britain seems unready to trigger this act of creative destruction and it will be left to Varoufakis to do out of office what he could not do in power: prove a different Europe is possible.
  • (7) Cu(II) inhibited the active hydrogenase, prepared by treatment with hydrogen, but had little effect on the 'unready' enzyme unless a reductant such as ascorbate was present, in which case inactivation took place either in air or under argon.
  • (8) The membrane-bound hydrogenase of D. desulfuricans, Norway strain, the periplasmic hydrogenase of D. gigas and the membrane-bound hydrogenase of Alcaligenes eutrophus can be isolated in a state (termed "Unready") which requires up to several hours for full activation by hydrogen.
  • (9) This process is interpreted as the conversion of the hydrogenase from an inactive 'unready' state to an 'active' state.
  • (10) This process is interpreted in terms of conversion of the enzyme from a relatively inactive Unready state to the Active state.
  • (11) Thus, the nickel environment of the active protein is different from that in the oxidized or unready state.
  • (12) The nickel centre of hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio gigas was studied by electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy in the oxidized, unready (Ni-A) and H2-reduced active (Ni-C) states, both in H2O and 2H2O solutions.
  • (13) He said: "The economic situation has become even more strained and internal factors have been exacerbated by a high level of uncertainty on currency and financial markets, serious capital flight, an unreadiness by investors to take decisions in this acute international situation which has taken shape in the last two months."
  • (14) Personal unreadiness and treatment program waiting lists were the most frequently reported obstacles to treatment.
  • (15) The adolescent males reported that initially they either were definitely unready for paternity (75%) or were undecided about readiness for fatherhood (21%).
  • (16) Hg(II) also inactivated the enzyme irreversible in the 'unready' state without the requirement for reductants.
  • (17) At pH 6.0 and 2 degrees C reduction of Ni(III) in ready enzyme was completely irreversible, whereas at pH 8.0 and 30 degrees C Ni(III) in both ready and unready enzyme titrated with E0' = -115 mV (n = 1).
  • (18) Punk came along but, as Cabaret Voltaire found to their cost when supporting the likes of the Buzzcocks, punk audiences were aggressively unready for them.
  • (19) Several elements combine to change the readiness of a group through four phases - unready, ready, mature, and professional.
  • (20) Acta 883, 145-154), the C. vinosum enzyme can also exist in two forms: the 'unready' form (EPR characteristics of Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.32, 2.24, 2.01) and the 'ready' form (EPR characteristics Ni(III): gx,y,z = 2.34, 2.16, 2.01).

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