What's the difference between unread and unreal?

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.

Unreal


Definition:

  • (a.) Not real; unsubstantial; fanciful; ideal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe it’s all unreal, all the way down, the speeches, the photo opportunities?
  • (2) She was presented as something superhuman but also unreal, sanitised, infantilised; she was more than just a woman singing a song, she was an Ideal, a Symbol.
  • (3) Algeria deserved a better fate than an exit which inevitably will leave big regrets that they missed out on something monumental or unreal, but the national team left the Brazilian World Cup with sword in hand and head high.” In Germany most of the media were just thankful they had progressed.
  • (4) This earlier shadow, this yearning and refracted autobiography, places Ballard at the heart of fiction of the unreal.
  • (5) Overall, panic symptoms could be grouped into three categories: early symptoms--consisting of dyspnea, palpitations, chest discomfort, and hot flashes; intermediate symptoms--including shaking, choking, feelings of unreality, sweats, faintness, and dizziness; late symptoms-consisting of fear and paresthesias.
  • (6) It demonstrates a previously unrealized advantage of confocal optical microscopy.
  • (7) Protein separation has been achieved by electrical field-flow fractionation, a heretofore unrealized separation technique.
  • (8) And with that she clutches a bejewelled hand to what is famously the most unreal part of her anatomy.
  • (9) To be racing for the school, feeling unreal, light, weightless, powered by gut fear alone.
  • (10) It is unbelievable, it is almost unreal that we were able to come together so quickly to craft a compromise that both Democrats and Republicans can find a way to support and move forward,” said Democratic representative John Lewis, of Georgia, who was a leader from the civil rights era.
  • (11) Faced with this mutant telly genre masquerading as reality, soaps have become unreal just when we needed them to be otherwise.
  • (12) Although there was an initial tendency on the part of students to regard the exercise as 'unreal', they delighted in refining their communication skills and trying out their skills in problem solving.
  • (13) In a word: Hollyoaks has become Geordie Shore and The Only Way Is Essex – as unreal as its purported reality show counterparts.
  • (14) After about 10 days of regular triazolam they tended to develop panics and depression, felt unreal, and sometimes paranoid.
  • (15) But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists: mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential.
  • (16) The amount of times he’s given the ball away is unreal.
  • (17) Eight normal subjects were studied in laboratory by the awakening technique, and the dream contents were rated by two judges according to nine scaled dimensions: unreality, participation of the dreamer, pleasantness, unpleasantness, verbal aggresivity, physical aggressivity, sexuality, sensoriality and time of reference in the dreamer's life.
  • (18) Budding fashion designers will certainly have a lot of potential products to toy with, some of which are so futuristic that they seem almost unreal.
  • (19) The commission president accused Johnson of painting an unreal picture of the EU for the British public and said he should return to Brussels, where he previously worked as a journalist, to see whether his claims chimed with “reality”.
  • (20) Computers have unrealized potential in investigation and clinical care.

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