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单词 incongruent
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Definition of incongruent in English:

incongruent

adjective ɪnˈkɒŋɡrʊəntˌinkənˈɡro͞oənt
  • 1Incongruous; incompatible.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By now the sound of gun shots rarely distracts me, but this time it was too close, and too incongruent with the bustling nightlife.
    • Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers!
    • But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation?
    • Although I listened in silence, his comments were strikingly incongruent with the vivid descriptions that Chole's fishermen gave of the destruction that dynamiting caused the reefs.
    • What is interesting to me is how incongruent this prevailing view that such aspects of personalities matter to voters is with the new fashionable attitude to politicians' personal morality.
    • Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
    • For just like adding plastic to groundfill while complaining of global warming, it is internally incongruent to preach peace and understanding via corrupted messaging.
    • Many find the enforcement of minor infractions, such as standing on the tree planters or chalking on the ground, incongruent with perceptions of public space.
    • This is a common approach for a duo who delight in blending seemingly incongruent but ultimately believable material into their performances.
    • Before I met my acupuncturist, my love life was in disarray: acute disappointments, incongruent pairings, missing variables (sense of humor, stable income, deodorant).
    • Even if, in the beginning, we may have felt incongruent with the jealous workplace environment, slowly we start focusing our energies on how to avoid or circumvent it.
    • But it seems a little incongruent for a nation so concerned with its democratic credentials to refuse access to a journalist simply because she says the wrong things, and isn't likely to fall under a steam-roller any time soon.
    • We will further democracy and the majesty of the people by empowering unelected Guardians to restrain the people when their choices are incongruent with that of the Ivy educated.
    • How could Aristotle have held such an incongruent view?
    • There is something wonderfully incongruent in the Royal Mail celebrating its monopoly powers by increasing the price of a first class stamp yet again.
    • An incongruent digital clock atop a regal edifice displayed the minutes to the millennium - and beyond.
    • Of course I would be the administrator and as such would have the power to edit their posts to ensure they wouldn't be incongruent with my own worldview.
    • I certainly believe that our foreign policy is imperial and see such a policy as incongruent with the values of a republic.
    • For some reason my memory of what she said was completely incongruent with what she did, and she was quite right, I think.
    • At first glance, Kensington's alternative youth may seem incongruent with the older immigrant community.
    1. 1.1Chemistry (of melting, dissolution, or other process) affecting the components of an alloy or other substance differently.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Biogeography and comparative phylogeography differ in their potential to explain incongruent patterns, owing to the disparate time scales.
      • These results point to potential problems that may be encountered in this type of phylogenetic analysis due to substitution rate variability between different gene segments leading to incongruent phylogenies.
      • In the first, the phylogenies of different genes were shown to be incongruent, indicating recombination between the genes.
      • Molecular phylogenies of lineages that split from one another in short succession are often difficult to resolve because different loci and different sites within the same locus yield incongruent relationships.
      • Potentially incongruent phylogenetic relationships found for different genes might not result from HGT at all but may be due to inadequate phylogenetic signals.

Derivatives

  • incongruence

  • noun ɪnˈkɒŋɡrʊəns
    • Human existence is an ongoing balancing act between being a body and having a body… it is also possible that the sense of humor repeatedly perceives the built-in incongruence of being human.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The variation uncovered in experimentally defined essential gene pools more or less substantiated this concern, although the different experimental methods certainly contributed to the incongruence.
      • But one does have to be very stupid indeed to accept both the rhetoric and substance of the present administration without any sense of the incongruence of the two.
      • Contrarily, a lack of consistency, or incongruence, between the theoretical principles and the programmatic practices results in a failure of a dual language program to achieve the desired linguistic and academic outcomes.
      • A greater reason faith isn't as prominent in the lives of combat troops as one might expect is the seeming incongruence between the idea of God as omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent and the randomness and obvious brutality of war.
  • incongruently

  • adverb
    • The biotite melts incongruently at the highest grades with the production of orthopyroxene and ilmenite.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There certainly are enough plot twists and cheesy humor - aided by the incongruently Americanish dubbed voices - to keep your story appetite satisfied, but come on.
      • An anamorphic - and incongruently explosive - trailer, eight screens of tepid production notes, and bios of the cast, writers and directors put the exclamation point on this sentence.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin incongruent-, from in- 'not' + congruent- 'meeting together' (see congruent).

 
 

Definition of incongruent in US English:

incongruent

adjectiveˌinkənˈɡro͞oənt
  • 1Incongruous; incompatible.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But when many states threaten each other for incongruent purposes, who is to do the deterring, and in the face of what provocation?
    • For some reason my memory of what she said was completely incongruent with what she did, and she was quite right, I think.
    • There is something wonderfully incongruent in the Royal Mail celebrating its monopoly powers by increasing the price of a first class stamp yet again.
    • Of course I would be the administrator and as such would have the power to edit their posts to ensure they wouldn't be incongruent with my own worldview.
    • At first glance, Kensington's alternative youth may seem incongruent with the older immigrant community.
    • But it seems a little incongruent for a nation so concerned with its democratic credentials to refuse access to a journalist simply because she says the wrong things, and isn't likely to fall under a steam-roller any time soon.
    • For just like adding plastic to groundfill while complaining of global warming, it is internally incongruent to preach peace and understanding via corrupted messaging.
    • What is interesting to me is how incongruent this prevailing view that such aspects of personalities matter to voters is with the new fashionable attitude to politicians' personal morality.
    • This is a common approach for a duo who delight in blending seemingly incongruent but ultimately believable material into their performances.
    • Because of this, associative ‘correspondences’ between discursive subjects and incongruent temporal episodes, no matter how unclear, are made possible.
    • How could Aristotle have held such an incongruent view?
    • I certainly believe that our foreign policy is imperial and see such a policy as incongruent with the values of a republic.
    • Even if, in the beginning, we may have felt incongruent with the jealous workplace environment, slowly we start focusing our energies on how to avoid or circumvent it.
    • We will further democracy and the majesty of the people by empowering unelected Guardians to restrain the people when their choices are incongruent with that of the Ivy educated.
    • Many find the enforcement of minor infractions, such as standing on the tree planters or chalking on the ground, incongruent with perceptions of public space.
    • Although I listened in silence, his comments were strikingly incongruent with the vivid descriptions that Chole's fishermen gave of the destruction that dynamiting caused the reefs.
    • Before I met my acupuncturist, my love life was in disarray: acute disappointments, incongruent pairings, missing variables (sense of humor, stable income, deodorant).
    • An incongruent digital clock atop a regal edifice displayed the minutes to the millennium - and beyond.
    • By now the sound of gun shots rarely distracts me, but this time it was too close, and too incongruent with the bustling nightlife.
    • Conspicuous consumption of incongruent high-rise real-estate at the expense of venerable neighborhood community centers!
    1. 1.1Chemistry (of melting, dissolution, or other process) affecting the components of an alloy or other substance differently.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Potentially incongruent phylogenetic relationships found for different genes might not result from HGT at all but may be due to inadequate phylogenetic signals.
      • Biogeography and comparative phylogeography differ in their potential to explain incongruent patterns, owing to the disparate time scales.
      • These results point to potential problems that may be encountered in this type of phylogenetic analysis due to substitution rate variability between different gene segments leading to incongruent phylogenies.
      • Molecular phylogenies of lineages that split from one another in short succession are often difficult to resolve because different loci and different sites within the same locus yield incongruent relationships.
      • In the first, the phylogenies of different genes were shown to be incongruent, indicating recombination between the genes.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Latin incongruent-, from in- ‘not’ + congruent- ‘meeting together’ (see congruent).

 
 
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