discordant

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Not in accord or harmony; conflicting, incompatible.

   “For it is poſſible long ſtudy may encreaſe, and confirm erroneous Sentences: and vvhere men build on falſe grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruine: and of thoſe that ſtudy, and obſerve vvith equall time, and diligence, the reaſons and reſolutions are, and muſt remain diſcordant: […]”

2. sıfat Of people: disagreeing with each other; dissenting, quarrelsome.

   “Rumour is a pipe, / Blovvne by ſurmizes, Iealouſies[,] coniectures, / And of ſo eaſie, and ſo plaine a ſtop, / That the blunt monſter, vvith vncounted heads, / The ſtill diſcordant vvau'ring multitude, / Can play vpon it.”

3. sıfat Of sounds: harsh, jarring; specifically (music), of musical notes or tunes: not in harmony; dissonant, inharmonious.

   “[N]o other kind of liuing beaſtes both behold the fayrenes and the bewtie of the wordle^([sic – meaning worlde]), or is moued with anny reſpect of ſauours, but only for the diuerſity of meates, nother perceaueth the concordaunt and diſcordante diſtaunces of ſoundes, and tunes […]”

4. sıfat Of a rock formation or other land feature, or its alignment: cutting across or transverse to neighbouring features.

   “Dikes may be discordant to country rock if they intrude at a high angle to the bedding.”

5. sıfat Of a coastline: having bands of different types of rock running transversely to the coast, leading to the formation of alternating bays and headlands.
6. sıfat Of two similar subjects, especially twins: differing in some characteristic.
7. sıfat Ellipsis of serodiscordant (“of a couple: with one partner HIV positive and the other HIV negative”).
8. sıfat Of figures, etc.: having opposite signs (for example, positive and negative).
9. isim A thing which is not in accord or harmony with one or more other things.

   “In the process of dismemberment it must often happen that the true individuality of a soil is lost, so that schemes of laboratory classification sometimes arbitrarily separate agricultural similars and unite agricultural discordants.”