What's the difference between agitate and roil?

Agitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
  • (v. t.) To move or actuate.
  • (v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
  • (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
  • (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A sensitive, specific procedure was developed for detecting Escherichia coli O157:H7 in food in less than 20 h. The procedure involves enrichment of 25 g of food in 225 ml of a selective enrichment medium for 16 to 18 h at 37 degrees C with agitation (150 rpm).
  • (2) The authors report 6 cases of acute respiratory failure complicating chronic bronchial and lung disease admitted to hospital with the diagnosis of: heart disease, 3 cases, pulmonary oedema, pulmonary embolism, atrial flutter; status asthmaticus : one case; neuro-psychiatric disease : 2 cases (toxic coma and agitation).
  • (3) But what is happening in the UK now has not been seen for decades and has rarely been seen at all since the Chartist agitations of the 1840s.
  • (4) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
  • (5) From about 1891 to 1905 home rule seemed to go off the boil in Ireland; people agitated instead over land reform and Irish universities.
  • (6) The effect of tiapride on the various manifestations of agitation was also spectacular and rapid, and the authors confirm the excellent tolerance of the product.
  • (7) Therefore, the CDS controlling procollagen production and the CDS controlling the inhibition of growth seemed to be linked because the signaling mechanism is disrupted in a parallel manner by agitation.
  • (8) The echo intensity produced by this agent was compared with that of agitated saline solution, indocyanine green and SHU-454 (another experimental saccharide agent for right-sided contrast) during 136 injections in eight dogs.
  • (9) The two groups examined comprise 'hyperactive' mentally handicapped children and senile dementia patients, all of whom showed moderate to severe agitation.
  • (10) But the outspoken journalist and human rights activist has long been a thorn in Ali Abdullah Saleh's side, agitating for press freedoms and staging weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail – a place she has been several times herself.
  • (11) I honestly think so many Americans are scrambling so fast just to keep up that: a) they're not aware of what they're missing; b) they don't have time to agitate."
  • (12) Ultrasonic preparation with 0.25% sodium hypochlorite solution and final agitation with 50% citric acid solution were found to produce a very clean canal wall, free of smear layer in coronal and middle parts.
  • (13) Photoreceptors were dissociated from retinas by mechanical agitation after mild protease treatment and characterized by light and electron microscopy.
  • (14) Two of the targets we tested (SV-COL and SV-COL-E8) both highly sensitive to lysis, stimulated macrophage movement, inducing an "agitated" response.
  • (15) The cells can be defimbriated by sonication, high-speed agitation, or centrifugation through a 40% sucrose solution.
  • (16) In its infancy, the movement against censorship agitated on behalf of artists, iconoclasts, talented blasphemers; against repressive forces whose unpleasantness only confirmed which side was in the right.
  • (17) Blot and give 2 fast changes in absolute ethanol with agitation before transferring to xylene.
  • (18) Distractibility, inappropriate sexual behavior, agitation or seizures were lacking.
  • (19) The successful use of midazolam to treat psychomotor agitation in this patient is also reported.
  • (20) The same brush was then agitated in a SBW vial, which was centrifuged, the cell pellet being smeared over a predetermined area of a slide.

Roil


Definition:

  • (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.
  • (v.) To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex.
  • (v. i.) To wander; to roam.
  • (v. i.) To romp.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The self-described billionaire launched his campaign by referring to Mexicans as “rapists” and “killers”, the first in a series of controversial remarks that have roiled the GOP primary.
  • (2) Within six months, any stop, search or arrest by a police officer in the city – roiled by unrest in 2014 after the fatal shooting of unarmed black 18-year-old Michael Brown – must be captured on camera, according to the draft agreement with federal officials published on Wednesday.
  • (3) The issue may have roiled the political world this week, much as boasting of groping women overshadowed the previous debate, but what really distinguished the third and final television showdown of the reality TV election was the unusual amount of time both candidates devoted to attacking each other’s policies rather than each other.
  • (4) Or perhaps this latest ambush is just an excuse to resume the government’s internal warfare, which has been roiling away since January.
  • (5) Dazed survivors stand immobile in a huge, roiling cloud of dust.
  • (6) "Markets roiled" Bond traders continued to view Greek debt as hugely risky.
  • (7) Last month’s business sentiment was also weighed down by sharp declines in China’s stock market and a surprise currency devaluation that roiled markets worldwide and a devastating explosion in the busy port of Tianjin.
  • (8) The embarrassing event has the potential to torpedo the rest of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration and roil relations between the US and Mexico,” it said.
  • (9) The roiling is so surround sound it's hard to hear him.
  • (10) Following a month-long rout on Chinese stock markets, authorities devalued the yuan several times last week, roiling global equity markets and sparking fears of a currency war in which countries compete to boost exports by cutting the value of their currency.
  • (11) With the undocumented comprising as much as half of the uninsured population in Los Angeles, the issue has echoes of the roiling immigration debate.
  • (12) Leaders from Ferguson, Missouri , are to meet Department of Justice officials on Tuesday to discuss a federal review of their policing of the town, which was roiled by protests following the fatal shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old last year.
  • (13) The new measures come as the White House tries to both ratchet up pressure on Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme and dissuade Israel from launching a unilateral strike on Iran, a move that could roil the Middle East and jolt the global economy.
  • (14) The decision not to indict Pantaleo touched off protests that roiled the streets in New York City and beyond and raised issues of police brutality, racial equity and the efficacy of grand juries.
  • (15) The historical memory of his presidential monuments has been consumed by fantasies of small-town life but it is a landscape of whitewashed buildings against the undulating emptiness, a country roiling with dreams.
  • (16) Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has taken advantage of the political turmoil roiling Yemen.
  • (17) Rather than reach out he retreats, and roils at the fickleness of everything – entreating media boosters to validate him, telling the colleagues they have no right to desert him, while pondering who he can jettison in order to save himself.
  • (18) I’m also proud that [CPS] has moved in the opposite direction of some of the more regressive legislation that’s been passed.” Controversy is roiling over transgender students and their rights in the nations’ schools, with some schools and even whole states taking steps to force students to use facilities in conflict with their gender identity.
  • (19) Modi was ostracised for his actions, or inactions, during the Godhra riots , sectarian violence that roiled across his state for a month in 2002 in which 1,000 or more people, largely Muslim, died.
  • (20) Opinionated butchers, bakers and candlestick makers, hacks, artists and pornographers, impresarios and charlatans were now the protagonists in a roiling landscape of new ideas and opportunities.

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