What's the difference between alacrity and celerity?

Alacrity


Definition:

  • (n.) A cheerful readiness, willingness, or promptitude; joyous activity; briskness; sprightliness; as, the soldiers advanced with alacrity to meet the enemy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With commendable alacrity, meanwhile, the developers at art-game co-operative KOOPmode have already released a downloadable satire on how Facebook might work in 3D , graced with the irresistible tagline: "Scroll Facebook … with your face".
  • (2) Two days later, as she squatted down with alacrity at her home, she felt intense pain in the whole head as if struck with a hammer.
  • (3) Such has been the alacrity with which Spanish, French, Dutch and German consumers have taken to Primark that it has become a real disruptor on the fashion scene right across its territories.” Spain, Portugal and Ireland performed very strongly.
  • (4) The cases were remarkable for their color, texture, location, and presentation and suggest that a high index of suspicion, if not an alacrity to biopsy, is needed for the diagnosis of primary localized amyloid to be made.
  • (5) He agrees with alacrity when the Guardian photographer, Tom Jenkins, suggests we climb into the ring, where the light is at its softest.
  • (6) Southgate’s team struggled to deal with Croatia’s corners all night while the Group Five winners also counterattacked with great alacrity, the talented Ante Coric twice coming close with fine swerving shots.
  • (7) In the 26th minute the odds appeared to tilt against Inter when Sergio Busquets went down with exaggerated alacrity under Motta's challenge and looked up with a grin to see a red card being shown to the Brazilian midfielder.
  • (8) One that identifies barriers to integration and sets about dismantling them with alacrity.
  • (9) More alarmingly, there was also a tendency when England did get the ball to give it straight back with remarkable alacrity.
  • (10) Endocrinologic evaluation should be done with alacrity.
  • (11) Meldonium was added [to the Prohibited List] because of evidence of its use by athletes with the intention of enhancing performance.” Maria Sharapova's PR machine limits damage but raises uncomfortable questions | Bryan Armen Graham Read more Sharapova’s principal sponsors reacted with unusual alacrity.
  • (12) Don’t have five pints for lunch One of the things that makes me proudest to be British is the alacrity with which we will turn any event into an excuse to start drinking in the day.
  • (13) We missed our appointment in October – though possibly he had other things on his mind: since January 2007 he has been a non-executive member of the BBC's executive board , which has been ditching members with alacrity.
  • (14) Had the ballgirl in the FA Cup match in 1991 between second division Blackburn Rovers and Liverpool not returned the ball with such alacrity, the English champions might not have levelled the score .
  • (15) Jürgen Klopp prides himself on creating teams that press aggressively and cover every blade of grass, but the Liverpool manager was beaten at his own game here as Leicester worked tirelessly to close down their opponents, pinch possession and break with alacrity.
  • (16) This is a rare aspect of New Labour policy that the coalition has taken up with some alacrity.
  • (17) ‘Irresponsibility’ is too mild a term: traders did $3tn of damage The rigging of Libor , we now know, took place with alacrity across the City.
  • (18) The intravenous load was given to assess the alacrity of hormonal release after glycemic stimulus, and the oral glucose to determine how the speed of initial insulinogenesis modifies the disposition of ingested carbohydrate.
  • (19) Foot's column went from strength to strength, hoovering up awards and providing poor, sick and disadvantaged readers with a much needed voice, often ranged against a civil service bureaucracy Foot quarried with alacrity.
  • (20) No matter what reassurance his centre-forward yelled, the ball was coming into the danger area and Wise ought to have cleared it with alacrity.

Celerity


Definition:

  • (n.) Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The level of lipoic acid was up to 20 times lower in H. volcanii, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, and Thermococcus celer.
  • (2) The properties of poly(U)-directed cell-free systems developed from the sulphur-dependent, thermophilic archaebacteria Desulfurococcus mobilis, Thermoproteus tenax, Sulfolobus solfataricus, Thermococcus celer and Thermoplasma acidophilum have been compared.
  • (3) Survival of nonimmune rats after a challenge with either virulent or attenuated organisms appears to depend on a balance between dose of bacterial inoculum, celerity of irreversible pathologic events, and the ability of the reticuloendothelial and immune systems to collaboratively mount a response to limit or prevent dissemination of the infection.
  • (4) T. acidophilum is sensitive to all of the compounds tested except streptomycin; S. solfataricus responds to paromomycin and to hygromycin B; T. celer is only affected by neomycin, and D. mobilis is refractory to all drugs.
  • (5) A physical map for the chromosome of the thermophilic archaebacterium Thermococcus celer Vu13 has been constructed.
  • (6) The results suggest that laws to increase the celerity and certainty of punishment will have little deterrent impact without enforcement and publicity of the new laws.
  • (7) We have determined the nucleotide sequence of an unlinked 5 S rRNA gene region from a thermophilic archaebacterium, Thermococcus celer.
  • (8) Trend lines were computed with the celeration line approach to supplement the visual inspection of the data.
  • (9) The termini of transcripts from an unlinked 5S rRNA operon were analyzed in the archaebacterium, Thermococcus celer.
  • (10) Thermococcus celer, Desulfurococcus mucosus and Desulfurococcus mobilis do not contain quinones in comparable amounts.
  • (11) celer and T. acidophilum) contain 70-S particles composed of tightly bonded subunits, whose synthetic capacity is independent of spermine while being totally dependent on monovalent cations.
  • (12) The therapeutic problems, including the future of the mother and of the child are discussed, insisting on the necessity of the chirurgical celerity in case of dystocia.
  • (13) Air-oxidized cell extracts of extreme thermophiles from two members of the archaebacterial order Thermococcales, Thermococcus celer and Pyrococcus furiosus, contained only 7-methylpterin, indicating that these cells contain a modified folate with a methylated pterin.
  • (14) celer and T. acidophilum ribosomes provides new insight on the phylogenetic placement of Thermococcaceae.
  • (15) It's possible that the celerity with which we cycle through our emotions might yet lead to a more measured resignation.
  • (16) The genes encoding the 7S RNAs of the archaebacteria Archaeoglobus fulgidus, Methanosarcina acetivorans, Sulfolobus, solfataricus, and Thermococcus celer have been isolated.
  • (17) On his Middle Eastern journey he was apparently taken by the sturdy beauty of the women: "the water-carriers (women) are very capital subjects for the brush; and they rush along with great celerity under pitchers of no small size."
  • (18) The effect of selected aminoglycoside antibiotics on the translational accuracy of poly(U) programmed ribosomes derived from the thermophilic archaebacteria Thermoplasma acidophilum, Sulfolobus solfataricus, Thermococcus celer and Desulfurococcus mobilis has been determined.
  • (19) Sequencing of a cloned 5S rRNA gene confirmed that M. fervidus is a member of the Methanobacteriales, although its 5S rRNA is also similar in both primary sequence and predicted secondary structure to the 5S rRNA of the non-methanogenic, but also extremely thermophilic archaebacterium, Thermococcus celer.
  • (20) Compared with the level in E. coli, biotin was equally as abundant in Thermococcus celer and Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, about one-fourth less abundant in P. occultum and "A. fulgidus," and 25 to over 100 times less abundant in the others.