What's the difference between armchair and reclining?

Armchair


Definition:

  • (n.) A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Armchair Paralympian (armchayer-parra-limp-iain) noun .
  • (2) I Only Have Eyes for You – The Flamingos Or, to the armchair grammarian, "I Have Eyes Only for You".
  • (3) ITV's coverage of the FA Cup later this month, for example, will hear fans' views of the game and armchair commentaries via AudioBoo on their mobile phones.
  • (4) The prosaic question for the armchair mountaineer is, can the dying be saved?
  • (5) Still, he got one thing right that Saturday, as he sat on a golden-rimmed armchair at Cairo’s Qubba place.
  • (6) But it is hardly Ensler's fault if women still get a thrill out of hearing the word vagina; her plays are transforming armchair post-feminists into activists, and radicalising women more effectively than a whole generation of feminist theory.
  • (7) Fahy, who is also vice-president of the Association of Chief Police Officers, added: "There are a lot of judgments by armchair generals and almost professors in hindsight, not taking into context the state of society and things officers were being asked to do at the time some of these events occurred."
  • (8) 32 Rose Street, +27 21 422 5883, larosecapetown.com The Blue House Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rooms in The Blue House look like they could be straight from the film set of Out Of Africa , with huge leather sofas, wicker armchairs and wooden tea chests.
  • (9) 74 New Church Street, +27 21 423 4530, backpackers.co.za Dutch Manor Facebook Twitter Pinterest This self-styled “antique hotel” is furnished with four-poster beds, leather armchairs, period paintings and porcelain, plus a crystal decanter of sherry for the welcome drink.
  • (10) The writer, a self-confessed armchair critic, makes some suggestions about ways of reducing disagreement about elective induction of labour.
  • (11) The painting shows an old, weary man slumped in contemplation in his armchair and has spent more time in the National Gallery's storeroom than on display because it is attributed to a follower of Rembrandt rather than the artist himself.
  • (12) "We are the great hope for change," the politician says, his arms sprawled across the back of an armchair.
  • (13) ); all from the comfort of their figurative armchairs, the majority of these great thinkers and contributors having never been a part of the Olympic Movement, or themselves been to Rio.
  • (14) Despite the clear scientific consensus, a veritable brigade of self-proclaimed, underinformed armchair experts lurk on comment threads the world over, eager to pour scorn on climate science.
  • (15) 22 subjectively healthy females were supine, sat in an armchair and stood while specimens of peripheral venous blood were collected after at least 15 min in each position without using a tourniquet.
  • (16) Rising from a standard armchair and an armchair specially designed for comfort in sitting of the elderly was studied in the older group to determine the influence of the special chair.
  • (17) Shuffled back on an armchair so that her giant heels swing off the ground, she has the mannerisms of a well-behaved toddler.
  • (18) This furore gave the defence secretary, Philip Hammond , a wonderful opportunity to slap down the armchair generals, and he took it with great enthusiasm.
  • (19) Not so long ago, in the slur-filled era before this year’s election, Momentum, the grassroots group of supporters for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, were routinely dismissed as armchair activists, cultish Trots, delusional young naïfs, or some combination of the three.
  • (20) Tents and mattresses, armchairs and sofas, a canteen, portable toilets and solar panels have sprung up in a remarkable display of organisational prowess.

Reclining


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Recline
  • (a.) Bending or curving gradually back from the perpendicular.
  • (a.) Recumbent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All examinations were performed during winter on reclined relaxed subjects present for at least 10 min in a test room with controlled temperature and relative humidity (t degrees: 19.5-20.7 degrees C and RH: 47.3-60.3%).
  • (2) 50 min after each subject had consumed an amount of water equal to 1% of his body weight, he reclined on a cot.
  • (3) Surface electrodes measured electromyographic activity of the low-back extensor, hip adductor and ankle plantar-flexor muscles when the body was at 0 degree (upright) and 30 degrees (recline) relative to the vertical.
  • (4) The short-term antiorthostatic position was associated with a disordered hormonal control, reduced plasma aldosterone and enhanced plasma renin activity, as compared to the respective parameters of the reclining position.
  • (5) Patients scoring high on the Pain Control and Rational Thinking factor of the CSQ were much less functionally impaired, walked a 5 m course more rapidly and moved from a standing to a sitting or reclining position more quickly than patients scoring low on this factor.
  • (6) There are smaller innovations whose simplicity prompts the question of why they weren't introduced earlier: holders for cups separate from the pull-down meal trays, and a reclining function that pushes your backside and legs forward rather than thrusting the back of your chair into the face of the person behind.
  • (7) The Cat reclined on a pile of mattresses in his tent.
  • (8) I would recline back and listen to music, and read the paper or a book I thought would impress her.
  • (9) The patients were examined in reclined position, the head retroflected.
  • (10) In contrast, a backrest-only recline of 20 degrees causes a 25% increase in the surface shear force.
  • (11) The scapular region is from 1 to 2 deg F hotter than the sacral region for subjects reclining on Mylar.
  • (12) Specific changes were detected in the gel patterns which could be correlated with the loss of muscle function as measured by the exhaustion score (the ability of chicks to rise from a reclining position) in three experimental groups (exhaustion scores: less than 3, 10-20, greater than 30).
  • (13) The enormous amounts of activity in the subjects required the detector to be positioned at a height of 2.05 m. Subjects were required to wear disposable clothing and lie on a reclining, fiberglass chair.
  • (14) Small amounts of water and taste solutions were applied to the posterior tongue of the subject as he reclined on a dental chair.
  • (15) Within the limitations of the study (no counterbalancing of order and twice as many ABPM measures as watch measures), we found significant differences in frequency of being at home or in miscellaneous settings, in standing and reclining positions, and in mental, physical and miscellaneous activities between the two occasions.
  • (16) Subjects were seated reclining 30 degrees from upright, and respiratory muscle weakness was produced by pancuronium bromide until RC inspiratory capacity was decreased to 60% of control.
  • (17) To determine whether the left space that is neglected after right hemisphere lesions is body centered or environment centered, we asked patients with right hemisphere stroke and normal controls to report the contents of spatial arrays of objects or words, either while seated or while reclining on their side.
  • (18) Six young males, resting in a dorsal reclining position, were exposed successively to a thermoneutral environment (30 min), a cold environment (1 degrees C; cold) or thermoneutrality (control) for 120 min, and during a 60-min recovery period in thermoneutral conditions.
  • (19) Then, they exercised using a bicycle ergometer in a semi-reclining position for 45 min at 40% of maximal oxygen uptake.
  • (20) However, Rupert Murdoch was sitting in the editor’s chair while Larry reclined on the settee the other side of the room.