What's the difference between aroused and steamy?

Aroused


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Arouse

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All subjects showed a period of fetishistic arousal to women's clothes during adolescence.
  • (2) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
  • (3) A control experiment demonstrated that changes in general arousal could not account for the effects of task difficulty on neuronal responses.
  • (4) EEG arousal diminished as a function of distance, while arousal for direct gaze was always higher than for averted gaze, whatever the distance.
  • (5) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
  • (6) The average vlaues of the correlation coefficients were found to increase from arousal through slow synchronized sleep (S sleep), reaching the highest value in REM sleep.
  • (7) To produce intramodal arousal, normal subjects also had EEG recordings made during the random sounding of a loud bell.
  • (8) Noxious conditioning stimulation of a tooth led to a temporary decrease of the threshold for the jaw-opening reflex elicited from a contralateral or adjacent tooth; only conditioning stimulation at an intensity producing a marked arousal reaction was effective in this respect.
  • (9) The auditory threshold for arousal (1,500-Hz tone beginning at 30 dB) was also tested before and after UA lidocaine.
  • (10) The lower phasic reactivity in the MBD group and the effects of stimulant drugs on arousal indices confirm earlier reports.
  • (11) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
  • (12) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
  • (13) These results support the hypothesis that amphetamine-induced stereotyped behavior functions to reduce stress or arousal and additionally suggest that this effect is largely independent of underlying dopaminergic mechanisms.
  • (14) Neuroticism was found to correlate with all the premenstrual MDQ scores except the positive aspect of increased arousal, with negative affect at both menstrual and intermenstrual phases, with menstrual pain and with intermenstrual concentration.
  • (15) All the present evidence suggests that the local vaginal release of VIP induces the vaginal changes of arousal.
  • (16) Attention to the hazards of asbestos has aroused concern among many healthy persons who have been exposed at some time to one of the world's most versatile materials.
  • (17) The suspicion of a Zollinger-Ellison-syndrome is aroused by therapy-resistent ulcers, which in every third person are associated with a diarrhoea, by recidivations of ulcer after gastric operations and by a large basal secretion of acid.
  • (18) We call RSD with these properties arousal-type RSD.
  • (19) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
  • (20) In this study, therefore, we measured hypercapnic ventilatory responsiveness (HCVR) and spirometry in 13 healthy male subjects (18 to 30 yr of age) after two consecutive nights of severe sleep fragmentation (arousal to an auditory stimulus after each minute of sleep) and compared the results with those obtained in the same subjects after normal sleep.

Steamy


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
  • (2) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
  • (3) Photograph: FutureDairy I had imagined the world’s first robotic rotary milking dairy at Camden to be a clinical, mechanical affair, antithetical to the steamy breath, soft underbellies and leisurely bovine sensibilities of the cattle it deals with.
  • (4) It can be found on the prairies of the midwest; in the abattoirs of Chicago; in the snows of Iowa and North Dakota; in the Texas panhandle and the steamy bayous of Louisiana; in the sierras of California and the woods of Maine.
  • (5) In the last instalment, things had become steamy between Alana and One Direction's Liam; now everyone anxiously awaited the results of a pregnancy test.
  • (6) Their third encounter took place on the morning of Huhne’s release in the unlikely setting of a steamy motorway cafe, over a full English breakfast.
  • (7) Women getting steamy in front of man-held cameras is not a new phenomenon, especially not in pop music.
  • (8) Founded in 1757, this snug and steamy hostelry is the city’s oldest chop house and all its meals (mains from £5.75) are served with a complimentary sausage.
  • (9) Midsummer nights are steamy in Manama, and sweat glistened on thousands of faces as Sheikh Abdel-Latif Al Mahmoud boomed out a warning to Bahrain's citizens to stand guard against criminals and conspiracies.
  • (10) I think, it’s plain to say that all these quite serious attachments to what’s sold as lip glossed, steamy, hot and happy, passion will remain relevant throughout our sexual lives.
  • (11) Instead, we are left with a murky stew of allegations, coincidences and the steamy whispers of western spies.
  • (12) Photograph: Alamy Edith Piaf Spotify playlist In a steamy cellar on the Right Bank, jazz singer Caroline Nin lives the part in Hymne a Piaf (Theatre Essaion, 6 rue Pierre au Lard, 75004, +33 6 16 27 90 58; 26 and 31 December, 2,7 and 9 January, tickets €25), a cabaret biography that will leave you gasping with its intensity .
  • (13) Of course, I could go on about how we should all be sharing them and how steamy it can all get but, let's be realistic, it's not really a viable long-term water-saving solution.
  • (14) Teloloapan is near the area shared by both Guerrero and Michoacan states and known as Tierra Caliente for its steamy weather.
  • (15) The French need never shudder again at the memory of traumas suffered at the hands of these opponents in Seville and Guadalajara three decades ago, or even the deflation endured in the steamy heat of the Maracanã at the last World Cup .
  • (16) The Fifty Shades books were released last spring, and public libraries in Georgia, Florida and elsewhere soon pulled the racy romance trilogy or decided not to order the books, saying they were too steamy or too poorly written.
  • (17) I float easily in this salty hot water, and, as I close my eyes and breathe through the steamy fronds, I, too, feel like I'm on drugs.
  • (18) When it was alive, the Andes were mere hillocks and arid North Patagonia consisted of steamy jungle and grassland.
  • (19) We are willing to work in tandem with the UK to preserve and develop the bilateral relationship.” Tsang said that in the intensely pragmatic world of international diplomacy, neither Beijing nor London could be surprised that after a steamy eight-month fling they were now puckering up for a parting kiss.
  • (20) Author EL James, whose steamy novel has sold more than 70m copies worldwide, revealed last month that Charlie Hunnam will play Grey and Dakota Johnson will portray Anastasia Steele in the big-screen adaptation.

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