What's the difference between athletic and slender?

Athletic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
  • (a.) Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
  • (2) In a comparative study 11 athletes and 11 untrained students were investigated at rest, of these 6 trained and 5 untrained individuals during exercise as well.
  • (3) During recovery, while the heart rate decreased and the RR interval variance increased, there was a relative increase in LF and a relative decrease in HF in normal subjects (either sedentary or athletic).
  • (4) When allegations of systemic doping and cover-ups first emerged in the runup to the 2013 Russian world athletics championships, an IOC spokesman insisted: “Anti-doping measures in Russia have improved significantly over the last five years with an effective, efficient and new laboratory and equipment in Moscow.” London Olympics were sabotaged by Russia’s doping, report says Read more We now know that the head of that lauded Moscow lab, Grigory Rodchenko, admitted to intentionally destroying 1,417 samples in December last year shortly before Wada officials visited.
  • (5) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
  • (6) "They haven't just got to be able to run like athletes," says Hall.
  • (7) #Tigers #Athletics @HunterFelt October 11, 2013 David Lengel (@LengelDavid) @HunterFelt Unless you're Yoenis Cespedes of course!
  • (8) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
  • (9) However, the mean serum EPO concentrations of male and female athletes engaged in a variety of sports were not different from those of sedentary control subjects of both sexes (26.5-35.3 U.ml-1).
  • (10) Sudden death in healthy athletes is uncommon but, when it occurs, the primary mechanism is cardiovascular.
  • (11) Thus many athletes sustain dental-related injuries resulting in deformity and discomfort which may persist throughout their lives.
  • (12) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
  • (13) The increased volume of flowing blood and increased stroke volume in athletes probably allows for a reduction in flow velocity and thereby a reduction in kinetic energy.
  • (14) In Iten, I heard stories of athletes being told weeks in advance when to attend the testing centre in Eldoret.
  • (15) Many athletes, particularly female, are iron depleted, but true iron deficiencies are rare.
  • (16) Maximal power output was on average 81.1 W for the male population and varied from 65.8 W for class II athletes to 92.2 W for class LA.
  • (17) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
  • (18) An echocardiographic evaluation of 77 members of a championship childhood swim team showed dimensional variations from normal in most athletes.
  • (19) Ballet dancers generated significantly less mechanical power than indoor soccer, basketball and bobsled athletes, while wrestlers generated significantly less power than indoor soccer and basketball athletes (all p less than 0.05).
  • (20) (GL) and M. deltoideus (D) were studied in 89 athletes practising 11 different sport events.

Slender


Definition:

  • (superl.) Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height; not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
  • (superl.) Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a slender constitution.
  • (superl.) Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of slender intelligence.
  • (superl.) Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of support; a slender pittance.
  • (superl.) Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.
  • (superl.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Numerous slender sarcotubules, originating from the A-band side terminal cisternae, extend obliquely or longitudinally and form oval or irregular shaped networks of various sizes in front of the A-band, then become continuous with the tiny mesh (fenestrated collar) in front of the H-band.
  • (2) On E7, a slender neuropil was present in the migrating cell clusters, but all the crest derived cells were uniform.
  • (3) We also observed slender tubules connecting Golgi stacks to neighbouring rough endoplasmic reticulum.
  • (4) Both lower limbs were abnormal: the left had a single slender long bone articulating with the foot, which was markedly dorsiflexed and had only 2 toes; on the right the femur was angulated, the fibula was absent, and only 4 metatarsals were present with 4 toes.
  • (5) But, as Falconer admits, the chance of this bill passing all its stages in the Lords and the Commons before the election are slender as it requires the government to give it time.
  • (6) Accordingly, we probed lysates of long-slenders, short-stumpies and procyclics (insect midgut stage) with antibody to myc proteins and also hybridized myc gene family sequences to procyclic DNA.
  • (7) Histologically, they contained slender spindle cells and various amounts of collagen fibers.
  • (8) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (9) Public schools report dipping into their own slender budgets, and sometimes principal’s own pockets to pay family electricity bills so that students can keep access to their computer and also get the occasional warm meal.
  • (10) They merely extended short slender cytoplasmic processes to HAP1250.
  • (11) Dendritic cells were characterized by their slender cytoplasmic processes, indented nucleus and pale cytoplasm.
  • (12) Normally, PC12 cells respond to NGF by morphologically differentiating into sympathetic neuron-like cells, exhibiting a marked hypertrophy, and extending slender neurites piloted by well defined growth cones.
  • (13) When explants of neurofibroma tissue were cultured, macrophage-like cells with pseudopodia migrated out first, and later took on a slender fusiform shape.
  • (14) Bone-age was advanced and bones were slender and osteoporotic with metaphyseal thickening.
  • (15) The surface cells had well developed apical junctions and slender cytoplasmic processes projecting into widened intercellular spaces appeared during the developmental period.
  • (16) At the level of the Z-line, a slender transverse tubule (T-tubule) runs transversely to the longitudinal axis of the myofibril.
  • (17) But his 12-seat majority is slender: it could be overturned by a single surge of rebellious fury, or a big backbench sulk.
  • (18) These consisted of parallel configurations of slender sheet-like astrocytic processes frequently connected to one another by highly organized intercellular adhesive devices.
  • (19) Several types of NPY-containing neurons can be distinguished by their laminar location, by the size of their perikarya, and by the size, shape, and pattern of ramification of their processes: 1) layer I small local circuit neurons; 2) layer II granule cells; 3) aspiny stellate cells located in layers II-III and V-VI, with long, slender dendrites; 4) sparsely spiny stellate cells; 5) aspiny stellate cells with long, horizontally oriented dendrites, whose cell body is situated in layer VI; 6) Martinotti cells in areas 9, 7, and 24; and 7) multipolar neurons situated in the white matter subjacent to the cortical gray.
  • (20) These events were followed by a transformation of the long slender bloodstream form to a short stumpy form via an intermediate morphology.