What's the difference between avocation and diversion?

Avocation


Definition:

  • (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
  • (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
  • (n.) Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An injury to one of the small joints of the hand may have a major impact on hand function and thus have major implications for career and avocation.
  • (2) The level of physical activity was determined according to a scale (score, 0-18) that considered vocational and avocational activities.
  • (3) These risk elements are present in all parts of our society, including home and occupational, avocational, and medical situations.
  • (4) Physical activity was determined by a graded questionnaire and varied from sedentary to heavy vocational and avocational activity levels.
  • (5) Since then, shifts have been noted in the animal transmission cycles, the occupational groups at risk, and an increasing recognition of cases associated with avocational exposure.
  • (6) The study concludes that elective colostomy may be an appropriate alternative for some SCI patients, particularly those who have failed in self-care or for whom their vocation or avocation is impaired by prolonged bowel routines.
  • (7) Childhood milk consumption, current dietary calcium intake, level of avocational physical activity and lifestyle variables such as cigarette smoking and coffee consumption, considered separately, did not reach statistically significant levels as determinants of bone density.
  • (8) Finally, despite similar medical and physical findings, the Japanese low back pain patients were significantly less impaired in psychological, social, vocational, and avocational functioning than the American low back pain patients.
  • (9) Such insights should be rewarding to anyone who enjoys pictorial art as an avocation--and especially to those whose vocation involves food.
  • (10) Lead analyses were performed by atomic absorption spectrometry of semen and blood specimens from 21 medical students and technicians (ages 19 to 41 years) who had no occupational or avocational exposure to lead (Pb).
  • (11) Their capacity for exertion as defined by treadmill test was compared with the physical and social avocational activities they carried out in their daily routine, as reported by them.
  • (12) A functional upper extremity means that the goal must be to return patients to their preburn vocations and avocations.
  • (13) The ratings of the 175 respondents who stated that they had changed specialties indicated that time for avocational pursuits and time for family activities were the most important reasons for change.
  • (14) In addition, a detailed questionnaire was administered to each person to obtain information about his exposure to noise vocationally and avocationally, family history of hearing loss, etc.
  • (15) Vocational and avocational requirements for active, voluntary ankle motions should be considered preoperatively in selected patients.
  • (16) Many patients develop a pattern of abnormal illness behavior, manifesting loss of interest in work or avocations, social withdrawal, and disturbance of family roles.
  • (17) The current study sought to determine whether there were any significant cross-cultural differences in medical-physical findings, or in psychosocial, behavioral, vocational, and avocational functioning, for chronic low back pain patients.
  • (18) The patterns delineated suggested the need for improved avocational training programs, particularly in the cognitive and social spheres.
  • (19) Organic pathology, age, socioeconomic class, types of significant relationships, meaning given menses, coitus, childbearing, children, and vocational and avocational involvements are variables affecting every woman's attitudes toward, decision to have, and reactions to a hysterectomy.
  • (20) In the process of reorganizing her gender identity, other interests (vocational and avocational) and intimate interpersonal relationships will assume new significance.

Diversion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
  • (n.) That which diverts; that which turns or draws the mind from care or study, and thus relaxes and amuses; sport; play; pastime; as, the diversions of youth.
  • (n.) The act of drawing the attention and force of an enemy from the point where the principal attack is to be made; the attack, alarm, or feint which diverts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the fact that microheterogeneity may occur without limit in the mannans of the strains suggests that antibodies with unlimited diverse specificities are produced directed against these antigenic varieties as well.
  • (2) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
  • (3) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
  • (4) Nonvibrissa sensitive cells had diverse morphologies.
  • (5) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
  • (6) Neuromuscular disorders in small animals include a diverse group of congenital and acquired diseases.
  • (7) Thus, the previously described ubiquity of "82H" human centromeric sequences reflects the existence of diverse alpha satellite subsets located at the centromeric region of each human chromosome.
  • (8) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
  • (9) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
  • (10) It recognises the diverse needs of the affected populations”, said Scott DiPretoro, who works in the IFRC’s Panama hub.
  • (11) The diversity of the non-Hodgkin's groups, the continued evolution of histopathologic classifications, and the great frequency of advanced disease in the lymphocytic subgroups make the Ann Arbor classification of only limited value for the non-Hodgkin's lymphomas.
  • (12) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
  • (13) A diversity of serogroups and toxigenicity was a general finding, however, strains found in the proximal gut were also cultured from the rectum, indicating that faecal specimens would be a valid tool in investigating the role of these organisms in SIDS cases compared with healthy controls.
  • (14) While it is important not to overstate the case from the relatively small number of people consulted, they do represent a diverse range of adult social care service users from different areas in England .
  • (15) Clearly, it is impossible to combine the diverse information briefly outlined in this review to provide a coherent model of the regulation of globin gene expression during development.
  • (16) Members of the genera Rickettsia, Coxiella and Rochalimaea show considerable diversity in host cell range (in vivo vs. in vitro), kind of association with host cell (pericellular, intracellular), mode of entry, interactions with various host cell membranes, intracellular localization (intraphagosomal, free in cytoplasm, intranuclear), adaptation to preferred microhabitat (e.g., optimal pH for enzymes), details of growth cycle, mechanisms of host cell damage.
  • (17) Finally, from the published manuals, the common components of these diverse, multi-component treatment packages of different family-intervention studies are identified."
  • (18) The olfactory organs of fishes are diversely developed.
  • (19) A unified hypothesis for the neuropathologic effect of the diverse spectrum of toxic chemicals known to induce giant axonopathies is presented, based on recently published data on the structure of NF protein.
  • (20) Experimental diversion of the bile flow from the lumen of the duodenum has little effect on the relative percentage of methadone vs. metabolites circulating in the blood.