What's the difference between avocation and pursuit?

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.

Pursuit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy.
  • (v. t.) A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure.
  • (v. t.) Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit.
  • (v. t.) Prosecution.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (2) This series of tests included tests for pathologic nystagmus, saccades, smooth pursuit, and optokinetic nystagmus, as well as bithermal caloric testing and rotational testing.
  • (3) This conception of the city as an expression of both regal power and social order, guided by cosmological principles and the pursuit of yin-yang equilibrium, was unlike anything in the western tradition.
  • (4) The following oculomotor paradigms were investigated: horizontal and vertical saccades of different sizes (10-80 degrees), smooth pursuit eye movements, optokinetic and vestibular nystagmus.
  • (5) The right of people to get together in pursuit of shared interests or purposes is one of the building blocks of freedom.
  • (6) The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, a former South Korean foreign minister, said the resolution "sent an unequivocal message to [North Korea] that the international community will not tolerate its pursuit of nuclear weapons."
  • (7) Los Angeles were relentless in their vicious pursuit of a game-tying goal on Wednesday, bidding to send Game 4 into overtime.
  • (8) It’s another squalid reminder of Conservative priorities, and how low they are prepared to sink in pursuit of them.
  • (9) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
  • (10) Twenty Parkinson's (PD) patients and 20 normal control subjects performed two procedural learning tasks (rotary pursuit and mirror reading) and one declarative learning task (paired associates) over 3 days.
  • (11) Meanwhile Sevilla’s sporting director, Monchi, claims Liverpool’s pursuit of left-back Alberto Moreno is all but over after the two clubs failed to agree a fee.
  • (12) Supporting a Sunderland side who had last won a home Premier League game back in January, when Stoke City were narrowly defeated, is not a pursuit for the faint-hearted but this was turning into the equivalent of the sudden dawning of a gloriously hot sunny day amid a miserable, cold, wet summer.
  • (13) rotary-pursuit tracking and rehearsal of tracking or rotary-pursuit tracking and object-slide naming (nonrehearsal).
  • (14) Each performed 14 trials on a rotary pursuit task (30-sec.
  • (15) These slow post-pursuit eye movements were related to the time course before stimulus disappearance.
  • (16) Wrist actigraphy proved to be well-accepted and was a most reliable means of monitoring aspects of body movement during activity and sleep in ambulatory persons adhering to usual life habits and pursuits.
  • (17) Previous findings of pursuit abnormalities among schizophrenic patients as a group were replicated.
  • (18) We observed a relationship between pursuit responses and passive visual responses.
  • (19) A computerized pattern recognition algorithm divided pursuit eye movements into two basic components: smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements.
  • (20) One had chosen art, the other politics and the pursuit of power.

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