What's the difference between backhand and disc?

Backhand


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
  • (a.) Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.
  • (a.) Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 4.58pm BST First-set tie-break: Kyrgios 6-4 Nadal* (*denotes server): Kyrgios dabs a backhand wide.
  • (2) Chicago's Patrick Kane scored on a backhand at 9:40 of overtime to secure victory over Minnesota.
  • (3) Goffin saved that one before gifting Murray his fifth break as an overhit backhand by the Belgian put the 28-year-old 5-0 ahead before a comfortable hold to love ensured Murray saw out the match in just 53 minutes.
  • (4) Murray drags himself to 30-all but he's facing a break point when Dimitrov stuns a backhand down the line.
  • (5) In a perverse way, it’s a backhanded compliment to what is after all a young coach (he’ll turn 41 at the end of the month) that Kreis, at RSL, gets treated as part of the MLS furniture.
  • (6) In some instances, this difference in accuracy can be attributed to the fact that the intermediate players were unaware of what the telegraphic cues were (e.g., backhand shots) while, in other situations, the difference in prediction ability is primarily due to the intermediate players' more frequent failure to detect the presence of known telegraphic cues (i.e., forehand shots).
  • (7) Djokovic is hiding his problems better, but they're still visible in his tennis, as he parlays advantage into break point with a couple of unforced errors before lashing a crosscourt backhand wide – way wide – to relinquish control of the set and match.
  • (8) Telemetry EMG was used to assess the muscle activity of the anterior deltoid and the forearm extensor muscles during the forehand and backhand strokes of tennis in a selected group of test subjects.
  • (9) Updated at 4.44pm BST 4.39pm BST Second set: Djokovic 4-6, 4-2 Nadal* (*denotes server) After much head-shaking, Djokovic nails a forehand, before drawing Nadal to the net with a drop-shot, Nadal scooting to the backhand wing and force-scooping a winner crosscourt.
  • (10) Updated at 5.36pm BST 5.28pm BST Third set: *Djokovic 4-6, 6-3, 3-3 Nadal (*denotes server) At 15-all, a ridiculous point, Nadal the aggressor, winging forehands to Djokovic's backhand corner, before the opportunity to play a drop presents itself.
  • (11) So that's 1-1 on Twitter allez es (that's the plural of allez , obviously): Brando Florente (@BrandoJablan) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on Nole June 8, 2014 joseph langton (@jnlangton) @guardian_sport @Simon_Burnton come on raffa June 8, 2014 2.24pm BST First set: Djokovic* 2-1 Nadal Djokovic nets a straightforward backhand to go 0-15 down, but an ace, a powerful crosscourt forehand from halfway down the court and then a fearsome, thunderous rally that ends with Nadal slapping a forehand into the net puts him firmly in control of the game.
  • (12) When the diva’s metronomic backhand malfunctioned and the last point of the set strayed wide, the cheers for the French-speaking Canadian sounded genuine enough.
  • (13) Federer flays a backhand into the corner but Murray reads it and eventually he's able to send an easy backhand past Federer.
  • (14) 3.44pm BST First set: *Djokovic 1-4 Nadal (*denotes server) Djokovic scurries to the net, slicing a backhand volley crosscourt when there was no need - Nadal's groundstroke was going wide.
  • (15) Perfect touch off Nadal's backhand to pull off a half-volley, crosscourt, across the front of Dimitrov, on a ridiculous angle.
  • (16) 12.14pm BST Play begins on Centre , where Sabine Lisicki pockets her opening service game with a scooped backhand into the open court.
  • (17) Next up, a forehand down the line unsettles Dimitrov, who was waiting for the backhand, and he can only push the next return into the net.
  • (18) But he doesn't win it, and a moment later – having taken control of the rally – he nets a straightforward backhand and Nadal has held.
  • (19) Though they have almost all fallen on their own swords (for taking backhanders, plagiarising PhDs), their demise under her leadership has earned her one of her many nicknames, Männermörderin (men murderer).
  • (20) Inspired by the idea of a city built around an airport (she grew up in Hounslow, near Heathrow), it leaves behind the constraints of any one genre, meandering through R&B-inflected garage (Beach Mode), instrumental grime (Backhand Winners) and Omar S-style stripped-back melodic techno (Eternal Mode).

Disc


Definition:

  • (n.) A flat round plate
  • (n.) A circular structure either in plants or animals; as, a blood disc, a germinal disc, etc. Same as Disk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (2) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
  • (3) It is suggested that the intercalated disc functioned as a barrier to the freezing process.
  • (4) The increased release of alkaline phosphatase from the particulate matrix by lysophosphatidylcholine was confirmed by disc electrophoresis.
  • (5) The correlation of posterior intervertebral (facet) joint tropism (asymmetry), degenerative facet disease, and intervertebral disc disease was reviewed in a retrospective study of magnetic resonance images of the lumbar spine from 100 patients with complaints of low back pain and sciatica.
  • (6) Patients should be evaluated by perimetry using an appropriate strategy and contrast sensitivity testing, along with careful examination of the optic discs.
  • (7) Albumin was highly purified from a commercially available rat albumin preparation (Fraction V) using disc electrophoresis.
  • (8) The intervertebral discs expand centrally and become increasingly convex.
  • (9) The average repetitive yields and initial coupling of proteins spotted or blotted into PVDF membranes ranged between 84-98% and 30-108% respectively, and were comparable with the yields measured for proteins spotted onto Polybrene-coated glass fiber discs.
  • (10) The most frequently occurring signs were: tilting of the disc (89%), oblique direction of the vessels (89%) and myopic astigmatism (96%).
  • (11) Clinical findings and operative results of 212 operated cases of disc protrusion are analyzed in this paper.
  • (12) The initial effects of chymopapain, a chemonucleolytic agent, on the intervertebral disc of dogs were studied by light and electron microscopic techniques.
  • (13) Astrocytes nearer the optic disc showed the stellate shape characteristic of mature cells.
  • (14) Chemonucleolysis is a procedure in which an enzyme is injected into the intervertebral disc for the purpose of alleviating sciatic pain.
  • (15) Existing visual field defects in three patients were slightly aggravated and in four patients, with a pathological optic disc, visual field loss developed.
  • (16) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
  • (17) We analyzed 80 consecutive cases of lumbar disc herniation who underwent an extraperitoneal anterolateral discectomy according to clinical and radiologic parameters.
  • (18) The disc-gel patterns of the 8 m urea-soluble proteins showed that C. perfringens caused extensive proteolysis in pig muscle and a lesser extent of proteolysis in rabbit muscle.
  • (19) The cervical discogenic (painful disc) syndrome consists of scapular pain radiating to the head, shoulder and upper arm, often associated with paraesthesiae but without neurological deficit.
  • (20) Manganous chloride and Congo red incorporated into blotting paper discs have been used to differentiate gonococci from meningococci.

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