What's the difference between backward and scizorhinal?

Backward


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Backwards
  • (a.) Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.
  • (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.
  • (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child.
  • (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season.
  • (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.
  • (a.) Already past or gone; bygone.
  • (n.) The state behind or past.
  • (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
  • (2) The estimated forward (k) and backward (1) rate constants are: 2.45 x I05 M-1 s- and 0.23 x 103 s-1, respectively, for k and I for the case when the drug is trapped by both activation and inactivation gates, and 3.58 x 105 M-l s-l and 4.15 x 10-3 S-l for the case when the drug is not trapped.
  • (3) On physical examination the patients complained of pain on both passive flexion and internal rotation of the hip, and when the thigh was pushed backwards at 90 degrees of flexion.
  • (4) The effects of maxillary protracting bow appliance were the maxillary forward movement associated with counter-clockwise rotation of the nasal floor and the mandibular backward movement associated with clockwise rotation.
  • (5) Treadmill acceleration impulses were backwards or forwards directed, or their direction was inverted after 30 ms. Backwards directed impulses were followed by gastrocnemius and forwards directed ones by tibialis anterior EMG responses (latency 65-75 ms) whose duration depended on impulse duration.
  • (6) For all my enthusiasm, my family must have felt we were taking a step backwards in lifestyle.
  • (7) The response was composed of an isometric phase, during which the body weight was shifted from the stimulated limb to the opposite forelimb while the stimulated limb was gently pushed backwards, and a movement phase during which the stimulated paw actually accomplished the placing reaction.
  • (8) They’ve actually gone backwards,” Cobbett said.
  • (9) Older subjects were found to be significantly more susceptible to the backward masking effect over longer delays between the target and masking stimuli.
  • (10) Those with unstable Dunlop test responses were much more likely to be backward or low normal readers than children with stable responses.
  • (11) The effects of interval duration as well as of repeated presentation of paired stimuli on backward connections show that these factors are of considerable importance for their formation.
  • (12) They need not tilt the head backwards during inhalation or hold their breath afterwards.
  • (13) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
  • (14) Results for the backward-counting condition duplicate, for the retention intervals used, the shape of the classic Peterson and Peterson forgetting curve but indicate little loss of memory in either the rehearsal or alpha conditions.
  • (15) But we won't be taking a backwards step, not this week, not this year, or next year or ever."
  • (16) Twenty-four male graduate volunteers were administered a battery of psychological tests--critical flicker fusion (CFF; alternate and simultaneous), reaction time (simple and choice), memory (forward and backward), and associative recall--to ascertain their performance capability during the different times of day.
  • (17) We implemented a parallel version of the backward error propagation neural network training algorithm in the widely portable parallel programming language C-Linda.
  • (18) The target patterns varied in the number of line segments that they contained and were presented in the presence or absence of a backward-masking stimulus.
  • (19) We self-censure because it would put us all back, it would diminish who we are.” Of course she’s a feminist: “That just means believing that women can do everything men can but backwards in heels with a cherry on top.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.

Scizorhinal


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the nasal bones separate.
  • (a.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.

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