What's the difference between backwards and reciprocating?

Backwards


Definition:

  • (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
  • (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
  • (adv.) On the back, or with the back downward.
  • (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
  • (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
  • (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
  • (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.

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.

Reciprocating


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Reciprocate

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this review, we demonstrate that serum creatinine does not provide an adequate estimate of glomerular filtration rate (GFR), and contrary to recent teachings, that the slope of the reciprocal of serum creatinine vs time does not permit an accurate assessment of the rate of progression of renal disease.
  • (2) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (3) A reciprocal translocation, identified as t(6p+; 14q-), is described in a 38,XX intersex pig.
  • (4) From the results presented it appears that morphine produces a reciprocal change in the activity evoked in extensor and flexor reflex pathways.
  • (5) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
  • (6) Reciprocal translocations involving the short arm of acrocentric chromosomes can segregate to produce partial duplications without associated deletions.
  • (7) In a second phase of the study, a comparison was made between mortality rates of male and female progeny of White Leghorn-Rhode Island Red reciprocal crosses.
  • (8) Finally, a reciprocal facilitating effect of RRs and augmenting responses (ARs), which was studied by combined stimulation of nucleus ventralis posterolateralis (VPL) and NCM, appeared to be dependent upon an intracortical mechanism.
  • (9) Three triacetinases (A, B and C) were shown to undergo reciprocal conversions under storage and during some purification procedures (effect of pH, ionic strength, ion-exchange chromatography, concentration, lyophilization, etc.).
  • (10) For this purpose the molecular models of Monod-Wyman-Changeux (MWC) and of Koshland-Nemethy-Filmer (KNF) are tested by showing how the different plots, direct, reciprocal, Scatchard and Hill, vary as do the parameters considered in these models.
  • (11) Some organization schemes concerning locomotor and scratching rhythmicity generators are considered, such as: two half-centres with reciprocal inhibitory connections and tonic excitatory influences on these half-centres: two half-centres with inhibitory-excitatory connections and tonic excitatory influences on one half-centre; ring structures consisting of more than two functional groups of neurons with excitatory and inhibitory connections between them.
  • (12) The factor is encoded by two genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, called TIF51A and TIF51B, which are regulated reciprocally by oxygen and by heme.
  • (13) A free T4 index (FTI) can be calculated from the values for T4 and TBG index, because the TBG index is reciprocally related to the serum uptake test (T3-resin).
  • (14) The staining of HRP-immunopositive cell bodies indicates that the pallial regions studied receive afferent projections from the main olfactory bulb and are reciprocally interconnected by intrapallial associative fiber systems.
  • (15) In the following, there will be indicated the approved techniques and methods of suturing the cleft palate and a new method will be discussed related to the reciprocal Z-type plastic operation.
  • (16) The agonist-antagonist pair was observed to generate a net force in two control modalities: proportional activation and reciprocal activation.
  • (17) Failure to mate was a major factor in interspecific crosses and was much more pronounced in crosses between P. polionotus females and P. maniculatus males than in the reciprocal cross.
  • (18) The reciprocal (equivalent) and nonreciprocal (excessive giving or receiving) exchange of services was measured by the frequency of exchange and perception of potential support between the dyad.
  • (19) Since indoleaminergic cells make reciprocal synaptic connections with rod bipolar cell terminals, which are depolarizing in the rabbit retina, we hypothesize that 5-HT2 receptors facilitate the synaptic transmission from the depolarizing rod bipolar cell thus facilitating ON-excitation in the retinal network while 5-HT1A receptors mediate an inhibitory process.
  • (20) By the fourth injection, arachidonic acid had fallen 48% below control and was accompanied by reciprocal increases of more saturated fatty acids including linoleic (18:2), oleic (18:1) and palmitic (16:0) acids.

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