What's the difference between behaviour and poseur?

Behaviour


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These channels may, at least in some cases, be responsible for the generation of pacemaker depolarizations, thereby regulating firing behaviour.
  • (2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
  • (3) The behaviour of DAO suggests that the enzyme plays an important role in the control of intracellular diamine concentration.
  • (4) This suggests that hypothalamic NPY might be involved in food choice and that PVNp is important in the regulation of feeding behaviour by NPY.
  • (5) Once the temperature rises above 28C, shoppers' behaviour changes in all kinds of ways, according to Jones.
  • (6) This study provides strong and unexpected evidence that one admission to hospital of more than a week's duration or repeated admissions before the age of five years (in particular between six months and four years) are associated with an increased risk of behaviour disturbance and poor reading in adolescence.
  • (7) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (8) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
  • (9) Isolates showed a decrease in the intensity of apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviours but no change in stereotypy induced by AMPH.
  • (10) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (11) There were no significant effects of chlordiazepoxide treatment on the behaviour of subordinate rats.
  • (12) Malema has distorted his leftwing credentials with outrageous behaviour.
  • (13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (14) The influence of mucin on the corrosion behaviour of seven typical dental casting alloys was investigated.
  • (15) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (16) The behaviour of the enzyme from Candida utilis and from Baker's yeast on columns of these and of Blue Sepharose CL-6B was examined, together with the behaviour of the contaminating enzyme, ribulose 5-phosphate 3-epimerase (EC 5.1.3.1).
  • (17) Early views of the Type A behaviour pattern (TABP) sought to disengage it from either neuroticism or emotional distress.
  • (18) Males exploit this behavioural switch by increasing their sneaky mating attempts.
  • (19) There was no evidence of a response to the specific behavioural suggestion during the postoperative interview.
  • (20) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .

Poseur


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoing even Buzzfeed, the native advertising ne plus ultra , Forbes, without restraint, became an open bazaar for selling its space to fake content poseurs.
  • (2) Maybe an inability to distinguish the pose for the poseur, the medium for the message, led me astray.
  • (3) I like the poseur who sits beside me at a nauseatingly hip cafe with his cold brew, Barbour jacket and anchor tattoos – I can’t deny it.
  • (4) is a 200-page collection of American essays and discussions, which assesses the significance of these turn-of-the-century poseurs.
  • (5) If Liberian journalists are sometimes accused of not living up to the ideals of Albert Porte, more often they are accused of being Albert Porte poseurs.
  • (6) People with an overweening interest in food have been calling themselves "foodies" since a Harper's & Queen article entitled "Cuisine Poseur" in 1982, one of whose editors then co-wrote the semi-satirical The Official Foodie Handbook of 1984.
  • (7) While lacking that crucial H word, the song brutally teases London's poseurs and the video animates shots taken from Hackney Hipster Hate and latfh.com, among other sources.
  • (8) I, for one, am tired of holding my nose to vote for a pretend-Republican who may or may not serve my interests and work to preserve my rights – especially when the poseurs keep losing to actual Republicans anyway ... and maybe now the Tea Party.
  • (9) The French are an idle shower of ludicrous, pontificating poseurs who, when not on holiday or on strike or at the doctors demanding suppositories for imaginary illnesses, are trying to philosophise work out of existence to leave more time for eating and adultery.
  • (10) Of course, ridiculing young poseurs isn't an especially new thing to do.
  • (11) "In this current climate, mostly dominated by poseurs and pussies, it was refreshing to hear something that sounded dangerous, volatile, beautiful and SINCERE.

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