What's the difference between bicycle and motorcycle?

Bicycle


Definition:

  • (n.) A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A novel bicyclic prostaglandin analogue, (1S)-[1 alpha,2 alpha(Z),3 alpha,4 alpha]-7-[3-[(hexylthio)methyl]-7- oxabicyclo [2.2.1]hept-2-yl]-5-heptenoic acid ((-)-10), and its cogeners were found to be potent antagonists at the TxA2 receptor.
  • (2) The authors report an ocular luxation of a four-year-old girl after a bicycle accident.
  • (3) In a Bloomberg article last week, for example, one Stanford student compared women who get raped to unlocked bicycles : ‘Do I deserve to have my bike stolen if I leave it unlocked on the quad?’ [Chris] Herries, 22, said.
  • (4) Considerate touches includes the free use of cruiser bicycles (the best method of tackling the Palm Springs main drag), home-baked cookies … and if you'd like to get married, ask the manager: he's a minister.
  • (5) Subjects underwent measurement of lung volumes, arterial blood gas analysis and an incremental bicycle exercise test.
  • (6) Each patient underwent graded bicycle exercise testing to define maximal performance, and prolonged exercise at 70% of their peak work capacity.
  • (7) The data of bicycle ergometry test and echocardiography were studied and compared in patients with postinfarction cardiosclerosis and type II diabetes mellitus without the clinical signs of heart failure.
  • (8) We had our bicycles and we were just turned loose all day.
  • (9) Near maximal supine exercise for 10 min on a bicycle ergometer caused a small increase in plasma renin activity during exertion with a much larger increase during recovery which reached a peak between 10-20 min.
  • (10) In all patients a standardized bicycle-ergometric exercise sitting and a coronarography as well as a ventriculography were performed.
  • (11) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
  • (12) Seven healthy volunteers were exposed to head-down tilt at -15 degrees for 5 h. Before and after exposure they exercised on a bicycle ergometer in the supine and seated positions.
  • (13) The pressure waves recorded in the container were added by computer to those recorded intra-arterially during bicycle ergometry.
  • (14) An incremental, symptom-limited, bicycle exercise test was done one month after the myocardial infarction, and blood samples were taken for determination of plasma potassium.
  • (15) A bicyclic hexadecapeptide, which corresponds to the sequence 36-51 and contains the chymotrypsin-reactive Leu-43-Ser-44 bond of soybean Bowman-Birk inhibitor, has been synthesized.
  • (16) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
  • (17) The new protocol (standardised exponential exercise protocol, STEEP) is suitable for use on either a treadmill or a bicycle ergometer.
  • (18) The most frequent cause of abdominal injury in children was a bicycle accident.
  • (19) To test this premise, 14 healthy, untrained men trained four days per week for 20 weeks on a bicycle ergometer for endurance (END Group, n = 4), on an isokinetic device for increased torque production (ITP Group, n = 5), or on both devices (COMBO Group, n = 5).
  • (20) The KB was found to be remarkably tolerant of changes in the electronic constitution and lipophilicity of the bicyclic ring system (template).

Motorcycle


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The only likely cause for the pathological vascular findings in our patient was an exposure to vibration due to excessive off-street motorcycle driving.
  • (2) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
  • (3) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
  • (4) The Tasmanian Motorcycle Rider Training scheme is assessed in terms of its value in reducing the accident risk.
  • (5) The actor visited the country in 2004 while filming a motorcycle road trip.
  • (6) In one attack, suicide bombers on motorcycles targeted two buildings in the capital.
  • (7) "Helicopters targeted them by heavy machine guns while they were driving their motorcycles – while they were fleeing the village.
  • (8) This article presents 1990 self-reported data from U.S. students in grades 9-12 regarding the prevalence of three behaviors that reduce the risk for injuries from motor-vehicle crashes-safety-belt use, motorcycle-helmet use, and bicycle-helmet use.
  • (9) He noticed lack of right scrotal contents three months after a motorcycle accident.
  • (10) The data of the Institute of Legal Medicine and Insurance of the University of Parma regarding mortal motorcycle, motorbicycle and cycling accidents for a ten year period is cited (1973-1982) (296 cases).
  • (11) Across the country motorcycle taxi drivers, cobblers, parking attendants, construction workers and nursery teachers are vying for seats in the country's various legislatures.
  • (12) Of the 210 patients, 162 had complete charts: 126 (78.0%) were admitted directly from the scene, 110 (67.9%) were injured in motor vehicle or motorcycle accidents, 25 (15.0%) were admitted in shock (blood pressure less than 90 mm Hg), the average Glasgow Coma Score was 13.2, and the average Injury Severity Score was 25.8.
  • (13) On the other hand, there was little or no change for drivers aged 25-34, motorcycle drivers, pedestrians aged 20 to 64, and drivers in late-night crashes.
  • (14) Security will include a police and military presence and private security guards carrying out several layers of checks, including individual body searches using metal detectors, there will be video surveillance cameras and a ban on rucksacks, motorcycle helmets and banners with political or offensive messages.
  • (15) Head-injured patients with a GCS less than 8 had a mortality in the injured pedestrian group of 46%, whereas the mortality rate in the motorcycle accident group was 41%.
  • (16) Fatal and severe injury crashes for scooters and mopeds in California for 1985 were compared with those for motorcycles during the same year.
  • (17) Although today most injuries of face and head are the result of car and motorcycle accidents, dog bites are a frequent cause of facial injuries in children.
  • (18) For services to Motorcycle Safety, particularly through the CRASH Card Scheme.
  • (19) An additional case, a nineteen-year-old victim of a motorcycle accident, had immediate surgery following an early diagnosis.
  • (20) Tricuspid regurgitation due to nonpenetrating trauma occurred in a 60-year-old male patient who had received chest trauma in a motorcycle accident.