What's the difference between brisk and jig?

Brisk


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
  • (a.) Full of spirit of life; effervesc/ng, as liquors; sparkling; as, brick cider.
  • (v. t. & i.) To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate; to take, or cause to take, an erect or bold attitude; -- usually with up.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Usually the focus driving the cell most briskly was located in one of the contralateral limbs and corresponded to the limb where muscle contraction was elicited by microstimulation with the same electrode.
  • (2) An increased mortality is recorded after its brisk rise (in particular after potent proton phenomena) and paradoxically also in case of very low density value.
  • (3) Polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis are diseases which are characterized by a brisk acute phase response.
  • (4) For LH, basal levels were not different among each group, nor was there any difference in response to GnRH at any point in time after injection; however, there was a trend for the azoospermic group to respond more briskly.
  • (5) There was an improvement in body temperature within six hours of the first dose; this was accompanied by a brisk fall in serum CPK and cholesterol with a rapid rise of plasma T3 into the euthyroid range.
  • (6) The briskness of the response during tachycardia may also be a marker for underlying carotid sinus hypersensitivity.
  • (7) The identification of multiple receptor subtypes for 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) made by using radioligand binding techniques proliferated at a brisk rate in the 1980s.
  • (8) Add the broth to the pot and briskly simmer the mixture over medium to medium-low heat for about 2 hours for all the flavours to come together and mellow.
  • (9) Water immersion to the neck for 2 h caused a brisk diuresis, natriuresis and raised plasma ANP in 8 healthy subjects, suggesting that ANP is a mediator of diuresis and natriuresis during immersion.
  • (10) In adult humans the ventilatory response to sustained hypoxia (VRSH) is biphasic, characterized by an initial brisk increase, due to peripheral chemoreceptor (PC) stimulation, followed by a decline attributed to central depressant action of hypoxia.
  • (11) A brisk increase in plasma prolactin levels occurred in normal subjects during the administration of chlorpromazine and thyroid stimulating hormone releasing factor (TRH).
  • (12) These data indicate that an exercise intensity achievable by brisk walking (7.4 kph) is sufficient to evoke significant but short-term changes in serum HDL3-C concentrations in women.
  • (13) A brisk intraocular and systemic IgE antibody response followed the secondary intravitreal injection of either live or heat-killed larvae into animals systemically infected with A. suum.
  • (14) The effect of eyeball pressure on the heart rate was measured in 65 babies and was found to cause a brisk drop in heart rate in 32 babies.
  • (15) In the ferret, as in other species, two types of lateral geniculate neurone could be distinguished, and we have termed these X-cells and Y-cells; both groups responded briskly to visual stimulation but X-cells gave sustained and linear responses whereas Y-cells responded transiently and non-linearly.
  • (16) Of three methods studied, brisk shaking of samples in dilution blanks by hand and homogenization by a stomacher were compared relative to their capacity to recover the endotoxins and viable bacteria; blending with a Waring blender was compared with these two methods only on the recovery of viable cells.
  • (17) They discharged most briskly before visually guided eye movements, but also discharged before purposive eye movements made in darkness and responded to visual stimuli in the absence of saccades.
  • (18) But it is all merely worthless and meaningless froth while the city council permits a gateway to hell to do brisk business just a few streets away.
  • (19) Because it was 95 degrees and sunny, and because we were standing in a shadeless parking lot in the height of the afternoon, vendors selling bottled water were doing a brisk business.
  • (20) In the case presented, healing was brisk and complete, allowing early elbow mobilization.

Jig


Definition:

  • (n.) A light, brisk musical movement.
  • (n.) A light, humorous piece of writing, esp. in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
  • (n.) A piece of sport; a trick; a prank.
  • (n.) A trolling bait, consisting of a bright spoon and a hook attached.
  • (n.) A small machine or handy tool
  • (n.) A contrivance fastened to or inclosing a piece of work, and having hard steel surfaces to guide a tool, as a drill, or to form a shield or templet to work to, as in filing.
  • (n.) An apparatus or a machine for jigging ore.
  • (v. t.) To sing to the tune of a jig.
  • (v. t.) To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.
  • (v. t.) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve. See Jigging, n.
  • (n.) To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.
  • (v. i.) To dance a jig; to skip about.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If Del Bosque really want to win this World Cup thingymebob, then he has got to tell Iker Casillas that the jig is up, correct?
  • (2) Between members of different teams however, only the finger breadth method attained reliabilities above .7, and the plexiglass jig, in particular, showed very low reliability.
  • (3) A new jig simulating the abdominal cavity and wall is described.
  • (4) The stain pattern on the stem was analysed in a 3-point-bending jig and also after cementing it into cadaver femurs.
  • (5) Dipnets and jigs inflicted minimal trauma and were preferred for squid capture.
  • (6) Once the jig is in position, the patient is asked to produce left and right lateral movements until muscular relaxation is obtained.
  • (7) We developed some instruments to resolve these problems; i.e., scopes with a large diameter for high resolution, a triangulation instrument for multiple cannulations, a needle set-up jig for disk traction suture, a step cannulation system and a two-channel cannula for operating in the narrow lower joint space and a fixing jig for cannulas in the upper and lower joint space to observe the same portion of the discal tissue from both joint space during disk suturing.
  • (8) When, in 1996, the Globe theatre in London first experimented with doing it Shakespeare’s way, the scholars and theatre folk encountered the jig problem.
  • (9) This study used a special jig system, photography, and a sonic digitizer to evaluate the change in canal size and location after retreatment in 20 teeth with small or large curved canals (greater than 23 degrees).
  • (10) The kinetics of neural uptake and efflux of lidocaine hydrochloride were studies by means of a standardized technique for blocking the intraorbital nerve of the rat, using a palatal jig.
  • (11) Thermostatic regulation of tissue temperature is provided by on-off control of the average power supplied independently to each heating jig.
  • (12) It is recommended that the clearance of the hole in the support jig is at least 0.7 mm and that push-out results are only compared with each other when materials with similar Young's modulus are concerned.
  • (13) The ads have featured a miniature Miliband in Salmond’s jacket pocket and, in one animated film, the Labour leader dancing to a Scottish jig played by Salmond on a recorder.
  • (14) When a mechanical checkout jig was set up at the same point, a discrepancy of 4 mm resulted when the gantry was moved from 0 degrees to 180 degrees.
  • (15) The Herbert screw is useful in treating displaced capitellar fractures since the jig maintains the reduction and the screw, compressing the fracture site, is buried beneath the articular cartilage and does not have to be removed.
  • (16) If you want sustainable supply chains, you have to re-jig how you think.
  • (17) A two-part German-South African co-production based on the bestselling Kate Mosse novel, it's a window-rattling potboiler bubbling with ancient religious conspiracies, comely medieval wenches, comely 21st-century academics, fogbanks of swirly past-times skulduggery, evil pharmaceutical CEOs in 10 denier tights, priapic chevaliers and, verily, a script that does dance a merry jig upon the very phizog of credibility.
  • (18) A central distractor, attached to the jig, positions and aligns the knee at 0 degrees or 90 degrees.
  • (19) A pilot drill with a built-in stop to prevent overpenetration is used first and then the screw can be inserted with jig, or it may be inserted manually if the osteotomy is stablized temporarily with a Kirschner wire.
  • (20) Single-limb-stance loads and combined axial and torsional loads were applied to the implanted femoral prostheses with the use of a jig that simulated acetabular and trochanteric loading.

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