What's the difference between caracole and spiral?
Caracole
Definition:
(n.) A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.
(n.) A staircase in a spiral form.
(v. i.) To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.
Example Sentences:
(1) One-off options, such as La Banda in Seville (dorm bed from €15), or Casa Caracol in Cádiz (from €10 B&B for a hammock), are a treat for laid-back travellers of all generations.
(2) Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hotel do Caracol, Terceira Accommodation is very limited.
(3) Quinta do Martelo (doubles from €85) is a fab turismo rural; Hotel do Caracol (doubles from around €70) is a 20-minute stroll from Angra, and offers wide sea views.
(4) For example, some industrial parks were built thanks to US funds; the much-heralded one in the north of Haiti, at Caracol, has fallen far short of official expectations.
(5) Londono appeared in the interview, part of which was also broadcast by Colombia's Caracol TV, with just a little makeup, her fingernails painted white and wearing a tight green dress.
(6) I’m totally committed to the club, there are eight matches to go [in the Premier League] and anything can happen,” he told Radio Caracol.
(7) Where to stay Imbued with the relaxed conviviality of a surf camp, Casa Caracol offers pancake breakfasts, home-cooked dinners, mojito nights, bike rentals and even yoga classes on the beach.
Spiral
Definition:
(a.) Winding or circling round a center or pole and gradually receding from it; as, the spiral curve of a watch spring.
(a.) Winding round a cylinder or imaginary axis, and at the same time rising or advancing forward; winding like the thread of a screw; helical.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a spiral; like a spiral.
(a.) A plane curve, not reentrant, described by a point, called the generatrix, moving along a straight line according to a mathematical law, while the line is revolving about a fixed point called the pole. Cf. Helix.
(a.) Anything which has a spiral form, as a spiral shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) Digestion is initiated in the gastric region by secretion of acid and pepsin; however, diversity of digestive enzymes is highest in the post-gastric alimentary canal with the greatest proteolytic activity in the spiral valve.
(2) Don't we by chance come across this reciprocal spiral perspective when two people distrust one another without actually showing it?
(3) A great deal of information about the spiral bacteria of the stomach has accumulated in the past 5 years.
(4) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(5) Spiral neurons, their fibers and endings as well as inner and outer hair cells express NSE in the isolated organ of Corti in culture.
(6) The binding sites were mainly located on the stereocilia, the cuticular plate of hair cells, the head plates of Deiters' cells, fibrous structures in pillar cells, in the spiral limbus and tectorial membrane and basilar membrane, plasma membranes, mitochondria and the chromatin of various kinds of cells.
(7) When normalized with respect to scala cross-section, the process of tracer movement across the spiral ligament is similar in the basal and third turns.
(8) Tangent-screen studies uncovered neurasthenic spiral fields superimposed on hysterical tubular contractions of both eyes.
(9) The phi-model also gives the noble numbers and moreover orders them in a way that establishes connections with the morphogenetic principles used in models for pattern generation; the order has to do with the relative frequencies of the spiral patterns in nature.
(10) The row had been inflamed over the weekend by a series of leaks about the spiralling price of Gove's free schools and high costs of Clegg's free school meals, giving Labour ammunition to attack the government's education policy in Westminster.
(11) Spiral-like primary dendrites were found and the orientation of secondary dendrites changed.
(12) The main uterine, radial and spiral arteries were identified in all patients.
(13) In animals receiving passive (unstimulated) implants, morphometric analysis of spiral ganglion cell density showed no significant difference in ganglion cell survival between the implanted cochleas and the contralateral control ears.
(14) Later, these vacuoles were divided into numerous vesicular spiral formation-centers, producing micronemes at the apical pole of young merozoites.
(15) During more extended exposure (60 and 90 days) the changes in hair cells of the spiral organ, which included nuclear deformation and disintegration of chromatin, mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum membranes, became irreversible and caused the decay of injured cells.
(16) The company's value lies in its FM licence for London, with the audience for its national AM licence spiralling downwards in recent years.
(17) The spiral reinforcement at the same time prevents compression of the vein by surrounding cicatricial tissue as well as an aneurysmatic extension of the transplant.
(18) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
(19) The balance is fragile and the threat of a spiral of decline is not an idle one.
(20) They ran in a spiral pattern in the distal part of the middle cerebral artery.