What's the difference between crawling and locomotion?

Crawling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crawl

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 30%, 60% and 100% plasma, crawling-like movements progressively increased, motility rose (at 30%) and then fell slightly (at 100%) while adhesiveness did not change.
  • (2) You’d think such a spry, successful man would busy himself with other things besides crawling into a pile of stuffed animals to scare his daughter’s date.
  • (3) Protesters crawl out from the tents they have pitched on the cobblestones and huddle in the cold around makeshift fires, as volunteers distribute hot tea and soup.
  • (4) Alonso, after hitting the wall and being catapulted airborne, landed upside down in his McLaren before crawling out of his car.
  • (5) Based on a single 20-s recovery VO2, the swimmers' VO2 max was correlated with performance in a 400-yd (365.8-m) front crawl swim.
  • (6) A decision to wean a child may be made if the child can crawl, walk, or has a good set of erupted milk teeth, even if the child has not reached the traditional weaning age of 20-24 months.
  • (7) A host of activities are on offer, from barbecue or pizza parties to bar crawls, and guests are welcome to visit the community projects that Backpack sponsors, including vegetable gardens, knitting and football for kids.
  • (8) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
  • (9) Some were wearing nappies despite being of school age, and appeared to crawl upstairs using their hands rather than walking.
  • (10) Wanda Mintz said her nephew tried to crawl away but could not move because of his wounds.
  • (11) What made this so troubling he said, is that digital spiders could then crawl the web and find every picture in the public domain and match it with an identity.
  • (12) So all these things are going through your head as I'm on my belly crawling to get underneath this shutter.
  • (13) She stumbled to her door, but found she could not walk out; she had to crawl as the ground swayed beneath her.
  • (14) The Tower’s steps are covered in golden slime, and on its walls crawls a “rich greenlike moss” that inscribes letters and words on the masonry – before entering and authoring the bodies of the explorers themselves.
  • (15) The DOJ generally has to go crawling to Wall Street, tentatively striking deals that won't hurt financial reputations too badly and the bottom line hardly at all.
  • (16) I remember crawling out of it – because by that time I was too weak to walk, but I couldn’t bear to stay among the corpses any longer – and bumping into a neighbour who was as surprised to see me as I was her.
  • (17) Elevated concentrations of the soil fungi were significantly (P = 0.05) associated with the dirt floor, crawl-space type of basement.
  • (18) (Oh wow, note to self: trademark a version of American Football where players have to crawl or walk on their hands.)
  • (19) In the transition from quiescent state to crawling, the pattern recorded in nerves and connectives changes from short-duration bursts in many units to the 60-100 sec cycle of events recorded during tethered crawling in the semi-intact snail.
  • (20) These results, interpreted through Ayres' sensory integration theory and applied to current occupational therapy practice, support Farber's hypothesized importance of early crawling experience in the development of sensory and motor systems of the body and general motor skill development.

Locomotion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of moving from place to place.
  • (n.) The power of moving from place to place, characteristic of the higher animals and some of the lower forms of plant life.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Platelet-activating factor (PAF-acether), an inflammatory mediator with a wide range of biological activities including neutrophil aggregation and chemotaxis, was studied for its effect on human eosinophil locomotion (chemotaxis and chemokinesis).
  • (2) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
  • (3) When the organisms are free-swimming this is seen as the reversed locomotion of Jennings' "avoiding reaction."
  • (4) In naïve mice, i.e., mice with intact stores of DA, both the selective D1 antagonist SCH23390 and the selective D2 antagonist spiperone blocked the locomoter stimulation produced by (+)-amphetamine.
  • (5) With respect to the mechanism of the delayed invasion, it was suggested that the IFN-gamma might inhibit the adhesion of the cells to extracellular matrices (ECM) and the subsequent locomotion.
  • (6) During normal locomotion, SA-m exhibited a single burst of EMG activity per step cycle, during the swing phase.
  • (7) a 45-mg pellet every 45 s) induces considerable locomotion, rearing and other motor activities in food-deprived rats.
  • (8) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
  • (9) The failure of agents which inhibit motility to inhibit capping of the normal lymphocytes suggests that active locomotion is not a direct prerequisite for capping.
  • (10) The average speed of the cells, as well as the proportion of neutrophils showing locomotion, is increased.
  • (11) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (12) Wandering is movement changing over time and, thus, is a nonlinear ultradian rhythm, with locomoting and nonlocomoting phases.
  • (13) Locomotion and general activities were typically unchanged over days.
  • (14) While executing the latter movements no forward locomotion occurred at all; the cats solely executed lateral fore- and hindlimb movements opposite to the direction in which the cylinder rotated.
  • (15) In addition, this drug slightly reduced locomotion and more markedly rearing in a free exploration procedure.
  • (16) Animals injected with DZP, NPC 12626, CPP or buspirone spent at least 1.4 of the 4 post shock minutes locomoting.
  • (17) injection of bremazocine, an opiate kappa-receptor agonist, suppressed spontaneous locomotion but not CRF-induced locomotion.
  • (18) Without shocks, apomorphine-treated rats displayed stereotypy with locomotion and biting of various objects.
  • (19) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
  • (20) reversed the increase in locomotion and elevation of multiple squeak thresholds in the bilaterally kindled rats.