What's the difference between cyclist and descender?

Cyclist


Definition:

  • (n.) A cycler.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
  • (2) Morel was arrested after his car was matched with one caught on camera fleeing the scene, and was involved in a hit-and-run with a cyclist 10 minutes after the shooting .
  • (3) He was on more certain statistical ground when he said that, since 2010, more than half the bike deaths in London have happened when lorries turned left across cyclists.
  • (4) But if you provide a street environment where it’s much more egalitarian, where your granny can cycle to the shops safely and have somewhere to park her Dutch-style bike – that’s when we’ll get those kind of cyclists.
  • (5) It is not just cyclists who will benefit from the new routes.
  • (6) Eleven male cyclists rode at a high (80% of maximum VO2) and a low (60% of maximum VO2) workrate using each chainring.
  • (7) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
  • (8) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
  • (9) A prospective study of risk factors and injury patterns of competitive cyclists in 10 races at altitudes over 1,500 meters was carried out over 4 years.
  • (10) Cyclists should be encouraged to wear more protective gear.
  • (11) But Berlin also expects its cyclists to stick to the rules more than London does.
  • (12) Every time I tried to explain, he spoke over me.” In written evidence, Jamieson said the instructions for dealing with cyclists had been in place for over a year and, while there was no specific policy towards cabinet ministers on bicycles, officers used discretion with figures from the government.
  • (13) The race itself will feature 120 cyclists starting at 12.45pm and covering 13 laps of the Tour's finish circuit up and down the Champs Elysées, turning at Place de la Concorde and at the Arc de Triomphe, with a total distance of 90 kilometres.
  • (14) While the MPs noted widespread evidence from cycling groups about a sometimes combative approach to cyclists from drivers they said any action must include efforts to improve behaviour by cyclists as well, and a consistent message of mutual respect.
  • (15) According to these estimations the cyclists sustain 87-95% of maximal aerobic power over one hour, which is a likely value for a 60 min exercise period for top-level athletes.
  • (16) Boris Johnson has shrugged off calls for an urgent review of cycling safety in London after a man killed on Wednesday night became the fifth cyclist to die in the capital in nine days.
  • (17) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
  • (18) Janet said the other cyclist was named Chris and was a father of five.
  • (19) Now it organises weekly recreational group rides through quieter districts that have sometimes attracted hundreds of cyclists.
  • (20) Lloyd said improved awareness of cycling safety training might help reduce the number of deaths, along with better education for younger cyclists.

Descender


Definition:

  • (n.) One who descends.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The adjacent gauge was separated from the ischemic segment by one large nonoccluded diagonal branch of the left anterior descending artery.
  • (2) They insist this is the best way of ensuring the country does not descend into chaos before the final withdrawal of combat troops.
  • (3) The primary afferent fibers diverge in the brainstem into a short ascending and a long descending tract.
  • (4) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
  • (5) Concerning the descending influences, it was found that stimulation of the anterior hypothalamus evokes depressor reactions, whereas stimulation of the posterior hypothalamus results in pressor reactions.
  • (6) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (7) This column is located ventral and lateral to the dorsolateral division of the trigeminal motor nucleus, and just medial to the descending trigeminal nerve rootlets.
  • (8) Blunt trauma to the epigastrum may result in a retroperitoneal hematoma involving the head of the pancreas and descending duodenum.
  • (9) Acute coronary angiography showed myocardial bridging and total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery in the middle one-third of its course.
  • (10) In acute experiments on 16 dogs the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery was stenosed to produce a hypokinesia or dyskinesia of the anterior wall of the left ventricle.
  • (11) Descending neurons have opposite structural polarity, arising in the brain and terminating in segmental regions of the fused ventral ganglia.
  • (12) To perform this technique, it is necessary to expose only a longitudinal segment on the anterior aspect of the aneurysm to permit a ventriculotomy parallel to the anterior descending coronary artery 4-5 cm away.
  • (13) To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days gestation fetal lambs with ascending aortic electromagnetic flow transducers, vascular catheters, and inflatable occluders around the aortic isthmus (n = 8) or descending aorta (n = 7).
  • (14) A new centrifugal pump (Sarns), originally designed for ventricular assist, was successfully used in two patients during repair of traumatic pseudoaneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta.
  • (15) The special advantage of the UV-beam is that it allow to inactivate selectively of the particular elements of nuclear apparatus of living ciliates is to observe consequences of operation on distant descendants of irradiated cell.
  • (16) By LHRH treatment 36 testes (20.5%) reached the scrotum, when HCG was added in unsuccessful cases 47 other gonads (26.8%) descended.
  • (17) A Teflon cylinder was placed in the mid-left anterior descending coronary artery to create a 33% stenosis.
  • (18) The descending colon, which after the DMH treatment showed a significant increase in the levels of glycosidases, also gave rise to a larger number of adenocarcinomata than other parts of the colon.
  • (19) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
  • (20) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.

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