What's the difference between decreation and recreation?

Decreation


Definition:

  • (n.) Destruction; -- opposed to creation.

Example Sentences:

Recreation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
  • (2) For recreational runners who have sustained injuries, especially within the past year, a reduction in running to below 32 km per week is recommended.
  • (3) Employment problems, amount of pain, and social and recreational difficulties were assessed.
  • (4) Several reports have suggested that staphylococci, and especially Staphylococcus aureus, are useful indicators of pollution of recreational waters.
  • (5) The implications for other professional divers and for recreational underwater divers who follow standard decompression protocols are reassuring.
  • (6) The subjects responded to a mail survey that defined before surgery and after recovery functioning in relation to 22 activities of daily living representing personal care, housework-yard work, and recreation-social activities.
  • (7) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is a recently popularized recreational drug, although some have advocated its psychotherapeutic potential.
  • (8) Accidents from sports and recreation were the cause in 23% of the cases.
  • (9) More men than women reported high rates of sports and recreational activities, gardening, and do-it-yourself.
  • (10) An inverse Fourier transform is then used to recreate the new time domain representation, which has been appropriately filtered for extraneous noise.
  • (11) Cases were more likely to have worked in the following industries: mining, paper and wood, medicine and science, and entertainment and recreation.
  • (12) To determine whether recreational levels of training (jogging) will provoke short luteal phase menstrual cycles, a prospective study was conducted.
  • (13) Benzene concentrations of 2.5, 14, and 250 ppm should be acceptable for residential, industrial, and recreational soils, respectively.
  • (14) The present results suggest that, although we observed a larger effect with occupational activity than with recreational activity, middle-aged men may reduce their risk of colorectal cancer if they exercise when they are not working.
  • (15) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
  • (16) Obama may have been deliberately recreating one of Mandela's own most useful gestures in his moment of human contact with the president of Cuba .
  • (17) Similar applies to the new standards of the TAL 1974 and that recommendations of the "Deutscher Bäderverband" to estimate health resorts, recreation areas and mineral springs.
  • (18) The embryotoxic levels of these solvents needed in culture were higher than blood levels likely to occur in the human following industrial exposure or recreational abuse.
  • (19) Relationships between the severity and frequency of low back pain and referred lower extremity pain and other variables such as occupation, recreation, age, sex and predominant working posture was analysed.
  • (20) The results showed that VCF valued, in order of priority: TWs, University library privileges, faculty parking, photocopying service, clinical faculty awards, use of recreational facilities, and faculty discounts.

Words possibly related to "decreation"