What's the difference between deflate and shrink?

Deflate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To reduce from an inflated condition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The balloon was then deflated, permitting blood reperfusion.
  • (2) Most travel in overcrowded inflatable dinghies that have just one air pocket, making deflation more likely.
  • (3) They've repeatedly deflated the pressure from Portland when it threatens to build into dangerous momentum, and for the most part Borchers and Schuler, and sometimes Beckerman have been first to the most dangerous balls in their own box.
  • (4) Stepwise inflation and deflation was done for analysis of oesophageal compliance and hysteresis.
  • (5) The Greek consumer prices index shrank by 2.9% in November, showing deflation accelerated after October's reading of minus 2.0%.
  • (6) Shop price deflation in the non-food sector overall accelerated to 2.7% in January from 2.3% in December, with clothing and footwear deflation the biggest contributor at 9.9%.
  • (7) Does this count as campaigning?” “When was the last time you flipped a steak?” “What does it feel like to be in Iowa?” “Can you bring the reporters some meat?” “Are you running, Hillary,” one reporter shouted, finally, “from us?” Then Bill and Hillary disappeared around the corner; three quarters of the media scrum vanished, deflated.
  • (8) While complications such as infection, implant exposure, deflation, hematoma, and seroma may occur and alter the timing of reconstruction, they rarely compromise the final result.
  • (9) It became clear, as Bourguiba went on, that he had two objectives in mind: to deflate and mildly humiliate the young Nasserist Libyan, and to outline his vision of the Arab world.
  • (10) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
  • (11) To test this hypothesis and to explore how the pleural pressure gradient might affect inhomogeneity of alveolar pressures, we deflated at submaximal flows excised canine lobes that first were suspended in air and then were immersed in foams that simulated the vertical gradient of pleural pressure.
  • (12) This looks like the mild and benign variety of deflation which is good news for consumers and for growth.
  • (13) Although the patient had had previous abdominal surgery, she had no adhesions that were considered contributory to the obstructive process at surgery; the deflated bubble did not deflate enough to traverse the distal ileum.
  • (14) Utilizing the arterial and venous occlusion technique, the effects of lung inflation and deflation on the resistance of alveolar and extraalveolar vessels were measured in the dog in an isolated left lower lobe preparation.
  • (15) Yet it was the drama and controversy of Odemwingie's failed move that appeared to deflate Redknapp, who also missed out on Stoke City's Peter Crouch, another of his targets up front, and a third Tottenham player, the midfielder David Bentley.
  • (16) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
  • (17) When Ppa - Palv was less than 10 cmH2O in zone 2 conditions, flow decreased monotonically during deflation from TLC.
  • (18) The deflation of latex rubber balloons in vivo has been attributed to the same cause.
  • (19) Psychological characteristics were assessed by a psychiatric interview and psychometric inventories; response to distension was tested by placing a tube in the rectosigmoid colon and successively inflating a nd deflating a balloon at its tip at 10 cm3 increments up to 50 cm3.
  • (20) In Japan, where deflation has taken hold, the stock market is trading at just a quarter of its 1989 level.

Shrink


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To wrinkle, bend, or curl; to shrivel; hence, to contract into a less extent or compass; to gather together; to become compacted.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw or retire, as from danger; to decline action from fear; to recoil, as in fear, horror, or distress.
  • (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake.
  • (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water.
  • (v. t.) To draw back; to withdraw.
  • (n.) The act shrinking; shrinkage; contraction; also, recoil; withdrawal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
  • (2) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (3) The resulting free anterior tarsal surface must be covered by a free graft to prevent tarsal shrinking.
  • (4) Sales are also shrinking in north America and Europe.
  • (5) Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read as protests stymie Trump Read more There’s the shrinking minority of Americans who believe he’s doing a good job.
  • (6) The media are more pervasive, seeping everywhere into the vacuum left by the shrinking of the old powers.
  • (7) This increase was due to a larger radiation dose to the anoxic tumor core and to external irradiation shrinking the tumor to within the high-dose range of radium therapy.
  • (8) To make the equations of physics carry on working, Einstein showed that the length of any moving object must shrink in the direction of its travel.
  • (9) VS K influx into high K cells was transient, whereas influx into low K cells (prepared with nystatin), which are unable to shrink via K efflux, remained fully activated.
  • (10) The battle for eastern Aleppo in maps: how rebel territory is shrinking Read more Some have arrived in government-held or Kurdish-controlled territory with overstuffed suitcases and bags of their possessions, but others have come empty-handed, with only the clothes on their backs.
  • (11) According his hypothesis "the nerves were shrinking because of drying" and the treatment had to be long, prolonged bathing.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bernie Sanders: I want to see major changes in the Democratic party But Clinton is still a comfortable favourite in polling at the national level and her team argued earlier that day that if she can shrink his lead to single digits in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, she will have blunted the surprise momentum that unnerved supporters when he came within a whisker of beating her in Iowa.
  • (13) Unemployment in Spain's shrinking economy now exceeds 4 million people, or almost 19% of the population, and has pushed the bank's bad loan ratio in its home market up to 3.4%.
  • (14) Ranch and management x ranch effects accounted for more of the variation in shrink than PC did.
  • (15) The Blairite rump wants more austerity and markets in public services, while their champion, Douglas Alexander, wants to "shrink" Labour's offer so the Tories and media have as little as possible to attack.
  • (16) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
  • (17) Should they shrink from it, the Lib Dems will reveal that they are neither liberal nor democratic.
  • (18) At the same time, the diameter of the hair cell top decreased by shrinking.
  • (19) Corticosteroid therapy for acute "shrinking lungs syndrome" in active SLE can improve symptoms and pulmonary function.
  • (20) The report does not discuss the reasons why young black people make up an ever greater proportion of the shrinking youth jail population.