What's the difference between deflation and inflation?

Deflation


Definition:

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.

Inflation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
  • (n.) The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity.
  • (n.) Undue expansion or increase, from overissue; -- said of currency.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Philip Shaw, chief economist at broker Investec, expects CPI to hit 5.1%, just shy of the 5.2% reached in September 2008, as the utility hikes alone add 0.4% to inflation.
  • (2) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (3) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
  • (4) As increases to the Isa allowance are based on the CPI inflation figure for the year to the previous September, the new data suggests the current Isa limit of £15,240 will remain unchanged next year.
  • (5) But when, less than two weeks out from the election, voters were asked to name the issues most important to them in the campaign, they nominated unemployment, inflation and economic management, rather than immigration and border control.
  • (6) Although the unemployment rate is 4.8%, it can come down further without wage inflation starting to rise.
  • (7) VAT increases don't just hit the poor more than the rich, they also hit small firms, threaten retail jobs and, by boosting inflation, could also lead to higher interest rates."
  • (8) The data suggest that slow injection with the high tourniquet inflation pressure is better, although the differences in leakage with an intact tourniquet were not statistically significant.
  • (9) We report on a membrane inflation method of wound spreading in intact human corneas using the Baribeau Micronscope.
  • (10) 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).
  • (11) Each study consisted of a 2-h control period followed by 4 h of increased lung microvascular pressure produced by inflation of a balloon in the left atrium.
  • (12) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
  • (13) The tidal volume increase under CO2 inhalation was suppressed by the inflation reflex but other afferent vagal nerves seemed to be closely associated with the increased respiratory rate.
  • (14) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.
  • (15) Philip Shaw, chief economist at Investec, said: “Clearly, there is a much greater chance that the euro hits parity with the US dollar once again, as it first did in 1999.” Stock markets climbed and bond yields fell as the markets digested the full implications of the massive QE project that will involve the ECB buying €60bn (£45bn) of bonds a month until September 2016 or when eurozone inflation nears the central bank’s 2% target.
  • (16) I still can’t figure out who this is aimed at: I’m imagining characters who think they’re in Wolf of Wall Street, with such an inflated sense of entitlement that even al desko meals need to come with Michelin tags.
  • (17) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
  • (18) The inflation used to calculate benefits is CPI, which doesn't include housing costs or council tax, unlike RPI.
  • (19) In the past, Draghi has rebuffed those attacks and stressed low rates and QE were needed to get inflation back to target.
  • (20) 1: Good news It's been a scarce commodity throughout the Osborne chancellorship, but he will have a decent amount of it to dish round the chamber – notably lower inflation and higher growth than was being forecast a short while ago.