What's the difference between deflect and displace?

Deflect


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected.
  • (v. i.) To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
  • (2) In patients with coronary artery disease, electrocardiographic signs of left atrial enlargement (LAE-negative P wave deflection greater than or equal to 1 mm2 in lead V1) are associated with increased left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP).
  • (3) The behavior of the retrograde H deflection in respect to the first extra beat following the premature QRS complex helped in excluding bundle branch reentry.
  • (4) Gibbs was sent off in the first half at Stamford Bridge for handball, despite replays clearly showing it was his team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain who illegally deflected an Eden Hazard shot.
  • (5) Extraction tools included flexible, telescoping sheaths advanced over the lead to dilate scar tissue and apply countertraction, deflection catheters, and wire basket snares.
  • (6) The following points should be emphasized: Besides the right proximal blocks, which are more frequent, right distal ones can also be diagnosed by the presence of slurred R wave and delayed onset of the intrinsicoid deflection in only some right leads.
  • (7) Cameron: We must not be deflected from our sense of aimlessness.
  • (8) In the infarct of the inferior wall the ST segment elevation occurs in leads II, III, aVF without the presence of Q deflection.
  • (9) Electrophysiologic studies disclosed poor anterograde atrioventricular nodal conduction with a block proximal to His deflection that occurred at an atrial paced cycle length of 600 msec with no ventriculoatrial conduction.
  • (10) Myths such as those that we have described may distract our patients from the underlying behaviors that contribute to the disease or may deflect the blame perceived by obese patients and their parents.
  • (11) The mechanical force-deflection response was sigmoidal with continuously changing resistance.
  • (12) Some wires exhibited super-elasticity; load decreased little with decreasing deflection.
  • (13) The Tip Deflection Test involved securing the lead at 45 degrees at the indifferent electrode and applying a force to deflect the tip 5 mm.
  • (14) Cohen crossed the ball long from the right and Hurst rose magnificently to deflect in another header which Tilkowski could only scramble away from his right hand post, Ball turned the ball back into the goalmouth and the German’s desperation was unmistakable as Overath came hurtling in to scythe the ball away for a corner.
  • (15) The IFM-gap placed on the receptor region displayed triphasic spikes in which the first small positive deflection occurred approximately 0.2 ms prior to the propagated and abortive spikes.
  • (16) The maximum conduction velocity of 70 to 80 meters per second corresponded to an initial small deflection, with most fibers conducting at slower rates.
  • (17) No clinically useful prediction may be made from cephalometric radiographs concerning the amount of mandibular deflection from centric relation to maximum intercuspation of teeth.
  • (18) Collecting the fallout from a corner, Max Gradel unleashed a shot which might well have beaten Rob Elliot had it not deflected wide off Andrew Surman.
  • (19) Each proximal hair is innervated by a single mechanosensory neuron responding phasically to hair deflections as small as 0.2 degrees in amplitude.
  • (20) Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool (Delaney 78) 78 min: Damien Delaney tries a speculative shot from distance, which is deflected past Simon Mignolet off the back of Glen Johnson, who had failed to close down the Palace defender and was on the half-turn.

Displace


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To change the place of; to remove from the usual or proper place; to put out of place; to place in another situation; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
  • (v. t.) To crowd out; to take the place of.
  • (v. t.) To remove from a state, office, dignity, or employment; to discharge; to depose; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
  • (v. t.) To dislodge; to drive away; to banish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
  • (2) Displacement of the enol triflate with various sulfinates in acetonitrile or DMF and deprotection of the intermediates led to 7 beta-[(2-amino-4-thiazolyl)(methoxyimino)acetyl]amino]- 3-[alkyl(aryl)sulfonyl]-1-carba-1-dethia-3-cephem-4-carboxyl ic acids.
  • (3) Displacement of the surface of the cornea of bovine eyes after disruption of intact structures was investigated by means of holographic interferometry.
  • (4) The relative potencies compared to insulin-like growth factor 2 (IGF-2) in displacing [125I]IGF-2 from rat liver membranes were recombinant truncated IGF-1, 0.3% and recombinant IGF-1, 0.2%.
  • (5) Displacement of a colinear line over the same range without an offset evoked little, if any, response.
  • (6) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (7) Eddy current transducers measured relative displacements under application of static loads, serially applied in the axial, mediolateral, and craniocaudal directions.
  • (8) Over a period of 9 months a 12-year-old girl spontaneously developed a palpable cystic tumor in the upper eye lid which led to an indentation and downward displacement of the globe.
  • (9) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
  • (10) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
  • (11) Cytoplasmic organelles were displaced and rearranged in the presence of somal neurofibrillary changes.
  • (12) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
  • (13) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
  • (14) Unlabeled IGF-I displaced both the IGF-I and insulin bindings with potencies that were 100 and 10 times as great as insulin.
  • (15) Displacing potencies for dopamine in the nanomolar range are associated with agonist-specific D-3 receptor binding and it is predicted that the component of D-2 binding with high agonist affinity may play a confounding role in many D-3 receptor studies.
  • (16) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
  • (17) This reduction is produced by medial displacement of the cerci, a movement the animal performs naturally during flying.
  • (18) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
  • (19) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
  • (20) It is this combination that explains the widespread fascination with how China's economic size or power compares to America's, and especially with the question of whether the challenger has now displaced the long-reigning champion.