What's the difference between dejection and excrement?

Dejection


Definition:

  • (n.) A casting down; depression.
  • (n.) The act of humbling or abasing one's self.
  • (n.) Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy.
  • (n.) A low condition; weakness; inability.
  • (n.) The discharge of excrement.
  • (n.) Faeces; excrement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Low Social group membership was positively associated with scores on the POMS Depression-Dejection and Confusion-Bewilderment Scales; and on the MCMI Avoidant, Schizotypal, Passive-Aggressive, Psychotic Thinking, Psychotic Depression, Alcohol Abuse, and Borderline Scales.
  • (2) After six months of sessions, when the infant manifested full-blown weaning patterns, the mother reported symptoms indicating a major depressive episode, such as pervasive dejection and rejection, listlessness, and anxiety attacks.
  • (3) Like any other dejected interviewee, he used Twitter to express his glass half full disappointment: "Facebook turned me down … looking forward to life's next adventure."
  • (4) They see angry shouting Steve Hedley-style pickets at every station, braziers at every street corner, and such general industrial unrest that there is a run on the pound and a broken and dejected Coalition government is obliged to sue for peace and throw its policies into reverse.
  • (5) "It is not the nicest period of my life," admitted the Dutchman, appearing more dejected than at any time in his two-and-a-half-year reign.
  • (6) Barry Knight lost it, completely lost it.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking dejected after the 5-3 play-off defeat to Ipswich Town in May 2000.
  • (7) Two of them, however, who reacted with dejection and a feeling of being overwhelmed, displayed lengthening of QT.
  • (8) I feel dejected because it is obvious that our methods are not working with them.
  • (9) After consoling a dejected Johnson-Thompson, who finished her heptathlon with a slow trudge round the 800m, Ennis-Hill refocused for a javelin competition that she knew could all but secure victory.
  • (10) After two weeks of exertion, of triumph and dejection, of glittering victory and head-down defeat that have been the focus not just of British attention but of the gaze of the entire world, the London Olympics of 2012 will soon be over – and the reflection will begin.
  • (11) I was in Peterborough recently, and the mood of dejection was so strong as to feel contagious, crystallised by the obligatory empty shops, forlorn young people looking for dependable work that never comes, and the issue of immigration becoming more divisive than ever.
  • (12) He will be a real asset for us.” For the dejected Sherwood, there was still plenty of encouragement.
  • (13) He comes home and shakes the rain from his coat, looking rejected and dejected.
  • (14) "Confusion" and "Depression-Dejection" were related to the same one factor.
  • (15) I kept thinking there must be an entire population of women like me, struggling day after day.” The medical visits had slowed down and Rhea felt frustrated and dejected at her painstakingly slow recovery.
  • (16) With their dreams shattered, dejected members of the SNP and other parties in the yes camp instead listened to a crestfallen Alex Salmond concede defeat at 6.15am.
  • (17) David Luiz celebrates at the end of the match as Chelsea’s Diego Costa looks dejected.
  • (18) In the published extracts she depicts Buckingham Palace and Clarence House as being at war, with feuding courtiers, dejected aides and dark constitutional menace should Charles III ascend the throne.
  • (19) The Profile measures five negative mood states, namely, "tension-anxiety," "depression-dejection," "anger-hostility," "fatigue-inertia," "confusion-bewilderment," and one positive state, "vigor-activity."
  • (20) We weren’t good enough to go the Champions League,” said a dejected Deila, confessing that Celtic are no better than a Europa League team.

Excrement


Definition:

  • (n.) Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
  • (n.) An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Total coliforms in 23 of 42, 7 days samples and excrement coliforms in 5 of 18, 3 days samples, were developed during the 38 days period.
  • (2) The higher activity in the experiments with less total areas is traced back to the excrement areas, which increased during experimental time and so reduced the lying area, which led to more unrest among the animals.
  • (3) Muslims are plotting to infect our food chain with their excrement,” said a man in his 60s, who refused to give his name.
  • (4) The dumping of excrement on the statue was “reprehensible and regrettable” and an investigation was under way, the university said in a statement last week.
  • (5) That is to say the proportionate representation of various defects is similar to each other when given biological excrements at different states of gonads are considered.
  • (6) There have been at least five recorded incidents of racial intimidation in east Belfast including a young Roma cyclist being showered with a bag of excrement on the Newtonards Road a fortnight ago.
  • (7) Microflora of the pharynx, nose, sputum and excrements was investigated.
  • (8) PoisonDwarf agreed: "I guarantee that the excrement is going to hit the rotary cooling device on this one.
  • (9) Larvae were proved to be able to survive 11 months in the environment, even if the eggs had been eliminated with excrements to the grass in July at a high temperature of 26 degrees C. For instance, the larvae Nematodirus, Ostertagia, Chabertia and Trichostrongylus, belonging to the most resistant, survived from the July of one year to the June of the subsequent year in a closed sheep-run located on the pasture and excluding a possibility of access of other animals.
  • (10) Y. enterocolitica was isolated from all the animals for slaughter (especially from the swine's pharynx and excrement, where pathogenic serotypes for man were isolated), this ascertainment has led the Authors to research the microorganism in foods of animal kind.
  • (11) From day 12 after infection, oocysts of cryptosporidia were found in the excrement.
  • (12) They are kept in overcrowded cells; they are denied toothbrushes, toothpaste, and soap; they are subjected to the constant stench of excrement and refuse in their congested cells [and] they are surrounded by walls smeared with mucus and blood,” said one passage of the lawsuit, which went on to name several more hardships.
  • (13) A regular disinfection of infected animal excrements is considered to be unrenouncable.
  • (14) coccidia in smears of gut contents and samples of excrements stained after Heine (1982) was investigated in calves at the age of 30 days, coming from 16 farms of central Bohemia.
  • (15) Dp 42 was purified from an acetone-precipitated mite-excrement extract by a combination of hydrophobic interaction chromatography on phenyl Sepharose and copper-chelate chromatography.
  • (16) After oral application the dyes showed a negative response in bile, excrements, and bone marrow.
  • (17) Transformer On paper, Duchamp invented a "transformer designed to utilise wasted energies", among them exhaled tobacco smoke, urine and excrement, ejaculation and tears.
  • (18) Secondly, there were changes to the system of disposal of excrement from cesspits to poorly organized pail and single-pan schemes which led to the causal disposal of sewage in the street gutters.
  • (19) The following characteristics were investigated: glycaemia, glycosuria, lactic acid concentration, plasma osmolality, hematocrit value, net acid-base secretion and excrement dry matter.
  • (20) However, as more cattle were dipped and the vat became polluted with dirt and excrement, settling occurred much more slowly.