What's the difference between digress and excursive?
Digress
Definition:
(v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking.
(v. i.) To turn aside from the right path; to transgress; to offend.
(n.) Digression.
Example Sentences:
(1) How World of Warcraft train future soldiers One odder digression sees the two discussing whether or not MMORPGs, video games like World of Warcraft, are evil.
(2) Bilaterals in summit seasons can be stiff exchanges, where digressions can carry risks: not enough said, too much said.
(3) Discrepancies increase when moderate digressions from the adopted implant system rules are allowed, such as could commonly occur clinically.
(4) Her only digression from a rather set, humdrum routine came when in 1975 she divorced her husband and then two years later remarried him.
(5) It's the first interview he's done since his marriage and divorce and the split-up of the Ordinary Boys, and it all comes rushing out in a spate, a tangle of chronological confusions and jokes, and groans when I quote some of his old interviews back at him, and statements of contrition, and digressions about Dawkins or whatever, and here's the confounding thing - he's really nothing like I was expecting, not indie-boy sulky, or attempting to play it cool, he's just talkative and engaging, and he has a sense of humour about himself that, from reading his previous interviews, I wouldn't have even guessed at.
(6) Despite that initial exposure to sports commentary, Healey took a digression into the music industry in the early 90s, as a tour manager for various "shoegazing" bands, before a chance break landed him in the US as an alt rock DJ and ultimately as the voice of New England Revolution, before ESPN came calling.
(7) The PPI is but the ratio G1 cells to total 2C cells (or G2 to 4C cells, when cells also digress from the post-replicative stage of the cycle).
(8) That is why its tempo is so explicit with slowness, syncopated with digression.
(9) The paper digresses on events leading to anachronistic acquisition of immortal growth by normally dependent cells as well as on the time and path dependent incidence of cancer, in vivo.
(10) Comprehensive evaluation of work conditions of workers of different occupational groups (bulldozer, excavator and boring machine operators, embroideresses) helped create a new parameter of occupation harmfulness evaluation: mean arithmetic value and root-mean-square digression.
(11) Eleven studies were found that did not contain obvious digressions from several methodologic assessment criteria (adapted from the McMaster guidelines for the evaluation of clinical trials).
(12) But I digress in precisely the sort of way you would expect from someone shaped by a lifetime's exposure to Attenborough programmes.
(13) Since his meander to China becomes a superb digression into the Anglo-Chinese opium wars, perhaps it doesn't matter that he made the train thing up.
(14) Hugo's form, predicated on length, on digression and detail, is a deliberate accretion of overlapping examples: his scenes are all variations on the same theme.
(15) We only go along with the book's violence because there are the safety valves of unreliability and chapter-long digressions about Whitney Houston .
(16) In vitro comparisons indicated that although neither instrument accurately recorded intraocular pressure (IOP), compared with manometric measurements, results of both instruments indicated linear digression from manometric IOP values that could readily be corrected, thereby accurately estimating IOP in horses.
(17) After a brief digression on the etiopathogenesis of carbon monoxide poisoning, the paper underlines the importance of the timely use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment not only to impede the immediate effects of CO, but also to reduce the incidence of neurological complications.
(18) In Sebald, Norfolk is never the focus but rather the beginning of a digression.
(19) diGRESS-tiGRESS, in which digress is a real word, and DIgress-Tigress, in which tigress is a real word).
(20) I speak from the brain but I also speak from the heart,” he said, rambling like a rich know-it-all uncle – “I’m bringing back the jobs from China!” – with brief digressions into self-pity: “Macy’s was very disloyal to me.
Excursive
Definition:
(a.) Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Increased ventilatory excursions with constant inspired CO2 levels did not cause any elevation of IOT, but a minimal compensatory drop in IOT below resting values occurred when increased ventilatory excursions were discontinued.
(2) The LVOR in the presence of visual targets (VLVOR) was tested by recording human vertical eye and head movements during self-generated vertical linear oscillation (averaging 2.7 Hz at peak excursion of 3.2 cm) while subjects alternately fixated targets at D = 36, 142, and 424 cm.
(3) During five separate excursions (1989-90), observations were made of occurrence, harvesting, use, and marketing of psychoactive fungi by local Thai natives (males and females, adults and children), foreign tourists, and German immigrants.
(4) Angiographic features felt to indicate valve tearing were present following 17 of 25 procedures and included increased excursion or straightening of leaflets, localized change in leaflet motion (flail leaflet), and the presence of an additional contrast jet through the valve.
(5) Before and one, two, three, and seven days after the experiment, the following measures were made: (1) superficial masseter and anterior temporalis muscle tenderness (pain threshold), (2) jaw movement (opening and lateral excursion), and (3) current pain level for the right and left sides of the jaw.
(6) In 10 dogs with acute posterior wall ischemia the B-C excursion (aneurysmal bulging) increased (P less than 0.01), but the mean systolic posterior wall velocity and posterior wall excursion decreased (P less than 0.01).
(7) As a user changes the position of the joints of the simulated hand, the simulation displays the new tendon path and the excursion of the tendon for the new position of the hand.
(8) Inspiratory and expiratory chest X-rays in children often appear to show a very similar diaphragmatic excursion and, unless the object is radiodense, the determination of foreign body aspiration is frequently not possible.
(9) We measured pressure excursions at the airway opening and at the alveoli (PA) as well as measured the regional distribution of PA during forced oscillations of six excised dog lungs while frequency (f[2-32 Hz]), tidal volume (VT [5-80 ml]), and mean transpulmonary pressure (PL [25, 10, and 6 cm H2O]) were varied.
(10) Comparing with formerly reported data for adults, it was thought that the lateral excursions of children with primary dentition shifted more forward and more horizontally.
(11) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(12) We conclude that the observed change in circulating metabolite or hormone concentration is independent of the size of meal eaten, but the duration of the excursion depends on meal size.
(13) The box means he does not have to be hooded for his excursions.
(14) The position of both working and non-working side molars during chewing tended to be inferior to that during lateral excursion.
(15) The recordings from an earlier study regarding the respiratory depth and rate changes induced by exposure to 4% CO2 in air in 13 babies with PM age varying between 32 and 43 weeks were reexamined with regard to the pattern of thoracic abdominal breathing excursion in breathing immediately prior to the CO2 exposure and the type of response induced.
(16) All three types of bar attachment show the least value of lateral excursion.
(17) In both excursion magnitudes and directions of initial rotation, the elderly showed greater variability than the young.
(18) At both 16 and 20 weeks of age, however, preferences for motion were determined exclusively by the velocity of the movement and were unaffected by the excursion of the bar.
(19) The aortic root dimension and aortic valve excursion of 43 normal fetuses were recorded with M-mode echocardiography and the measured dimensions correlated with noncardiac measurements (biparietal diameter, head circumference, abdominal circumference, and femur length) and cardiac measurements (diastolic biventricular inner dimension, diastolic left ventricular internal dimension, and mitral valve excursion).
(20) The proximal end of the TEC system consists of a mechanical housing which controls the vacuum, the rotating cutter (750 RPM) and the cutter excursion (4 cm).