What's the difference between disconcerting and startling?

Disconcerting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Disconcert

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
  • (2) People wander this disconcerting garden a long time, uneasy and reflective.
  • (3) More disconcerting for his club, country and the game itself with a World Cup on the horizon were the succession of injury problems that prompted allegations of burn-out in the four-time Ballon d'Or winner.
  • (4) Low degrees of role interference is likewise disconcerting to persons but in the absence of an external target for aggression may lead to self deprecation and ultimately suicide.
  • (5) A further disconcerting feature was the resemblance of the distal right ventricular chamber to the rudimentary chamber of a univentricular heart of left ventricular type.
  • (6) That disconcerting height, always looming, regally.
  • (7) There is something slightly disconcerting about seeing Terry Hall laugh - at least the first time it happens.
  • (8) Despite their disconcerting appearance on angiography, spontaneous dissections of the internal carotid arteries are often associated with a good prognosis.
  • (9) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
  • (10) Despite such brooding work, in person Stephens is lanky, jovially sweary, with a disconcerting habit of speaking in elegant sentences, and bookends our interview with heartfelt tributes to his wife and three children.
  • (11) The authors suggest that dichotomous variables deserve greatest clinical reliance; that time in training, alone, does not improve clinical performance; and that there is a disconcertingly large amount of inter- and intraobserver disagreement in this fundamental clinical task.
  • (12) City fan Matthew Cobb may be disconcerted, and paradoxically strangely comforted, with the news that his team are still in the dressing room.
  • (13) Prior arterial surgery was not shown to make AK amputation more likely, but it was disconcerting to note that limb salvage was not achieved in many individuals despite patent proximal inflow revascularization procedures.
  • (14) The opacity of these “other factors” aside, Facebook’s sometimes disconcerting suggestions – perhaps more accurately titled “people you most definitely know, but have no intention of adding” – have been remarked upon since it introduced the feature in 2008 .
  • (15) It is only the expression, often disconcerting, of a method of cerebral suffering and the clinician should be aware of its various presentations.
  • (16) Romney told NBC News: "There are a few things that were disconcerting.
  • (17) But it is disconcerting when you encounter it in real life.
  • (18) While these changes may be potentially disconcerting, the observations of this study show that they are not related to changes in heart rate or other clinical criteria associated with myocardial ischemia.
  • (19) My son was disconcerted when we moved back to the UK, and found that the "library" in his new primary school ("excellent", according to Ofsted) was a small bookcase halfway down a corridor.
  • (20) Locals love it and foreigners often find it disconcerting.

Startling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Startle

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
  • (2) The hypothesis that the standard acoustic startle habituation paradigm contains the elements of Pavlovian fear conditioning was tested.
  • (3) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
  • (4) Both startle amplitude and onset latency showed significantly greater facilitation in the preschool children than in the 8-year-olds and adults.
  • (5) flexion, stretch, rolling, startle, jumping (stepping), and writhing.
  • (6) Three response patterns were scored: (1) no startle, (2) startle without response decrement, and (3) response decrement by 12 stimuli.
  • (7) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
  • (8) The startle-elicited increase in blood pressure was significantly elevated in SHRs and at the same time the acoustic startle response was depressed as compared to WKY rats.
  • (9) A placebo effect could not definitely be ruled out, but the startling changes seen in patients who had been followed for years with other forms of therapy suggest strongly that this improvement was genuine.
  • (10) In general, conditions that affect the amplitude of the acoustic startle reflex similarly influence the disruptive effect of a noise burst on motor performance, but the two measures are not correlated in the detail necessary to suggest a causative relationship.
  • (11) The results are compared to other drugs known to affect the startle reflex.
  • (12) In awake rats the latency of auditory startle recorded electromyographically in the neck is about 5 ms, suggesting that the primary component of this brainstem reflex is mediated by a neural circuit with only a few synapses.
  • (13) A series of seven experiments related amplitude and latency of the pigeon's startle response, elicited by an intense visual stimulus, to antecedent auditory and visual events in the sensory environment.
  • (14) The acoustic startle response (ASR) of male rats was measured during several sessions over a 24-hr period in both a light-dark cycle and a constant-dark condition.
  • (15) That dramatically shifts the focus back to us, the programme makers, to come up with more, new, startling ideas, absolutely unmissable storylines and settings, the sharpest writing.
  • (16) Because ammocoetes are burrowing filter feeders, this startle behavior results in rapid withdrawal of the head into the burrow.
  • (17) Startle was indexed by the eyeblink, which was measured by vertical electro-oculography.
  • (18) In the present work no significant differences were found between the behaviour of FG7142-kindled rats and vehicle-treated controls in social interaction test, elevated plus maze, or the Vogel conflict test of anxiety or in tests of home cage aggression or startle responses.
  • (19) The first attempted to determine a sonic boom level below which startle would not occurr.
  • (20) It is able to (1) sample startle responses from 5 animals simultaneously during a specific time band after the eliciting stimulus; (2) convert the analogue startle amplitudes into 2-digit numbers; (3) print the digital results of each startle in each animal; (4) add up the startle amplitudes for each rat over a preset number of stimuli and print the totals; (5) print the interstimulus interval and (6) code for up to six diferent types of trials.