What's the difference between discus and negotiate?

Discus


Definition:

  • (n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
  • (n.) The exercise with the discus.
  • (n.) A disk. See Disk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
  • (2) Drama in the woman's discus Perkovic leads after throwing a Croatian record of 69.11m and Pishchalnik, the pre-competition is down in fifth.
  • (3) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
  • (4) He might be full of blunt confidence but even Okoye seems mildly stunned by the distance he has travelled from an Olympic final in the discus last summer to the brink of another transformation.
  • (5) The implications of pore diameter (Sephadex- and Sepharose derivatives), of purity of the PG, of protein content of the PG-carrier-complexes as well as the presence of substrate during the coupling reaction, are discused in relation to the relative and specific activity of the bound protein and to the efficiency of the coupling reaction.
  • (6) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
  • (7) X-ray diffraction examinations were performed on different cartilages (epiphysis, joint, rib, nose-cartilage and discus intervertebralis) of 10 young and 10 old rats.
  • (8) A perforation of the discus triangularis was confirmed by arthrography, and the disc removed.
  • (9) A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is presented mimicking the symptoms of a discus hernia syndrome and paraplegia.
  • (10) Obviously he's disappointed I'm not throwing the discus this year but he's happy I'm doing well."
  • (11) It was discused about immunological problems in pernicious anemia which are very important and required continued investigations.
  • (12) Mr Jones told the Guardian he was under "restriction" and could not discus his dealings with the Abachas.
  • (13) The case of an adolescent is presented, who had two operations because of twice slipped discus in one year.
  • (14) The reliability and validity of the Dyskinesia Identification System: Condensed User Scale (DISCUS) are presented for mentally ill (n = 2,822) and mentally retarded (n = 4,649) populations, as are DISCUS item means and standard deviations.
  • (15) The author discuses the type of inervation of m. sphincter pylori as well as the vesicular content of axons.in view of the eventual functional significance.
  • (16) After deferring an offer from Oxford University to study law, he began to train seriously for the discus less than two years before the London Olympics .
  • (17) After all that success on Saturday evening, there have been a string of disappointing British performances on Monday and Tuesday, culminating in Lawrence Okoye's last-place finish in the men's discus.
  • (18) We discuse some of the implications of the use of this measure of distance and compare it to others which have been proposed.
  • (19) Real Eritreans love their country.” A sticker with the words “I love Eritrea” adorns a locker in the offices of the government-backed National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students , whose courtyard has a full-size replica of the classical statue Discus-thrower (Discobolus).
  • (20) This is done by considering the two stages of the throw--the launch (the movements in the circle) and the discus flight.

Negotiate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To transact business; to carry on trade.
  • (v. i.) To treat with another respecting purchase and sale or some business affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.
  • (v. i.) To hold intercourse respecting a treaty, league, or convention; to treat with, respecting peace or commerce; to conduct communications or conferences.
  • (v. i.) To intrigue; to scheme.
  • (v. t.) To carry on negotiations concerning; to procure or arrange for by negotiation; as, to negotiate peace, or an exchange.
  • (v. t.) To transfer for a valuable consideration under rules of commercial law; to sell; to pass.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
  • (2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
  • (3) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (4) On Friday, a spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry appeared to confirm those fears, telling reporters that the joint declaration, a deal negotiated by London and Beijing guaranteeing Hong Kong’s way of life for 50 years, “was a historical document that no longer had any practical significance”.
  • (5) Britain had been negotiating with the Saudis over the purchase from British Aerospace of dozens of Hawk and Tornado fighter aircraft.
  • (6) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
  • (7) A Palestinian delegation was to hold truce talks on Sunday in Cairo with senior US and Egyptian officials, but Israel has said it sees no point in sending its negotiators to the meeting, citing what it says are Hamas breaches of previous agreed truces.
  • (8) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
  • (9) One of the things Yang has said he wants to investigate is: "This state we're in ... a moment when we have to negotiate our past while inventing our present."
  • (10) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
  • (11) In an interview with the Guardian, James Hansen, the world's pre-eminent climate scientist, said any agreement likely to emerge from the negotiations would be so deeply flawed that it would be better to start again from scratch.
  • (12) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
  • (13) Yesterday a new French president was elected – he was elected with a strong mandate which he can take into a strong position in negotiations.
  • (14) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
  • (15) Pfizer kept up its efforts to get AstraZeneca to the negotiating table over its £63bn approach as it reported revenue well below Wall Street expectations, underscoring its interest in pursuing its UK rival to promote new business growth.
  • (16) Krell is also trying to lure Mothercare to the negotiating table.
  • (17) He said the group was in negotiation with media regulator Ofcom, which will look at them on a case-by-case basis.
  • (18) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
  • (19) "We believe there's a much fairer solution and are hopeful that today's demonstration will bring things back to the negotiating table."
  • (20) A new round of negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear programme got under way on Wednesday, bringing together the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, and top diplomats from the US, UK, France, Germany, Russia and China.