What's the difference between evitate and levitate?

Evitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To shun; to avoid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When, in the course of studying this behavior, moths are removed by stages from the natural circumstances of this interaction their evasion responses become much less invariant; that is, more evitable.
  • (2) Acoustic interneuronal systems within the thoracic ganglia and the brain have been examined for lapses in responsiveness and for other indications of transsynaptic instability that might correlate with the demonstrated behavioral evitability.
  • (3) The afferent nerve response of the noctuid auditory organ is highly stable; therefore, the source or sources of this evitability must lie down-stream in the moth central nervous system.
  • (4) The authors outline the procedure used for analysis of the necessary data in order to differentiate inevitable and evitable risks which damage the foetus and neonate and they analyzed the causes of different data from obstetric practice focused on prevention of hypoxia, immaturity, lethal congenital defects and factors from differentiated neonatalogical care.
  • (5) The possible survival value of some evitability in this behavior under natural circumstances is discussed.
  • (6) A final word about Anna and Bates, who are plunked back into the same kind of silence and mutual misunderstanding that defined their early relationship and which seems to be driving them inevitably toward a wholly evitable bad end.

Levitate


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate.
  • (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
  • (2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
  • (3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
  • (4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
  • (5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
  • (6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
  • (7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
  • (8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
  • (9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
  • (10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
  • (11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
  • (12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
  • (13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
  • (14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
  • (15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
  • (16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
  • (17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
  • (18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
  • (19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
  • (20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.

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