What's the difference between evocation and invocation?

Evocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of calling out or forth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
  • (2) A response evocation program, some principles underlying its development and administration, and a review of some clinical experiences with the program are presented.
  • (3) Love Streams, his new album of beat-free, long-form compositions, is complex, evocative, arrestingly beautiful and disquietingly intense.
  • (4) In this atmosphere, Richardson's evocation of Rwanda, while extreme, is not entirely ludicrous.
  • (5) The results confirment the involvement of some neurologic structures and show up how the Evocated Potentials can disclose a damage in the a.m. structures even lacking clinical features.
  • (6) Evocation is defined by the ways in which individuals unintentionally elicit predictable reactions from others in their social environments.
  • (7) Attenuation of the vestibular response to rotary acceleration in free-fall causes sensory-motor mismatches during natural head movements in orbital flight that may be important factors in the evocation of space motion sickness.
  • (8) Headaches, bouts of tachycardia and excessive inappropriate diuresis are the most evocative clinical signs of a pheochromocytoma.
  • (9) Acute hemolysis and the clinical signs evocative of disseminated intravascular coagulation (cutaneous signs) are more rare.
  • (10) In Experiment 1, substantially different behaviors to light and tone CSs were observed; further, these differences were found to be dependent on specific learning experience rather than on the mere presence of different stimulation at the time of response evocation.
  • (11) Photograph: Rex Features Colourful and evocative, beach huts hold a special place in our hearts.
  • (12) Based around the meeting point of the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers and renowned for its huge number of bridges and evocatively named neighbourhoods such as Shadyside and the Mexican War Streets, Pittsburgh is consistently ranked in surveys as a desirable place to live; the Economist Intelligence Unit this year called it America's most "livable" city.
  • (13) A fittingly memorable evocation of a defining chapter in the island’s history.
  • (14) They include the definition of determinants of transference in the immediate analytic interaction, the role of projection in transference and its evocation by the analyst, its basis in actual traits of the analyst which are exaggerated, and its expression as an effort to elicit confirmatory responses.
  • (15) Although many sensory and cognitive cues can elicit flashback phenomena, smell has distinctive characteristics that make evocation of vivid olfactory memories particularly likely.
  • (16) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
  • (17) This result can be rationalized by a catalytic mechanism or by indirect action of nerve growth factor through a hypothetical cell which produces a neurite evocator on contact with the molecule of nerve growth factor.
  • (18) We have an escalation of chaos as a consequence of White House decision-making, made without consultation with the federal bureaucracy, that has no precedent in modern history and now has people taking to the streets in numbers and ways that is evocative of the 1960s,” Rothkopf said.
  • (19) To evaluate the predictive value of the evocative test (E.T.)
  • (20) Both are products of our current cultural moment, as we collectively salivate on the ideal of the Mad Men housewife, with its attractive evocations of easier times and simpler (less equal) roles.

Invocation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.
  • (n.) A call or summons; especially, a judicial call, demand, or order; as, the invocation of papers or evidence into court.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump might claim that the loss of manufacturing jobs or the influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico is a national security crisis that justifies his invocation of this law, and imposition of the tariff.
  • (2) King was 16th on an official programme that included the national anthem, the invocation, a prayer, a tribute to women, two sets of songs and nine other speakers.
  • (3) Trump scored a powerful rhetorical point when he described watching the Twin Towers collapse – “We saw death and the smell of death was in the air for months,” he said – which left Cruz left awkwardly applauding Trump’s invocation of the terrorist attack and those who died as the New Yorker went on to describe Cruz’s comments as insulting.
  • (4) I had pins and needles waiting to hear from everyone.” Flags flew at at half-staff and fast-food restaurants joined churches in posting invocations to pray for this community of 22,000 people.
  • (5) "It started out with an invocation for whales, 'cause the whales are right there in the harbour.
  • (6) The Meerut rally was a success, he indicates, making an odd gesture, part invocation, part assertion, with a hand pointing heavenwards.
  • (7) Nevertheless, you can still detect traces of that early history in the ACL’s persistent invocation of “religious freedom” when making its case against same-sex marriage.
  • (8) There is still time between now and the invocation of article 50 in March 2017 to galvanise a common effort across all the polities of these islands to look for a third way between hard Brexit and no Brexit.
  • (9) It's true of Hitchens' various grotesque invocations of Islam to justify violence, including advocating cluster bombs because "if they're bearing a Koran over their heart, it'll go straight through that, too".
  • (10) Invocation of the rule could lead to bizarre spectacles, as the rule bars senators from "divulging the information with respect to which the vote is being taken."
  • (11) Twelve manipulation tactics were identified through separate factor analyses of two instruments based on different data sources: Charm, Reason, Coercion, Silent Treatment, Debasement, and Regression (replicating Buss et al., 1987), and Responsibility Invocation, Reciprocity, Monetary Reward, Pleasure Induction, Social Comparison, and Hardball (an amalgam of threats, lies, and violence).
  • (12) The logical use of contrast agents should involve the deliberate invocation of one or more of these mechanisms coupled with the appropriate technique of administration.
  • (13) At various points in the video, victims of terror attempt to reclaim the bomber’s religious invocations – when he declares “there is no god but Allah”, a man carrying a child on a bus retorts: “You who comes in the name of death, he is the creator of life.” When the bomber says “God is greater”, a schoolteacher responds: “Than those who obey without contemplation.” As the bomber flees, the victims are joined by Hussein al-Jasmi, an Emirati pop star, in a chorus urging people to respond to anger with kindness, and violence with mercy.
  • (14) The anti-tax activist Grover Norquist has waded into controversy over President Obama’s attempt to bypass Congress on gun control , with an invocation of Star Wars’ evil empire.
  • (15) The later cognitive P100 and N140 reflect the invocation of distinct processors in conjunction with the behavioral use of the sensory input.
  • (16) The “or else” hovering behind EC vice-president Frans Timmermans’ admonishments is the eventual invocation of article 7 of the EU treaty and the withdrawal of Poland’s voting rights.
  • (17) In its verdict on Monday, Efsa said that much of the scientific evidence in France's new submission in January had already been included in a previous 2008 submission to the agency, which concluded at the time "that no specific scientific evidence, in terms of risk to human and animal health or the environment, was provided that would justify the invocation of a safeguard clause [ban]".
  • (18) As we look ahead to the likely timetable for the next few years, and with the invocation of article 50 coming up shortly, it is obvious that it will be best if the top team in situ at the time that article 50 is invoked remains there till the end of the process and can also see through the negotiations for any new deal between the UK and the EU27 [the other European Union member states].
  • (19) He goes after its baffling, mellifluous names – Smintheus, Agyieus, Platanistius, Theoxenius – his pencil languidly scratches, in a whimsical mock-invocation of Apollo from 1975.
  • (20) Almost every schoolchild of the 1960s was brought up on that speech, with its key invocation, "Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.