What's the difference between exciting and tame?

Exciting


Definition:

  • (a.) Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (2) The dependence of fluorescence polarization of stained nerve fibres on the angle between the fibre axis and electrical vector of exciting light (azimuth characteristics) has been considered.
  • (3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
  • (4) This result suggests that tryptophan-86 may be importantly involved in the generation of the product excited state during aequorin bioluminescence.
  • (5) This report is an overview of the data and has incorporated some additional findings of the influence of the ACTH4-9 analog, Org2766, on neuronal excitation, especially in the hippocampus.
  • (6) The relative strength of the progressions varies with excitation wavelength and this, together with the absence of a common origin, indicates the existence of two independent emitting states with 0-0' levels separated by either 300 or 1000 cm-1.
  • (7) Stimulation of parallel fibers or iontophoresis of acetylcholine excited P cells.
  • (8) This effect of adrenalectomy on MNE excitability was further demonstrated by recording directly the neostigmine-induced repetitive neural discharges responsible for the muscle fasciculations.
  • (9) This behavior consists of a very rapid bend of the body and tail that is thought to arise from the monosynaptic excitation of large primary motoneurons by the Mauthner cell.
  • (10) We present the analysis both formally and in geometric terms and show how it leads to a general algorithm for the optimization of NMR excitation schemes.
  • (11) The differentiated neuroblastoma cell possesses characteristics of an electrically excitable cell and can generate propagated potential spikes in which Ca2+ is the inward charge carrier.
  • (12) Following electrical stimulation of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) area, 21% of the neurons were orthodromically excited, 6% were inhibited and 2.5% were antidromically activated.
  • (13) Formation of a complex between alpha-tocopherol or its analogues in the excited state and fatty acids or their hydroperoxides has been suggested basing on the fluorescence quenching experimental data.
  • (14) It is concluded that intraventricular 5-HT raises rectal temperature in cats when the amount is not too large, and that a hypothermic effect when it occurs results from paralysis of cells in the anterior hypothalamus which are excited by small doses.
  • (15) The optical efficiencies are similar and depend on the match of the excitation characteristics of the stain with the emission spectra of the light source.
  • (16) The decision of the editors to solicit a review for the Medical Progress series of this journal devoted to current concepts of the renal handling of salt and water is sound in that this important topic in kidney physiology has recently been the object of a number of new, exciting and, in some instances, quite unexpected insights into the mechanisms governing sodium excretion.
  • (17) As a consequence, a neural network, considered as a kind of parallel random automata, delivers an output random field in response to the excitation provided by a random field that represents the activity of some input fibers.
  • (18) CNS excitation and seizures, manifestations of organochlorine intoxication, can occur following ingestion or inappropriate application of the 1 per cent topical formulation of lindane used to treat scabies and lice.
  • (19) We use this procedure to assess the excitability of the auditory nerve, the patency of the cochlea and to detect undesirable side effects of electrical stimulation, such as facial nerve activation.
  • (20) And that's exciting, you've got no time to slow it down.

Tame


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; to distribute; to deal out.
  • (superl.) Reduced from a state of native wildness and shyness; accustomed to man; domesticated; domestic; as, a tame deer, a tame bird.
  • (superl.) Crushed; subdued; depressed; spiritless.
  • (superl.) Deficient in spirit or animation; spiritless; dull; flat; insipid; as, a tame poem; tame scenery.
  • (a.) To reduce from a wild to a domestic state; to make gentle and familiar; to reclaim; to domesticate; as, to tame a wild beast.
  • (a.) To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) It has been found that in the first year of life, in females from a population selected for domesticated behavior (tame), there is no differentiated adrenal response to different doses of ACTH.
  • (3) While the papers in this country and the New Yorker were crowing about how Beard had, through her own gutsy initiative, tamed her trolls, another woman – Anita Sarkeesian, a Canadian-American journalist – was being trolled.
  • (4) Atropine significantly reduced rhinorrhea, the levels of histamine, and TAME-esterase activity as well as the osmolality of recovered lavage fluids, but had no effect on nasal congestion or albumin.
  • (5) A similar decrease in the TAME-esterase activity after treatment with loratadine was observed.
  • (6) We compared their response, as measured by symptoms and the levels of TAME-esterase activity and albumin recovered in the nasal lavage fluid, with response of two groups with allergic rhinitis undergoing immunotherapy with moderate-dose (N = 16) and high-dose (N = 11) RW (2 and 24 micrograms of antigen E [Amb a I] as maintenance dose, respectively).
  • (7) The Ss became extremely placid and tame or were profoundly depressed in their overall behavior most of the time.
  • (8) So maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming.” He also said that Trump was not a fan of the EU, described it as “supranational and unelected” and attacked the European commission’s president, Jean-Claude Juncker.
  • (9) Topical glucocorticosteroid treatment abolished this increase in nasal symptoms and TAME activity (p less than 0.05 for all treatment alternatives).
  • (10) The response to nasal challenge was monitored by counting the number of sneezes, the assessment of subjective symptoms, and by measuring the levels of histamine and TAME-esterase activity in recovered nasal lavages.
  • (11) Solutions of sodium desoxycholate and androsterone-3-sulfate accelerated TAME hydrolysis as did supensions of testosterone, etiocholanolone, androsterone, androsterone-3-hemisuccinate and pregnandiol-3-glucuronidate.
  • (12) Ernst vowed to fight abortion rights and tame big government, putting the Affordable Care Act, the Clean Water Act, minimum wage and the Department of Education, among other things, in her sights.
  • (13) The Km and kcat for TAME were 0.042 mM, and 110 sec-1.
  • (14) This observation was also true for the levels of albumin and TAME-esterase activity.
  • (15) The levels of N-alpha-tosyl-L-arginine methyl ester (TAME) activity decreased after diphenhydramine treatment, while histamine levels following challenge were not different.
  • (16) A positive correlation occurred between the number of eosinophils in the lavage before histamine challenge and the level of TAME-esterase activity (rs = 0.67, p = 0.03) during the histamine challenge that followed antigen with the subjects on placebo.
  • (17) Then he fenced tamely outside his off stump at Plunkett, Jonny Bairstow pouched the ball and appealed with the slip cordon and Nigel Llong raised his finger.
  • (18) The euro rose 1% against the Swiss franc, a day after the Swiss central bank cut interest rates to tame its currency.
  • (19) But most economists – and the Russian government – expect food prices to rise, a setback for Russia's long-running struggle to tame inflation.
  • (20) He added it was a "complete unknown" whether new tools at the disposal of the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) might have a significant impact on taming the housing market.