What's the difference between factual and tactual?

Factual


Definition:

  • (a.) Relating to, or containing, facts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
  • (2) It claims, with no factual basis, that Muslim men seek relationships with Hindu women in order to convert them and increase the Muslim population as a result of this.
  • (3) Factual knowledge was not sought, but instead the application of that knowledge and experience to decide on the need for surgical intervention.
  • (4) He should conduct this conversation factually, carefully, without loud or shrill tones.
  • (5) Prior to BBC4 Hadlow was head of specialist factual at Channel 4, commissioning shows such as The 1940s House and acclaimed documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off .
  • (6) During his stints in the Bush and Obama administration Comey has continually taken authoritarian and factually dubious public stances both at odds with responsible public policy and sometimes the law.
  • (7) The practice activities of trainees are compared with those of principals using a large data base to provide a factual basis for the discussion of the workload and activities of trainees.Trainees undertook an average of 187 consultations including 32 home visits over two weeks compared with 301 consultations and 50 home visits for principals.
  • (8) He told the Guardian prosecutors made a factual error in dismissing a charge of actual bodily harm.
  • (9) She also put factual and current affairs into prime time with The Day The Immigrants Left and a 9pm edition of Question Time to coincide with the MPs' expenses crisis.
  • (10) Asked by the BBC whether he would apologise or comply with a demand from Miliband for him to resign, he said: "Well, if someone can explain anything that I said as factually incorrect of course I would consider it...People are slightly spinning and loading into what I said in a way to get false indignation."
  • (11) Remarkable is now moving on to apply the game show lessons to a fresh factual format, combining live audience participation with a "really big social issue".
  • (12) The job shuffle follows a major restructure of ITN last November, as part of a move to bring the company back to profitability, which included ITN Productions bringing together the multimedia production arms of ITN On, ITN Factual and ITN Consulting.
  • (13) A strict professionalism guarantees that this inequality remains factual and without essential value.
  • (14) This covers factual and entertainment programmes, not just drama.
  • (15) However certain aspects of this medical structure are helpful for the treatment of these children: the Child Psychiatry Unit offer specific facilities, like therapeutic groups, and as the members of its team have no part in the factual decisions concerning the fate of the child, they feel more neutral and can be considered so by the different actors involved, including the child him- or herself.
  • (16) That has been a huge difference – it is impossible now to think it would be a purely factual channel, and it kind of was actually."
  • (17) Discovery has worked with the BBC as a commercial partner since 1997 in the joint venture and last year extended the factual programming co-production element of the relationship until 2014.
  • (18) The focus of the inquiry was to determine whether attitudes towards death, dying and loss could be influenced by confrontation with factual information on bereavement.
  • (19) Because this is an emotional topic that receives high-decibel publicity in the press and on television, we wish to present the most recent factual information available on the subject and a more balanced perspective of the problem for physicians and other health professionals who care for women at the youngest age of the reproductive spectrum.
  • (20) This magnificent quintet of gems was, alas, the sum total of the factual and subjective spoils of which the committee was able to relieve him over two-and-a-half long hours.

Tactual


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When the distractor was an auditory arithmetic task, no difference emerged between the two hands for the retention of touches to the fingers; however, when the distractor was a tactual maze task executed by the right hand, asymmetry in favor of the left hand was observed.
  • (2) Results of the experiments indicated that aging is associated with decline in tactual discrimination ability.
  • (3) Errors in drawing the letters after tactual exposure and naming training showed that subjects had no accurate idea of the spatial relations or configuration of the dot patterns.
  • (4) A stepwise discriminant analysis procedure revealed an experimental form of the TMT (part X), Tactual Performance Test total time, and Tactual Performance Test localization to be the most sensitive measures.
  • (5) Experiments I and II showed no deficit in tactual perception nor in the inter-hemispheric transfer of tactual information.
  • (6) This paper describes a research program conducted to determine the feasibility of providing useful angular onset-motion information via a broad-area tactual seat-pan display.
  • (7) Comparison of tactually aided versus unaided tracking rates for two subjects with long-term experience shows continuing improvement with additional experience with the device.
  • (8) Significant interactional effects were observed between age, amount of alcohol consumed and sex for Tactual Performance Test total time.
  • (9) The tactile discrimination ability of visually deprived and normal monkeys was tested to study whether loss of vision would improve the utilization of the tactual sense.
  • (10) The hypothesis that letters can be matched on the basis of tactual physical features was tested in three experiments with blind Braille-reading children.
  • (11) In most cases with these subjects, performance on simple detection and discrimination tasks showed facilitative effects with tactual vocoders.
  • (12) 14 reflective and 14 impulsive boys performed tactual matching tasks in which frequency of observation of the standard was manipulated by successive or simultaneous presentation and in which stimulus features were controlled so that the amount of stimulus analysis carried out might be inferred.
  • (13) The goal of the current study was to demonstrate improvements to speech reception through Tadoma through the use of supplementary tactual information, thus leading to a new standard of performance in the tactual domain.
  • (14) were tested on their ability to learn letter names of Braille configurations presented visually or tactually and to Morse Code signals presented aurally.
  • (15) Thyroidectomized cats display a dissociation of the appetitive and consummatory components of grooming behavior when the body surface is tactually stimulated, an abnormal behavior that also occurs in cats with pontile or frontal neocortical lesions.
  • (16) The tactual ratings of all four attributes evaluated by touch and sight and touch were significantly correlated.
  • (17) A sample of 33 dyslexic and 33 control children were compared on tasks involving visual matching with spatial transformation (VMST), tactual serial matching (TSM), visual sequential memory (VSM), and auditory sequential memory (ASM).
  • (18) Although the subjects' stimulations were unaffected by looking at the gestures, the tactual stimulus elicited a tickle sensation.
  • (19) 40 10-month-old infants were given 2 min to explore tactually an object in a totally darkened room.
  • (20) Two experiments are presented which demonstrate asymmetrical transfer for tactual recognition of individual braille letters in sighted subjects, a task usually associated with right hemisphere specialization.

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