What's the difference between feeling and tactile?

Feeling


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Feel
  • (a.) Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart.
  • (a.) Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs.
  • (n.) The sense by which the mind, through certain nerves of the body, perceives external objects, or certain states of the body itself; that one of the five senses which resides in the general nerves of sensation distributed over the body, especially in its surface; the sense of touch; nervous sensibility to external objects.
  • (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.
  • (n.) The capacity of the soul for emotional states; a high degree of susceptibility to emotions or states of the sensibility not dependent on the body; as, a man of feeling; a man destitute of feeling.
  • (n.) Any state or condition of emotion; the exercise of the capacity for emotion; any mental state whatever; as, a right or a wrong feeling in the heart; our angry or kindly feelings; a feeling of pride or of humility.
  • (n.) That quality of a work of art which embodies the mental emotion of the artist, and is calculated to affect similarly the spectator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
  • (2) Would people feel differently about it if, for instance, it happened on Boxing Day or Christmas Eve?
  • (3) All the patients told about a comfortable feeling of warmth after each treatment lasting for one two days.
  • (4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (5) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (6) Anytime they feel parts of the Basic Law are not up to their current standards of political correctness, they will change it and tell Hong Kong courts to obey.
  • (7) But at the same time I didn't feel like, 'Aw, I'm home!'
  • (8) It shows that the outside world is paying attention to what we're doing; it feels like we're achieving something."
  • (9) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (10) By adjustment to the swaying movements of the horse, the child feels how to retain straightening alignment, symmetry and balance.
  • (11) The role of the therapist's own depressive feelings when working with this type of families is considered.
  • (12) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (13) If he is not bluffing, this may cause a total rift with the European family from which Turkey already feels excluded.
  • (14) It can feel as though an official opinion has been issued.
  • (15) These included: 1) association of infectious processes with other laboratory results; 2) a feeling of integration with the patient and health care team; and 3) the introduction of medical terminology.
  • (16) In that respect, it's difficult to see Allen's anthem as little more than same old same old, and it's probably why I ultimately feel she misses the mark.
  • (17) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
  • (18) Second, the nurse must be aware of the wide range of feeling and attitudes on specific sexual issues that have proved troublesome to our society.
  • (19) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
  • (20) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.

Tactile


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the organs, or the sense, of touch; perceiving, or perceptible, by the touch; capable of being touched; as, tactile corpuscles; tactile sensations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tactile stimulation of a coin-sized area in a T-2 dermatome consistently triggered a lancinating pain in the ipsilateral C-8 dermatome in a 38-year-old woman.
  • (2) Study I findings did not provide support for synergistic mechanisms; nonorthogonal analysis of variance showed interaction effects (CRT x IT) restricted to tactile-perceptual speed.
  • (3) For tactile modalities, a lesion of the spinothalamic complex causes minimal or no defects and a lesion of the posterior columns causes only slight defects, whereas a lesion of both pathways gives rise to total loss of tactile and pressure sensibility in the part of the body served by both pathways.
  • (4) More importantly, motor and cardiovascular responses to startle may be separated through discrimination of afferent stimuli suggesting either differences in neural pathways for acoustic and tactile stimuli or a differential dependency of the various responses on stimulus characteristics.
  • (5) Animals were trained to perform an orientation match-to-sample task using either a visual or a tactile orientation sample.
  • (6) Simple screening tests for visual and tactile inattention were used to investigate the influence of perceptual deficits on predictions for the outcome of acute stroke.
  • (7) The position of the visual receptive field of these neurons did not change after saccadic eyes displacements, but remained in-register with the tactile receptive field.
  • (8) Complete transection of the thoracic spinal cord eliminated both thermally elicited responses and orienting responses to noxious and tactile mechanical stimulation of the hindlimbs.
  • (9) The similarity between type III cells and Merkel cells (cells of the tactile system) was surprising.
  • (10) The level of the DA metabolite 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) increases only in pups receiving both odor and tactile stimulation and peaks at about 200% of baseline.
  • (11) IR is considered to be caused by a group of neurons in the brain stem which inhibit spinal motoneurons, either directly or indirectly, when those inhibitory neurons are activated by a specific pattern of tactile and proprioceptive input.
  • (12) Although they may occur spontaneously, they are commonly precipitated by tactile stimulation or movement of the extremity.
  • (13) The oscillatory activity was not affected by anesthesia, but it was often reduced by tactile stimulation or self-initiated movements.
  • (14) Detection of estrus in mares is problematic in that it requires the presence (or at least facsimile acoustic or tactile stimuli) or a stallion.
  • (15) The usefulness of tactile devices as aids to lipreading has been established.
  • (16) Tactile stimuli were applied to the right index fingertip at intervals ranging from 63 to 1,000 msec after the completion of rapid thumb movement.
  • (17) We previously reported a modality-specific layering of leg sensory axons in the CNS of the flies Phormia regina and Drosophila melanogaster with tactile and gustatory axons projecting into a ventral layer and the proprioceptive hair plate axons into an intermediate layer.
  • (18) Profound inhibitions of the second phase were also produced by tactile segmental stimulation and noxious stimuli applied to widespread areas of the body (diffuse noxious inhibitory controls).
  • (19) The apparatus is easily constructed, easily operated, and markedly increases the control of variables in tactile form perception experiments.
  • (20) Double burst stimulation (DBS) is a new nerve stimulation pattern introduced to facilitate tactile evaluation of recovery from neuromuscular blockade.