What's the difference between flinch and recede?

Flinch


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To withdraw from any suffering or undertaking, from pain or danger; to fail in doing or perserving; to show signs of yielding or of suffering; to shrink; to wince; as, one of the parties flinched from the combat.
  • (v. i.) To let the foot slip from a ball, when attempting to give a tight croquet.
  • (n.) The act of flinching.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings could not be attributed to changes in flinch threshold as neither treatment nor time affected this measure.
  • (2) I noticed one of them hit him I don’t know where, but I saw him flinch,” Wilson said.
  • (3) Lesions of the central nucleus also decreased reactivity to shock (jumping and flinching) during shock presentation.
  • (4) She did not flinch when hostage-takers took over the Iranian embassy; most were killed by the SAS.
  • (5) Based on the mean thresholds obtained from a flinch-jump test, 8 rats were tested in a startle inhibition procedure with prestimulus intensities of 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, and 0.8 mA.
  • (6) Our forebears never flinched from modernising the Conservative party, so why should we?
  • (7) Burnham said that broadcasters cannot "flinch" from the need to look after contestants.
  • (8) Publication of the Prince Charles 'black spider' letters: live Read more But Kristina Kyriacou, the royal’s top media adviser, barely flinched when duty called as her protectee was confronted by the dogged Channel 4 reporter Michael Crick on Tuesday.
  • (9) In a second experiment it was observed that neither the shock-induced flinch nor the jump threshold was elevated after nigral lesions, suggesting that these lesions do not decrease the aversive motivational properties of foot shock.
  • (10) No change in the flinch-jump threshold was detected.
  • (11) Microinjections of morphine (10 microgram) at both sites significantly elevated the threshold of response in the flinch-jump test; but only at medial sites did naloxone (1 microgram) antagonise this effect.
  • (12) striker Clint Dempsey’s upcoming debut rap album , The Redux, choice rhymes including: “My game face won’t never flinch, “I’m beast mode, Marshawn Lynch.” O FIVERÃO LETTERS “We’ve all been there with Mario Balotelli (yesterday’s Bits and Bobs).
  • (13) This is the first time he even flinched, he smiled, went to mutter something, thought better of it and just carried on reading the paper.
  • (14) According to this hypothesis, the failure of these teratments to disrupt escape responding may be due to the fact that the unconditioned stimulus generates reflexive motor responses (flinch, jump, etc.)
  • (15) We know that when danger arrived in the halls of Sandy Hook Elementary, the school's staff did not flinch.
  • (16) For the coverage that I am getting – the fact that it covers previous conditions, the fact that it doesn’t flinch at cancer treatments, the fact that my copays are reasonable and the pharmacy prescription requirements allow me to get the drugs I need – it’s a remarkable bargain.
  • (17) When it emerged that Jeremy Corbyn’s first act as leader was to go to the pub and sing the Red Flag , bankers flinched and Tories sneered, yet it was no surprise to me.
  • (18) Nociceptive thresholds were measured by the flinch-jump test.
  • (19) Now the sleeves are rolled up for the business of telling the press his party will flinch from any coalition with Ukip or the Scots.
  • (20) After both players tussled, mutually kicking out, television replays suggested Cissé was complaining Evans had spat in his eye but other images showing the United centre-half flinching indicated that this was far from one-sided.

Recede


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move back; to retreat; to withdraw.
  • (v. i.) To withdraw a claim or pretension; to desist; to relinquish what had been proposed or asserted; as, to recede from a demand or proposition.
  • (v. i.) To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor; as, to recede conquered territory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereas the abdominal pain subsided rapidly under oxygen therapy and liquid nourishment, the radiological changes receded gradually.
  • (2) If the role of surgery has receded somewhat in other areas of gynaecological cancer, the reverse would seem to be true in ovarian cancer.
  • (3) Here's the details: • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS FRENCH DEFICIT AT 4.1% OF GDP IN 2013, 3.8% IN 2014, 3.7% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS ITALIAN DEFICIT AT 3.0% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.7% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS SPANISH DEFICIT AT 6.8% OF GDP IN 2013, 5.9% IN 2014, 6.6% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS GREEK DEFICIT AT 13.5% OF GDP IN 2013, 2.0% IN 2014, 1.1% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS PORTUGUESE DEFICIT AT 5.9% OF GDP IN 2013, 4.0% IN 2014, 2.5% IN 2015 • EU COMMISSION FORECASTS CYPRUS DEFICIT AT 8.3% OF GDP IN 2013, 8.4% IN 2014, 6.3% IN 2015 Sony Kapoor of the ReDefine thinktank tweets that the forecasts show that European leaders should not be talking about the crisis being over, even though the risk of the euro breaking up has receded.
  • (4) Attacks provoked by glyceryl trinitrate appeared to begin when the vasodilatory effect of this substance was receding.
  • (5) Now is the time to help our neighbours in distress, listen to their stories, and remember them when the floodwaters recede.
  • (6) It’s time for governments, business and people the world over to respond and the most obvious place to start is by calling a halt to Shell’s reckless search for Arctic oil.” NSIDC is yet to provide a full analysis of this year’s melt, noting that there is a chance that changing wind patterns or low season melt could see the ice recede further.
  • (7) However, tuberculosis has not receded uniformly among all segments of the population.
  • (8) Increased activity persists in the high density lipoproteins after the lipemia recedes.
  • (9) We are up against a very strong king tide so some of the floodwater will take time to recede.” New Zealand prime minister Bill English addressed the situation on social media on Saturday.
  • (10) Over the decades, the Mauna Loa readings, made famous in Al Gore's documentary An Inconvenient Truth, show the CO2 level rising and falling each year as foliage across the northern hemisphere blooms in spring and recedes in autumn.
  • (11) During the further course of treatment the symptoms receded under heparin and phenprocoumon over a period of 8 months, except for hemiparesis on the left side especially affecting the arm.
  • (12) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
  • (13) These glaciers are receding world-wide, in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains.
  • (14) These are reciprocal schemes which in turn become progressively anonymous as they recede away from the face to face situation.
  • (15) The sensomotoric and speech symptoms receded only slightly.
  • (16) Lung function normalised during this treatment course, radiological findings and antibody titres receded.
  • (17) The concept of a regional solution has gradually receded further into the background.
  • (18) The chorea receded and disappeared as the patient became euthyroid.
  • (19) Addressing concerns over her health, Clinton told 60 Minutes that she still had some lingering effects from the concussion that led to her blood clot, but that the doctors had told her that they would recede.
  • (20) Responses including a cellular infiltrate in the anterior chamber, protein extravasation, and iris vessel dilatation became evident within six hours, peaked at 24 hours, and began to recede by 48 to 72 hours after the injection.