What's the difference between floaty and hypnotic?
Floaty
Definition:
(a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Example Sentences:
(1) The diagnostic techniques were: direct smear, Faust floaty concentration, Willis floating and Graham's tape.
(2) There is a large gang of drawly and giggling girls, now into their 12th hour of Friday’s partying, heading home in floaty maxi dresses.
(3) I suppose my wife and I are both floaty voters.” “The people who decide the election, I do think the local stuff is important to them and that’s how they will make up their minds,” says Cox.
(4) Valerie Grove, the journalist and writer, says that she was always "the one with the glamour and eyelashes and floaty kaftans" who "obviously had many chaps in pursuit and invariably got pounced on by male interviewees".
(5) ", Omega devotees wore floaty kaftans from India, and in the exhibits hall there was a touch of Camden Market meets the student union.
(6) Watford’s victory was built on firm foundations and a defence that first faced a floaty front three, then a lone striker and finally a two after Christian Benteke joined the fray for the final quarter-hour, and allowed not one of those players a notable chance.
(7) Every user input or important action needs to have an audio-visual response to feel immersive – it’s the difference between a floaty game that feels unfinished, and a game where the player feels empowered and the world feels alive.
(8) Most look like serious surfers but we do spot a few dedicated yogis in floaty pants and flip flops.
(9) Tiene hits it, a bit floaty and side-footy, and Eduardo is able to wave it past his far post.
(10) Win Butler described his band's new album as "a mash-up of Studio54 and Haitian voodoo": think Spandex-tight disco pants and grass skirts, Burt Reynolds' moustaches and tribal face paint, floaty white dresses, skeleton jewellery and enormous Afros, and Grace Jones's Bond character if she was in Live And Let Die instead of A View To Kill.
(11) If yours is floaties and a kickboard, that’s just fine.
(12) Indoor skydiving At the Airkix centres in Milton Keynes , Manchester and (newly opened) Basingstoke , lucky kids can find themselves blown up in the air by a powerful wind machine to create a floaty feeling similar to skydiving.
(13) They've been described as wafty, wavy, floaty, gauzy, wispy, glittering, sparkly, dreamy (and – for the thesaurus buffs – diaphanous, pellucid).
Hypnotic
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.
(a.) Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.
(n.) Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.
(n.) A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(2) We have evaluated the action of hypnotics on the sleep-wakefulness cycle in freely implanted rats during their maximally active period because it is easier to estimate the duration of the sedative effect.
(3) The pharmacological examination showed that the new compounds are deprived of the hypnotic activity characteristic for 3,3'-spirobi-5-methyltetrahydrofuranone-2 (2) and behaved in most tests as tranquillizers.
(4) to avoid inhibition of 'natural' responses by anxiety due to the laboratory setting, we made use of post-hypnotic suggestions regarding the nature of the stimuli the subjects were to expect.
(5) 3 alpha-hydroxylated pregnane steroids have been shown to possess anesthetic, hypnotic, anticonvulsant and anxiolytic properties.
(6) Non-benzodiazepine hypnotics may be useful alternatives and our group has undertaken double-blind comparative trials with two such compounds, namely zopiclone and zolpidem.
(7) Thus, with its 'intermediate' elimination half-life, loprazolam would appear to have some potential advantages over both long- and short-acting hypnotics in selected patients, although further studies are needed to fully elucidate its place in therapy.
(8) On the other hand, thiazolidone derivatives are reported to have anesthetic, anticonvulsant, and hypnotic activity.
(9) The most thorough and clinically relevant approach to hypnotic drug evaluation is one that balances the strengths and weaknesses of clinical trials and sleep laboratory evaluations.
(10) Contrary to other studies, central nervous system stimulants are not the most widely prescribed psychoactive drugs in childhood and adolescence, but rather, minor tranquilizers, sedatives and hypnotics are the most widely prescribed psychoactive drugs.
(11) Erickson's utilization approach provides a model of hypnotic and strategic intervention for persons seeking psychotherapy because of sexual orientation confusion.
(12) Previously, we demonstrated that dexmedetomidine, an alpha 2 agonist, produces a hypnotic-anesthetic response in rats via activation of central alpha 2 adrenoceptors and that this response could be enhanced by the alpha 1 antagonist prazosin.
(13) Ten kinds of uracil derivatives showed hypnotic activity.
(14) We suggest that GHB may serve as the prototype for a new class of hypnotic compounds derived from natural sources and capable of activating the neurological mechanisms of normal human sleep.
(15) The steroid anesthetic alphaxalone and a series of naturally occurring analogs were compared in potency and efficacy with each other and the hypnotic barbiturate pentobarbital for interaction with gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors:binding sites in rat brain membranes and functional activity in 36Cl- flux measurements with rat hippocampal slices.
(16) An attempt was made to construct and validate a questionnaire measure of hypnotic-like experiences based on Shor's (1979) 8-dimension phenomenological analysis of hypnosis.
(17) The literature on the effects of anxiolytic and hypnotic drugs on performance in tasks requiring sustained attention is confusing.
(18) The largest group of insomniac subjects, and the group who most often used hypnotics "frequently and chronically", were women 45 years and older.
(19) Bilateral microinjection of ethanol to the preoptic area of rats causes a dose-dependent hypnotic effect at doses that do not affect brain temperature.
(20) The Hypnotic Induction Profile (HIP) will be discussed as a rapid and efficient method to identify individual resources and develop treatment strategies.