What's the difference between floaty and relaxing?
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).
Relaxing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Relax
Example Sentences:
(1) The vascular endothelium is capable of regulating tissue perfusion by the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor to modulate vasomotor tone of the resistance vasculature.
(2) Arteries treated with atrial natriuretic peptide showed no alterations in relaxation or cGMP content after incubation with pertussis toxin.
(3) For dental procedures requiring tracheal intubation, one could perhaps use non-depolarizing muscle relaxants, like pancuronium, with reversal at the end of the procedure.
(4) In in vitro preparations GABA (10(-7) - 10(-3) M) elicited a dose-dependent relaxation; a decrease in the spontaneous contractions was sometimes observed.
(5) Anaesthesia was achieved by a mixture of oxygen, nitrous oxide and fluothane without use of muscle relaxants.
(6) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
(7) Endothelium-dependent relaxations to acetylcholine and endothelium-independent relaxations to nitric oxide were observed in rings from both strains during contraction with endothelin.
(8) Relaxation situations are marked by relaxation, usually after a meal.
(9) The rabbits were either breathing spontaneously or were ventilated by a phrenic nerve-controlled servorespirator without the use of muscle relaxants.
(10) For each RG patient, two sex, age, and initial diastolic blood pressure (DBP) matched controls were found, obtaining thus a control group (CG) consisting of 70 hypertensive patients who were not participating in any relaxation program.
(11) Under the condition in which ryanodine (10-100 microM) treatment was found to cause the SR to be nonfunctional, pinacidil relaxation DRC remained unaltered, suggesting a lack of a stimulatory effect of pinacidil on SR Ca++ accumulation.
(12) which suggest that ~60-90% of the cross-bridges attached in rigor are attached in relaxed fibers at an ionic strength of 20 mM and ~2-10% of this number of cross-bridges are attached in a relaxed fiber at an ionic strength of 170 mM.
(13) Trimazosin at the dose used and under the conditions of study did not reverse the peripheral pressor effect of angiotensin II or B-HT920 but at higher concentrations, unlike prazosin, it relaxed the K+ contracted thoracic aorta.
(14) The relaxations in response to a nonreceptor-mediated endothelium-dependent vasodilator, A23187, and an endothelium-independent vasodilator, sodium nitroprusside, were not different between normal and diabetic aortas.
(15) Nitric oxide (NO) is a major component of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) the synthesis of which from L-arginine can be inhibited by NG-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA).
(16) Binding to HSA occurs primarily with the imidazolidine and thiazolidine groups of levamisole as it has been demonstrated by selective changes in the relaxation times and the chemical shifts of the protons attached to the carbon atoms.
(17) We conclude that gastric adaptive relaxation remains abnormal in patients with postvagotomy diarrhoea but not in those who are asymptomatic or who have other symptoms.
(18) Nitric oxide (NO) induced tetrodotoxin-resistant NANC relaxation, similar to that induced by electrical stimulation or acetylcholine (ACh).
(19) Treatment of bacterial cells with inhibitors of gyrase at high concentration leads to relaxation of DNA supercoils, presumably through interference with the supercoiling activity of gyrase.
(20) The kinetics of extracellular neutral proteinase synthesis by an isogenic stringent (IS58) and a relaxed (IS56) strain of B. subtilis were compared.