What's the difference between frigid and rigid?

Frigid


Definition:

  • (a.) Cold; wanting heat or warmth; of low temperature; as, a frigid climate.
  • (a.) Wanting warmth, fervor, ardor, fire, vivacity, etc.; unfeeling; forbidding in manner; dull and unanimated; stiff and formal; as, a frigid constitution; a frigid style; a frigid look or manner; frigid obedience or service.
  • (a.) Wanting natural heat or vigor sufficient to excite the generative power; impotent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It’s not easy to kick well in frigid conditions – and the temperature before kickoff was just shade over 20F.
  • (2) The incidence of premarital sexual relations was greater among the frigid patients when compared with those who achieved orgasm.
  • (3) Frigid temperatures made fresh water unavailable, forcing the birds to ingest the saline waters with resultant toxic effects.
  • (4) That bullshit jury was fixed,” read the placard of a young man in a hoodie, bandana and gloves on the now-frigid streets of a town where clashes with police raged this August.
  • (5) Mostly, I thought about being at Barack Obama’s inauguration ; not at the ceremony itself, but the back of the crowd approximately three miles away, in frigid DC weather and surrounded by thousands of other scuffling, freezing, depressed-looking people, trying to squeeze a sense of occasion from what felt like being at the back of a demo.
  • (6) Li spent most of his career ascending the Communist party ranks, beginning in the frigid northern province Heilongjiang in the mid-1980s.
  • (7) In their cynicism about Putin, western diplomats are making the Ukrainian crisis worse | Mary Dejevsky Read more But the men were exhausted after spending the past month in frigid dugouts with holes blown in the roofs by near-constant shelling.
  • (8) The remaining women reported sexual frigidity, permanent distress due to changes in menstrual pattern, and a changed attitude to pregnancy as the reason for regret.
  • (9) The calculations show airway wall temperatures in the upper intrathoracic airways that are below core body temperature during hyperpnea of frigid air and upper thoracic airways that are cooler than more peripheral airways.
  • (10) Not only did the 49ers, Saints and Chargers all win on the road in frigid conditions, but Colin Kaepernick even rocked up without long sleeves for a game played in temperatures not much higher than 0F.
  • (11) I feel abandoned,” said Frank Archambault, a relative of the chairman and member of Standing Rock, huddled inside a packed tent on a frigid morning.
  • (12) Though Obama’s decision led many to leave the camps, a core group remained through the frigid winter , preparing for the expected battle with Trump.
  • (13) There was no relation found between sexual frigidity and diabetes, essential hypertension, marital status, pathological gynecological findings, or localization of the infarction.
  • (14) In front of me was a hole cut into the ice and a makeshift stairway led down into a black, frigid abyss.
  • (15) Short of sending a spacecraft or astronaut to the red planet to haul back rocks, Martian meteorites are the next best thing for scientists seeking to better understand how Earth's neighbour transformed from a tropical environment to a frigid desert.
  • (16) A comedian Virginie Tellene, better known by her stage name Frigide Barjot, is leading the anti-gay marriage street marches.
  • (17) Frigidity titles then increased slightly, but dropped to zero after 1979.
  • (18) However, it will be as cold if not a touch more frigid than the NFC Championship of January 2008.
  • (19) The commonest causes of female sexual frigidity in general practice are outlined.
  • (20) Police on site, at the intersection of West Fillmore Street and South Homan Avenue, refused the Guardian access to Homan Square on a frigid recent morning.

Rigid


Definition:

  • (a.) Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible.
  • (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (2) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
  • (3) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
  • (4) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
  • (5) The fracture can be treated arthroscopically by rigid internal fixation, while at the same time treating possible associated lesions.
  • (6) This study examined the extent to which normal learners identified as cognitively rigid could use alternate strategies when instructed to do so.
  • (7) In some patients stimulation can reduce rigidity and coactivation of muscles immediately or slowly over days or months.
  • (8) Major alleviation of the rigidity and bradykinesia with chronic oral l-dopa therapy was not accompanied by any change in the silent period.
  • (9) At clinically achievable concentrations, the combination of nafcillin plus gentamicin produced enhanced killing against 13 of 14 strains of enterococci and was synergistic (by very rigid criteria) against 10 of 14 strains.
  • (10) Low-temperature NMR studies indicate that 5 is more rigid than tamoxifen; interconversion between enantiomeric conformers is slow on the NMR time scale at -75 degrees C.
  • (11) Global 'abnormality', hunching (rigid arching of back), hindlimb abduction, forepaw myoclonus, stereotyped lateral head movements, backing, and immobility occurred significantly only in drug-treated rats.
  • (12) A study was made of twelve cases with uveitis, glaucoma and hyphema (UGH) caused by rigid intraocular posterior chamber implants.
  • (13) Eight alpha-helices behave as relatively rigid bodies and corner regions are more flexible, showing larger fluctuations.
  • (14) This modification allows for precision of movement, ease of repositioning, and adaptation of rigid skeletal stabilization of mobilized osseous segments in the chin.
  • (15) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
  • (16) Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) levels and subunit isozyme patterns in cornea were monitored in 36 albino rabbits wearing thick, rigid, gas-permeable contact lenses for periods of 24 h, 2 and 7 days, and 1 and 3 months.
  • (17) The prevalence of sleep apnea, apnea index, duration of the longest episode of apnea, and penile rigidity were tabulated.
  • (18) During the last 21 months, 12 additional children have been managed with a more stringent protocol combining neck immobilization in a rigid cervical brace for 3 months and restriction of both contact and noncontact sports, together with a major emphasis on patient compliance.
  • (19) In the second placebo controlled experiment 150 mg im testosterone enanthate administration was associated with enhanced rigidity of NPT but with no effect on frequency or circumference change of NPT and no effect on frequency of REM.
  • (20) The whole isolator system included two rigid supply isolators, too.