What's the difference between gregarious and hermit?

Gregarious


Definition:

  • (a.) Habitually living or moving in flocks or herds; tending to flock or herd together; not habitually solitary or living alone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rubens is not a solitary source of painterly genius, but a gregarious master who never hid his own quotations of earlier art.
  • (2) Cytological features are in agreement with the gregarious behaviour of cockroaches.
  • (3) Path analysis procedures were used to test a causal model that concerns possible antecedent conditions in relation to gregarious drinking patterns.
  • (4) He inherited his father's calculation and his mother's gregariousness and style.
  • (5) Backstage, Gabbana – the more gregarious of the two – will talk about fashion as fantasy, last season explaining his vision thus: “I have this life … I want to be happy.
  • (6) Famously, she lit a lamp in her window, as a welcoming sign to the vast Irish diaspora; deliberately – there was no lack of steel in her campaign, and she quickly showed a willingness to exploit the gaffes of often incompetent rivals – she made herself less private and austere, acquiring suits by Irish designers, trying, above all, to be more open and approachable, more, she told Byrne, like her own warm, gregarious mother.
  • (7) The imposing and gregarious Midlands-born banker tried and failed to buy Northern Rock before it was nationalised in February 2008 and then missed out on 318 Royal Bank of Scotland branches last year.
  • (8) Little wonder that tactless buyers at Asda rubber-stamped the rapidly withdrawn "Mental Patient" fancy dress costume when "mental" is routinely worn as a badge of gregarious honour.
  • (9) These patients also showed significant differences on the MCMI asocial, gregarious, and neurotic depression scales.
  • (10) Passive avoidance learning occupies a central role in accounts of disinhibited behavior, ranging from psychopaths' persistent criminality (Hare 1970) to extraverts' gregariousness (Gray, 1972).
  • (11) Bank swallows nest gregariously in colonies usually ranging from 10 to 300 nests.
  • (12) When we sit down for a more formal interview in his Manhattan hotel room a few hours later, Ross's earlier gregarious anecdotes are replaced by aphorisms that could come straight off one of those inspirational posters you see in recruitment consultant offices.
  • (13) Light-microscopically, pleomorphic tumor cells clustered gregariously and often formed alveolar structures.
  • (14) American Indians and Hispanos have a greater tendency to drink gregariously, to drink more, and to have more disruption in social role functioning.
  • (15) Females of two hamster species with contrasting degrees of gregariousness were tested for social influences on the timing of sexual maturation.
  • (16) He is a gregarious media grandee, who was born into the royal family of UK showbusiness.
  • (17) 2) Traditionals, healthy at both ages, were gregarious and nurturant.
  • (18) "Affectionately known as ­Corporal Hamer in the office, he was a gregarious figure, a wonderful friend who was hugely popular with his colleagues.
  • (19) When female dwarf hamsters (Phodopus sungorus campbelli), a gregarious species, were housed with an adult male at weaning, they began estrous cycles significantly earlier than when they were housed alone or with their family.
  • (20) Experiments were performed to evaluate the status of antibacterial defensive responses in M. sexta larvae parasitized by this gregarious endoparasitoid.

Hermit


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.
  • (n.) A beadsman; one bound to pray for another.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Larvae of the hermit crab Clibanarius vittatus were reared on a diet of Artemia nauplii.
  • (2) Visual pigment absorption spectra were measured in single photoreceptors of a stomatopod, a crayfish, a hermit crab, and five species of brachyuran crab.
  • (3) It has charted the world's highest peaks, the ocean floor, the Amazon rainforest and even provided a glimpse into the hermit state of North Korea.
  • (4) The use of Hermite integration to replace the integration in the combined model likelihood provided the parameter estimates closest to those stimulated.
  • (5) Established by St Kevin in the 6th century, the site has an arched gateway, a 30m-high round tower, a roofless cathedral, and St Kevin's Cell, the ruins of a beehive-shaped stone hut, thought to have been the hermit's home.
  • (6) It was also suggested that a three-dimensional Hermite transform can be used to code spatiotemporal events.
  • (7) It would also force the United Nations to rethink its approach to the hermit state.
  • (8) I disagree with the ban as it has turned me into a hermit.
  • (9) Shell-living Pagurus longicarpus hermit crabs were grown in one species of shell.
  • (10) Number of deaths for each year of age were calculated by application of "two dimensional semi-Hermite method" after estimation of number of deaths for age 80, 81,......84, using Sprague interpolation factors.
  • (11) The present paper reports on a case of mycobacteriosis in a colony of Hermit-Ibises, in which a so far unknown serovar of Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare has been isolated.
  • (12) It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
  • (13) The orientation of fibers within coordinate planes bounded by epicardial and endocardial surfaces is interpolated linearly, with transmural variation given by cubic Hermite basis functions.
  • (14) We dispute the claim that Hermite functions (similar to derivatives of Gaussians) minimize a joint uncertainty relation in space and spatial frequency.
  • (15) Instead, the Hermite functions arise as the eigenfunctions of a space-variant differential operator used to model the contrast sensitivity of human observers.
  • (16) The active stiffness of ventral superficial abdominal muscle (VSM) of the hermit crab, Pagurus pollicarus, was measured with ramp stretches of different amplitudes and velocities.
  • (17) The effects of penicillin and picrotoxin on the increase in membrane conductance produced by gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) at the hermit crab neuromuscular junction were investigated.
  • (18) He is, they say, a virtual hermit in his seven-bedroom north London home, a fearful wreck persecuted by his own perfectionism.
  • (19) With reference to the experimental investigations of Lloyd (1975) and following the suggestions of L'Hermite (1977) and Vaidya (1977) this tumour regression is interpreted as being due to the antimitotic effect of Bromocriptin via inhibition of c-AMP and DNA.
  • (20) It also heaps additional financial pressure on the already sanctioned hermit regime of leader Kim Jong-un by aiming at cutting down on money laundering and narcotics trafficking, two major illicit activities believed to be funneling millions of dollars into Kim’s inner circle.