What's the difference between gymnastic and stunt?

Gymnastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Gymnastical
  • (n.) A gymnast.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This law can be used to simulate the ground reaction force during under-foot impact with a gymnastic surface.
  • (2) We see a lot of verbal gymnastics by these candidates at public events,” said Paul S Ryan at the Campaign Legal Center.
  • (3) The greatest proportion of injuries in children occur in gymnastics, figure skating and modern gymnastics.
  • (4) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
  • (5) The athletes were training in gymnastics, figure skating, synchronized swimming, volleyball, or track.
  • (6) Anthropometric characteristics, passive hip flexion, and spinal mobility were examined and back pain was registered in 116 top Swedish male athletes representing four different sports (wrestling, gymnastics, soccer, tennis).
  • (7) The gymnast Louis Smith took individual silver and team bronze at the Olympics and went on to win the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing last month, with the cyclist Victoria Pendleton also competing.
  • (8) While some gymnasts seem more ethereal than corporeal, Beth's blisters and calluses have always been obvious.
  • (9) Wang was said to excel in physics and calligraphy; Ye in literature and gymnastics.
  • (10) The versatility of training, in combination with adequate gymnastical exercises and sports help to educate the sense of posture and movement with the effect that erect posture can be adopted and maintained.
  • (11) Awareness of space and time, songs and poems, narratives and themes discussed made it possible to revival the necessary gymnastics of the mind.
  • (12) In comedy, for example, the agenda kept changing with a set of circular twists and turns more dizzying than the ones that got our gymnasts a bronze at the Olympics.
  • (13) This year’s US national gymnastics championships and next year’s Olympic diving team trials will be held in Indianapolis.
  • (14) Monteggia fractures can occur during a fall on an outstretched arm, for example in motor or bicycle sport injuries, but also when falling from gymnastic equipment.
  • (15) A therapeutic algorithm was established to facilitate the evaluation and management of gymnast wrist pain.
  • (16) Satisfactory joint function was eventually achieved in all by gymnastic exercises and physiotherapy over a long period.
  • (17) Women who feel "unfeminine" when playing sport could take up other activities like "ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating", the minister of sports, equalities and tourism Helen Grant has suggested.
  • (18) At the time, with the current gen consoles as our platforms, we had to do a lot of technological gymnastics just to do simple things like creating your character's load out on your smartphone on the train then have it waiting for you on the console when you got home.
  • (19) Cooperation in gymnastics and controls within short times by the doctor are necessary.
  • (20) Putin has long been rumoured to have had a series of dalliances with much younger women, and there has been speculation that he fathered a child with a former Olympic gymnast.

Stunt


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to prevent the growth of; to stint, to dwarf; as, to stunt a child; to stunt a plant.
  • (n.) A check in growth; also, that which has been checked in growth; a stunted animal or thing.
  • (n.) Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) North Wiltshire MP James Gray said he was "very glad" Islam4UK had abandoned its march, which he said had been shown to be a "media stunt".
  • (2) The more frequent causes of a stunted growth were ruled out previously (systemic and chronic diseases, metabolic disorders, genetic alterations, etc.).
  • (3) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
  • (4) Uptake was also investigated in 17 children with right-to-left cardiac stunts and 18 children with left-to-right shunts undergoing corrective or palliative cardiac surgery.
  • (5) "No, it's a stunt, a fraud," cry Lib Dems, Clegg's leftie critics included.
  • (6) The show discovered Susan Boyle and Paul Potts, but more recently has become synonymous with dancing dogs (controversially so last year, when it emerged the winner had used a stunt double ).
  • (7) Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children a year, accounting for 45% of all deaths among children under the age of five and stunting growth among a further 165 million, according to a set of Lancet reports published last week.
  • (8) Thomas Mazetti and Hannah Frey, the two Swedes behind the stunt, said they wanted to show support for Belarussian human rights activists and to embarrass the country's military, a pillar of Lukashenko's power.
  • (9) The results also revealed that stunting, wasting and stunting together and overweight were more common in young workers who were both anaemic and had evidence of parasitic infection than those who were anaemic only or had parasitic infection only.
  • (10) Words like "trivialisation" and "stunt" were bandied about, especially after the Channel 4 documentary that dwelt as much on the players as the results.
  • (11) The stunted and wasted child is likely to be at greater risk than a similarly stunted but normally proportioned or overweight child--both could be underweight for age.
  • (12) Stunted children were randomly assigned to supplementation or not.
  • (13) The aim of this study is to identify fetal organs and developmental periods sensitive to stunting induced by maternal exposure to dexamethasone (DEX).
  • (14) At a press conference in New York , Norman Siegel, lawyer for Eunice Huthart, Angelina Jolie's sometime stunt double, said they had spoken to a number of people who claim they have been hacked by journalists working for News Corp.
  • (15) An editorial in the Saturday edition of the English language Global Times, which is run by the Communist party, said the students’ travel plans were little more than a publicity stunt.
  • (16) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
  • (17) A performance art group called the Centre for Political Beauty claimed to have organised the stunt.
  • (18) A recent multi-country study showed that for every 10% increase in levels of stunting among children, the proportion of children reaching the final grade of school dropped by almost 8%.
  • (19) It follows a stunt by Spanish police divers who were photographed showing the flag while inspecting the controversial concrete reef.
  • (20) The effect of malabsorption syndrome (stunting or runting syndrome) on the thyroid function of broilers was investigated in control and inoculated broilers from 1 to 29 days of age.

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