What's the difference between hasty and vasty?

Hasty


Definition:

  • (n.) Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as, a hasty sketch.
  • (n.) Demanding haste or immediate action.
  • (n.) Moving or acting with haste or in a hurry; hurrying; hence, acting without deliberation; precipitate; rash; easily excited; eager.
  • (n.) Made or reached without deliberation or due caution; as, a hasty conjecture, inference, conclusion, etc., a hasty resolution.
  • (n.) Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper.
  • (n.) Forward; early; first ripe.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Aim of this report is a stress of over-hasty classification to the surgical treatment of goiter diagnosed as hyperactive.
  • (2) On Saturday an idle digg ing machine signalled the hasty clearing of the building site to make way for the refugees, who have fled from countries including Syria and Eritrea .
  • (3) These will prepare you to stand your ground or beat a hasty retreat, depending on the threat.
  • (4) Plagued by prison riots, IRA breakouts, illegal deportations, verdicts that found him in contempt of court, and over-hasty legislation on dogs, he acquired a reputation – as home secretaries often do – for being accident-prone.
  • (5) Thus, we should not be too hasty in our extrapolations of data, even among closely related species.
  • (6) Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF.
  • (7) After saying his piece, Hastie handed over to Howard, who had earlier qualified that he was just there to “make up the number”.
  • (8) For long periods Argentina had been stifled by a fine counterpunching opposition, but it would be a little hasty to fret too much about them after this performance.
  • (9) Therefore, it is prudent to avoid making hasty purchasing decisions to accomplish a quick-fix solution to managing quality assurance activities.
  • (10) Serious public opposition to practices such as fracking and tar sands extraction, as well as the building of major pipelines has lead to a hasty surge in the transport of oil by freight.
  • (11) Rubbishing Hastie is not Keogh’s style, though Guardian Australia understands the story did originate from people within the Labor party .
  • (12) conclude that with the development of less traumatic methods of tubal occlusion there is no longer any justification for a hasty decision to sterilize at the time of operative delivery or gynecological surgery, simply to "avoid another operation."
  • (13) The author underline that over hasty neoplasm diagnosis always exerts an unjustified and destructive psychologic influence on patient and his family.
  • (14) But we all know that Andrew Hastie will have to defend all of the same captain’s picks as the rest of Tony Abbott’s team will have to defend.” But Plibersek stopped short of criticising Hastie’s military record, declining to comment on reports that he had been linked to a second matter that had been subject to investigation by the Australian defence force, this one involving the accidental killing of two Afghan boys by a US helicopter crew who were in contact with Hastie’s ground unit.
  • (15) The rapidity with which technology has perpetuated ethical issues within the clinical setting has often lead to hasty and arbitrary decision-making.
  • (16) Last month it was reported a member of a unit commanded by Hastie in Afghanistan had cut off the hands of a dead insurgent to secure his fingerprints.
  • (17) The Fabian Beatrice Webb used to try to cheer her more impetuous colleagues with the thought of the inevitability of gradualism, but nowadays she is looking a little hasty.
  • (18) I care about the direction of Australia,” Hastie said.
  • (19) Bill Shorten says Canning byelection is a chance to tell Abbott 'enough is enough' Read more The 2013 incident in Afghanistan was carried out by one or more soldiers under the command of then Captain Andrew Hastie who is standing for the West Australian seat of Canning, Fairfax Media reported on Saturday.
  • (20) – and, secondly, swears she will not make any hasty 'shoot-me-if-you-see-me-in-a-boat' pronouncements about her future.

Vasty


Definition:

  • (a.) Vast; immense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recordings were also made during stimulation of nerves to the gracilis muscle and to the vasti muscle group.
  • (2) Four children investigated for neuromuscular disorder by routine ultrasound imaging showed selective involvement within the quadriceps femoris muscle, with involvement of the vasti and sparing of the rectus femoris.
  • (3) The integrated electromyographic signals associated with the peak torque for all of the vastus muscles, along with the vastus medialis obliquus:vastus lateralis and vastus medialis longus:vastus lateralis activity ratios showed no significant differences between groups nor between the three angles, suggesting that all vasti measured were consistently active throughout the studied range of motion.
  • (4) The limited monosynaptic input produced by stimulation of the nerves to the gracilis and vasti muscles showed that their Ia axons do not distinguish between the two semimembranosus cell groups.
  • (5) Vasti motoneurons were excited, and PB-ST motoneurons were inhibited by knee extensions when the posterior articular nerve (PAN) was intact; these effects were lost or substantially reduced when the PAN was cut.
  • (6) The recording technique must be capable of differentiating rectus femoris action from that of the underlying vasti, which surface electrodes are not able to do.
  • (7) In that position the vasti muscles together with the semimembranosus formed a force couple for stabilizing the knee joint.
  • (8) The results of this study indicate that although with increases of speed and upward tilt the absolute values of integrated EMG increased more for the calf than for the vastus muscles, the relative increases of EMG were consistently greater for the vasti, which reached their peak intensity of activity at moments during the walking stride, when their knee extending action stretched the gastrocnemius heads across the back of the knee joint, and thereby assisted the calf muscles lift the heel, and plantar flex the ankle joint--the most essential actions for producing the push-off and thrust in the normal walking stride.
  • (9) His SF has been called "space opera", and its grand reach across the vasty deep is one reason.
  • (10) Positive feedback was observed in both knee extensor (vasti) and knee flexor (posterior biceps-semitendinosus (PB-ST)) motoneuron populations.
  • (11) The pattern of membrane potential variations was more complex in motoneurons of rectus femoris and posterior biceps-semitendinosus muscles, but phases of chloride dependent inhibition were nevertheless identified, mainly during the sartorius nerve activation in the case of rectus femoris, and during the vasti and anterior biceps-semimembranosus nerve activations in the case of posterior biceps-semitendinosus.
  • (12) The operative procedure recommended is either release of the affected vasti at their insertion to the patella or Z-lengthening of the common tendon of the quadriceps.
  • (13) vasti medialis and lateralis both have a synergistic function with regard to the extension of the knee and an antagonistic function in stabilizing the rotation of the femur against the tibia.
  • (14) In the mixed type, an additional division of the scarred portion of the vasti is needed.
  • (15) vasti is very important in preventing knee injuries, especially ligamentous ruptures.
  • (16) In motoneurons innervating sartorius (medialis and lateralis), vasti (intermedius, medialis and lateralis) and anterior biceps-semimembranous, one depolarization occurred in each locomotor cycle, alternating with a phase of repolarization that was synchronous with the activation of the antagonistic muscle nerve.
  • (17) Vasti and gluteus maximus muscles are the major energy producers of the lower extremity.

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