What's the difference between impel and propel?

Impel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive or urge forward or on; to press on; to incite to action or motion in any way.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
  • (2) By being steadfast in our values we can impel Russia to rethink its ambitions; by being mild we can encourage their cruellest actions.
  • (3) In this configuration, recirculation of the oxygenated media is provided by the CelliGen Cell Lift impeller.
  • (4) I would have thought that our foreign policy disasters throughout the Muslim world would have impelled Blair to learn the lesson of the unintended consequences of military action.
  • (5) The second model produces a pulsatile flow by differing the gaps between impeller and cap on the inlet pipe.
  • (6) The centrifugal pump with a 50 mm diameter impeller resulted in almost the same index of hemolysis value as did a Bio-Medicus centrifugal pump.
  • (7) The death rate constant increased sharply at impeller tip speeds above 40 cm s-1.
  • (8) A minority (24%) of those holding health insurance believed that public sector services were inadequate to provide health care but only 9% of families were able to cite some specific shortcoming of public sector services which had impelled them to take out insurance cover.
  • (9) This may be due in part to aspects of the illness and treatment side effects that impel patients to use dopamine agonist drugs.
  • (10) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
  • (11) The deals done here fuel death, injury, fear and repression – yet instead of banning it, the government helps make it happen.” Those who felt impelled to draw attention to this anomaly were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
  • (12) Ultimately, the organizations said, health risks to adolescents are so impelling that legal barriers and deference to parental involvement should not stand in the way of needed health care.
  • (13) Bellichick, however, also felt impelled to deny reports that he "hated" Tebow as a player .
  • (14) In the first model, the impeller oscillates in an axial direction during constant rotation.
  • (15) The new position furnished a direct line of sight to the apex of the IV ventricle corresponding to that provided by the classic high sitting position, without the latter's risks of air embolism and of acute subdural hematoma secondary to tearing of corticodural bridging vessels due to escape of gravity-impelled CSF from the large ventricles.
  • (16) A total absence of visual feedback impelled subjects to use subtle cues such as crude auditory localization.
  • (17) Impelled by pressure from the public, the scientific community, and the Congress, the NIH participates in formulating safety guidelines regarding potential applications of biotechnology.
  • (18) The valvo-pump can be made feasible by developing a small, high-output, power motor and an endurable seal, as well as by optimizing the impeller design.
  • (19) Recent identification of atrial natriuretic peptides (ANP) in the mammalian heart demonstrated that the heart functions not only as a pump impelling the blood but also as an endocrine organ that secretes the hormone controlling body fluid volume, electrolyte balance, and blood pressure.
  • (20) (24)Na is added to the mucosal medium of a short-circuited bladder mounted between halves of a chamber in which the fluid is stirred by rotating impellers.

Propel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To drive forward; to urge or press onward by force; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Stratolauncher won’t be fully operational for several years, and it may take decades before anyone designs a system that can propel man-made objects through space fast enough to reach a star over a human being’s lifespan, if it happens at all.
  • (2) Last September, propelled by the success of the Irish referendum and the US supreme court decision, the idea that Australian parliamentarians should, as a matter of conscience, reconsider marriage equality was gathering powerful force.
  • (3) Carpeting of the type commonly used in hospitals imposed a burden upon normal and patient wheelchair users propelling a wheelchair as reflected in increased energy cost per unit of distance traveled.
  • (4) They said US forces had found a "daisy chain"– a long bomb rigged up from mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and a motorbike.
  • (5) Some of the main protesters who have propelled the organization movement forward, particularly Deray McKesson , Netta Elzie and Stephen Houldsworth , have expressed no interest in backing down tonight.
  • (6) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
  • (7) The video filmed by a witness , which propelled the case into the global spotlight, showed Scott was running away with his back turned when Slager, then an officer with the North Charleston police department, opened fire.
  • (8) Right now most are in for small repairs, propellers that sort of thing.
  • (9) The Texas senator Ted Cruz says the rise of Donald Trump makes him “very optimistic” the next occupant of the White House will be a conservative – perhaps himself – propelled there by the “volcanic rage” of voters.
  • (10) Beating and coordination of these short cilia were compared with those of cilia propelling water.
  • (11) His pioneering efforts helped propel Barbados to a leader in solar water heater use in the western hemisphere.
  • (12) Second, if two self-propelled objects are related in a special way--a relation called the BDR sequence--the infant perceives not only intentional movement but also one object as having the goal of affecting the other object.
  • (13) Wednesday’s attack during dawn prayers is the first attack on Maiduguri since 28 December, when Boko Haram killed at least 50 people in an operation involving rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers.
  • (14) He careered at Pedro Obiang, propelled by a frightening intent, and the midfielder was forced to flatten the Frenchman but Mike Jones adjudged the offence to have taken place outside the area.
  • (15) Allergic contact eczema from the use of deodorant sprays is sometimes caused by sensitization to the propellants.
  • (16) Interestingly, the thymine.adenine pair favours negative buckling for propellers mostly observed in DNA crystals while positive buckling is preferred by the cytosine.guanine pair.
  • (17) Republican guards used anti-aircraft guns, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades against the opposition camp and intensified the shelling of the streets surrounding the square.
  • (18) Bill Shorten pushes integrity inquiry but says political corruption isn't widespread Read more If politics is about people, and about connections, Shorten’s challenge for 2017 is not only validating the concerns of voters angry enough to propel Donald Trump to the White House, to Brexit and to vote for Pauline Hanson – but to persuade them to make a durable connection with him.
  • (19) He begins describing the crumbling wall of mud that enveloped him, the image of his young daughter propelling him to fight to the surface and take his first breath of air.
  • (20) Lloyd scored three times in just 16 minutes to propel the Americans to a 5-2 win and their first World Cup in 16 years, their third overall.