What's the difference between impelled and repelled?

Impelled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Impel

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.

Repelled


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Repel

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The effects of common repellents on the membrane fluidity of Escherichia coli were measured by the fluorescence polarization of the probe 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in liposomes made of lipids extracted from the bacteria and in membrane vesicles.
  • (2) It is suggested that the capacity of large doses of L3T4+ cells to protect mice against lethal GVHD is a reflection of T helper function: the cellular immunity provided by the donor L3T4+ cells enables the host to repel pathogens entering through damaged mucosal surfaces, with the result that GVHD becomes sublethal.
  • (3) Repellent effect of the Mannich bases (methoxyphenol derivatives) on Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and Xenopsylla cheopis fleas was revealed under laboratory and field conditions.
  • (4) We have recently prepared a carbon fibre micro-electrode (mCFE) which specifically pretreated and coated with Nafion (a negatively charged polymer which repels acids such as 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC)) allows the direct selective detection of the oxidation of DA and 5-HT in nanomolar concentration in vitro and that of extracellular basal levels of cerebral 5-HT in vivo (peak B at +240 mV).
  • (5) A couple of years later, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile.
  • (6) These compounds possess insecticidal and repellent properties.
  • (7) Tory toffs repelling undesirable immigrants, providing better schools, using welfare reform as a pathway to work, clearing vandals, yobs and drunks from the streets and standing up to our masters in Brussels would be very popular, and the word would soon be forgotten.
  • (8) Repellent addition has previously been shown to stimulate MCP demethylation.
  • (9) Of 33 compounds tested, 8 were repellents for B. bacteriovorus strain UKi2: n-caproate, alanine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, tyrosine, cobaltous chloride, and hydronium ion.
  • (10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
  • (11) But maybe, just maybe, they won’t, for they represent real forces and articulate real passions that Labour and the Conservatives, and now the Lib Dems, have so far utterly failed to repel.
  • (12) The treatment involved the use of repelling magnets for the distalization of the upper right molar which was in a class II relationship.
  • (13) The most important stabilizing factor for the intramolecular proton transfer is the zinc ion, which lowers the pKa of zinc-bound water and electrostatically repels the proton.
  • (14) Both sexes were attracted to the odor of R-(-)-carvone and repelled by the odor of (+)-citronellol.
  • (15) The paint whooshed down through the freshwater, but as soon as it hit the saltwater it was repelled, spreading out laterally as if the pigment had hit an invisible horizon.
  • (16) In bacterial chemotaxis, transmembrane receptor proteins detect attractants and repellents in the medium and send intracellular signals that control motility.
  • (17) Iain Lobban, the director of GCHQ, the government's eavesdropping and encrypting agency, last week used his first public speech to call for an aggressive approach to cyber attacks, and warned of the dangers of adopting the sort of defensive strategy famously symbolised by France's Maginot line, which was meant to repel the Germans and failed.
  • (18) 7.53pm BST Pedant repellant Style guide: GEORGE: What is Holland?
  • (19) Current control measures, stressing the use of mosquito nets, insect repellent, and residual insecticides designed primarily for the less mobile population of rice-farming communities are less effective among more mobile people.
  • (20) Soldiers damaged three of the vessels before clashes in which the militants were eventually repelled.

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