What's the difference between interact and interplay?

Interact


Definition:

  • (n.) A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.
  • (v. i.) To act upon each other; as, two agents mutually interact.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Fibulin is a potential mediator of interactions between adhesion receptors and the cytoskeleton.
  • (2) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
  • (3) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (4) Meanwhile the efficiency of muscarinic antagonists in inhibition of tremor reaction induced by arecoline administration is associated with interaction between the drugs and the M2-subtype.
  • (5) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.
  • (6) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
  • (7) Since the advance and return of sperm inside the tubes could facilitate the interaction of sperm with secretions participating in its maturation, the persistent infertility after vasectomy could be related to the contractile alteration that follows the excessive tubal distention.
  • (8) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.
  • (9) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
  • (10) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
  • (11) They are best explained by interactions between central sympathetic activity, brainstem control of respiration and vasomotor activity, reflexes arising from around and within the respiratory tract, and the matching of ventilation to perfusion in the lungs.
  • (12) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
  • (13) This study reports the analysis of a transvestite man through focusing on his marital interaction and his wife's complementary behavior to his perversion.
  • (14) The deactivated columns had the residual silanols on the silica gel chemically inactivated to reduce the interaction with basic groups or analytes.
  • (15) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
  • (16) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (17) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
  • (18) Hormonal interactions play a determining role in pulmonary maturation.
  • (19) In contrast, the association of serum cholesterol with mortality due to causes other than coronary heart disease changed during follow-up (interaction of cholesterol with follow-up period: p = 0.004).
  • (20) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.

Interplay


Definition:

  • (n.) Mutual action or influence; interaction; as, the interplay of affection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Furthermore, the analyses indicated an important interplay between environmental sources and social factors in the determination of hand lead and blood lead levels in very young children.
  • (2) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
  • (3) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
  • (4) The authors hypothesize that an interplay of late adoption intrinsic vulnerabilities in the children, and weakness of parental bonds accounts for the differential outcomes.
  • (5) Watford’s front two have impressed with their hard work, their technical quality and their interplay – a classic strike duo.
  • (6) Dyslipaemia appears thus to be due to the interplay of several factors.
  • (7) The interplay of policies and principles to which Miss Nightingale subscribed, the human frailty of one of her women, Miss Nightingale's illness, and the confusion and stress which characterized the Crimean War are discussed.
  • (8) Current work focuses on defining the biology of preneoplasia, the critical specific molecular events in multistep carcinogenesis, and the dynamic interplay between viral, behavioral, dietary, and genetic factors in human carcinogenesis.
  • (9) We interpret these findings as suggesting a complex interplay of endocrine and metabolic factors are necessary for retention of the behavioural response.
  • (10) Developmental psychobiology is the study of how the interplay between behavioral and physiological processes supports and directs development.
  • (11) It is proposed that such an interplay between the two regulatory genes results in a homeostatic system that may regulate the rate of viral replication as well as the growth of HTLV-I transformed cells.
  • (12) The megakaryocyte, however, remains responsive and the hypothesis advanced is that under these circumstances the intermenstrual platelet increase, normally caused by the interplay of the sex hormones, becomes grossly exaggerated.
  • (13) There is indirect evidence that this interplay is at the level of prostaglandin synthesis or release.
  • (14) Coronary atherosclerosis is the result of the interplay of a number of factors, the most important of which are abnormal levels of circulating lipoproteins.
  • (15) The interplay between these two neuro-endocrine disorders may account for some of the symptoms of these patients.
  • (16) That interplay between message and content became the basis of his consultancy, Good Business, dreamt up partly with the CND campaigner Marjorie Thompson.
  • (17) To investigate the interplay between endotoxin-induced circulatory shock and the cardiovascular effects of different doses of isoflurane, mean aortic pressure (MAP), central venous pressure (CVP), mean pulmonary arterial pressure (MPAP), heart rate (HR), cardiac output and superior mesenteric artery flow (SMAF), were monitored in rats anesthetized with either 1.4% or 2.0% isoflurane in oxygen.
  • (18) It is argued that this similarity in the frequency of ethnic differences among the polypeptides studied by 2-D PAGE and by 1-D E is further evidence that the proteins revealed by 2-D PAGE do not differ greatly in their response to the interplay of mutation, selection, and drift from those revealed by 1-D E studies of plasma proteins and erythrocyte enzymes.
  • (19) Further studies concerning the interplay between proximal and distal regulations under normal and pathological conditions may provide deeper insight into the way in which the kidney functions.
  • (20) The program must be problem-centered, affording the learners the opportunities to engage in the discovery of the role of nutrition in the health of people, the nutritional environment, and the interplay between the two.

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