What's the difference between intromittent and passing?
Intromittent
Definition:
(a.) Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.
(a.) Used in copulation; -- said of the external reproductive organs of the males of many animals, and sometimes of those of the females.
Example Sentences:
(1) After PCPA treatment, however, the intromittive and ejaculatory capacity of all experienced animals improved significantly.
(2) A friend in the bird lab conducted a pioneering investigation into the sex lives of mallards (with their now famously cork-screwed penises), a chum in the insect lab down the corridor busied himself with the intromittent organ of the bed bug (think hyperdermic needle) and elsewhere another colleague had just discovered toxic proteins in Drosophila ejaculates that reduce the lifespan of females.
(3) Males implanted SC with Silastic capsules containing ATD displayed significantly less neck gripping, mounting and intromittive behavior than intact males which received empty capsules, although the ATD-induced reductions in behavior were not as large as those seen after castration.
(4) None of the experimental models revealed unequivocal support for detrimental effect of large numbers of intromittive copulations on 'central mechanisms' regulating heat duration.
(5) It rather seemed that frequent intromittive copulations and ejaculates affected the 'peripheral' genital tract (vulva, vagina, cervix) making further copulation of a highly aversive quality so that sexual encounters were avoided or prevented.
Passing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pass
(n.) The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away.
(a.) Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing.
(1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
(2) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
(3) Comparison of developmental series of D. merriami and T. bottae revealed that the decline of the artery in the latter species is preceded by a greater degree of arterial coarctation, or narrowing, as it passes though the developing stapes.
(4) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(5) Ten or 4% of the administered parasites passed in the feces during the 3 days following the first or second infection, but 32% after the third infection.
(6) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(7) Their narrowed processes pass at a common site through the muscle layer and above this layer again slightly widen and project above the neighbouring tegument.
(8) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
(9) Wharton feared that if his bill had not cleared the Commons on this occasion, it would have failed as there are only three sitting Fridays in the Commons next year when the legislation could be heard again should peers in the House of Lords successfully pass amendments.
(10) Much less obvious – except in the fictional domain of the C Thomas Howell film Soul Man – is why someone would want to “pass” in the other direction and voluntarily take on the weight of racial oppression.
(11) Approximately 50% of a bolus injection of 125I-ANP was removed during a single pass through the lungs compared with the intravascular marker 14C-dextran.
(12) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(13) To evaluate the acute changes in left ventricular (LV) performance before and immediately after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 25 patients underwent first-pass radionuclide angiocardiography for construction of pressure-volume loops.
(14) He has also been a vocal opponent of gay marriage, appearing on the Today programme in the run-up to the same-sex marriage bill to warn that it would "cause confusion" – and asking in a Spectator column, after it was passed, "if the law will eventually be changed to allow one to marry one's dog".
(15) The resolution must be passed by both houses but cannot be amended.
(16) The frequency spectra of transmission coefficients for ultrasound passing through a sheet of gas-filled micropores have been measured using incident waves with amplitudes up to 2.4 x 10(4) Pa.
(17) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(18) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(19) This Doppler echocardiographic study of patients with a dual chamber pacemaker was undertaken to assess the changes in mitral and aortic flow induced by passing from the double stimulation to the atrial detection mode.
(20) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.