What's the difference between leaning and proclivity?

Leaning


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lean
  • (n.) The act, or state, of inclining; inclination; tendency; as, a leaning towards Calvinism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To estimate the age of onset of these differences, and to assess their relationship to abdominal and gluteal adipocyte size, we measured adiposity, adipocyte size, and glucose and insulin concentrations during a glucose tolerance test in lean (less than 20% body fat), prepubertal children from each race.
  • (2) Cholera toxin-catalysed ADP-ribosylation identified two forms of Gs alpha-subunits whose labelling was about 4-fold greater in membranes from diabetic animals compared with those from lean animals.
  • (3) The alpha 2 agonist, clonidine, produced a larger dose-related increase in food intake in lean rats than in the fatty rats.
  • (4) We conclude that both lean and obese former GDM women have insulin secretion defects.
  • (5) In lean rats, there were no permanent effects of this intervention except for a 25% reduction in carbohydrate intake.
  • (6) Polydispersity of PS played a vital role in determining variables at the critical state of phase separation, such as the composition of coacervate (dense) and lean phases.
  • (7) In addition, insulin tolerance tests were performed on 8 lean and 8 obese subjects before and after starvation.
  • (8) Instead, they say, we should only eat plenty of lean meat and fish, with fruit and raw vegetables on the side.
  • (9) Total body fat decreased from 55.8 to 41.4 kg and lean body mass and arm muscle circumference (AMC) remained unchanged.
  • (10) For now, he leans on the bar – a big man, XL T-shirt – and, in a soft Irish accent, orders himself a small gin and tonic and a bottle of mineral water.
  • (11) Glucagon concentrations are higher in corpulent rats than lean rats at 3 months of age and decrease progressively with age.
  • (12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
  • (13) Inhibitors of carbohydrate absorption failed to suppress food intake in either obese or lean Zucker rats and had no effect on the parameters of feeding.
  • (14) And there seems to be party consensus that this is a good thing; a poll released this week by NBC News and Survey Monkey found that 57% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters want Sanders to stay in the race until the convention.
  • (15) I agree with Sheryl's lean in advice around setting career goals (18 months and life-long) and also how to work with peers and those in more senior positions.
  • (16) In the obese, modifications in body constitution (higher percentage of fat and lower percentage of lean tissue and water) can affect drug distribution in the tissues.
  • (17) This report deals with the association between the constituents of lean body mass (LBM) and resting metabolic rate (RMR) before and after a 100-d overfeeding period.
  • (18) In contrast, glucose utilization in periovarian white adipose tissue was similarly increased in lean and obese rats.
  • (19) Pioglitazone decreased hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia without affecting hyperinsulinemia in the fatty rats, and significantly reduced plasma levels of triglyceride and insulin without altering normoglycemia in the lean rats.
  • (20) The circadian rhythm of glycogen metabolism in liver and skeletal muscle was studied in lean and gold thioglucose (GTG) induced-obese mice.

Proclivity


Definition:

  • (n.) Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.
  • (n.) Readiness; facility; aptitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This suggests that isolation increases sexual proclivity.
  • (2) Although one person may seem more sensitive than another, the difference may lie in a greater proclivity to complain.
  • (3) Infants' proclivity to imitate was used to investigate early memory.
  • (4) In general, proclivity and arousal had different effects on behavior.
  • (5) The proclivity for complications to evolve varies with age, brain areas involved, whether the event is hemorrhagic or nonhemorrhagic in nature, and the presence of concomitant systemic disease.
  • (6) As a result, the data suggest that such cells express an increased proclivity to undergo metaplastic change and complete neoplastic transformation.
  • (7) At the time the tabloids were nearly herniating themselves in order to expose lesser celebrities' chemical proclivities – the Sun went to the bother of flying Tulisa Contostavlos to both Las Vegas and then LA as part of a sting operation that eventually extracted the information that she knew someone who could get hold of some coke – but the matter quietly blew over.
  • (8) Through the flexibility of the membrane prism is a definite advantage, because of its proclivity to reduce visual acuity and increase aberrations its prescription for adults often must be limited to only one eye.
  • (9) Inasmuch as the colons of these patients have a clear proclivity to neoplastic transformation and recurrence, subtotal colectomy as the initial curative colon procedure is practiced.
  • (10) Later, he developed the Substance Abuse Proclivity Scale (SAP; MacAndrew, 1986), specifically for screening younger males, using adolescent and young adult substance misusing and nonmisusing males 16 to 22 years of age.
  • (11) This study investigated cross-modal transfer in infants by their proclivity to respond differentially to novel and familiar stimuli after familiarization in a different sensory modality.
  • (12) Choroid plexus neoplasm may be a manifestation of the inherited proclivity to tumor development in the breast cancer-sarcoma syndrome.
  • (13) It does not appear to be associated with a particular proclivity to evolve into carcinoma and short-term follow-up suggests that excisional biopsy is probably adequate therapy.
  • (14) They maintain that "one has within oneself proclivity toward growth and unity of personality ... and an automatic thrust toward expression" of these qualities (Yalom, 1980, p. 9).
  • (15) Meanwhile Igor Mladenovic writes: "Based on what you've seen so far in the tournament, would you say Becker has started implementing any visible modifications to Djokovic's game, especially with regards to his proclivity to finish points at the net?
  • (16) Entitlement and narcissistic proclivities are viewed according to the developmental history as well as the clinical manifestations (intensity, frequency, duration, and spread).
  • (17) These points are illustrated by discussions of how the structures of headgroup- and backbone-modified phospholipid analogues influence their proclivities to form distinct types of hydrated solid phases, dehydrated "crystralline" phases and nonlamellar phases.
  • (18) We conclude that MIP-101 has a high tumorigenic and invasive potential but a low metastatic proclivity, except when grown in the peritoneum, and that pretreatment of tumor-bearing animals with CEA affects the metastatic proclivity.
  • (19) He was stripped of his paternal dignity as details of his sexual proclivities were extracted.
  • (20) But the apparent disconnect between the film's subject and the technological proclivities of its key crew provoked some comment following the film's cinematic release.