What's the difference between leaping and saltatory?

Leaping


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leap
  • (a. & n.) from Leap, to jump.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
  • (2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
  • (3) He is big, strong, athletic, very quick and has got a fantastic leap on him," said McClaren.
  • (4) The deaths were due to: hanging (41 cases), poisoning (17 cases), leaping from a height (7 cases), and others (11 cases including one case of self shooting).
  • (5) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
  • (6) The idea was to create a simple set of standards that everyone can relate to, a low hurdle that every humanitarian organisation should be able to leap over.” As organisations grow, they can aspire to use more technical standards that more established NGOs might already be working with.
  • (7) Musk declared the spacecraft a big leap forward in technology.
  • (8) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
  • (9) He is helped by constituency boundaries that skew the pitch in Labour’s favour, but even then the leap required looks improbable.
  • (10) The alliance has grown by leaps and bounds,” the official added, in a conference call with reporters.
  • (11) It’s going to be harder in Zurich, because there’s going to be a lot more eight-metre jumpers,” he says, citing the reigning champion, Christian Reif, who has jumped 8.49m this season, as his main opposition Rutherford won gold in Glasgow with a modest leap of 8.20m but, as he points out, the chilly conditions were hardly conducive to leaping far.
  • (12) Other robots in the Boston Dynamics stable include Petman, a robot that tests humanoid chemical protective clothing; the wheeled SandFlea robot that can leap small buildings; a small six-legged robot capable of traversing rough terrain called RHex; and the RiSE robot capable of climbing vertical walls, trees and fences using feet with micro-claws.
  • (13) This prompted the company to change the long-term bonus scheme, called Leap, to a less generous scheme that will come into force in 2018 and cap Sorrell’s pay at less than £20m, based on his existing salary.
  • (14) The fires raced through burnt and unburnt areas alike, leaping roads and clearings.
  • (15) She’s a normal girl thrust into extraordinary circumstances, so it’s very relatable.” Ridley’s leap from bit parts in British TV dramas to the biggest film franchise in the world is a legitimate overnight success.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Pokémon brand alone will probably be able to get many to give Pokémon Go a try Photograph: Niantic Labs “You know what the mobile gaming experience is like in a phone today, and we’ve all seen the videos from Magic Leap, at the far end of the spectrum, where we put on these magic glasses and our world is transformed.
  • (17) The club’s financial problems are likely to have a significant effect on the kind of manager Birmingham are able to attract and it remains to be seen whether someone like Rowett, who has impressed during his time in charge of Burton Albion, would be prepared to take that leap of faith.
  • (18) On the PS4, for example, as soon as you switch the console on, you'll get a news screen showing what all your friends are playing – you'll even be able to leap straight into their games.
  • (19) Alex Salmond describes his own renewable energy vision as "the greatest leap forward since the transition from hunter-gatherer to agriculture 10,000 years ago".
  • (20) In fact, one doesn't have to make a leap of imagination because there are clues in its pay report.

Saltatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The clinical course of the MMD group was compatible with the syndrome of perfusion insufficiency with repeated ischemic attacks or a saltatory progression of an ischemic deficit; CT showed infarction in the borderzone territory.
  • (2) Within approximately 30 min at 37 degrees , much of the labeled hormone was found within the cell in endocytic vesicles that moved about in the cytoplasm in a saltatory manner.
  • (3) Conditions of protein evolution in prokaryotes suggest that the saltatory formation of protein classes is as unlikely in prokaryotes as in eukaryotes.
  • (4) Therefore, regulation of nerve Na+-K+-ATPase activity by phosphoinositide-derived diacylglycerol was explored as the putative link between myo-inositol depletion and the Na+-K+-ATPase impairment responsible for slowed saltatory conduction in diabetic animal models.
  • (5) Both the fluorescent endocytic vesicles and lysosomes were observed to undergo saltatory motion.
  • (6) The concepts of most import are 1) that the mechanical dimensions of sensing electrodes in all planes have to be as small as possible relative to the dimensions of the extracellular waveform dimensions associated with depolarization action potentials, and 2) that the distance between bipolar electrodes should be tuned to be greater than the dimensions of the extracellular waveform to avoid subtractive interference patterns associated with saltatory propagation in aging cardiac muscle.
  • (7) The saltatory fetal heart rate pattern was defined as fetal heart amplitude changes of greater than 25 beats per minute with an oscillatory frequency of greater than 6 per minute for a minimum duration of 1 minute.
  • (8) The possibility that these supplementary alpha satellite sequences were created in single individuals by saltatory amplification steps is discussed in light of our own data and that published by others.
  • (9) A saltatory origin is suggested; the process would be a repetitive replication of a small nucleic acid segment.
  • (10) Light microscopic studies have indicated that most microtubule-directed transport is either saltatory or resolute in nature.
  • (11) (strain NF) and Allogromia laticollaris display rapid, bidirectional saltatory transport of plasma membrane surface markers (i.e., polystyrene microspheres).
  • (12) Although conduction is markedly slowed in demyelinated fibres, sites of inward membrane current remain spatially separated indicating that conduction remains saltatory to the point of conduction block rather than becoming continuous as in unmyelinated fibres.4.
  • (13) Myelin is a highly specialized membrane unique to the nervous system that ensheaths axons to permit the rapid saltatory conduction of impulses.
  • (14) Silent and narrowly undulatory oscillations reached the significantly lowest oxygen tension values of 11,8 mmHg (1,6 kPa) and 15,2 mmHg (2,03 kPa), respectively, as compared to 20,5 mmHg (2,73 kPa) and 24,2 mmHg (3,23 kPa) for undulatory and saltatory oscillations, respectively.
  • (15) Correlative electron microscope studies indicate that the patterns of saltatory movements that lead to the redistribution of organelles during spreading are closely related to changes in the degree of assembly, organization, and distribution of microtubules and 10-nm filaments.
  • (16) Further support comes from the correlated inhibition of the saltatory movements of secondary lysosomes previously described; static lysosomes will have their contact with the phagosomes severely restricted.
  • (17) When these sensitivities to AMP-PNP are considered with the results from other studies, it can be concluded that the molecular motors for spindle elongation, chromosome movement and saltatory motion are different.
  • (18) In all patients the saltatory pattern occurred during active phase or second stage of labor.
  • (19) Additionally, a curious "dip" phenomenon and several qualitative experiments in which color has been used to "tag" the saltatory image are reported.
  • (20) The speed of the bacterial ascent is increased as a result of turbulence-associated planktonic saltatory bacterial movement within the urine column.

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