What's the difference between levitation and suspension?

Levitation


Definition:

  • (n.) Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.
  • (n.) The act or process of making buoyant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At the time, Andre Geim was probably best known for his "frog levitation" experiment.
  • (2) An electrode system is described for the near-simultaneous application and measurement of translational, levitational and rotational forces induced by AC electric fields, and this has been used to investigate the differences in the AC electrodynamics of viable and non-viable yeast cells.
  • (3) 7) Cesar Martinez (Zamora) makes the ball levitate after goal v Caracas Rising star 8) Barack Obama Singing Thriller by Michael Jackson You can’t Beat It 9) Hey Jude in a minor key Not quite White 10) Modern day Aladdin Riding rug-ged
  • (4) Instead, Dr Clements said teachers of TM and the maharishi's more advanced TM-Sidhi programme, in which devotees learn to use yoga to "levitate", were being encouraged to take teaching positions in South Africa and at the Maharishi University in Fairfield, Iowa, a campus built on Vedic architectural principles that is home to around 2,000 TM devotees.
  • (5) By now we all know the Falcons chief goal - levitation to the next playoff round (at the bare minimum), mandatory for a program that has failed to do so on three occasions under head coach Mike Smith .
  • (6) One story is about Howard Thurston, the American magician who perfected the levitating lady trick.
  • (7) Critics scoffed that it was out of date before it began because it was obvious to them that magnetic levitation would be the future of train travel.
  • (8) I’m sure the person had a valid reason but it should be clear that the Ka’bah should not suddenly be surrounding by whirring Segways.” A hoverboard is a levitating board that was popularised by Marty McFly in the Back to the Future films.
  • (9) Covent Garden has long been home to a diverse collection of living statues and fairground freaks, a levitating shaman competing with unicycling jugglers and motionless men in their silver-painted suits.
  • (10) During a well performed levitation of the right arm in hypnosis as compared to resting conditions, we found a global increase of cortical blood flow and a regional activation of temporal areas; the latter finding is considered to reflect acoustical attention.
  • (11) The device uses magnetic-levitation technology: four disc-shaped “hover engines” induce an opposing magnetic field in a special surface, enabling the Hendo to hover an inch above the ground.
  • (12) Bubble levitation of viruses delibrately injected into the surf produced 200 times more virus per milliliter in the aerosol than were present in samples from the surf.
  • (13) These drops have been suspended by acoustic levitation in a small chamber mounted on a stage of an optical microscope, which allowed easy viewing.
  • (14) Moving up through the ranks you get to the Vandals with their cloaking devices and stealth tactics; the chunky, well-armed Fallen Captains protected behind personal force fields; the wizards who levitate above the surface firing energy balls.
  • (15) Deltoid muscle fibrosis produced the unique clinical sign of gradual, involuntary, and irreducible arm levitation.
  • (16) He once described himself as the "Casanova of causes" and it's true that he embraced a staggering array of beliefs and crusades, ranging from the impressively enlightened (campaigning for euthanasia and against the death penalty) to the downright potty (believing, say, in the benefits of levitation).
  • (17) Another puzzle, dating back decades, is whether dust levitates from the lunar surface.
  • (18) After the pomp of the opening ceremony, which had featured can-can dancers, a levitating Eiffel Tower and David Guetta – among many other things – France struggled to come to terms with the occasion.
  • (19) The buble adsorption and virus concentration in the surf is analagous to industrial bubble levitation processes that concentrate metallic ores, enzymes, and finely divided organic crystals.
  • (20) A 1- to 3-minute exercise involving imagination (of an apple) and ideomotor ideation (hand levitation) is a simple, benign technique that is useful for illustrating to patients the nature of imagery and hypnosis.

Suspension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
  • (n.) Especially, temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
  • (n.) Of labor, study, pain, etc.
  • (n.) Of decision, determination, judgment, etc.; as, to ask a suspension of judgment or opinion in view of evidence to be produced.
  • (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank.
  • (n.) Of punishment, or sentence of punishment.
  • (n.) Of a person in respect of the exercise of his office, powers, prerogative, etc.; as, the suspension of a student or of a clergyman.
  • (n.) Of the action or execution of law, etc.; as, the suspension of the habeas corpus act.
  • (n.) A conditional withholding, interruption, or delay; as, the suspension of a payment on the performance of a condition.
  • (n.) The state of a solid when its particles are mixed with, but undissolved in, a fluid, and are capable of separation by straining; also, any substance in this state.
  • (n.) A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed.
  • (n.) A stay or postponement of execution of a sentence condemnatory by means of letters of suspension granted on application to the lord ordinary.
  • (n.) The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into the chord which follows, thus producing a momentary discord, suspending the concord which the ear expects. Cf. Retardation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The number of neoplastic cells in each cell suspension was determined by cytologic criteria.
  • (2) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (3) Charcoal particles coated with the lipid extract were prepared and the suspension inoculated intravenously into mice.
  • (4) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (5) On the assumption of a distribution in properties of the suspension according to the theory of Bruggeman, the capacitance is calculated to have a value of about one half this.5.
  • (6) In the dark cortical zone of the nodes (III group) there occur tissue basophils (mast cells), that, together with increasing number of acidophilic granulocytes and appearance of neutrophilic cells, demonstrates that there is an inflammatory reaction in the organ studied as a response to the lymphocytic suspension injected.
  • (7) The adherence of 51Cr-labeled platelets to rabbit aortae everted on probes rotated in platelet-red cell suspensions has been measured.
  • (8) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (9) To exclude potential interactions with components of the extracellular matrix which contains binding sites for PAI-1, ligand binding to HepG2 cells in suspension was assessed.
  • (10) Studies on alveolar macrophages have usually been performed on a single cell suspension obtained by lung lavage.
  • (11) The stabilized mandible allowed suspension of the tongue.
  • (12) Suspensions of isolated insect flight muscle thick filaments were embedded in layers of vitreous ice and visualized in the electron microscope under liquid nitrogen conditions.
  • (13) Pupils who disrupt the learning of their classmates are dealt with firmly and, in many cases, a short suspension is an effective way of nipping bad behaviour in the bud."
  • (14) In the first assay, we used a simple density separation technique to remove dense neutrophils (PMN) from suspensions of blood and of bone marrow cells prior to culture in semisolid agar.
  • (15) After short-term (1 h) incubation in suspension cultures cells were washed and plated in clonogenic agar cultures.
  • (16) These killer cells could lyse a wide range of syngeneic and allogeneic lymphoid tumour cell lines in vitro, and it was found that cell suspensions from nude mice were always significantly more active than those from normal mice, and that the most active effector population was a polymorph-enriched peritoneal-exudate cell suspension.
  • (17) Oxygen binding curves (OEC) for red cell suspensions have a biphasic shape and reduced n50 values when the concentration of 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (DPG) is lowered by aging or experimental procedures.
  • (18) Electron microscopy showed that the clots consist mainly of a suspension of individual fibers, in contrast to clots made from native fibrinogen, which are highly branched.
  • (19) Released aggregates of the 19.6-kDa protein were removed from suspension by ultracentrifugation and separated from contaminating membranes by washing in 1.0% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS).
  • (20) A case is presented with radiographically demonstrated angioedema in the stomach and small bowel accompanied by allergic rhinitis, which was apparently an allergic response to the barium sulfate suspension.