What's the difference between maneuver and stratagem?

Maneuver


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
  • (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The protocols which were developed in these studies also provide an effective maneuver for tumor-specific immunotherapy.
  • (2) As aircraft capable of sustaining high "G" maneuvers enter the U.S. Navy Fleet, the reported incidence of cervical injury to aircrew seems to have increased.
  • (3) A breath-holding maneuver was utilized with a high and a low N2O concentration in argon and oxygen.
  • (4) Nonspecific baroreflex loading maneuvers such as head-down tilt readily suppress stimulated arginine vasopressin levels in normal humans.
  • (5) These results show that the prevalence of pseudohypertension is very low in a non-selected elderly population and that Osler's maneuver was not related to the pressure difference between the direct and indirect methods.
  • (6) Until this can be accomplished, different emergency maneuvers should be tried.
  • (7) Because HMBA administration produces large anion gaps, a simple maneuver such as alkalinization might enable the escalation of plasma HMBA css values to > 2 mM.
  • (8) A volume signal is displayed to the operator throughout each test to help control the maneuver.
  • (9) Though increased gravitational stress probably changed regional emptying sequences little during full MEFV maneuvers, substantial changes of emptying sequence were expected during partial maneuvers.
  • (10) Oral intubation was the definitive airway maneuver in 213 patients.
  • (11) Heart rate elevation observed after hand grip maneuver did not change.
  • (12) The magnitude of this risk is difficult to calculate and some maneuvers are available to decrease the likelihood that this will occur.
  • (13) The other was an F wave always preceded by an M response and with a stimulus response jitter of under 50 musec; its jitter and latency are unaffected by the Jendrassik maneuver.
  • (14) The catheter with intact triple knots could be withdrawn without an invasive maneuver.
  • (15) The apparent paradox in these results is correlated with different effects of the two maneuvers on left atrial pressure.
  • (16) Twenty-one subjects flew aboard a KC-135 aircraft operated by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which performed parabolic maneuvers resulting in periods of 0-g, 1-g, and 1.8-g. Each subject flew once with a tablet containing scopolamine and once with a placebo in a random order, crossover design.
  • (17) In the last three patients with unresectable adenocarcinoma of the distal part of the stomach and invasion of the intestinal mesentery, due to foreshortening of the latter, the proximal loop of the intestine would not reach the desired level of the stomach until this maneuver was performed.
  • (18) The preinspiratory lung volume for the closing volume maneuver was varied from residual volume to closing capacity (CC).
  • (19) Five acceptable forced expiratory maneuvers were obtained with a portable spirometer from each person in a population of 1,670 selected from a stratified random sample of a community.
  • (20) The clinical diagnosis in these patients was supported by noninvasive maneuvers.

Stratagem


Definition:

  • (n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
  • (2) This article contains a potpurri of surgically related stratagems, alternative techniques, and philosophies.
  • (3) The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
  • (4) Skills we develop in the clinical setting can be combined with practice audit to produce the ideal management stratagem.
  • (5) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
  • (6) Abraham also posited an alternative stratagem for government to cash in on Channel 4, which is allowing it the financial freedom to invest and grow the wider UK creative economy.
  • (7) The hypothesis of asymmetric otolith function asserts that physiological or anatomical differences in the two sides of the bilateral gravity-sensing otolith apparatus of the inner ear may be well compensated on Earth, but when exposed to novel gravitational states, the prior compensatory stratagems may be ineffective, leading to unstable vestibular responses and causing the phenomenon of space motion sickness.
  • (8) The model stipulates that given exposure to sustained aversive maternal control and a maternal communication style which is subtle and devious, the child comes to adapt with approach, stratagem-based behaviours and heightened vigilance for evaluative information (i.e.
  • (9) The use of a differential probing stratagem, based on the hybridisation of specific oligonucleotides to either pUC13 polylinker or unaltered PYK 3' UTR sequences, allowed for discrimination between mutant (plasmid borne) and wild-type (chromosomal) PYK transcripts.
  • (10) Recent pharmacological studies utilizing human intracranial artery preparations have addressed two distinct therapeutic stratagems.
  • (11) His inspired stratagem is to embrace the national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression.
  • (12) The implications of this observation pertain to toxicity effects when EDTA is incorporated into ocular drug products for stability purposes, or novel stratagems for improving ocular bioavailability of topically applied drugs are employed.
  • (13) Though the cabinet had rejected such a stratagem - dubbed Big Pines - in December 1981, Oxford professor Avi Shlaim suggests Eitan and Sharon aimed to implement it in stages, via Peace for Galilee.
  • (14) It is proposed that these changes in surface antigenicity constitute an evasive stratagem used by the parasite to deter the host from mounting a potentially lethal inflammatory response.
  • (15) This paper presents a series of stratagems designed to minimize the potential psychological problems of children who require dermatological surgery.
  • (16) The technical stratagems to model the nose are: (1) alignment of the premaxilla and (2) anatomic placement of the alar cartilages with sculpturing of the overlying soft tissue.
  • (17) Rotating the detector in close apposition to the head has required various stratagems to avoid detector-shoulder contact: the selective reduction of camera shielding, the use of long bore collimators, and the 30 degrees angulation of the camera head for slant hole collimation.
  • (18) In public, Walker employs moderate, conciliatory rhetoric, while privately, he gushes over more anti-union stratagems to come.
  • (19) These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.
  • (20) The slower antigenic change found for NA further supports the potential for NA-specific infection-permissive immunization as a useful stratagem against influenza.