What's the difference between maneuver and tactic?

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  • (14) The catheter with intact triple knots could be withdrawn without an invasive maneuver.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.

Tactic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Tactical
  • (n.) See Tactics.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
  • (2) For this to work, its leaders had to be able to at least influence the behaviour and tactics of the militant operators on the ground.
  • (3) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
  • (4) Time suggests that the FBI inquiry has been extended from a relatively narrow look at alleged malpractices by News Corp in America into a more general inquiry into whether the company used possibly illegal strongarm tactics to browbeat rival firms, following allegations of computer hacking made by retail advertising company Floorgraphics.
  • (5) The report says this tactic has helped the west uncover at least one of Iran's secret nuclear sites and, according to official statements by the Iranians, has caused enrichment centrifuges to break.
  • (6) His teams are always hard to beat, tactically disciplined and, most importantly, successful.
  • (7) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (8) In a sign of deep unease among senior Tories at some of the party’s tactics, Forsyth accused the prime minister of having “shattered” the pro-UK alliance in Scotland and stirring up English nationalism after the Scottish independence referendum last year.
  • (9) The fact that Moyes did nothing to stem his threat down the right by leaving Shinji Kagawa, who offered no protection to Alexander Büttner, on too long was one illustration of a concerning tactical ineptitude.
  • (10) France was meanwhile leading a push, which diplomats said was backed by Britain, to hit more strategic military targets in Libya, beyond tactical airstrikes on Gaddafi's armour in the vicinity of cities such as Misrata and Ajdabiya.
  • (11) He wasn't the first to employ such scare tactics: in late October, the mayor of the Urals city of Izhevsk was caught on video telling veterans that their government allowances would be raised if United Russia received a high percentage of the vote.
  • (12) Among possible causes for the increase in deaths in the Mediterranean this year, the agency cited a worsening quality of vessels and smugglers’ tactics to avoid detection by authorities, such as sending many boats out at the same time, which makes the work of rescuers harder.
  • (13) These tactics yield litters at weaning whose variability has been very much reduced.
  • (14) Del Bosque had listened to the criticism, all that stuff about it being a negative tactic, and decided not to budge an inch, and who can blame him?
  • (15) That’s a dodgy tactic because the German penalties are so accurate.
  • (16) The instability of conjunctival flora with time implies a modification in tactics of bacteriological preoperative samples in order to obtain a better operative security.
  • (17) Attorneys for people caught on the US’s sprawling terrorism watchlists are expressing concern that the latest tactic by gun control advocates is blessing the legitimacy of a process they say threatens civil rights.
  • (18) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
  • (19) Tactical voting also delivered significant gains - up to 50 seats, on some estimates - to the Liberal Democrats in Labour's slipstream as the Tories came close to a freefall.
  • (20) Austin said: "Since the House of Lords judgment, the police have increased their use of the tactic of kettling, with disastrous consequences for the right to peaceful protest and the safety of protesters.