What's the difference between manoeuvre and tactic?

Manoeuvre


Definition:

  • (n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
  • (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
  • (n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
  • (n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.
  • (v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.
  • (n. & v.) See Maneuver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Subjects completed questionnaires and performed lung function tests, including forced expiratory (FVC) manoeuvres.
  • (2) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
  • (3) The answer comes down to Chalabi's considerable skill in elite manoeuvring.
  • (4) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (5) The success rate for primary endoscopic management was 90.3%; 12 patients required ureterolithotomy for failed endoscopic manoeuvres and complications occurred in 5.5%.
  • (6) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
  • (7) The chart is based on the pathophysiological changes that occur in perinatal asphyxia, directing the user to the appropriate manoeuvres required to correct those changes, depending on the degree of asphyxia which is determined by clinical signs and by use of the Apgar score.
  • (8) The study protocol included the measurement of QT during a Holter recording, an exercise test, Valsalva's manoeuvre and the isoprenalin test.
  • (9) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
  • (10) manoeuvres inducing vasoconstriction inhibit renin secretion, whereas those inducing vasorelaxation stimulate renin secretion.
  • (11) Naloxone had no detectable effect on supine blood pressure, heart rate, plasma norepinephrine, or epinephrine concentrations or muscle sympathetic nerve burst frequency at rest or during the strain phase of the Valsalva manoeuvre, but decreased slightly sympathetic burst incidence at rest (p less than 0.05).
  • (12) That will severely limit Obama's room for manoeuvre at the summit and is the first time the White House has made such an admission.
  • (13) Many of the current political manoeuvres are only possible because of the lack of transparency on these questions.
  • (14) Oscillatory resistance Rrs and reactance Xrs curves were measured in the frequency range 4-25 Hz at FRC-level and at the course of vital capacity manoeuvres.
  • (15) After this manoeuvre, both the introducer and the small knot could be withdrawn from the jugular vein without further incident.
  • (16) In view of the effect on the blood pressure and heart rate, subjects should avoid performing a Valsalva manoeuvre during sustained handgrip testing.
  • (17) The results provide no evidence for fusimotor sensitization of spindles in muscles remaining relaxed during the Jendrassik manoeuvre, and reflex reinforcement occurring without concomitant signs of active tension rise in the muscles tested is presumed to depend upon altered processing of the afferent volleys within the cord.
  • (18) The Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the incident took place but said it did not believe the missile was an attempt to target the British plane, instead ascribing the missile seen by the Thomson pilots to Egyptian military manoeuvres.
  • (19) The diplomatic manoeuvrings came amid continuing confusion among Leave campaigners.
  • (20) We analyzed the amount and direction of tibial rotation that occurred at the knee joint with a triaxial electrogoniometer on 11 male subjects who performed the sidestep cutting manoeuvre.

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.