What's the difference between method and peripatetic?

Method


Definition:

  • (n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
  • (n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
  • (n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A modification of the manual glucose oxidase-gum guaiacum method of Shipton, B., Wood, P.J.
  • (2) Questionnaires were used and the respondent self-designation method measured leadership.
  • (3) Biochemical, immunocytochemical and histochemical methods were used to study the effect of chronic acetazolamide treatment on carbonic anhydrase (CA) isoenzymes in the rat kidney.
  • (4) Simplicity, high capacity, low cost and label stability, combined with relatively high clinical sensitivity make the method suitable for cost effective screening of large numbers of samples.
  • (5) We conclude that first-transit and blood-pool techniques are equally accurate methods for determining EF when the time-activity method of analysis is employed.
  • (6) The HBV infection was tested by the reversed passive hemagglutination method for the HBsAg and by the passive hemagglutination method for the anti-HBs at the time of recruitment in 1984.
  • (7) It was shown in experiments on four dogs by the conditioned method that the period of recovery of conditioned activity after one hour ether anaesthesia tested 7 to 7.5 days.
  • (8) A new and simple method of serotyping campylobacters has been developed which utilises co-agglutination to detect the presence of heat-stable antigens.
  • (9) If the method was taken into routine use in a diagnostic laboratory, the persistence of reverse passive haemagglutination reactions would enable grouping results to be checked for quality control purposes.
  • (10) The highest rate of discontinuation occurred when method choice was denied in the presence of husband-wife agreement on method choice, and the lowest rate occurred when method choice was granted in the presence of such concurrence.
  • (11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
  • (12) The preembedding method also disclosed diffuse cytosolic immunoreactivity.
  • (13) A simple method for ultrarapid freezing of cell cultures in monolayers was developed.
  • (14) Nasotracheal intubation has been well established as a method for maintaining an artificial airway in children.
  • (15) These results show that this method is useful in topographical evaluation of CBF changes.
  • (16) Analysis revealed some significant differences in the false-positive rate, depending on the test method used or virus samples evaluated.
  • (17) The method is based on two-dimensional scanning photon absorptiometry on the distal part of the forearm.
  • (18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
  • (19) While stereology is the principal technique, particularly in its application to the parenchyma, other compartments such as the airways and vasculature demand modifications or different methods altogether.
  • (20) However, there was no consistent protocol for the method or duration of drug administration.

Peripatetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Walking about; itinerant.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the philosophy taught by Aristotle (who gave his instructions while walking in the Lyceum at Athens), or to his followers.
  • (n.) One who walks about; a pedestrian; an itinerant.
  • (n.) A disciple of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We recommend the development of a peripatetic service as outlined in this study, offering health care at hostels, day centres and other places where the homeless are to be found.
  • (2) One story has it that his own brand of philosophy became known as the peripatetic (wandering) school because he walked around as he lectured.
  • (3) Her peripatetic childhood was down to her high-achieving father, John W Hunt, now emeritus professor of organisational behaviour at the London Business School.
  • (4) When Stefan Zweig , forced into a peripatetic life by the rise of Nazism, arrived in New York in 1935, he was persistently asked to make a statement about the treatment of the Jews in Germany.
  • (5) He once wrote of Victor Pasmore's late abstract diversity: "The works are eccentric, peripatetic.
  • (6) His tenure here is his 15th at a 14th club, twice leading Vitória Sétubal in a peripatetic career that has taken in the bright lights of Sporting and Besiktas.
  • (7) A less dramatic but no less important valedictory observation was made in an interview earlier in the week , when Sir Michael was asked about the pace of constant upheaval in school structures and the curriculum at the education department during his time at Ofsted: “I have learned this not just as chief inspector but also as a headteacher: that change sometimes has to be slow and incremental.” In a peripatetic political culture, that can be a hard lesson for politicians to heed.
  • (8) The result will be an ever more peripatetic, mobile and insecure young adult population – compelled to move home more regularly, at the whims of an increasingly muscular landlord class, to areas that are cheaper and less well connected.
  • (9) Unfortunately that was not the only trio in her life: she also had to hold down three jobs to make ends meet, leaving full-time employment in school to do home visits four evenings a week for two peripatetic teaching contracts, as well as weekend babysitting “My children don’t understand,” she said.
  • (10) There has long been a fear of including the self-taught in the world of high art, says James Brett, founder of the Museum of Everything , a peripatetic collection of unclassifiable and undiscovered art that has taken up residence at London’s Tate Modern as well as Selfridges department store.
  • (11) This paper deals with the early results and problems of establishing and developing a regional training programme in psychotherapy, using peripatetic senior lecturers.
  • (12) Born in July 1971, he led a peripatetic life (his mother, who campaigned on a number of causes, was in a touring theatre group) and, in the 1980s, went by the "handle" – a hacker's online monicker – of Mendax.
  • (13) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
  • (14) Kathak (meaning storyteller) grew from ancient, peripatetic bards interpreting the mythological tales of the Indian epics.
  • (15) A little further afield, Akadimias Platonos park is where Plato had his peripatetic philosophy school.
  • (16) Success often depended on special provisions-for example, transport, aids to mobility, peripatetic physiotherapists.
  • (17) I would favour a peripatetic parliament, rather like a medieval court, visiting all parts of the kingdom.
  • (18) Sebald allows this to lie beneath the text – a discoverable and psychic subtext; and just as he neglects to inform us of why Rousseau's paranoid and haunted final years should have had such a resonance for him, so this compulsively peripatetic and ambulatory writer also leaves off the list of distinguished writerly pilgrims to Rousseau's happy isle the greatest British walker-writer of them all, Worsdworth, who tramped all the way there in 1788, en route to his own liaison with revolutionary apotheosis.
  • (19) A peripatetic educational development team based at the medical school completes the link by helping community hospital physicians identify educational needs and develop educational responses, using both local and medical school experts as faculty.
  • (20) I touched base with him again yesterday to ask whether he felt his peripatetic presence undermined his protest.