What's the difference between mood and state?

Mood


Definition:

  • (n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
  • (n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.
  • (n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (2) For assessment of clinical status, investigators must rely on the use of standardized instruments for patient self-reporting of fatigue, mood disturbance, functional status, sleep disorder, global well-being, and pain.
  • (3) Anxious mood and other symptoms of anxiety were commonly seen in patients with chronic low back pain.
  • (4) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
  • (5) They could go out and trade for a pitcher such as the New York Mets’ Bartolo Colón , an obvious choice despite his 41 years, but he would come with an $11m price tag for next season and have to pass through the waiver wires process first – considering the wily mood Billy Beane is in this year, the A’s could be the team that blocks such a move.
  • (6) YOH shifted the healthy subjects' mood towards feeling panicked, elevated systolic blood pressure and plasma prolactin concentrations, reduced digit symbol substitution, and induced drowsiness and passiveness.
  • (7) Scientists at the University of Trento, Italy, have discovered that the way a dog's tail moves is linked to its mood, and by observing each other's tails, dogs can adjust their behaviour accordingly .
  • (8) Estonia had been reduced to 10 men early in the second half yet Hodgson’s men had to toil away for another 25 minutes before the goal, direct from Wayne Rooney’s free-kick, that soothed their mood and maintained their immaculate start to this qualifying programme.
  • (9) The family members of depressed patients with six or more groups of DSM-III symptoms of major depression exhibited substantially higher rates of mood disorders than the family members of depressed patients with fewer than six groups of symptoms and the family members of patients with nonaffective disorders.
  • (10) In short term clinical studies, the beneficial effects of transdermal estradiol on plasma gonadotrophins, maturation of the vaginal epithelium, metabolic parameters of bone resorption and menopausal symptoms (hot flushes, sleep disturbance, genitourinary discomfort and mood alteration) appear to be comparable to those of oral and subcutaneous estrogens, while the undesirable effects of oral estrogens on hepatic metabolism are avoided.
  • (11) The Velten mood induction procedure was used to produce neutral or depressed moods in normal weight college students.
  • (12) The utility of a life charting approach is emphasized in delineating past and present course of illness, considering the relevance of cycling pattern and past treatment efficacy in selection of present pharmacological interventions, and helping to formulate a multifactorial concept of the interplay of biological and psychosocial factors in the evolution or exacerbation of mood disorders.
  • (13) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
  • (14) Smoking behaviour, self-reported mood and cardiac activity were examined in 12 "sedative" and 12 "stimulant" smokers, defined using Mangan and Golding's questionnaire.
  • (15) It will be only a matter of time before the body-count begins.” Jeremy Hunt says five-day doctors' strike will be 'worst in NHS history' Read more The BMA says it will call off the strikes if the government abandons imposing a tougher new contract in October, but the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt , was in a no-turning-back mood on the BBC’s Today programme this morning.
  • (16) Was that misreading the mood music of the referendum?” He claimed that many Tories had expressed their anger directly to Rudd about the controversial policy, which has since been watered down.
  • (17) But it still seemed unlikely, despite the angry and determined mood, that the kingdom would risk ground operations, informed sources said – not least because the main strongholds of Isis are far away in northeastern Syria and across the border in Iraq.
  • (18) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
  • (19) The performance tests included tracking, choice reaction, flicker fusion, exophoria, nystagmus, digit symbol substitution and the subjective assessment of mood.
  • (20) The patients were categorized according to DSM-III as suffering from either minor depression (including dysthymic disorder, 300.40; adjustment disorder with depressed mood, 309.00; atypical depression, 296.82) or major depression (without melancholia, 296.X2; with melancholia, 296.X3; with psychotic features, 296.X4).

State


Definition:

  • (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
  • (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
  • (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
  • (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
  • (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
  • (n.) Estate, possession.
  • (n.) A person of high rank.
  • (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
  • (n.) The principal persons in a government.
  • (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
  • (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
  • (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
  • (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
  • (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
  • (a.) Stately.
  • (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
  • (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
  • (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
  • (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (5) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (7) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (8) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (9) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (10) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
  • (11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (13) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (14) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (16) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (17) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (18) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (19) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (20) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.