What's the difference between moped and pedal?

Moped


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Mope

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The 28-year-old was having a drink with a friend outside the Draft House pub at the corner of Goodge Street and Charlotte Street when he heard the sound of a moped crashing.
  • (2) In a one year prospective investigation, the circumstances and sequelae of 75 moped accidents were registered.
  • (3) Fatal and severe injury crashes for scooters and mopeds in California for 1985 were compared with those for motorcycles during the same year.
  • (4) More than once he found himself half-wishing that Emadeddin would fall off his moped and solve everyone's problems.
  • (5) A gang of six men on three mopeds pulled up outside the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, central London, in the early hours of Thursday morning and three of them smashed their way through the front door and broke into display cabinets.
  • (6) Scott W fumes: "In these circumstances, playing Mascherano in midfield is like wearing a suit of full-plate armour on a moped.
  • (7) Two other patients sustained thigh deformities after a moped and a skiing accident, respectively, and were operated on under general anesthesia.
  • (8) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
  • (9) The number of those injured in motorcycle accidents tripled; the number of moped accident victims slightly decreased in the period studied.
  • (10) In a consecutive series of 132 motorcycle and moped riders killed in 1977-1983 in southern Sweden and examined post mortem, almost half of the fatal injuries of the head and neck occurred remote from the point of impact, namely certain intracranial injuries without fractures, ring fractures of the base of the skull, disruption of the junction of the head and neck and injuries of the cervical spine.
  • (11) Moments later, the moped also crashed into a parked car and the two men fell off.
  • (12) A further 27 were riding a "powered two-wheeler" (motorbikes, moped, scooters), 19 were in cars, 14 were cyclists and the remainder were in a taxi, bus or coach, or heavy goods vehicle.
  • (13) If acting had not worked out, Hepburn would never have moped.
  • (14) Julie, Grayson tells us, was born in Canvey Island in 1953, and was raised in social housing, moving upwards and outwards in more ways than one before her eventual death, run over by a pizza-delivery moped.
  • (15) It would be no surprise to Roux watchers if he 'leaked' the story of Boli's moped himself.
  • (16) He was hit 11 times before his assailants escaped on a moped.
  • (17) Women nipped about on mopeds in summer frocks instead of the usual leather clobber; sales of bikes and scooter below the 125cc limit - which allowed you unlimited travel if you had L-plates - went up by a quarter.
  • (18) In this paper we describe a case, where a healthy 35-year-old man developed a lethal myocardial infarction 8 days after a chest trauma caused by a moped.
  • (19) MOPED establishes the patterns of synthesis of a large number of polypeptides during a crucial period of development.
  • (20) I was very surprised, but it stopped me moping at home.

Pedal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a pedal; having pedals.
  • (a.) A lever or key acted on by the foot, as in the pianoforte to raise the dampers, or in the organ to open and close certain pipes; a treadle, as in a lathe or a bicycle.
  • (a.) A pedal curve or surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
  • (2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
  • (3) A crank arm length of 170 mm and pedalling rate of 100 rpm correspond closely to the cost function minimum.
  • (4) The authors suggest that pedal varix may be a more common occurrence than previously documented.
  • (5) The alpha- and beta-endorphin antisera produced a positive immunoreaction in some gastric epithelial cells, in some perikarya of the pedal ganglia, and in some nervous fibers.
  • (6) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
  • (7) Pedal radiographs can provide significant information in formulating an opinion.
  • (8) Collection of EMGs of soleus, lateral gastrocnemius, vastus medialis and rectus femoris lasted for 200 msec after stimulation, which was triggered when the pedal was 56 degrees beyond top-dead-center.
  • (9) Analysis of the activity of each unit was made at intervals from the beginning of the conditioned signal (light or sound) to the beginning of lapping milk which appeared in the feeding trough after the cat pressed the pedal.
  • (10) At 1, 2.5, 5, and 10 minutes after injection, the presence or absence of the laryngoscopic reflex, pedal reflex, and jaw tone were recorded.
  • (11) This occurs between the joint moments necessary to contribute to joint power and the moments necessary to establish a direction of the force on the pedal which allows this force to do work on the pedal.
  • (12) One unique insight gained via this new method is the functional role that individual leg muscles play in the pedalling process.
  • (13) Co-activation of mono-articular agonists and their bi-articular antagonists appear to provide a unique solution for these conflicting requirements: bi-articular muscles appear to be able to control the desired direction of the external force on the pedal by adjusting the relative distribution of net moments over the joints while mono-articular muscles appear to be primarily activated when they are in the position to shorten and thus to contribute to positive work.
  • (14) Visiting an exercise class, Mr Blair, without changing out of his suit, spent some minutes pedalling on an exercise bike for the benefit of cameramen.
  • (15) Direct arterial pressures were measured via cannulation of the dorsal pedal artery and were correlated with indirect measurements through an inflatable cuff placed over the dorsal pedal artery below the hock joint of the contralateral limb.
  • (16) Nothing in this context can be soft-pedalled and excused.
  • (17) There is, however, little available literature concerning pedal digital fractures.
  • (18) The method consists of simultaneously measuring both the normal and tangential pedal forces, the EMGs of eight leg muscles, and the crank arm and pedal angles.
  • (19) Intracellular stimulation of individual neurons in the symmetrical B neuron clusters of the cerebral ganglion also evoked pedal and parapodial contractions.
  • (20) SIS SVB was performed to a variety of vessel combinations using "Y" graft, continuous, or vein extension techniques achieving early patency in all limbs, despite pedal arch disease.