What's the difference between motion and revertent?

Motion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
  • (n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion.
  • (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
  • (n.) Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
  • (n.) Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • (n.) A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
  • (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
  • (n.) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
  • (n.) A puppet show or puppet.
  • (v. i.) To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
  • (v. i.) To make proposal; to offer plans.
  • (v. t.) To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
  • (v. t.) To propose; to move.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In attacking the motion to freeze the licence fee during today's Parliamentary debate the culture secretary, Andy Burnham, criticised the Tory leader.
  • (2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (3) Based on our results, we propose the following hypotheses for the neurochemical mechanisms of motion sickness: (1) the histaminergic neuron system is involved in the signs and symptoms of motion sickness, including vomiting; (2) the acetylcholinergic neuron system is involved in the processes of habituation to motion sickness, including neural store mechanisms; and (3) the catecholaminergic neuron system in the brain stem is not related to the development of motion sickness.
  • (4) Full consideration should be given to the dynamics of motion when assessing risk factors in working tasks.
  • (5) It is proposed that microoscillations of the eye increase the threshold for detection of retinal target displacements, leading to less efficient lateral sway stabilization than expected, and that the threshold for detection of self motion in the A-P direction is lower than the threshold for object motion detection used in the calculations, leading to more efficient stabilization of A-P sway.
  • (6) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
  • (7) To evaluate the relationship between the motion pattern and degree of organic change of the anterior mitral leaflet (AML) and the features of the mitral component of the first heart sound (M1) or the opening snap (OS), 37 patients with mitral stenosis (MS) were studied by auscultation, phonocardiography and echocardiography.
  • (8) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
  • (9) A more accurate fit of T1 data using a modified Lipari and Szabo approach indicates that internal fast motions dominate the T1 relaxation in glycogen.
  • (10) However, the effect of prior jaw motion and the effect of the recording site on the EMG amplitudes and on the vertical dimension of minimum EMG activity have not been documented.
  • (11) Clinical evaluation of passive range of motion, antero-posterior laxity and the appearance of the joint space showed little or no difference between the reconstruction methods.
  • (12) We present a paradigm to estimate local affine motion parallax structure from a varying image irradiance pattern.
  • (13) Echocardiographic findings included an abrupt midsystolic, posterior motion (greater than 3 mm beyond the CD line) in five patients, multiple sequence echoes in six, and posterior coaptation of the mitral valve near the left atrial wall in six.
  • (14) Results show that responses to motion of cortical cells are particularly sensitive to these manipulations.
  • (15) Interexaminer reliability studies indicate that a standard method of motion palpation is quite feasible and accurate.
  • (16) Rapid right ventricular pacing increased the extent and degree of dyskinesia of the left ventricle, but premedication with nicorandil improved the wall motion.
  • (17) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (18) The relative importance of these properties depends critically on the presence and mode of motion of the tectorial plate.
  • (19) Left ventricular asynchrony was quantified by the phase difference of the first Fourier harmonic between postero-basal and antero-apical wall motion.
  • (20) The Weinstein Company, which Harvey owns with his brother Bob, lost rights to the title on Tuesday following a ruling by the Motion Picture Association of America's arbitration board.

Revertent


Definition:

  • (n.) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Friend erythroleukemia cells were induced to differentiate by dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and hexamethylene-bis-acetamide (HBMA) in order to investigate whether their lipid characteristics, common to other systems of transformed cells, revert to a normal differentiation pattern.
  • (2) Upon depletion of ATP in contraction, the P2 intensity reverted to the original rigor level, accompanied by development of rigor tension.
  • (3) Lipoprotein concentrations reverted to normal after substitution with thyroxine (T4) until the euthyroid state was reached.
  • (4) As compared with solvent-treated control, no significant increases were observed in the number of revertant colonies in all tester strains in both systems with and without mammalian metabolic activation (S9 Mix).
  • (5) Proteolytic activity of cell extracts from revertants of Shigella flexneri L-forms as well as biochemical properties of these strains and their sensitivity to antibiotics were studied.
  • (6) A total of 43 tra-3 revertants (one intragenic, 42 extragenic) have been isolated and analyzed, in the hope of identifying new sex-determination loci.
  • (7) All cellular signals characterized so far are reverted during retrodifferentiation: Redistribution of PKC and down-regulation of c-fos and c-jun contribute to an interruption of the differentiation-associated transsignaling cascade.
  • (8) Fruiting revertants of these strains accumulate wild-type levels of alpha-mannosidase-1 activity, suggesting that both the enzymatic and morphological defects are caused by single mutations in nonstructural genes essential for early development.
  • (9) All revertants to prototrophy tested showed the rifampin-sensitive (Rifs) property.
  • (10) This product was glycosylated since it bound to concanavalin A-Sepharose and reverted to the 66-kDa polypeptide after treatment with endoglycosidase H. This glycosylated product was resistant to protease digestion and fractionated with microsomal membranes on sucrose gradients, indicating that it is incorporated into the microsomal membranes.
  • (11) Of the five patients who had diabetes prior to treatment, three reverted to normal glucose tolerance during treatment.
  • (12) We studied the activation of polyoma middle T expression in revertant cells carrying transcriptionally inactive copies of the middle T (pmt) oncogene.
  • (13) However, with subsequent subcultivation, eight isolates reverted back to the standard of exhibiting motility and pellicle formation.
  • (14) A significant correlation was observed between prolactin and creatinine concentrations in these patients (r = 0.45 P less than 0.005) and prolactin reverted towards normal after successful renal transplantation.
  • (15) Conversely, when obesity was permitted to recur by giving the mice free access to food, PRL levels reverted back to the original obese pattern.
  • (16) We have isolated and characterized revertants of ts24, a member of the A complementation group of Sindbis HR mutants, that we had demonstrated previously to have a temperature-sensitive defect in the regulation of minus-strand synthesis.
  • (17) All revertants of adA24 carried dominant suppressor mutations.
  • (18) Using this technique we have cloned and sequenced the structural protein region of ts20 and of several revertants and concluded that the mutation was a change from histidine to leucine at amino acid 291 of E2.
  • (19) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
  • (20) Enzymatic data for those ICR-191A-induced revertants of hisD3018 arising within the hisD gene indicate that the enzyme is wild type and, therefore, that ICR-191A can cause deletions as well as additions of single base pairs.

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