What's the difference between motionless and stationary?

Motionless


Definition:

  • (a.) Without motion; being at rest.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
  • (2) The intensity-measuring device in both apparatuses has a mobile disk attached to a motionless axis by a spiral spring; the clamps have fixing screws in the butts of a spong.
  • (3) But life is very difficult now.” Urmani motions to the river opposite, languishing green and motionless.
  • (4) Quiet inspiration before and after phrenicotomy was always associated with a caudal displacement of the sternum and a cranial displacement of the seventh rib; the second rib, however, was either motionless or also showed an inspiratory caudal displacement.
  • (5) The EMG potentials were recorded in the agonist and antagonist of the right and left upper or lower extremity in the motionless state (factor B by Tardieu), simple movement, simple movement against resistance and nociceptive irritation (Babinski phenomenon).
  • (6) The authors conclude that, in motionless lung, MRI has lower spatial but greater contrast resolution than CT.
  • (7) At the initiation of anaphase, a pair of chromatids could be held by the optical trap and kept motionless throughout anaphase while the other pairs of chromatids separated and moved to opposite spindle poles.
  • (8) The first and most common type had three clinical phases, consisting of an initial motionless stare, stereotyped movements, and reactive automatisms during impaired consciousness.
  • (9) Each segment was classified according to its shape and motion: akinetic, dyskinetic or aneurysmal, and the papillary muscles of the mitral valve were assessed as normal or pathological (dense and motionless on the echogram).
  • (10) In the remaining patient who presented with chronic cor pulmonale, two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated a motionless ovoid mass with a broad base of attachment to the interatrial septum.
  • (11) In experiment 3, habituation to a shape undergoing two rigid motions was followed by a new shape presented motionless, or the same shape presented motionless.
  • (12) At the higher temperatures the motionless sperms were dead but this was not the case at 4 degrees.
  • (13) Most of the task-related neurons (70%) responded in the choice phase in which the animal either made an arm movement (go condition) or kept its arm motionless (no-go condition) in order to obtain a water reward.
  • (14) The behavior of the animals appeared splaying of the contralateral extremities, circling around counterclockwise and in a comatose motionless state.
  • (15) They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling.
  • (16) For the first 60 min the subjects were cooled while sitting motionless and for the latter 60 min they were submitted to cycle ergometer exercise (CE), arm ergometer exercise (AE) or step exercise (ST).
  • (17) Nystagmic eye movement, optokinetic, was recorded on ENG during this motionless flight simulator, which increased on banking.
  • (18) The proposed model allows positive thigmotaxis, generally referred to in the literature simply as thigmotaxis, to be considered as the rate-constant of transition into the motionless state.
  • (19) Complex partial seizures (CPSs) beginning with an initial motionless stare (IMS) have been reported to respond well to temporal lobectomy.
  • (20) The line-spread function of a motionless line source was compared with that of a moving source (for two kinds of motion: regular and harmonic).

Stationary


Definition:

  • (a.) Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
  • (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
  • (a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
  • (n.) One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) sn-Glycerol 3-phosphate was found to decrease the quasi-stationary concentration of Fru 2,6-P2.
  • (2) Although less growth occurred with limited glucose, M protein of high specific activity was produced with an actual increase in acid-extractable M protein during the stationary phase of growth.
  • (3) The mutant ribosomes prepared from the transition-phase cells have much lower activity (below 60%) for poly(U)-directed polyphenylalanine synthesis than those in exponentially growing or resting stationary-phase cells.
  • (4) At the beginning of the stationary phase the activity of intracellular nuclease was relatively stable in both strains.
  • (5) In the present study, we have compared the phosphorylation state of the fibronectin receptor in motile neural crest and somitic cells, in stationary somitic cells, and in Rous-sarcoma virus transformed-chick embryo fibroblasts, using immunoprecipitation following metabolic labeling.
  • (6) Both the formazans and tetrazolium salts were screened for their antiviral activity against the Ranikhet disease virus and vaccinia virus in a stationary culture of chorioallantoic membrane of chick embryo.
  • (7) By moving an electronic pen over a digitizing tablet, the subject could explore a line drawing stored in memory; on the display screen a portion of the drawing appeared to move behind a stationary aperture, in concert with the movement of the pen.
  • (8) In the stationary group the bronchograms showed only a mild mucous reaction, and peripheral filling was generally good.
  • (9) No significant differences were found between the motion and stationary MSLT days.
  • (10) Three types of behavior of the compound eye of Daphnia magna are characterized: 'flick', a transient rotation elicited by a brief flash of light; 'fixation', a maintained eye orientation in response to a stationary light stimulus of long-duration; 'tracking', the smooth pursuit of a moving stimulus.
  • (11) We report here that dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO): suppresses radiation-induced transformation in vitro, even when DMSO treatments begin as late as 10 days post-irradiation (when cells are in the confluent, stationary phase of growth); inhibits the 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate (TPA) enhancement of radiation-induced transformation in vitro; does not affect the expression of transformed cells as foci (when surrounded by non-transformed cells); and may be affecting radiation-induced transformation through its solvent properties (i.e.
  • (12) Likewise, 60 s incorporations show a large amount of bicarbonate fixed into aspartate (30.9%) in stationary phase cells over that of exponential phase (11.6%).
  • (13) In particular we focus on the case encountered in many tomographic applications in which the spatial response functions are approximately stationary with object depth.
  • (14) Stationary-phase cells of Escherichia coli were enumerated by the pour plate method on Trypticase soy agar containing 0.3% yeast extract (TSYA), violet red-bile agar, and desoxycholate-lactose agar, and by the most-probable-number method in Brilliant Green-bile broth and lauryl sulfate broth.
  • (15) The main pregnancy resolution was vaginal via; only 6.3% of the study group subjected cesarean section against 10.3% of the witness group and the most frecuent indication was stationary dilation (1 and 8 cases respectively).
  • (16) The Chinese hamster fibroblasts entered the stationary phase of growth after 5.5 days of cultivation.
  • (17) Regeneration of cells from protoplasts was monitored throughout the growth cycle and was most efficient when cells of either S. fradiae or S. griseofuscus were taken from the transition phase between the exponential and stationary growth phases.
  • (18) Bacillus megaterium, in which sporulation was blocked either by mutation or with netropsin, synthesizes during the stationary phase more exocellular proteinase than the sporulating culture.
  • (19) The search process first segregates the array into moving and stationary items, and then examines the moving group for the target form.
  • (20) This device has collecting cups which follow the movements of the floor of the mouth but which is kept stationary by a fixed platform on the occlusal surfaces of the teeth.

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