What's the difference between pirouette and whirling?
Pirouette
Definition:
(n.) A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing.
(n.) The whirling about of a horse.
(v. i.) To perform a pirouette; to whirl, like a dancer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Craig Forsyth crossed low from left-back for Hughes to time his run late and pirouette into a position from which he deflected the ball home with the inside of his left heel.
(2) The pirouette mutation was tested for possible genetic linkage with naked neck, tardy feathering, the MN t(Z;1) chromosome rearrangement, all assigned to distinctly different regions of Chromosome 1, and the OH inv(2) chromosome rearrangement and shankless (associated with the OH inv(2) rearrangement).
(3) Despite the withdrawal of the medication, 4 hours later ventricular tachycardia of the "pirouette" type arose that 2-3 minutes later was followed by ventricular fibrillation with clinical death.
(4) Similar anticipation by Baines prevented Fellaini scoring a second after a pirouette with the ball in the Everton area, then when Rashford played Valencia in on the overlap with a showy disguised pass, the United player had to delay his cross because not a single red shirt was waiting in the box.
(5) This eliminates specific regions of Chromosomes 1 and 2 as possible locations for the pirouette mutation.
(6) No one was hurt in the incident and he escapes punishment Receives another red card March 2011 Balotelli apologises to his team-mates after he is sent off during a Europa League tie with Dynamo Kyiv for a reckless challenge on Goran Popov Enrages Mancini with back-heel July 2011 Balotelli is immediately substituted by an enraged Mancini after performing a pirouette and back-heeling a close-range shot wide when clean through on goal in a pre-season friendly against Los Angeles Galaxy Allows firework to be set off in his bathroom October 2011 The Italian has another run-in with the emergency services after a firework is set off in the bathroom of his home, triggering a fire.
(7) About 19 seconds after we first saw him, he twisted in a horrible pirouette and collapsed.
(8) During a study to determine if any genetic linkage existed between the chicken mutations pirouette and naked neck, it was found that when both traits are expressed simultaneously in an individual, an "automutilation" condition can be created in some cases.
(9) Canada’s 20-year-old Eugenie Bouchard was left embarrassed when the male presenter conducting her on-court interview at the Australian Open asked her: “Can you give us a twirl?” When the Wimbledon runner-up replied “A twirl?”, the interviewer, Ian Cohen, told her: “A twirl, like a pirouette, here you go.” Somewhat uncomfortably, the No7-ranked player did as she was asked, then laughed and buried her face in her hands.
(10) Connor Wickham continued to make a case for being the division's in-form player with a slick pirouette and cross from the right that went precisely at the Swede.
(11) The tremulous head movements of naked neck-pirouette chicks cause scraping of the skin on the neck against the egg shell during hatching, resulting in lacerations of the neck in varying degrees.
(12) In 1987, during two great skating contests--the Universiade in the Tatra Mountains and the Gold Pirouette in Zagreb--a total of 42 world class skaters were asked through a questionnaire if they had ever in their career suffered from a stress fracture.
(13) It just stares dumbly at you through the screen while its grotesquely undersized "body" pirouettes through a magical world of animals.
(14) You go to dance school, you train your arse off for five years, you can do a triple pirouette on your head and land in the splits, and then you come out and someone's like: 'What are your measurements?'"
(15) Ruiz got their first and his pirouette left Wilshere tackling thin air.
(16) He pirouettes down the left and reaches the byline, his fancy skills forcing the Liverpool defence to stand back.
(17) John Kerry's farce and Barack Obama's pirouettes are temporary.
(18) Diskerud tries a little pirouette on the ball on the edge of the box, but it doesn't quite come off.
Whirling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whirl
() a. & n. from Whirl, v. t.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the box the atmosphere is whirled round by a fan and hereby led over a layer of catalyst.
(2) Water contaminated by Myxosoma cerebralis was disinfected with ultraviolet irradiation to control whirling disease.
(3) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
(4) It's tempting to see all this layering as a painstaking effort on Green's part to understand her husband's death, but it's clear she sees it more as an expression of the absence of meaning that has resulted from it, the wild and whirling words of grief.
(5) Antonio Valencia raced around like the winger of a few seasons ago; Danny Welbeck discovered an extra yard of pace and an ability to spin opponents; Wayne Rooney was once more the whirling team totem, the closest to Roy Keane the club has had since the Irishman departed nine years ago.
(6) In contrast to the more uniform localization of antigens 01 through 010 over the whole cell surface, antigens 011 and 012 are less strongly detectable on cell bodies than on processes and membranous whirls.
(7) The not yet solved and serious uncertainities which need priority in the research are, according to the speaker, the control of the amebiasis of hatchery rainbow trout, the incysted icthyophtiriasis of various fresh water fishes, the rainbow trout myxosomiasis (Whirling disease), and the argulosis of eel reared in brackish water lagoons.
(8) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(9) That it should take a young Anglo-Lebanese barrister, recently married to a Hollywood star, to reanimate the debate (in a whirl of camera-clicks and flash bulbs), says much about the times we live in.
(10) That’s when all the wealthy widows who live elsewhere the rest of the year flock to their Florida mansions and get caught up in a whirl of charity balls and dinners.
(11) The numerous internal membranous bodies, some of which arise from the plasma membrane of the vegetative hypha, may be vesicular, whirled, or convoluted.
(12) Based in the Netherlands, where he is artistic director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam , the country's foremost theatre company, he frequently whirls his productions through European cities.
(13) Eukaryotic cell structures have been detected consisting of lamella layers whirled around the intact rickettsiae.
(14) The frequency with which the word whirling and similar words (whirlall words) were used in Rorschach tests administered to 1154 medical students 20 to 35 years ago has been counted by computer.
(15) This angelic whirling is a perfect counterpoint to the earthly chanting.
(16) In addition, a high incidence 1) of micronodular hepatocellular whirling lesions with increased basophilia, 2) of other proliferative areas of altered cellularity and 3) of precancerous nodules was found in the livers of schistosome-infected mice treated with hycanthone.
(17) The main subjective complaint was vertigo (whirling; 93%).
(18) So the studios made sure that those who appeared on screen could not be perceived as gay, marrying them off in a whirl of publicity if necessary.
(19) Give the Aussie Eggs a whirl: poached free range eggs on toast with tomato, garlic and fresh basil.
(20) Typical alterations are the vascular lesions of the conjunctiva, the whirl-like opacities of the cornea, the wedge-shaped anterior opacities and the branching spokes of the lens, as well as the vascular lesions of the retina.