What's the difference between quadruped and quadrupled?
Quadruped
Definition:
(a.) Having four feet.
(n.) An animal having four feet, as most mammals and reptiles; -- often restricted to the mammals.
Example Sentences:
(1) BigDog Facebook Twitter Pinterest BigDog is a autonomous packhorse Funded by Darpa and the US army, BigDog is Boston Dynamics’ most famous robot, a large mule-like quadruped that walks around like a dog, self balancing and navigating a range of terrain.
(2) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
(3) This paper describes a system for the quantitative analysis of posture and stance in the freely standing quadruped.
(4) In estimated body weight and relative height of the coronoid process, the fossil is similar to arboreal quadrupeds, such as Cebus apella and Chiropotes.
(5) Neither the position of their center of gravity nor the average position of their foot contacts is substantially different from that of other quadrupeds supporting most of their weight on their forelimbs.
(6) Spontaneous quadruped walking with the ventral surface of the body off the floor was first observed at postnatal day 11.
(7) 10.25am BST Elefántcsontpart did always look like a particularly good name for the Ivory Coast, even when I had no idea what it meant – though I could guess that the first bit related to a large grey betrunked quadruped.
(8) A device used for study of postural reactions associated with placing movement in the quadruped is described.
(9) The energetic cost for walking is relatively higher for penguins than for other birds or for quadrupeds of similar body mass.
(10) These experiments evaluated the relative contributions of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptors to control of plasma renin activity (PRA) in conscious dogs in which PRA was elevated to two- and threefold basal levels by the orthostatic stress of passive quadruped standing and by 24-h water deprivation.
(11) Many parameters of gait and performance, including stride frequency, stride length, maximum speed, and rate of O2 uptake are experimentally found to be power-law functions of body weight in running quadrupeds.
(12) Ferrocyanide, a nontoxic, quadrupally charged anion was not absorbed; it could therefore be used as an osmotically active solute with reflection coefficient of 1.0 to adjust rates of fluid absorption, Jv, and to measure the coefficient of osmotic flow, Lp.
(13) Quadrupeds generally use the trot or its variations at moderate speeds, and first the canter and then the gallop as speed increases.
(14) Running in both bipeds and quadrupeds generally involves at least one aerial phase per stride cycle, but certain perturbations to running including running in circles, running under enhanced gravity, running on compliant surfaces and running with increased knee flexion (Groucho running) can reduce the aerial phase, even to zero.
(15) Compared to data obtained in quadrupeds, these results suggest that the entrainment of breathing frequency by the locomotor activity is due to central interactions between the respiratory and locomotor pattern generators and does not depend on a chemical regulation avoided here by short locomotor sequences.
(16) 1) Although periodic passive hindlimb movements can reproduce the enhancement of breathing frequency seen at the onset of muscular exercise, we have shown previously that they were unable to induce the 1:1 coupling which is observed between locomotion and respiration during galloping in quadrupeds.
(17) Experiments on human wrist-pendular activity and detailed analyses of the mass and length dependencies of the locomotory cycle times of quadrupeds, large birds, small passerines, hummingbirds, and insects are performed with respect to the dynamical properties predicted for systems in the pendular clocking mode.
(18) The ultrastructure of the bearing surface of baboon articular cartilage resembles that of quadrupeds such as the dog.
(19) MACN-SC 101 may represent the incipient divergence of a generalized platyrrhine arboreal quadruped toward a more suspensory form.
(20) If you’ve got a quadruped robot, or a robot with wheels, it’s not really designed for that environment, so it might be able to adapt.
Quadrupled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Quadruple
Example Sentences:
(1) Three effector: target ratios (6.2:1, 25:1, and 50:1) were studied in quadruplicate using 3, 4 and 5-h incubations.
(2) The largest increases in brain weights in both sexes occurred during the first 3 years of life, when the value quadruples over that at birth, while during the subsequent 15 years the brain weight barely quintuples over that at birth.
(3) They then decreased very slowly, according to a half-life of 122 h. Although it decreases glomerular filtration, ligation of ureters 20 h before the injection quadrupled the concentration in the cortex.
(4) Official estimates suggest the number of small packages shipped into Europe more than quadrupled from 26m in 2000 to 115m two years ago.
(5) The kinetics of intravenously administered FK506 was not changed from control status two weeks after bile duct ligation, but the bioavailability of orally administered FK506 was nearly quadrupled.
(6) There is a clear benefit of quadruple drug induction treatment for retransplants and sensitized transplant candidates.
(7) This patient achieved a complete remission with cyclic quadruple chemotherapy consisting of cyclophosphamide, vincristine, procarbazine, and prednisone (COPP).
(8) Null yuh1 ubp1 ubp2 ubp3 quadruple mutants are viable and retain the ability to deubiquitinate ubiquitin fusions, indicating the presence of at least one more ubiquitin-specific processing protease in S. cerevisiae.
(9) Guinea pig alveolar macrophages were infected in quadruplicate with log10 3.8 CFU of F889 cells grown at either 25 or 41 degrees C. Counts of F889 in the alveolar macrophages infected with 25 degrees C-grown bacteria were 40% greater after 1 day of incubation (P = 2 X 10(-4)) than were counts in the alveolar macrophage suspensions inoculated with 41 degrees C-grown bacteria.
(10) Shares acquired through privatisations rose steadily on the stock markets, while the buyers of council houses found that their assets tripled or quadrupled in value in the space of five years.
(11) An inductively coupled, quadruple-tuned surface coil with a 50-ohm match at all relevant frequencies was used for both excitation and receiving.
(12) Although both stores carried the same brands and varieties of produce, all 19 cases occurred among employees of one store, which had held a celery sale coincident with the outbreak, resulting in a quadrupling of the usual volume of celery sold.
(13) during the period of one year, that triple and quadruple resistance is the most prevalent one in staphylococci - not regarded, however, the penicillin resistance which is absolutely predominant.
(14) Sequence differences in the internally quadruplicated molecules, analysed in terms of their beta-sheets, hairpins and arches, give rise to structural differences in the motifs.
(15) Furthermore, a high percentage of multiple (quadruple or more) pancreatica magna and caudae pancreatis arteries has been observed and a functional role of this peculiar arrangement is suggested.
(16) BEATING THE CHEATING Owen Gibson’s five-point plan for reform 1 Hugely increase global funding Triple it, quadruple it.
(17) Surgery consisted in quadruple coronary bypass in 1 case, triple coronary bypass in 3 cases and double coronary bypass in 6 cases using 4 autologous saphenous vein grafts, 6 autologous internal mammary artery grafts and 13 bovine internal mammary artery grafts.
(18) The price of the specially formulated milk he requires has quadrupled since last year, so his parents have had to rent out their own home and move into a much smaller, rundown one just to feed their child.
(19) The High Pay Commission revealed earlier this week that while average pay has quadrupled since 1980s, top executives have seen their remuneration rise by 4,000%.
(20) Fourteen patients (56%) had double, triple or quadruple cancers.