What's the difference between racetrack and straightaway?

Racetrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's a great racetrack, but I think going at a more leisurely pace is the real winner.
  • (2) There are fewer racetracks and fairgrounds these days, but many more stadiums, and no shortage of buses.
  • (3) Extending over 250 hectares (617 acres), the park revolves around the Rinconada hippodrome, a horse racetrack built in the 50s by Californian architect Arthur Froehlich that, with the surrounding gardens designed by Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle-Marx, was once emblematic of the oil-rich nation's wealth.
  • (4) Phenylbutazone is a potent nonsteroidal, anti-inflammatory drug often used by veterinarians to treat racetrack animals.
  • (5) In the US, cardiac arrests are particularly common at racetracks, casinos and business places.
  • (6) It consists of two parallel coaxial racetrack-shaped loops.
  • (7) Bahrainis say it should be relatively easy to guard the desert racetrack, though determined protesters with tickets to the event could slip past security.
  • (8) A less severe injury was defined as a horse which didn't race within 6 months following a muscular, ligament, tendon, or skeletal injury on the racetrack.
  • (9) During a pilot study at a Thoroughbred racetrack, information was collected to include weather conditions and track surface properties (moisture content, composition, strength, and coefficient of friction between surface and hoof).
  • (10) There was the truculent Ray Donovan, featuring Jon Voight; the truculent Luck, starring Dustin Hoffman as an absurdly tetchy racetrack gambler and gangster, involving much mumbling in half-lit rooms; and there was the truculent Boss, starring Kelsey Grammer as a corrupt Chicago mayor, which never quite escaped the stigma of expecting Niles Crane to burst into the room in a flap about missing his appointment to visit the newly opened downtown doll museum.
  • (11) The outbreaks of upper respiratory tract infections in horses at Standardbred racetracks were investigated over a three year period.
  • (12) "I don't care about the racetrack for Usain Bolt in the 100m.
  • (13) All horses were competing or training at racetracks in various parts of the country.
  • (14) In August 1986, an extensive serosurvey for prevalence of IgG and IgM antibodies against Ehrlichia risticii, the causative agent of equine monocytic ehrlichiosis (EME), was performed at 2 Ohio racetracks, River Downs (RD) and Beulah Park (BP).
  • (15) Individual differences in open-field activity and emotionality (number of defecations and urinations), voluntary wheel running, voluntary and forced maximal sprint running speed on a photocell-timed racetrack, swimming endurance, and maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) were studied in 35 random bred male ICR mice.
  • (16) In Nigeria, there are plans for a Porsche racetrack and a Porsche club "where people get together and compare, and go out on drives together", Wagner said, shortly after officials revved the latest Carrera model for reporters and thrilled onlookers, some posing for photographs in front of the gleaming black car.
  • (17) The serological results from this study clearly show that both equine influenza and equine rhinopneumonitis viruses were present during spring and autumn epidemics of respiratory disease on Western Canadian racetracks.
  • (18) Treating respiratory disease is a major part of racetrack practice.
  • (19) He was also an inveterate high-stakes gambler, a regular at the casinos of Paris and elsewhere, and at the racetrack in Deauville.
  • (20) Twenty-one horses had a complete unilateral humeral fracture during race training or racing at a California racetrack during the period 24 February 1990 to 10 July 1991.

Straightaway


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is going to be an urgent government inquiry with recommendations and, frankly the ABC ought to take some very strong action straightaway.” When asked whose heads should roll, Abbott ended the press conference and walked away.
  • (2) Both the receptionist and her doctor recognised the danger she and her baby were in, calling paramedics straightaway.
  • (3) The aim of this study is to argue in favour of a systematic intracavernous injection of 8 mg of papaverine when the penial Doppler is carried out, enabling an increase in its diagnostic value and often a therapeutic orientation straightaway.
  • (4) Emotional reactivity was measured using the pole, straightaway and open field tests.
  • (5) They would ask themselves straightaway, why should we ... push through tough measures that might lead to the government being voted out if our debts can be written off?"
  • (6) Horses were filmed with rider by two cameras simultaneously while galloping along a straightaway.
  • (7) As far as papillomas and angiomas are concerned, they require emergency treatment, either straightaway or after a trial of medical treatment.
  • (8) My dad literally woke me up to say goodbye because he had to leave straightaway.” She remembers being escorted to the airport by Tunisian security services.
  • (9) She approached the Ikon which came on board straightaway, and then, by happy chance, the site in front of the library became available.
  • (10) Di María did not look like the world-class player we have seen either, but you cannot expect that straightaway.
  • (11) Tigers 2 - A's 0, top of the 4th And THERE Miguel Cabrera has found his power stroke, he hits a home run on an elevated Gray fastball to straightaway leftfield for his first extra-base hit of the series!
  • (12) We are submitting new claims straightaway citing Regulations 5 & 8.
  • (13) He is a great persuader, and is straightaway telling me in his generous, conspiratorial manner about how he felt when the British Council called a year ago to invite him to represent Britain in the closest the art world comes to the Olympics.
  • (14) "Look, if you were good at it straightaway you'd make us look bad!"
  • (15) If she had married, would she have had children straightaway and put her career on hold?
  • (16) The authors suggest resection and arthrodesis straightaway in dislocations.
  • (17) "Twitter will use its rich stock to buy companies straightaway, adding to its revenues and further justifying its high valuation," he said.
  • (18) A lot of the rest of his life was chaotic, but when it came to music, he could tell straightaway if someone had taken something and put it back in the wrong place."
  • (19) At the very least you may need to put in an early offer of the asking price and cross your fingers that the sellers accept it straightaway, and that a cash buyer doesn't make a similar offer.
  • (20) The model is applied to acylation, but can straightaway be extended to deacylation, and is substantiated by recent structural and kinetic data for proteinase enzyme catalysis.

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