What's the difference between racquet and shuttlecock?

Racquet


Definition:

  • (n.) See Racket.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He drops his racquet in disbelief and the pair of them embrace at the net.
  • (2) Because of the recent rapid increase in the number of knee injuries related to racquet sports, the authors undertook a retrospective study of such injuries seen over a 5-year period at the Toronto Western Hospital Sports Medicine Institute.
  • (3) Racquets were more common as the source of injury (61%) than squash balls.
  • (4) Static tests indicated that standards published by the Canadian Squash Racquets Association are inappropriate.
  • (5) In the video posted on YouTube , the supervisor is seen running off court and shutting the gate, at which point Abedini beats the gate with his racquet and kicks it while shouting at the official.
  • (6) The effectiveness of cushion grip bands in reducing impact shock and vibration transfer, and slipping in tennis racquets has been investigated.
  • (7) You have a platform that very few people will ever have ... You hit a tennis ball with a racquet over a little net, and just think what you can do with that, beyond trying to win Wimbledon."
  • (8) The authors report that in a 5-year period, 17% of the injuries seen in a busy sports injuries clinic were associated with racquet sports, and over half of these were injuries to the knee.
  • (9) Frequently during his defeat of Raonic, met with a line call he didn’t like, he would gawp at the linesman in mock shock, and drop his racquet and ball where he stood, drawing inevitable laughter.
  • (10) He hits a shot wide and smacks the barrier with his racquet.
  • (11) Changes in racquet variables, court surface, footwear, and string tension play an important part in treatment of both upper and lower extremity injuries.
  • (12) Laser beams were employed for precision adjustment of the spatial racquet position and the ball impact location.
  • (13) Racquet sports involve sharp, side-to-side movements and impose significant valgus and rotatory stresses on the knee.
  • (14) Within the last decade, there has been a significant increase in racquet sport participation.
  • (15) Some of the more common racquet sport injuries include tennis leg, jumper's knee, patello-femoral pain, meniscal injuries, bursitis, and tendinitis.
  • (16) was used together with a standard tennis racquet for the investigation.
  • (17) Middle-aged men, however, especially those with known coronary disease or coronary risk factors, should approach racquet sports with caution, and might benefit from timely medical advice.
  • (18) With its 1080p screen, 90-degree field of view and 360-degree head-tracking, the fundaments are in place – it seems the device will also recognise Move as a virtual controller, which means you’ll be able to look down in the game world and see it in your hands, perhaps as a gun, a torch, or a tennis racquet.
  • (19) Over 90% of the patients returned to their chosen racquet sport within 3 months of the arthroscopy and most were playing at a similar performance level to that before the initial injury.
  • (20) Most fractures were thought to have occurred while the patient was swinging a racquet, golf club, or baseball bat.

Shuttlecock


Definition:

  • (n.) A cork stuck with feathers, which is to be struck by a battledoor in play; also, the play itself.
  • (v. t.) To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also a plastic balloon attached to a plastic line, a Sainbury's plastic bag urging its owner to recycle it, a car wheel, myriad unidentifiable pieces of plastic, a shotgun cartridge and a shuttlecock.
  • (2) The move is intended to make the space plane fall like a shuttlecock until it reaches 70,000 feet, when the tailbooms return to normal position and the plane glides the rest of the way down.
  • (3) When the feathering system is deployed, the space plane’s twin tail booms rotate forwards and upwards, dramatically increasing aerodynamic drag and making the craft fall like a shuttlecock.
  • (4) SpaceShipTwo is designed with Rutan’s revolutionary “feathering mechanism”, a shape-changing airfoil that creates a shuttlecock effect on re-entry, and helps the aircraft – unlike those used by Space X and Blue Origin – to land on a runway.

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