What's the difference between react and reenact?

React


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
  • (v. i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.
  • (v. i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) MRK20 reacted with monocytes, but MRK16 did not with any WBC type.
  • (2) A 66-year-old woman with acute idiopathic polyneuritis (Landry-Guillain-Barré [LGB] syndrome) had normal extraocular movements, but her pupils did not react to light or accommodation.
  • (3) The Fc fragment of this protein reacted with and was solubilized by the staphylococcal A protein which also precipitated the intact immunoglobulin.
  • (4) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
  • (5) Plasma for beta-endorphin assay was preincubated with sepharose-bound anti-beta-lipotropin to remove beta-lipotropin that cross-reacted with the beta-endorphin RIA.
  • (6) The patoc antigens types reacted with the control group in 7.24, 86.95 and 84.05% of the samples, and consequently were eliminated from the present study.
  • (7) Flow cytofluorometric analysis of the strain distribution of the molecules defined by the mAb revealed that two of the antibodies (I-22 and III-5) were directed against nonpolymorphic determinants of Thy-1, whereas V-8 mAb reacted only with Thy-1.2+ lymphocytes.
  • (8) TNBS reacts to an extremely small extend with hemoglobin over the concentration range 0.4 to 4 mM whereas FDNB reacts with hemoglobin to a very large extent (50 fold more than TNBS).
  • (9) The 4G1 antibody reacted with only the proteins of the two Y. enterocolitica strains.
  • (10) 18 children with B. a. and 1 patient with c. B. reacted significantly with sRaw.
  • (11) The following possible explanations were discussed: a) the tested psychotropic drugs block prostaglandin receptors in the stomach; b) the test substances react with prostaglandin in the nutritive solution; c) the substances stimulate metabolic processes in the stomach wall that break down prostaglandin.
  • (12) Differential absorption experiments showed that LG-1 contained a mixture of specific and cross-reacting antibodies.
  • (13) Horizontal sections of the left cortex were reacted for the demonstration of HRP.
  • (14) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
  • (15) The bacterial-binding activity and mammalian receptor-binding activities in each of two samples co-chromatographed on a Remazol yellow GGL-Sepharose affinity column strongly indicated that the same immunoglobulin species reacts with both antigens.
  • (16) The antibodies were used for identifying cross-reacting proteins in individual C. s. scutulatus and other Crotalus venoms and to isolate Mojave toxin.
  • (17) It is shown that, by comparison of a reacting mixture at chemical equilibrium with a non-reacting but equally composed one, the sum of the mean concentrations of the reaction products can immediately be taken from optical absorption or from interferometric measurements.
  • (18) 27% of the neurons revealed high sensitivity to the temperature stimulus with coefficient Q10 from 2.4 to 30; 6% of the neurons reacted by the on-response type; 5% of the neurons changed their activity and preserved the new level.
  • (19) Lastly, size analysis of the circulating IgG4 aFABA complexes indicated that these autoantibodies were not complexed with intact IgG, but rather with a molecule of 40-60 kDa, further suggesting the potential for these autoantibodies to react with multiple antigens.
  • (20) Chelators and sulfhydryl group reacting substances reduced the enzyme activity.

Reenact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To enact again.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Six hundred seventy-one patients reported as injured to the Nebraska Department of Roads in the period from one year before through one year after the reenactment on January 1, 1989.
  • (2) These faculty viewed the reenactments (under the impression they were actual examinations) and rated the "students" performances overall and in ten categories concerning different aspects of the students' knowledge, clinical decision-making skills, and personal characteristics.
  • (3) To support police in reenacting criminal acts is one of the most important functions of forensic investigation.
  • (4) An Almaz-Antey expert presented several slides showing graphs, equations and 3D-reenactments, which he said showed that damage to the aircraft was consistent with the impact from a Buk missile but only from the older Buk M-1 system.
  • (5) The author describes how this relationship facilitates each patient's repetition of early object relations, which are reenacted with staff members through splitting and projective identification.
  • (6) Janet was the first to systematically study dissociation as the crucial psychological process with which the organism reacts to overwhelming experiences and show that traumatic memories may be expressed as sensory perceptions, affect states, and behavioral reenactments.
  • (7) San Francisco offered a fitting setting for the jam-packed, hour-long event, which featured a percussive narration and reenactment by Alyokhina and three other performers, accompanied by footage of the Pussy Riot protest and trial.
  • (8) The first is based on a symbiotic reenactment in which the investment of both partners is tenacious and reciprocal, an attachment which Giovacchini refers to as a "character object" relationship.
  • (9) My wife read Fifty Shades of Grey and decided she was a closeted submissive, keen to reenact the BDSM scenes.
  • (10) Berliner's work on the origin of moral masochism, as well as the work of Steele on generational repetition, suggest the processes through which the infant's attachment to a sadistic mother gives rise to masochistic tendencies which may be reenacted throughout life in an effort to reproduce the affective feelings associated with mother's love and affection.
  • (11) A controlled reenactment of the domestication process provided information on the relative effects of natural selection, inbreeding, and habitat upon an originally wild house mouse population.
  • (12) Later, these men and no-exposure control subjects completed a voir dire questionnaire, viewed a reenacted acquaintance or nonacquaintance sexual assault trial, and judged the defendant and alleged rape victim.
  • (13) Three actors and two actresses, dressed as surgery students in a wide range of attire, were videotaped as they reenacted five transcripts of actual students' responses in their oral examinations.
  • (14) Abused mothers who reenacted their maltreatment with their own children experienced significantly more life stress and were more anxious, dependent, immature, and depressed.
  • (15) Below the line, @johnakirk101 has suggested that the crew reenact two iconic scenes: leaning down from the Sears Tower (which @mouseboy33 tells us is not to be called the Willis Tower ) and the Union Station shootout.
  • (16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘in the coverage of Brock Turner’s crime at Stanford University, much was made of the fact the assault took place behind a dumpster, among dirt and pine-needles.’ Photograph: Reuters My performance was inspired by the 1973 art work by Ana Mendieta, Untitled (Rape Scene) , in which Mendieta reenacted the aftermath of a rape and murder that had occurred on her campus.
  • (17) If adolescent developmental tasks have been unresolved or pathologically resolved, they are likely to be reenacted during the various stages of the malignancy.
  • (18) The functions of drama therapy as a form of child psychotherapy are illustrated through case material, focusing on wish fulfillment, psychic integration, reenactment of past traumatic experiences, transformation from passivity to activity, separation of fantasy and reality, fusion with the idealized or hated parent, defense and mastery.
  • (19) The majority of content involves white children and perpetrators, and images are sometimes used by abusers to normalise the abuse and encourage children to reenact the activity.
  • (20) They are part of 20 Stories High, a theatre company based in the city, and their latest production, Tales from the MP3, involves the cast playing each other as they reenact their real-life conversations and debates on topics such as immigration, race and religion.

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