What's the difference between readjustment and squabble?

Readjustment


Definition:

  • (n.) A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A comprehensive multivariate framework aimed at predicting the factors that enhance or impede readjustment after a heart attack, has been developed and empirically supported by a study among convalescents after heart attack.
  • (2) However, synaptic readjustment did occur caudal to the lesion.
  • (3) Root off- and on-shifts in cell haemolysates at 24 degrees C, produced predominantly by changing pH but with unavoidable subsequent readjustments of the CO(2)-bicarbonate buffer systems, had an initial rapid phase with half-times as low as 0.01 sec.
  • (4) Readjustment in terms of school performance was good but was less good for psychosocial development.
  • (5) However, when used for periods of 2-3 years, the reproductive system usually requires a period of a few cycles to readjust itself for proper ovulation.
  • (6) In some nephrons, readjustments of GCP occurred in response to step changes in perfusion pressure within the range of 90 to 165 mm Hg.
  • (7) During restoration of the synaptic contacts readjustment of dendritic tips occurred.
  • (8) His pencil or pastel notes, readjusts, notes again with more emphasis the advancing or receding edge of a continually moving body.
  • (9) The findings indicate that emotional reactions after a MI should be monitored during convalescence to identify patients at risk for a failure in emotional readjustment.
  • (10) The behavior at pH 9.0 reverted to the behavior at pH 4.8 when the pH was readjusted.
  • (11) We also evaluated the stability of this concentrated serum at 6 degrees C, -20 degrees C and -70 degrees C. We also verified whether readjustment of the pH of the concentrated resin-treated serum would have improved its stability at -20 degrees C.
  • (12) Serially obtained synovial fluid specimens were yellow and clear or hazy and had good mucinous precipitate quality at all times in all horses, except 2, in which the catheter required readjustment.
  • (13) ), must also involve readjustment of dynamic mobility.
  • (14) This calls probably for readjustment of the corresponding algorithm.
  • (15) Exposure of the enzyme to high pH (9-10) led to only a small loss of secondary structure and partial reactivation could be observed on readjustment of the pH to 8.0.
  • (16) Labour’s Chris Leslie said: ‘Lots of very wealthy people will be delighted with massive giveaway.’ Overseas aid budget Budget will be “readjusted”, saving £650m in 2019-20.
  • (17) It is concluded that in HTRs, because of constrained maximum HR, only work loads up to 60% of the VO2max of CTLs may be attained; also, owing to the fast readjustment of Q, up to work loads of 75 to 100 W, the rest to work transition phase is not impaired.
  • (18) Application of multivariate techniques of data analysis revealed a 'structure' highlighting the relative weight of various 'demands' in impeding readjustment, and the relative significance of the individual's self-controlled resources in coping with these demands and thus enhance readjustment.
  • (19) Exercise therapy in the morning hours resulted in the readjustment of hormonal regulation characterized by the predominance of the activity of the counterinsular systems over the insular one.
  • (20) A close correlation was shown between this synaptic readjustment and the strength of uncontrollable undulatory movements seen caudal to the lesion site following spinal cord transection.

Squabble


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contend for superiority in an unseemly maner; to scuffle; to struggle; to wrangle; to quarrel.
  • (v. i.) To debate peevishly; to dispute.
  • (v. t.) To disarrange, so that the letters or lines stand awry or are mixed and need careful readjustment; -- said of type that has been set up.
  • (n.) A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On Thursday the word in Brussels was there would be fresh elections in April, a ballot likely to entrench the divide, deepen the crisis of political accountability and legitimacy, and result in yet further months of government-less squabbling.
  • (2) But living in modern Britain feels like being one of a family of anxious, squabbling children whose parents have abandoned us to get drunk at the casino.
  • (3) What we are seeing is the government really squabbling over what is such an important and profound piece of legislation for our country, like kids in a schoolyard.” Shorten told reporters on Sunday the government’s citizenship laws were “rapidly descending into a farce”, and called on it to urgently release the text of the legislation so Labor could scrutinise it.
  • (4) Precisely how juvenile was, of course, open to yet more squabbling.
  • (5) My son’s Guyanese-Canadian teacher and the Muslim Milton scholar I went to high school with and the Sikh writer I squabble about Harold Innis with and my Ishmaeli accountant, we can all be good little Torontonians of the middle class, deflecting the differences we have been trained to respect.
  • (6) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.
  • (7) Nor are they exotic Mafia hits like the killing of Castellano; these are low-level whackings, often linked to squabbles over drugs.
  • (8) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
  • (9) "The squabbles will be bitter and vicious if the first salvoes in this war are anything to go by.
  • (10) Amid squabbles over boundary changes, mansion tax, Europe and the NHS, each of them was up for the fight.
  • (11) Momentum Hastings seems pleasantly free of the kind of dogmatic, acrimonious squabbles that have recently engulfed the movement at national level.
  • (12) Likewise, he feels, parenting is too important to fall foul of party political squabbles.
  • (13) We kids had obviously been squabbling and had been banned from making any noise or, "I'll stop the car and bang your heads together!"
  • (14) When superpowers and former superpowers squabble, lives are ruined.
  • (15) Preparatory talks last month in Bangkok ended in acrimonious squabbles .
  • (16) The same can't be said of our squabbles at the decade's end.
  • (17) She had lived for a long time in the shadow of her unfaithful husband, and, uninterested in the perennial squabbles of the Chilean left, the coup turned her into a significant political figure in her own right.
  • (18) A new body is to be elected to do the job, but with arguments raging over the place of Sharia law in that constitution, and with regional leaders squabbling for influence, there is no sign of when those elections will happen.
  • (19) If the experiment has been a disaster for Greece, it is also a colossal failure for Europe , with the result that at the very apex of leadership the EU nowadays resembles an unhappy assembly of squabbling politicians locked in what could not be called an “ever closer union”.
  • (20) From the lawn we could see nothing but tree tops and the only interruption to lazy mornings on the terrace was the noise of squabbling langur monkeys and green parrots.

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