(v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
(v. i.) To draw back, as from anything repugnant, distressing, alarming, or the like; to shrink.
(v. i.) To turn or go back; to withdraw one's self; to retire.
(v. t.) To draw or go back.
(n.) A starting or falling back; a rebound; a shrinking; as, the recoil of nature, or of the blood.
(n.) The state or condition of having recoiled.
(n.) Specifically, the reaction or rebounding of a firearm when discharged.
Example Sentences:
(1) The linear flow accelerator failed to prevent, but did delay, catheter tip recoil in proportion to the prolongation of contrast medium injection time.
(2) This paper reviews what is known of the decline in measurements of lung function, and focuses on reduced elastic recoil as a key to these changes.
(3) We conclude that the alveolar attachments and elastic recoil are related to the size and function of the small airways.
(4) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
(5) The functional significance of these corrugations remains unknown, but, they could be important in equalizing tension in the tracheo-bronchial tree during inspiration, as well as in providing elastic recoil during expiration.
(6) Determining factors of the flow reduction factors of the flow reduction in addition to the decreased VC were: 1) low peripheral airway conductance in four patients; 2) loss of elastic recoil in three patients; 3) combination of 1) and 2) in two patients.
(7) Torsional deformation, defined as twisting about the left ventricular long axis of the apical region with respect to the base, was characterized in terms of the rate and amplitude of systolic torsion and the rate of diastolic recoil by means of an internal reference system.
(8) In L-starts the body was bent into an L or U shape and a recoil turn normally accompanied acceleration.
(9) Elastic recoil of the vessel wall is a common cause of failure of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty in renal arteries.
(10) The changes in lung volume and compliance are explained in terms of changes in the shape of the static recoil pressure characteristics of the diseased lungs after treatment.
(11) The difference in elastic recoil between air- and saline-filled lungs was altered in bleomycin-treated rats when elastic recoil was compared at 35% of predicted TLC or at 80% of observed TLC.
(12) Static pressure-volume curves with air showed decreased recoil and improved air retention on deflation in fetal rabbits 25.5-27.5 days injected with pilocarpine.
(13) In Group II static elastic recoil was measured also.
(14) The other 5 all had evidence of interstitial damage; 3 of them had progressive increase in the degree of airway obstruction, and one had progressive loss of elastic recoil.
(15) In response to an ATP current pulse (intensity, 5-85 nA; duration, 0.5-10 s), the myosin-coated needle moved for a distance and eventually stopped, indicating reformation of rigor actin-myosin linkages to prevent elastic recoil of the bent needle.
(16) We also assessed the elastic recoil following H inhalation (5A).
(17) But she railed against commercial success, and at the first sniff of a big hit – Paper Planes , which sampled the Clash's Straight To Hell, and made the US and UK top 20 – she recoiled.
(18) In none of the observed cases any reaction indicating recoil of the carrier of the antibiotic was noticed.
(19) Some subjects exhibited loss of lung elastic recoil and diminished carbon monoxide diffusing capacity suggestive of developing emphysema.
(20) This reduced EELV during exercise aids inspiration by optimizing diaphragmatic length and permitting elastic recoil of the chest wall.
Resile
Definition:
(v. i.) To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) An anatomical basis for the well known difference between the fibrous and the resilent stricture is demonstrated, and the role of smooth muscle in the development and behaviour of strictures is discussed.
(2) The government does not resile from the accusation that it seeks to withdraw state funding from the university sector.
(3) It festered after Blair resiled from an understanding that he would step down during a second term.
(4) There was a linear relation between film thickness and tensile strength, toughness, elastic resilence and elongation at fracture.
(5) But, and it is a big but, the ESRI concludes that this relies on fellow Europeans buying the goods and services Ireland has to offer from its resilent export sector.
(6) And so, while I do not resile from anything I said, I certainly reject criticism for words that I didn't use.
(7) When contacted by Helm, Kaminski blustered and changed his story, but in subsequent interviews with Martin Bright of the Jewish Chronicle , Kaminski has not resiled from his belief that he was right to protest the Polish government's apology for the Jedwabne massacres of Jews at the hands of Poles.
(8) You might not like me for that, but I will not resile from that.
(9) While insistent they will not resile from the so-called "plan A" both on and off the record, the new imperative is to find ways of using existing capital spending commitment to encourage the private sector to part with their capital and increase the amount of capital in the economy.
(10) I have said in the longer term, and I don’t resile [from the view], that like many many other programs governments will have to address, and societies will have to address, the cost of programs,” he said.
(11) But Johnson does not resile from his basic belief that the Middle East needs to foster less sectarian leadership, a criticism that he applies to Iranians as much as Saudis.
(12) But he added: “Equally the Northern Territory government does not resile from its tough approach to those who don’t want to respect other people’s property or safety.” Giles said he had asked the NT police commissioner to consider if the highlighted incidents were “in accordance” with the power of custodial officers, and indicated it would be expected any breach of the law would be “pursued rigorously”.
(13) One report suggests former party president Simon Hughes's office has received 4,000 emails telling him his party cannot resile on electoral reform.
(14) In an interview with the Nine Network broadcast on Tuesday evening, Gillard did not resile from the June 2010 leadership coup “even with the benefit of hindsight” – even though most senior Labor figures now do, regarding the strike against Rudd as a fundamental mistake.
(15) But the strategy, if that is the word, is bound to fail, because President Obama cannot resile on the key reform of his administration and, at some point, the Tea Party has to swerve or risk the anger of the majority of the American people and so jeopardise the Republican party's chances at the next presidential election.
(16) Nor did she resile from her personal commitment to withdraw from the European convention on human rights, a battle she will now have to fight in the Tory manifesto process.
(17) Referring to a Scotland Yard statement on Monday that resiled from its earlier description of Nick’s allegations as “true”, Proctor told the Guardian: “Yesterday’s confused public relations statement by Scotland Yard marks the beginning of what I believe is their exit strategy from Operation Midland.
(18) Cameron's spokesman said: "The prime minister does not resile from what he said in the House of Commons at the time of the strategic defence review.
(19) "When I have found out from Theresa what these examples are that have upset her, I will probably find she agrees with me – it is these daft misinterpretations of the act which are giving the whole thing a bad reputation, when we should be a force in favour of human rights and individual liberty in the modern world, not in any way resiling from it," he said.
(20) Breaking his silence in a statement at the Treasury, the chancellor said he “did not resile” from the dire predictions made during the referendum campaign that Brexit could plunge Britain into recession and cost hundreds of thousands of jobs.