(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.
Wince
Definition:
(v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
(v. i.) To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.
(n.) The act of one who winces.
(n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boris winced; his presence in the house is becoming ever more marginal and Osborne is now the clear favourite to become the next leader of the Tory party.
(2) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
(3) Even as Germany winced its way through three years of crisis, bailouts and skyrocketing national debt, openly anti-euro sentiments have remained off-limits for all mainstream parties.
(4) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(5) "Any politician that claims to you that they're an ordinary person is not telling you the truth," Miliband mutters, half smiling and wincing.
(6) Candidate of the day Aforementioned Lindsay candidate Fiona Scott, who laughed a little too loudly at her leader’s comment as his daughter Frances, standing right beside her father, visibly winced.
(7) He cradles a black tea, wincing every time crockery crashes in the kitchen of the backstreet London cafe we're seated in.
(8) The pizza flew, the tackles made you wince and there was no love lost between Wenger and Ferguson.
(9) We slightly wince, on behalf of those more tightly bound to laborious necessity, when we read that "to maintain one's self on this earth is not hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely", and that "by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living".
(10) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(11) One wince during this procedure could get you shunned from society.
(12) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
(13) Neid, though, was becoming increasingly vexed by what she clearly perceived as some rough-house tactics from England, including some rather wince-inducing challenges.
(14) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
(15) I must remind you of the seriousness of the assault and that you were arrested, not her.” Indeed, this assault was so serious that it left Ruffley’s ex-partner “wincing in obvious pain” when her friend Ward saw her afterwards.
(16) Ward, a friend of Ruffley's former partner, said the woman had "winced in obvious pain" when they hugged in greeting a few days after the incident and told of how frightened she had been of his "rage and violent behaviour".
(17) NEW WONKS Conservative Voice, a joint venture of disaffected Tory big beasts Liam Fox and David Davis, was launched with much fanfare and, no doubt, no small amount of wincing by Cameron last week.
(18) Grainger, courtesy of a hugely emotional win alongside Anna Watkins in the women's double sculls, now has a gold to add to her three previous wince-inducing silvers.
(19) He does it with a budget of £30m a year, but only £12m of that is spent on programming, he says (still enough to make commercial stations wince).
(20) Well” she begins, shifting her position and wincing, “I was playing with my son’s dinosaur, and it’s stuck.” “OK, Mrs T, but why are you in the sexual health clinic today?” I continue, somewhat bemused.